Key points:
•Tucker has been named the top suburban city in metro Atlanta by Urbanize Atlanta.
•The digital publication received 8,000 votes for best city among 64 contenders.
• Avondale Estates and Hapeville were some of the top competitors.
In Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s voice: Can you smell what Tucker is cooking?!
That aroma is sweet victory. The “new city, old-fashioned town” was just named the top metro Atlanta city in Urbanize Atlanta’s hotly contested (Sub)urban Smackdown competition. Tucker clenched the Golden Urby Chalice of Champions trophy after more than 8,000 votes rolled in for 64 cities across the area.
Urbanize is a national digital publication covering real estate development and urban planning in cities like Atlanta, New York, and Los Angeles. For its March Madness-esque bracket, the publication placed 64 cities in six rounds of voting over the month of December.
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The list consisted of 32 of the “most populous and internet-searched places in suburban Atlanta” and an additional 32 in-town communities considered Atlanta’s most historic, popular, and interesting neighborhoods. From that, the voting began, with the top vote-getters in each pairing moving on to the next round. Grant Park, Avondale Estates, and Hapeville made it to the final four.
“In its path to everlasting 2025 (Sub)urban Smackdown glory, Tucker stood up and stormed through a tough bracket, bouncing out Virginia-Highland, Summerhill, two-time champ West End, sister city Stone Mountain, and past champion Hapeville,” read an excerpt from the announcement.
Tucker ultimately beat out Grant Park with 70 percent of the 8,000 votes tallied by the end of the smackdown. Urbanize noted that Tucker’s immense growth over the last several years was a metric of its success. Though only officially a city since 2016, the community formed along a main railroad line in 1892 in east central DeKalb County.
From its bustling Main Street businesses and attractions to its robust calendar of events, including Taste of Tucker and Tucker Day, the city has become a place where millennials, families, and new businesses want to call home.
In a message on its Facebook page, the City of Tucker thanked Urbanize and the city’s residents for “showing out.”