A Late-Summer Weekend Playbook for Peachtree Corners: What's Actually Happening on the Green and at The Forum

For years, The Forum and the Town Green felt like two separate downtowns sitting across Peachtree Parkway from each other, waving politely. That changed in 2026. The city's event calendar now moves back and forth between them on the same weekend, and North American Properties is building the physical connective tissue to match. If you live here, the practical result is a late summer where you can plan Saturday morning at one address and Saturday night at the other without repeating yourself.

This post is a walk through the next six weeks, with the specific names, dates, and new tenants that make the two-address weekend possible.

The August 15 to August 22 stretch is the tell

Look at back-to-back Saturdays. On August 15, the Light Up the Corners Glow Run stages at The Forum. Seven days later, on August 22, the inaugural Peachtree Corners International and Cultural Festival takes over the Town Green from noon until 10 p.m. Two very different events. Same audience. Two addresses within a five-minute walk once the promised streetscape work wraps.

Here's how the near-term calendar actually reads for a resident:

Registration for the annual Light Up the Corners Glow Run is open, with the race set for Saturday, August 15 from 6 to 10:30 p.m. at The Forum; the 1k Twilight Trot starts at 8 p.m. and the four-mile Glow Run at 8:30 p.m., followed by a post-race celebration. A week later, the Peachtree Corners International Festival runs Saturday, August 22, 2026 from noon to 10 p.m., is free to attend, and is billed as a celebration of the cultures that make up the community and the world beyond. The Town Green programming includes live performances from international musicians and dancers, cuisine from around the world, artisan markets, and interactive exhibits meant to run family-friendly.

Then September closes with the returning arts-and-crafts festival. The 2026 Peachtree Corners Festival runs Saturday, Sept. 19 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 20 from noon to 5 p.m., with arts and crafts exhibitors, a car show, live music, kids amusements, and food, and proceeds going to education and beautification of the city.

The Vox Stage is doing something a shopping-center plaza can't

The Summer Concert Series is the connective thread between the tentpole weekends. The series returns to the Vox Stage on the Town Green in 2026 with tribute bands and headliners. Each concert kicks off with live music at 7:00 p.m., headliners take the stage between roughly 8:15 and 8:30 p.m., and the city encourages guests to bring chairs and pick up dinner or drinks from Town Center restaurants.

The lineup this year leans deliberately Georgia-adjacent. A double-headliner night pairs REMakes, an R.E.M. tribute, with the Macon Music Revue, framed as a celebration of the music that came out of Georgia. Earlier stops included Big Bam Boom as a tribute to Hall & Oates, with sing-along staples like Rich Girl, Private Eyes, and You Make My Dreams.

What matters here as a resident isn't the specific band. It's that the Vox Stage was built into the Town Green for exactly this cadence, and the Town Center restaurants across the plaza are treated as part of the venue by the city itself. When you plan around a concert, you're planning around the restaurants too. That's a different mental model than "there's a concert at the mall."

What's new at The Forum, and why the tenant list is worth reading closely

North American Properties has been rebuilding the tenant mix for four years. Since 2022, NAP has signed leases with nearly 20 new brands, including Giulia, J. Crew Factory, Lovesac, Kendra Scott, Nando's Peri-Peri, Peche, Petfolk, and Sucré. If you haven't wandered the property since spring, that list is largely new to you.

Politan Row is where the food hall energy sits. I Love Tacos, a new tacos dorados concept, recently opened at Politan Row at The Forum, bringing deep-fried golden tacos with fresh toppings. On the other side of the property, a new restaurant with a South African flair opened when Nando's Peri-Peri debuted its second Georgia location at The Forum.

The Forum's plaza is now the connective piece between the retail and the events. The property hosts 100+ community events annually, from outdoor fitness classes and live music to movie nights and holiday celebrations, all centered around The Plaza, a 6,650 square foot turfed gathering space with a performance stage and LED screen. That's a full second stage within walking distance of the Vox Stage. Two amphitheaters, one weekend.

The bigger thing to know is what's still in the ground.

The future of The Forum includes the addition of a luxury boutique hotel, a multifamily community, and structured parking, with the next segment of construction currently anticipated to begin early 2026.

Add to that the addition of five new "jewel box" buildings that will house restaurants and new stores, plus a plaza where concerts, yoga classes, and other social gatherings can be held. The point of listing all of this out is that when residents ask why the two sides of Peachtree Parkway are being programmed as one calendar, the answer is that they're on their way to becoming one physical place.

The routines that fill the weeks between the marquee events

Two Saturdays a summer of festival programming would be thin if that were all there was. It isn't. The city has quietly built a weekly rhythm on the Town Green that runs most of the year.

• Yoga on the Green every Tuesday at 8 a.m. from May through September
• CrossFit every Thursday at 8 a.m. from March through November
• Farmers Market on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon, running May 16 through July 25 this season

Those weekly slots are all held at the Peachtree Corners Town Green, per the city's 2026 event calendar. The farmers market is worth flagging even now that its 2026 run has closed. Organized by Peachtree Farm, the market moved to a new location this year with booths and tents spread out on the Town Green, giving more room to wander and shop. If you weren't there this summer, put the mid-May reopening on next year's calendar. And keep an eye on one of its regular vendors: Fables & Ferns will have a booth at the farmers market all summer and can also be found at pop-up events and book fairs around town, with the local online bookseller currently raising money to open a brick-and-mortar shop near Spalding Drive and Holcomb Bridge Road this fall.

A dedicated indie bookstore in that corridor changes the character of the block it lands on. Worth a check-in this fall.

How to actually use this calendar

A few practical notes for planning around the Town Green crowds.

Concert-goers should know that parking within the Town Center shopping center is limited, that additional parking is available at 5051 Peachtree Corners Circle or at Davinci Court off Peachtree Corners Circle, and that event parking is not permitted at the 5200 Town Center Townhome community. For the August 22 festival specifically, the Town Green address is 5140 Town Center Boulevard.

If you're bringing kids, the international festival on the 22nd is the higher-yield bet of the month. Interactive exhibits, food from dozens of countries, and a full ten-hour window mean you can drop in twice on the same day for a fraction of the effort a festival that far from home would demand.

The bigger picture for people who already live here

None of this is a case for moving to Peachtree Corners. That case has already been made, repeatedly, on this blog and elsewhere. This is a case for residents to stop treating The Forum and the Town Green as separate errands. The city is programming them as one downtown. NAP is building them into one downtown. The next six weeks are the clearest signal yet that the two-address weekend is now the default, not the exception.

Pick a Saturday. Start at one, end at the other. See what you've been missing on the other side of the parkway.

If your family's rhythm in Peachtree Corners is changing this year, whether that means outgrowing the house, right-sizing after the kids launch, or finally chasing that short walk to the Town Green, Heather Cummings would love to hear where you're headed next. Let's connect.