Cultural Arts
Event & Meeting Venues (cont.)
Office Evolution Johns Creek
St. Ives Country Club
The Standard Club
6470 East Johns Xing, Ste. 160 Johns Creek, GA 30097 (470) 567-3773 www.officeevolution.com/locations/johns-creek
1 St. Ives Country Club Dr., Johns Creek, GA 30097 Capacity: 10-250 Phone: 770-623-1239 ext. 1107
Rivermont Golf Club
Taylor Lodge
6230 Abbotts Bridge Rd., Johns Creek, GA 30097 Capacity: 225 seated; 400 standing Phone: 678-638-6426 www.standardclub.org
YiFan Restaurant & Event Center
11045 Parsons Rd., Johns Creek, GA 30097 Capacity: 20-200 Phone: 770-442-5903
3130 Rivermont Pkwy Johns Creek, GA 30022 (770) 993-2124 http://www.rivermontgolfclub.com
www.stbenedict.net/taylor-lodge
Six Bridges Brewing
The Country Club of the South
11455 Lakefield Dr Ste 300, Johns Creek, GA 30097
10705 Medlock Bridge Rd., Johns Creek, GA 30097 Capacity: max 40 Phone: 404-372-4386 www.yifancooking.com
4100 Old Alabama Rd., Johns Creek, GA 30022 Capacity: 500 Phone: 678-297-5951 www.clubcorp.com
Phone: (470) 545-4199
Large Public Art Piece Utilizes Steel Salvage from historic Rogers Bridge “There is a lot of room for interpretation,”
Averbuch
said.
“I’m sure that everybody that sees it will see something slightly different. But, if you look at it from the front, you will see this bridge in the background crossing over the new bridge. I want it to be a celebratory piece … that represents the effort of different groups of people on both sides of that big arc.” The New York-based artist Ilan Averbuch was selected to repurpose the historic Rogers Bridge steel for public art to celebrate the connection between Johns Creek and Duluth. The Johns Creek City Council chose Averbuch for the large commission art piece.
The proposed sculpture will measure
approximately 18 feet tall by 34 feet long by 12 feet deep. The City Council set aside $50,000 of Tourism Product Development funds for the project, and Fulton County Commissioner Liz Hausmann secured $150,000 in Fulton County’s fiscal year 2022
Leisure
budget. Over the summer, the City Council set aside an additional $50,000. Averbuch said in a phone interview he spent a significant amount of time reading about the history of the area, the cities of Johns Creek and Duluth and all the players involved before submitting a proposal. What makes this project fun, he said, is getting to sort of relive the history of what happened.
66
steel
pin
truss
bridge
was built in 1912 to span the Chattahoochee
River,
linking
what is now Johns Creek to Duluth. It was named after the Rogers family, who operated a ferry system that transported cotton over the river. Abandoned in the 1960s, the crossing fell into disrepair. After years of partnerships and planning, in November 2019, the Johns Creek City Council approved an intergovernmental agreement with Duluth, Fulton County and Gwinnett County to replace the bridge and allow visitors to traverse from Rogers Bridge Park in Duluth to Cauley Creek Park in Johns Creek. In their unanimous approval, the City Council expressed excitement about re-establishing pedestrian and cycling connectivity across the Chattahoochee River. The groundbreaking was held on March 29, 2021, followed by countless work session discussions to determine how Johns Creek could reuse its half of the salvaged material, or approximately 5 tons of steel, to speak to its historical significance.
Johns Creek Guidebook 2023-2024
