MILTON, Ga. — Since the city’s incorporation, Milton residents have driven to neighboring North Fulton cities for a night out with the family.
The developers of Market District Crabapple are excited to offer surrounding residents the option to avoid the trek to Alpharetta’s Avalon or Roswell’s Canton Street for a night of dining out and perusing retail storefronts.
Located at the roundabout heading north from Broadwell Road to Ga. 372 and Birmingham Highway, Market District Crabapple is gearing up for its debut celebration.
When the band starts in the courtyard at 4 p.m. April 25 for the downtown Crabapple destination’s grand opening, attendees will discover high-quality dining options surrounding 3200 Heritage Walk.
Whether stopping in for a premium cut of beef at Aberdeen’s Steakhouse or trying Vietnamese-Cajun fusion at Le Mer Seafood, a delicious meal is easy to find.
A crucial requirement of any live-work mixed-use development is surrounding foot traffic. The owners and developers of Market District Crabapple, Brent Beecham, Eric Richards and Greg Swayne, said their strategic programming is designed to cater to families and provide options from dawn to dusk.
A priority for the developers is to achieve a complementary mix of tenants. With 100 percent of available space occupied, the lack of prospective tenants is a good problem to have, Swayne said.
“We decided that we don’t want to spend 10 years turning over businesses that can’t make it,” Swayne said.
He also said he believes there needs to be an entertainment angle with the development at some point in the future.
“All the ingredients of what made Canton Street work have been the way we strategically thought about how we want to program,” Swayne said. “Because Starbucks is such a huge anchor, it draws in other people immediately.”
After grabbing…
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