Overview: Gwinnett County has been really trying to revitalize and renovate their historic downtown areas. Alongside, Suwanee, Lilburn, and Norcross, Duluth is definitely the up and coming next chic and urban historic downtown area to visit.
I love that Duluth is home to the Duluth Fall Festival, which has been around for decades and has grown to be a behemoth and epitome of SE fall festivals- I even come home every year to this festival on purpose b/c of the wide variety of food, arts, and culture I see in this festival. It is no longer just a festival that celebrates local fall but stretches across cultures and backgrounds.
Recently, it became the home to the Duluth Arts Festival- a mini version of the fall Festival minus the louder music, foods, and commercial booths or carnival place. The art at this event was more bent towards non profits, humane societies, and causes. The arts in Duluth Fall Festival tended to bring artists from as far as the Mountains, St. Augustine FL, produce from Elijay, and other further towns. The artists in this festival tended to congregate within the greater atlanta area.
It has events such as flicks on the bricks and other small events!
I like that they have added new restaurants such as Piatto, O4W, Dreamland Barbecue, a donut place, and some other establishments such as a paint night place, a upscale hippie boutique store that sells the likes of fabrik and anthropologie. There's the Red Clay Theater and the town hall and fountain and amphitheater are here as well. There's also a Crave Pie studio and a chocolatier. Its overall offerings lean towards American foods, pizzas, pastas, small town charm, and bougie bars. I would like to see a refugee or non profit humanities arts store, a more diverse group of businesses like maybe a pharmacy, local barber, doctors office, lawyers, grocery etc. It is for now, more of a strolling coffee kind of area. read more