Business View Magazine | November 2019

288 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 GAINESVILLE F A L L 2 0 2 1 www.terwilligerpappas.com Elevating Home in Gainesville Terwilliger Pappas Multi Family Partners is excited to “elevate home” and bring a Solis Community to Gainesville. Solis Gainesville will be a 220-unit mixed use development featuring 10,000 sf of restaurant space. Solis Communities provide a feeling of home residents are looking for with an elevated lifestyle they deserve, through a welcoming and open environment, tenant-first dedication to placemaking, and design and quality in every detail. Some of that activity is generated by students from Brenau University, which owns a couple of buildings downtown that contain the school’s graduate medical programs. “It’s bringing a younger presence in our downtown,” says Lackey, “so we’re certainly seeing a younger vibe, and we’ve put in some other things in place to encourage that.” One of those “things” has been a modification of the city’s alcohol allowance to allow limited open containers, outside. “We have a defined, downtown dining district where people are allowed to have a 16-ounce, clear plastic cup with the beverage of their choice,” Sheppard discloses. “We have found that people enjoy that, especially at a lot of our downtown events. It seems to be most used when we have concerts and things like that, and it’s been very beneficial.” In order to further spur development, the city offers several different incentives which, Lackey believes make Gainesville “one of the more incentivized places in Georgia for people