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I FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Sunday, March 28,1999
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Th clubhouse at the Laurel Springs Golf Club
features an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature
golf course.
for Best Amenities Package from the Greater Atlanta
Home Builders Association and received two Silver
Professionalism Awards, one for for Best Sales
Center and another for Best On-Site Signage.
In addition, four of Laurel Springs’ top builders -
CRI, Colonnade, Adams Custom Homes and John
Willis Homes - won five Professionalism Awards
for their homes in the community.
“We are so pleased that several of our builders
received recognition for their distinctive homes at
Laurel Springs,” said Frailey. “We’re especially
thrilled that the Laurel Springs amenities package
has been recognized for its level of excellence. Our
amenities - the Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course,
Laurel Springs Golf Club, Stan Smith Swim &
Tennis Complex and Residents’ Club - have been
great selling features for Laurel Springs.”
Building materials supplier expands to meet growth
By Roxane Campbell
Associate Editor
Lummus Supply Company, a
north Georgia building materials
supplier which has two locations
in Cumming, broke ground at a
new site in Oakwood March 10.
The new site, scheduled to open
this fall, increases the number of
Lummus retail outlets serving
north Georgia to nine.
One of Lummus’ retail stores is
located in Cumming, as is the
company’s specialty millworks
division. Company spokesman
Wjll Hurst said they have seen
increased business in the
Cumming area, particularly from
custom home builders, during the
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BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
The English country-style stone golf clubhouse
was featured in Crittenden magazine’s January issue.
The golf course is semi-private and is available for
daily-fee play.
Sales increased by 50 percent at Laurel Springs in
the past year, with 155 buyers who purchased S7O
million worth of new homes by the end of 1998.
Windward
Windward, home to Terrabrook’s Atlanta office,
was the developer’s first community in the Atlanta
area. It is a 3,400-acre community in Alpharetta
located of Ga. 400 at exit 11, Windward Parkway.
Windward is home to more than 40 neighborhoods
and 2,000 families, with new homes available in
about a dozen neighborhoods. Within the community
is Windward Business Park, which the company says
is the largest business park in metro Atlanta.
past year.
“Ga. 400 is the growth corridor,
and Cumming is at the heart of
that,” Hurst said. “We have put a
lot of extra focus on the Cumming
location, and have added three
outside sales people in that area in
the past year.”
The Oakwood expansion, fol-,
lowing the purchase of a
Murrayville building materials
company last December, is a
result of “explosive growth in
Hall, White, Lumpkin, Dawson
and surrounding counties,” said
Bob Underwood, vice president of
sales for Lummus Supply. “As the
growth continues in north
Georgia, Lummus Supply
Company will be there to meet
the needs of homeowners and
builders.”
About a third of the company’s
more than 150 employees work
out of Lummus’ two Cumming
locations.
The retail store, located at 811
Atlanta Road, employees about 25
people. At the millworks division,
off of Hwy. 9 where the human
resources department also is
located, about 30 people are
employed.
The human resources depart
ment also is home to an employee
training program the company
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