Fayetteville, GA's Pinewood Forest

A mini city built for filmmakers

With gently rolling pastures as a backdrop, Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy and partners unveiled plans Thursday for a $700 million-plus mini-city within walking distance of Pinewood Atlanta Studios near Fayetteville.

The plan, if successful, would be one of the most ambitious real estate ventures on metro Atlanta’s southside.

The vision for Pinewood Forrest includes hotels, restaurants, shops, office space and about 1,300 residences on more than 230 acres in the center of Fayette County. Initial work is already underway and construction of the first homes and commercial areas is scheduled to start next year.

The project is aimed at families, millennials and empty-nesters as well as people connected with Pinewood Studios, perhaps the most tangible example of the state’s film production boom. Developers say the project will dovetail with expansion plans in downtown Fayetteville, which is about four miles away.

Fayette, which also includes Peachtree City, is one of the metro area’s more affluent counties, but growth has slowed since the recession. The Pinewood Forrest site, in a lightly developed part of the county where the movie studio is now virtually by itself, is removed from freeways that funnel people to other large-scale mixed-use centers to sprout in recent years.

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