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Flowery Branch housing boom may cause population to skyrocket
New subdivisions planned even as South Hall city plans downtown upgrades
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New home construction is underway Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, in Flowery Branch along Reed Boulevard near Church Street. The Flowery Branch downtown is undergoing a sort of housing renaissance. - photo by Scott Rogers
Frank McGowan saw the tall weeds and empty streets in the abandoned Flowery Branch subdivision — a casualty from the Great Recession a few years earlier — and saw an opportunity to revive housing in the South Hall city. He ended up developing the site, which would become Harbour Lights subdivision off Lights Ferry Road, but he hasn’t stopped there.