Developers/Investors Eye South Fulton County

ATLANTA-Watch for South Fulton County to overtake its northern brethren in the next decade of commercial real estate development. That’s the projection of panelists and speakers at the second annual South Fulton Development Outlook, area brokers attending the event tell GlobeSt.com.

Low land prices and easy access to interstates, Jackson-Hartsfield International Airport and central Atlanta are among the attributes the area is offering. Statistics from the Atlanta Regional Commission show the metro area south of Interstate 20 won 41% of the region’s growth from 2000 to 2003. In the 1990s, South Fulton had an annual growth rate of 28%.

Among the larger projects already under way in South Fulton are Camp Creek Trade Center, a 454-acre joint venture of Duke Realty and North American Properties; and the first 750,000-sf phase of Camp Creek MarketPlace at Camp Creek Parkway and Interstate 285. The second phase is scheduled to open in late 2005 as part of the Princeton Lakes mixed-use development.