What's up with Newnan?

[araomd]

What's going on in Newnan? Thinking about picking up investment acreage in the area. I know Atlanta north of I-20, but nothing about the south side.

Friends with Piedmont Newnan tell me it's blowing up and they are adding a more beds. Broker friends say builders are looking for land in Coweta to satisfy demand.

Is Coweta that desirable? How is the demographic developing? I know nobody every wants further development in an area after they move, but is the County generally friendly to growth?
What's the growth driver? Logistics/industrial?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Jopples]

I've lived here for over 12 years. They're trying to turn it into what Peachtree City used to be but they're building too many ghetto filled apartment complexes everywhere. It's turning into a **** hole

 

[nicaburns]

I feel completely different than Jopples. We have been here 15yr and love it!
Right now things are nuts because the tornado put about 2,000 people in the housing market that weren’t looking two weeks ago. Demand is WAY above supply but it is a great town... easiest traffic of any side of ATL metro, great town square, good restaurants, nice people.
Yes, we have some rough spots like any area but we just built our empty nester home here and don’t plan to budge!

 

[fslc94]

Born and raised. 1969. It was a wonderful place to grow up, I mean wonderful! Beautiful land. I’ve been pretty much done with it since 2000, just grew to much. Houses sell in 24hrs well over asking price. I miss the hometown feel, but I do understand growth.

 

[Jopples]

I feel completely different than Jopples. We have been here 15yr and love it!
Right now things are nuts because the tornado put about 2,000 people in the housing market that weren’t looking two weeks ago. Demand is WAY above supply but it is a great town... easiest traffic of any side of ATL metro, great town square, good restaurants, nice people.
Yes, we have some rough spots like any area but we just built our empty nester home here and don’t plan to budge!

I make deliveries all over Newnan. These "nice places and nice people" live right around the corners from ghetto apartment complexes and neighborhoods and don't even know it. There are invisible lines everywhere separating the "nice" places from the ghetto. All these nice neighborhoods being built are ghettos, i see the Newnan PD dealing with it in these nice places every night. Traffic is ****, the restaurants can't seem to hire or keep good staff, but I will concede that most of the people here are still nice until you get behind every 4th or 5th car doing 25mph under the speed limit with 42 cars stacked up behind them

 

[medium187mph]

I worked in Newnan for many years and noticed things were changing pretty quickly. Lots of people fleeing the perimeter and Fayetteville areas...

 

[TheGman]

I grew up in Coweta, ghetto is a vast overstatement. There have always been poorer areas and nicer areas.
Newnan has grown as has Coweta.
I live in Coweta but bought 165 acres in Heard , I could not afford same here.

Nice area overall but the growth will come at a price. Real Estate is CRAZY here now , never ever been this hot.

 

[RobertB]

D.R. Horton is building two neighborhoods just down from the hospital, on the north and south sides of Poplar Rd. We just learned that one of the neighborhoods will be all rentals, managed by Horton. They're building way too many neighborhoods and apartments without improving and widening roads. And don't forget about the new massive warehouses for Amazon, Goodyear, etc., along I85.

 

[TheGman]

D.R. Horton is building two neighborhoods just down from the hospital, on the north and south sides of Poplar Rd. We just learned that one of the neighborhoods will be all rentals, managed by Horton. They're building way too many neighborhoods and apartments without improving and widening roads. And don't forget about the new massive warehouses for Amazon, Goodyear, etc., along I85.

This is true , too rapid of growth. We moved from White Oak in March 2019. We now live further from the guys (One Life ) and its quicker to get to the gym from where we are. Avoiding Bullsboro or Lower Fayetteville Rds

 

[Glorfindel]

Born and raised. having said that. i literally hate everyone who has moved here from somewhere else. i hate them. i wish they would leave and never return.