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Gwinnett Growth BYLINE: M. ELIZABETH NEAL; For the Journal-Constitution A touch of Europe comes to Norcross Within a 15-minute drive of the new, European-style shopping village going up in Norcross are 358,000 people with an average household income of $92,566, said Ron Pfohl, managing partner of the Forum Development Group. Demographics like that help explain why Gwinnett is home to three regional malls, and why Pfohl and partners Bill Brown and Stan Thomas are building more than 375,000 square feet of upscale retail space in their shadows, and to heck with a recession. The 55-acre mixed-use development at Peachtree Parkway and Peachtree Corners Circle encompasses more than a half-million square feet of retail and office space. Carr-American opened a 90,000-square-foot office building in the development in February. WakeBeasley & Associates, architects for the Forum, are locating their own offices there. The remainder of the space will be devoted to upscale apparel and home furnishing retail, specialty shops and restaurants, Pfohl said. The Forum is the first of three signature-style developments the Smyrna-based limited partnership is building across the country. A second project is expected to open in Carlsbad, Calif., by the end of the year. The third, a joint venture between the Forum Development Group and Continental Developers of Columbus, Ohio, is under way in Charlotte.
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