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Norcross, once known for outstanding baseball teams, has a number of baseball fields as well as the previously described city parks. Recent efforts memorialized this baseball history and documented the records of the hometown boys who played professional ball and some who excelled in the major leagues. The culmination of this effort was a baseball museum established in the Local Arts Center at 116 Carlyle Street.But there is a lot more to the city than its center. The huge corporations that lie in and just outside the city employ thousands of workers and contribute greatly to the city and county tax bases. Lucent Technologies, near the intersection of Interstate 85 and heavily-commercialized Jimmy Carter Boulevard, employs 3,200 people and is Gwinnett County's largest employer with the exception of the county school system. The list of other industrial giants in the area include American Express, Rock-Tenn, Federal Express, General Electric, Hitachi America Limited, Quadram, J.M. Tull Metals, Komatsu, Norcorm, Nordson Corporation, Panasonic, Pfizer and Travelers Insurance Co.
Norcross is governed by an elected mayor and five council members. Our elections are non-partisan and are held every year on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The mayor and two city council seats are decided in the odd numbered years and three council seats in the even numbered years. The day-to-day city operation is managed by Department Heads. There are approximately seventy employees and the annual budget is approximately $20M. Major city services are water, sewer, solid waste (private firm), electricity, police protection, public works, planning and zoning, and business licenses. The Mayor and City Council meet the first Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Municipal Building. Visitors are always welcomed and are afforded ample opportunity to address the council. The meetings are delayed broadcast on Public Access Channel 24.
Kindergarten through high school education is provided by the Gwinnett County Board of Education. Norcross Elementary, Summerour Middle, and Norcross High School are located within the city limits.
Norcross feels very positive about its future. The tremendous commercial and residential growth of the 90's is now to the north of us. We survived and by any measure have prospered. Many times, we hear the expression "an island in the midst of intense commercial development". That expression aptly describes Norcross; it is indeed a quiet, green, primarily residential area, in the midst of high quality high tech industry. Its future is driven by its Vision.
Norcross, Georgia Demographic Information