Technology Park Property Management

Technology Park: Johns Creek’s Corporate Housing Engine

Technology Park was added to what is now Johns Creek in 1981 and has grown into roughly 1,700 acres of low-rise office, light industrial and retail buildings leased to around 200 companies. It runs along McGinnis Ferry Road and Medlock Bridge Road and spills north into Forsyth County. It reads exactly as what it is: wide setbacks, surface parking, landscaped berms and employer monument signage.

Why It Matters to a Property Owner

Because the payroll is here. The City of Johns Creek’s own annual financial report for the year ended 30 September 2024 lists Alcon, Inc. first among the city’s employers at 1,836 people, Emory Johns Creek Hospital second at 1,200, Macy’s Systems & Technology third at 997 and SAIA fourth at 557. Nordson Corporation and Quikrete International add a further 449 between them. That is a concentration of pharmaceutical, medical, technology and logistics employment inside one corridor, and every one of those employers moves people in and out on assignment.

The Thirty-Day Line

This is the part most owners get wrong. Johns Creek has never adopted a short-term rental ordinance — the phrase does not appear anywhere in its zoning code. What the code does contain is a definition of Dwelling as a building used for residential purposes “for periods of more than 30 consecutive days.” Renting for less than that is not the permitted residential use in a residential district, and the only transient use the code allows is a Bed and Breakfast of two to five rooms, owner-occupied, by use permit in the AG-1, R-6 and TR districts only.

That sounds restrictive and mostly is not, because the demand here was never nightly. A property near Technology Park earns from a furnished thirty-day-plus let or a twelve-month lease, and both are legal, straightforward and better suited to the guest anyway.

How We Manage It

We position properties near Technology Park for the corporate and clinical stay: furnished, worked-out for someone living there rather than visiting, and documented so a corporate housing coordinator or a hospital’s travel department can approve it without a phone call. Where a long-term lease earns more for a particular address, we say so and place a tenant instead. Either way we confirm the zoning position for the specific parcel first.