Association (GHSA). With an
experienced athletic director and a
staff of quality coaches, participation
in interscholastic varsity and junior
varsity sports became an important
aggregate of the MPCS program.
In 1994, additional classrooms
were required in the elementary
school to facilitate growth. Fine Arts
courses were also added, and the arts
program began to develop. Computer
labs were installed and the school
introduced a technology program to
students.
MPCS purchased its current
property in 2002, and in 2003 moved
from the Mount Paran North location
in Marietta to the beautiful 68 acres in
Kennesaw where the school campus is
now located.
In December 2007, MPCS
purchased the magnificent performing
arts center adjacent to the school
property. With its 577-seat main
theater, a black box theater, dance
studios, exquisite grand lobby,
state-of-the-art recording studios,
band and choral rehearsal spaces,
practice rooms, classrooms, the
building was named the Murray Arts
Center at Mount Paran Christian
School in honor of the Stuart and
Eulene Murray Family Foundation,
who made a generous donation
toward the purchase of the building
for the school and whose family
owned the property upon which the
school was built.
The athletic facilities of MPCS
continued to expand over the next few
years as well with batting cages,
baseball/softball complex, fitness
center, weight room, rubber track,
and turf field were a few of the
additions. The 2015 football season
kicked off in the brand new Catherine
Steele Sewell Stadium.
The next project in line for MPCS
is the expansion of the high school
facilities with plans to construct an
innovation center for STEM/STEAM,
tentatively set for this year.
2. Ansley Atlanta
Real Estate Marietta
145 Church Street, Suite 100,
Marietta, GA 30060
(404) 480-8805
Ansleyatlanta.com
SECTION: Real Estate & Finance
CATEGORIES:
Best Real Estate Agent, Andrew Turner
(2,725 votes)
Best Real Estate Company (2,569 votes)
In June of last year, Ansley Atlanta
Real Estate announced the opening
of its new office on the Marietta
Square, occupying the space just at
the corner of Church and Polk Streets.
Many familiar faces in the
Marietta real estate scene left their
respective offices to join the new team
and the office has been growing ever
since. Collectively, they had sold over
$120 million in 2018 and included
real estate industry veterans Connie
Carlson, Dan Carlson and Johnny
Sinclair who joined as founding
partners, along with Veronica
Anderson, Lindsay Baird, Joanna
Conyngham, Lesli Creel, Suzie Crowe,
Katy Gardner, Lee Gidley, Jennifer
Martin, Hank Miller, Mary Miller,
Gina Ann Riggs, Heather Gentry
Simon, John Sinclair, Lauren Sinclair,
Blake Surber, Mary Beth Thorpe,
Andrew Turner, Steve Turner and
Carson Wernz, who joined as
founding members.
For his own individual efforts,
Turner won Best Real Estate Agent in
a tight and competitive race for the
title.
Ansley Atlanta’s expansion
accelerated the Atlanta-based real
estate company’s presence in the
Cobb, Paulding and Cherokee county
markets, enabling the company to
better serve its client base outside the
perimeter.
“Our vision as a company has
always been to serve the metro
Atlanta area in its entirety, and with
the addition of our new neighborhood
office in Marietta, we are excited
to further expand our reach outside
the perimeter,” said Bonneau Ansley
Ansley Atlanta’s founder and CEO in
a press release at the time.
Established in 2015, Ansley
Atlanta Real Estate was recently
recognized as one of the most
inspiring companies of 2018 by Inc
magazine and listed as No. 989 on the
Inc 5000 list of fastest growing private
companies in the U.S.
3. North Georgia
State Fair
2245 Callaway Rd SW,
Marietta, GA 30008
Northgeorgiastatefair.com
(770) 528-8989
SECTION: Arts & Entertainment
CATEGORIES:
Best Family Amusement (1,779 votes)
Best Festival (1,745 votes)
Who doesn’t love a good ol’
country fair?
As the largest fair in metro
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