Tucker Summit CID December 2022 Newsletter

2022 was an incredible year for Tucker Summit CID! With the opening of Hugh Howell Marketplace, we saw the addition of several new businesses including Publix, ATI Physical Therapy, Buffalo Wild Wings GO, Antico Pizza, Bite of Korea, First Watch, Jersey Mike’s, The Joint Chiropractic, Piedmont Urgent Care, Scenthound and Chase Bank with many more to come! And most recently, the district gained a new brewery with Pontoon Brewing – The Lodge opening its doors last month.

Additionally, Pepsico and Prudential Overall Supply broke ground to expand their facilities, which will infuse millions of dollars into our economic development and add hundreds of jobs to our district.

We’ve also had several members recognized for their philanthropic achievements, such as FODAC raising funds and sending aid for hurricane relief and medical supplies to war-ravaged Ukraine, Link Logistics donating warehouse space to Samaritan’s Purse for Operation Christmas Child and Georgia Furniture Mart’s Mike Hall receiving the inaugural Spirit of DeKalb Bill Gates Philanthropist of the Year Award.

Here’s looking at another incredible year in 2023!

For our members’ convenience, we have compiled the district representatives and their contact information in a handy easy-to-access guide sheet. Officials and information will be continually updated on our website.

DeKalb County District 4 Commissioner Steve Bradshaw joined Wells Fargo CEO and President Charlie Scharf and Operation HOPE Founder and CEO John Hope Bryant at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to welcome Operation HOPE to the community.

The nonprofit’s location will offer programs and initiatives that tackle economic inequality and financial illiteracy in Stone Mountain and Tucker. The Stone Mountain Wells Fargo branch will focus on resources for those who are underbanked — people without access to mainstream bank accounts or services.

A 1.619-acre former Truist location in Tucker is slated to be the future sight of state-of-the-art Operation HOPE facility in 2023 that will further allow the organization to expand its footprint and provide much-needed financial literacy programs to the district.

Learn more about Operation HOPE and its expansion in this Champion Newspaper article.

The Operation Christmas Child Processing Center has processed approximately 1.2 million shoe boxes toward its 1.6 million goal in the district’s 2000 Mountain Industrial Boulevard address. Processing will conclude later this month and shoeboxes will be shipped all over the world to children in need.

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 is their first-ever Christmas gift. Samaritan’s Purse will process more than 1.7 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.

The NETWorks Cooperative Ministry began its Big Leap Expansion Campaign to help wipe out food insecurity in our community only a few months ago and has officially opened its doors this week.

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.

Because the organization is growing, 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.

To donate, please visit the NETWorks website.

Thanks to the financial commitments from Commissioners Steve Bradshaw and Robert Patrick, TSCID was able to work with the City of Tucker throughout 2022 to complete extensive infrastructure repairs along Mountain Industrial Boulevard with more work to continue throughout the district in 2023.

Plans are in development for the right-of-way traffic on Mountain Industrial Boulevard at Hugh Howell Road, and design work continues for intersection improvements at East Ponce de Leon Avenue at Rock Mountain Boulevard and Mountain Industrial Boulevard at Tuckerstone Parkway. In addition, plans are expected to be submitted to the City to increase the median length on the southerly end of Mountain Industrial Boulevard by 900 feet.

Phase one of the new district-wide street lighting project has been completed with the remaining two phases slated for completion throughout 2023.

TSCID is working with Image360 to replace more than 100 street signs throughout the district.

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.