What to See and Do
From films and plays to concerts and public events, there's always something to see and do in Downtown Suwanee.
From boutiques to bargain stores, Downtown Suwanee offers a truly diverse shopping experience for everyone.
Whether you are in the mood for fancy dining or something casual, you'll find great cuisine in Downtown Suwanee.
There's so much to do!
Walk it. Drive it. Park it. Revel in it. Downtown Suwanee is vibrant, lively, safe, accessible, livable, and enjoyable! Restaurants, shopping, concerts, and events are all within steps of one another. Visitors and residents, including those who have been taking advantage of downtown residential options, delight in the ease of access to our dynamic downtown's numerous treasures.
Top Ten Reasons to Shop Local:
Top Ten Reasons to Shop Local:
- Protect Local Character and Prosperity - By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain Suwanee's diversity and distinctive flavor.
- Community Well-Being - Locally owned businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes.
- Local Decision Making - Local ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who feel the impacts of those decisions.
- Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy - Your dollars spent in locally-owned businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.
- Job and Wages - Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
- Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship fuels America's economic innovation and prosperity.
- Public Benefits and Costs - Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls.
- Environmental Sustainability - Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers - which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.
- Competition - A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
- Product Diversity - A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.
