Plans are coming together for a South Forsyth project called "The Gathering". The proposed arena and mixed-use project will be located at the intersection of Ronald Reagan Boulevard and Union Hill Road in the South Forsyth section which borders Alpharetta.
Plans for the project include a proposed 750,000-square-foot, 18,000-seat arena, 1.6 million square feet of office and retail space, a 100,000-square-foot community center, a new fire station, a hotel, 2,400 residential units and more.
The arena’s announcement brought speculation that professional hockey could return to the metro Atlanta area for the first time since the Atlanta Thrashers relocated to Winnipeg in 2011, but according to a representative for the developers currently no teams are looking to relocate.
The site which was previously planned for a regional mall project that never materialized was purchased last year by Vernon Krause, CEO of Krause Auto Group with dealerships across the southeast. Currently, the plans are going through the state’s Developments of Regional Impact process, which “are large-scale developments that are likely to have regional effects beyond the local government jurisdiction in which they are located,” according to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.
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