A Million People and Very Little in Common.
Gwinnett County passed one million residents and is now the second largest county in Georgia, as well as one of the ten most diverse counties in the United States, with several hundred international businesses operating here. The three largest employment sectors are retail trade, health care and professional, scientific and technical services, which is a useful summary of how different the businesses here are from one another.
The geography follows a few spines. I-85 runs the length of the county and most of the industrial and distribution space sits along it. State Route 316, University Parkway, runs east toward Athens. Sugarloaf Parkway crosses the county from Duluth out to Dacula. The anchors people navigate by are the Gas South District in Duluth, the Mall of Georgia in Buford, the courthouse complex in Lawrenceville, Technology Park in Peachtree Corners and the 72-acre Gwinnett Place redevelopment off Pleasant Hill.
A distributor off Jimmy Carter Boulevard, a dental practice in Snellville, a title company by the Lawrenceville square and a restaurant in Parsons Alley need very different things. We have written a page for each market rather than one page with the city name swapped out, because the differences are the whole point.
