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THE VILLE AMPHITHEATRE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES
promotion took place in the program’s
first two decades, and community
stakeholders caught the vision for
Fayetteville’s future. After years of
structured community engagement
and measured input, city leaders have
charted a revitalization course to
attract more high-quality restaurants,
entertainment venues, parks and pathways and connectivity. In the Spring
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of 2021, the city cut the ribbon on its
10-acre Fayetteville City Hall & City
Center Park development, intended to
catalyze downtown revitalization.
The Fayetteville City Hall &
City Center Park development was
additionally successful because of
the private investment it attracted.
Walton Communities built its Walton
Fayette apartment homes adjacent
to the south side of City Center Park,
and Line Creek Brewing renovated an
existing bus maintenance building,
which became known as Line Creek
Bus Barn, including Hog Pit BBQ,
MS Pizza and Scoops ice cream. In
January 2024, the Georgia Municipal Association honored Fayetteville
with its Visionary City Award for the
Fayetteville City Hall & City Center
Park project. The project was also one
of the reasons the city won the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Visionary
Planning Award in late 2023. The city’s
investment in downtown set the stage
for what is to come for Fayetteville.
Movie Industry & U.S. Soccer
On the west side of Fayetteville
and just north of the expanding Piedmont Fayette Hospital campus, a firstof-its-kind multiuse community was
taking shape adjacent to what was
becoming one of the most important
movie studio complexes in the world.
Chick-fil-A Chairman Dan Cathy, a longtime Fayette resident, is the visionary
