Business View Civil and Municipal | January 2021

73 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL JANUARY 2021 PEACHTREE CORNERS , GEORGI A Today, Peachtree Corners is a bustling city of 45,000 residents and 45,000 jobs. And Technology Park served as a harbinger for the creation of the city’s newest economic development park, Curiosity Lab, which opened on Sept. 11, 2019, and now plays a large part in bringing technological advancements from around the globe to life in a real-world test environment that offers a 3-mile 5G-enabled autonomous vehicle test track and smart city laboratory. Reflecting on Curiosity Lab, Peachtree Corners City Manager, Brian Johnson, notes, “Shortly after our grand opening in 2019, we had the first deployment of a driverless shuttle on a public street, the same street where human-operated automobiles were being driven as well. So we had a driverless shuttle interacting with driven vehicles and that shuttle was here for about five months.” For residents of Peachtree Corners, witnessing such activity while going about their daily business isn’t unusual. In fact, it’s a large City Manager, Brian Johnson