Alpharetta sits at the top of the GA-400 corridor in North Fulton, right next door to Roswell. Most of its neighborhoods are fairly young, but the city has an old core. The downtown historic district between Milton Avenue and Academy Street has buildings dating back to the 1800s, and Alpharetta City Center added six blocks and 26 acres of shops, offices, and green space around it. Brooke Street Park, a five-acre arboretum behind City Hall, is a nice spot for a December walk.
The city kicks off the season with its tree lighting downtown: a tall spruce covered in white lights, music, Santa, snow for the kids, and food trucks. The streets around it fill up, and so do the neighborhoods nearby with families who want their own houses lit by then.
The biggest neighborhood name in town is Windward. It began taking shape in the mid-1980s along Windward Parkway around a 195-acre private lake, and it now includes more than 50 neighborhoods and two golf courses under one master association. Homes run from the mid-80s through the 2000s, and Windward Peninsula went up between 1999 and 2005. Beyond Windward, most of Alpharetta's single-family homes are in subdivisions with an HOA, a pool, and a front entrance sign.
For us, that means two things. First, most Alpharetta houses are two-stories with long, broken-up rooflines, which take time and height to do right. Second, most come with guidelines. We handle both. You send a photo and your HOA rules if you have them. We send an itemized written quote. Then we hang commercial-grade LEDs cut to each run, clip them on without nails or staples, set the timer, and come back in January. See our roofline lighting page for the details.
