Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 3, Issue 3

138 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 S ince its inception, Peachtree, Georgia has been a city of innovators. And that hasn’t changed, even with the COVID-19 pandemic throwing the Gwinnett County community some serious curveballs. “All municipalities, all local governments are having unique challenges, but what you do with those challenges is sometimes what separates different communities,” says Brian Johnson, Peachtree Corners’ City Manager. “Our well- planned out moves that are more pre-emptive in nature and less reactive might keep us from enduring any long-term consequences of what curveballs the pandemic has thrown all of us.” The city’s centerpiece and hub of innovation, Technology Park Atlanta, was founded in the late ‘60s by Paul Duke as a way to provide jobs for Georgia residents working in the tech field. Soon a planned community grew around it, as did the jobs, and the innovation continued to build. ‘ T H E S K Y I S T H E L I M I T ’ rn e r s , G e o r g i a