Forsyth County Will Dedicate $114M Freedom Park Campus, Hold Open Houses

Forsyth County announced March 4 that it will formally dedicate the long‑planned Freedom Park administration campus at 2435 Freedom Parkway and host two all‑access public open houses for residents; Appenmedia reported the County approved $114 million for construction of the new administration building and Employee Center. The announcement confirms the address and public-tour plans but did not publish dates for the dedication or open-house events.

The campus sits on a 42-acre parcel off GA 400 and will include a 130,000-square-foot administration building designed to unite 17 departments, plus an Employee Center focused on employee total health, Carroll Daniel Construction said. Carroll Daniel’s social post notes the campus is intended to house up to 500 employees and to make Forsyth County easier for citizens to navigate by putting multiple services in one location. Forsyth County acquired the Freedom Parkway site in September 2021.

Procurement and construction milestones are already underway. Appenmedia reported the County Commission awarded Carroll Daniel Construction the construction contract at a Jan. 9 work session, with the vote to be finalized on the consent agenda at an upcoming formal meeting. Carroll Daniel hosted a topping out and team appreciation lunch at which attendees signed the final structural beam; the company wrote that the topping out “marks an important project milestone” and expressed gratitude to subcontractors and industry partners. Carroll Daniel also said the campus is “slated for completion in two and a half years,” a timetable the company provided without specifying the baseline start date.

The project answers capacity problems tied to rapid county growth. Appenmedia notes the existing Administration Building opened in 1996 at 55,000 square feet when Forsyth County’s population was roughly 68,000; Appenmedia reported the county now serves more than 260,000 residents. Appenmedia further reported the county estimates annual savings of $420,000 by eliminating leased office space displaced across the community. Appenmedia quoted an official identified only as McKee saying, “Another big, key component that we wanted to accomplish with this building is being able to separate our public meetings and that public meeting space at close of business from the rest of the building,” explaining the change will let staff secure administrative areas without waiting for meeting attendees to leave.

Officials have mapped a chain of facility moves once the Freedom Parkway campus opens: the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office headquarters will relocate to the existing Administration Building on East Main Street; Magistrate Court will occupy the previous Sheriff’s Office; and the Board of Assessors will move into the Magistrate Court offices, Appenmedia reported. Those relocations follow the county’s capital planning that began in 2019 when the Board of Commissioners started reserving funds to consolidate operations.

Public materials and visuals are already circulating. Appenmedia referenced renderings of the administration campus, and Carroll Daniel’s post included images and project-team credits such as Jon Deming, CM‑BIM, LEED AP, and BIM coordinators Scott A. and Noah Todd, CM‑BIM. Social reactions to Carroll Daniel’s posts ranged from praise — “Great Project. Wonderful Company/ Partner (Carroll Daniel),” — to a tongue-in-cheek comment that “It’s a little bit hilarious to see Freedom Park emerging in Forsyth county, TOTALLY not about freedom,” illustrating local attention ahead of the public tours.

The county’s March 4 announcement sets a clear timeline for public access but leaves key scheduling and contract details to be confirmed: the announcement did not specify the dates of the formal dedication or the two open houses, the year of the Jan. 9 work session was not noted, and Carroll Daniel’s two-and‑a‑half‑year completion estimate was issued without a stated start date. The dedication and open houses will be the first opportunities for residents to inspect the 130,000-square-foot campus and to see how the planned departmental relocations will change where Forsyth County conducts in-person business.