Tucker Summit CID November 2022 Newsletter

On Tuesday, November 15, TSCID President Emory Morsberger was presented with the 2022 CID Professional Excellence Award at the 13^th Annual Council for Quality Growth CID Awards. The event was hosted on the Comcast Center rooftop at The Battery Atlanta and presented by Cumberland CID and Georgia Power.

The CID Profesional Excellence Award recognizes the industry professional whose work has greatly impacted the region. Emory has led the formation of over 15 of Atlanta’s CIDs, including Tucker Summit CID and Gateway85 CID.

I wanted to briefly acknowledge that being honored with the 2022 CID Professional Excellence Award could not have happened without all of you — the CID members along with the district’s partners and public officials. It is through our relationships and our hard work together that make our district incredible and keeps our economic development and impact thriving.

No other district can boast that they are nearly at 100% capacity like we are — and that’s because of our partnerships with Plaza Security keeping the district safe, Brightview Landscaping keeping our district clean and beautiful, our infrastructure engineer Larry Kaiser keeping our district’s roads repaired and well-lit and the leadership at The City of Tucker and DeKalb County which help us facilitate the necessary services to meet your needs.

We will continue exploring cost-effective transit alternatives to get our hardworking employees to their respective employers. For the moment our Incredible Corridor on-demand, free shuttle is on hold while we assess the demand, logistics and financing for these services.

Thank you, everyone for helping me make our district incredible!

Learn more about the Council for Quality Growth event on their website.

We are excited to welcome another business and brewery to our district! Pontoon Brewing officially opened its doors on Wednesday, November 16 at its Tucker location on 4720 Stone Drive. Dubbed, The Lodge in Tucker, the family- and dog-friendly facility offers refreshing brews and non-alcoholic options with an indoor/outdoor hybrid space with clear views of their numerous flat-screen TVs.

The original Sandy Springs location was founded by long-time friends and homebrewers Sean O’Keefe, Cole Brown, Tyler Cole and Marcus Powers in 2017. Their “pontoon lifestyle” and brews grew popular throughout the years, which led to their Tucker expansion.

Visit their website for more information about the new location and menu offerings.

Prudential Overall Supply, a national leader in work apparel and laundry service systems, has purchased a 61,000 SF facility on 4.57 acres at 1355 Rock Mountain Boulevard and held a groundbreaking ceremony for their planned expansion on Wednesday, November 16, with a completion date scheduled for Q1 2024.

Chris Welch, Prudential Overall’s president, stated that the $35 million investment in the new facility will bring more than 100 well-paying jobs to the district. The Tucker location will not only be Prudential Overall’s 36^th location and its ninth ISO Class 3 cleanroom laundry processing facility, but also will be the industry’s newest, most modern and among the largest processing plants in the United States.

Learn more about Prudential Overall’s new facility on their website.

TSCID member Link Logistics has donated 100,000 SF of warehouse space as a processing center for Samaritan’s Purse’s annual Operation Christmas Child drive at their 2000 Mountain Industrial Boulevard property this holiday season.

Every year, Samaritan’s Purse collects shoeboxes filled with small gifts and necessities like hygiene products and school supplies for children in need around the world. For many children, this will be the first gift they receive in their lifetime. Samaritan’s Purse expects to process more than 1.6 million shoeboxes in the donated space this year and this monumental effort will provide more than 200 seasonal jobs in our district.

Samaritan’s Purse is an international, nondenominational Christian relief organization that provides assistance to people in physical need, including disaster relief aid.

Collection and short-term volunteer efforts began on November 14. If you would like to donate or volunteer to help inspect and pack shoeboxes for children in need at the Link Logistics processing center, please sign up here.

Chris Snell’s Team Players: Keith Conner, Randy Meaders, Pannell Ellis and Jackie Snell

FODAC held its 2022 Golf Classic last month and raised more than $52,000 to support its Home Medical Equipment Program.

Funds raised not only help support people living with disabilities in need of HMEs, but they also support the organization’s disaster relief efforts. FODAC works with many partners to donate and deliver critical medical equipment to war-torn countries like Ukraine and areas in the wake of natural disasters such as hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico and Florida or flooding in Kentucky.

Thank you, FODAC, for your continued efforts to make the world a better place and thank you to our members who support them in this worthy cause.

NETWorks Cooperative Ministry is a Tucker-based organization established by several churches to help meet food and financial needs in the Northlake/Embry Hills/Tucker area.

Due to their growing needs NETWorks is taking the next step with The Big Leap Expansion Campaign to move from their current space on 4th Street to 4396 Cowan Road. The new space will be a grocery store-style pantry where visitors can shop for themselves.

TSCID is proud to support and donate to a worthy cause to help close the food gap in our community.

To donate, please visit the NETWorks website.

DeKalb County District 4 Commissioner Steve Bradshaw is looking to fill a position on the District 4 Community Council.

If you have input on zoning matters and special land use permits and are looking to contribute to make the community a better place, contact Commissioner Bradshaw’s Chief of Staff Alesia Brooks with your statement of interest and resume.

For more information on Community Council duties, please visit Commissioner Bradshaw’s website.

The voters showed up and passed City of Tucker’s Public Works Referendum by a landslide! It’s only been a few days since the November 8 decision and the city has already begun executing plans to implement improvements to the public works service model and addressing the existing backlog of projects. The city will work with DeKalb County to fully transition these services by July 2023.

Combined public works services will transition to the City of Tucker on July 1, 2023. “Within the first 365 days, our goal is to prioritize and work through deferred public works maintenance and address key repairs,” said City Manager Tami Hanlin. “Now that the community has spoken, we can move forward and develop a service delivery model that will eliminate long-deferred needs, get us to a more normal level of meeting current maintenance needs, and ultimately allow us on to focus on preventive maintenance. We will reduce current repair and maintenance times by 50% by our second year of operations, while saving significant costs of operation.”

Read more about the service transition on the City of Tucker website.

Congratulations to our district representatives on their reelections!

Senator Kim Jackson

Representative Viola Davis

Representative Billy Mitchell

Commissioner Lorraine Cochran-Johnson

We are so happy to continue working with our district officials who were re-elected during the November 8 midterms.

Senator Kim Jackson defeated her opponent, Jayre Jones, with more than 83% of the vote to serve another term in Georgia Senate representing District 41.

Representative Viola Davis also ran unopposed and will serve another term for the State House of Representatives for District 87.

Representative Billy Mitchell defeated his opponent, William Park, with more than 83% of the vote to serve another term in the State House of Representatives for District 88.

Commissioner Lorraine Cochran-Johnson ran unopposed and will serve another term on the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners for District 7.

We look forward to continuing to work together toward incredible economic growth in our district!

Every 10 years, the legislature redraws the boundaries of the state districts based on figures from the Census.

The US Census prompts redistricting to ensure that each elected official is serving approximately the same number of people. The state legislature works to draw new lines to rebalance the districts based on population shifts.

The new maps represent significant changes in DeKalb County, with about 75% of voters impacted:

The 6^th Congressional District has been removed from DeKalb County. All DeKalb voters are now in either the 4^th or 5^th Districts.
There have been extensive changes to the Georgia House districts. There are now 17 districts in DeKalb County. The 79^th District has been removed and the 52^nd and 95^th Districts have been added. The other districts have been redrawn substantially.
In some cases, the county commissioner district lines have been redrawn around municipal boundaries. The City of Chamblee is now entirely in District 1 and the City of Brookhaven is now entirely in District 2.

For more information about the new district boundaries visit the DeKalb County website.

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TSCID is working with Image360 to replace more than 100 street signs throughout the district. Stay tuned for more updates!

City of Tucker Overlay Regulations

Make sure your planned signage and architectural structures are within regulations! Review the Tucker Overlay District Regulations on our website.

Contact Emory Morsberger with Late Breaking News

For any incidents causing major traffic conflicts or safety issues within the district, please contact Emory Morsberger immediately at 770.409-8100, so he can distribute communications and inform all members and associates as necessary.

Have Space? Looking to Sell?

List Properties on the TSCID Website

The TSCID website can now help promote your available commercial property listings!

If you have a property available in the district, please send a flyer with details to our communications team to post on our website.

Our district is an incredible place to do business!

TSCID Resources Directory: Refer a Contractor

TSCID would like to help our members by creating a resources directory on our website.

Have a “go-to” company for electrical, plumbing, accounting, construction or any other critical service? Let us know and we’ll include them in our “Referred Resources” directory.

*Resources will be listed solely on the recommendation of our members. TSCID makes no endorsements or guarantees on quality or delivery.