InTucker Magazine

The Tucker Way – Tucker’s First Decade

October saw the end of a full year-long celebration of the first ten years of the City of Tucker. From the cityhood process to expanding services, there has been plenty to celebrate. Have you kept up with all the past year’s festivities?

Leading up to November 2025, the City of Tucker’s social media accounts ran a ten-day countdown of some of the City’s major accomplishments.

We began our events with the Kickoff to Tucker Ten-Year Celebration event at the Church Street Greenspace November 1, 2025. At 2:30 p.m. we held a toast to the referendum in which Tucker residents voted to incorporate, then played a retrospective video and listened to tributes from Tucker leadership throughout the years. As an official UGA Game-Watching partner, tributes were followed by our tailgate for the UGA-Florida game starting at 3:30. The night ended with a Michelle Malone concert for the community to party together.

In that November’s issue of InTucker Magazine, we highlighted some of the biggest moments in the City so far, such as the swearing in of our first Mayor and City Council, the addition of the City Hall Annex on First Avenue and the transportation improvements accomplished with the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.

November 14, 2025, was the grand opening of the Tucker Town Green on which the celebration would continue with live music from Trina Meade and the City introduced the new park. The Tucker Town Green immediately became the City’s favorite community event venue.

Celebratory collectible stickers were available at Main Street businesses during November to encourage residents to visit their favorite small businesses; no purchase was required to obtain a sticker!

Throughout 2026 the City has held giveaways at City Hall. In January residents could each grab their own Tucker Ten-Year branded glasses. March’s item was an insulated shoulder bag, and residents could grab either a commemorative pin or coin during July. Many of these items were also given out during other City-community events like the Winter Concert Series and July 3 Celebration of Independence.

In February, the Georgia House passed a resolution announcing Tucker Day in honor of the City’s ten years. Current and former elected officials, staff and other City stakeholders were invited to the gold dome for the announcement.

In the middle of the year the City created a scavenger hunt of major historical locations in the City. These included Browning Courthouse, Cofer Bros, the Greenville Henderson Family Plot, Henderson Family Cemetery, Henderson’s Mill Marker, Johns Homestead, Logans Corp Marker, Old Fellowship Cemetery, Tucker High and the Tucker Train Depot. Residents who completed the scavenger hunt were rewarded with their choice of commemorative Ten Year pin or Ten Year coin.

The City closed out our yearlong festivities with the Ten-Tober Festival October 17. This Oktoberfest-inspired celebration featured a UGA-Auburn Game-Watching party and a selection of six local breweries at the Tucker Town Green. During the halftime break in the game the crowd cheered on the participants in the stein holding contest. Of note, a baby-wearing mama held her own (and her stein) for a long time and the eldest in the contest won on his 65 birthday! Later in the evening, participants moved to Main Street to watch Starship featuring Mickey Thomas.

In December the City will unveil the time capsule commemorating the cityhood effort to incorporate and celebrate the first ten years. Items will be showcased in the Council Chambers’ lobby at City Hall. In a citywide, informal survey, residents and Tucker fans made suggestions on what to include and set a preference of timeframe to go back to 2013 and include artifacts from the advocacy campaign.

WE BUILT THIS CITY:

• Increased the Code Enforcement response time so 73% of cases were investigated the same day reported
• Created sports programming resulting in over 1900 participants last year
• Created youth camps with over 1750 participants last year
• Invested $106 million dollars in capital improvements, including
  ° $23 million dollars in resurfacing 113.5 miles of roadways
  ° $35.8 million dollars in new transportation and mobility improvements across 12 projects with eight more underway
  ° Invested $30 million dollars in parks projects in 10 years: Acquisition of five new parks including the Tucker Town Green and the Fitzgerald Sports Complex and Park, added land to existing parks, new playgrounds, renovated sports fields and more
  ° Invested $8 million dollars in right-of-way and stormwater projects since starting roads and drainage service just three years, including 5,475 work orders and a total stormwater system analysis