441 Central
Polias · 0.6 miles from Building 700
50,887 SF anchor · 16,000 SF inline (up to 5 spaces) · 5–6 outparcels
±12–14 acres, ground lease + build-to-suit
In development — not yet under construction
Developer’s project page
Oconee County, Georgia
Watkinsville, Georgia.
The wealthiest, best-educated county in Northeast Georgia — and the one with the least room for the businesses that serve it.
Regional access
Where Building 700 sits in Northeast Georgia.
Building 700 at Moreland Heights Business Park is on the US 441 and Macon Highway corridor in Watkinsville, about seven miles south of Athens, with State Route 316 running west toward metro Atlanta and State Route 53 running northwest to Interstate 85 at Braselton.
By road, from Building 700
- Athens Perimeter / SR 10 Loop
- 3.4 mi · 6 min
- Georgia Highway 316
- 5.3 mi · 10 min
- University of Georgia campus
- 7.8 mi · 14 min
- I-20 at Madison
- 24.9 mi · 36 min
- I-85 at Braselton
- 31.7 mi · 47 min
- Downtown Atlanta
- 68 mi · 87 min
Distances and drive times are approximate, measured from the property by road, free-flow conditions. August 2026 · OSRM routing on the OpenStreetMap network.
Georgia Highway 53 — Hog Mountain Road locally — runs west from Watkinsville toward Winder and reaches I-85 at Braselton. GA 316 is the four-lane connector to metro Atlanta, about ten minutes from Building 700 via the Oconee Connector. I-20 is 36 minutes south at Madison. Hartsfield-Jackson is under two hours; the Port of Savannah is about four and a half.
Oconee County’s own economic development positioning describes the county as strategically located among GA 15, GA 316, GA Loop 10, US 78 and US 441, with a stated strategy of concentrating growth along those corridors. Building 700 sits on one of them.
Drive times
How far is Building 700 from downtown Athens and UGA?
Building 700 at Moreland Heights Business Park is 8.6 miles and about 14 minutes from downtown Athens, 7.8 miles from the University of Georgia campus, and 1.1 miles from downtown Watkinsville.
| From Building 700 to | Miles | Minutes |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown Watkinsville | 1.1 | 3 |
| Oconee County Administrative Building— Adjacent parcel; 1.5 mi by road via Macon Highway | 1.5 | 4 |
| Butler's Crossing (Publix) | 2.8 | 5 |
| Athens Perimeter / SR 10 Loop | 3.4 | 6 |
| Georgia Highway 316 | 5.3 | 10 |
| Epps Bridge Centre | 5.8 | 10 |
| St. Mary's Hospital, Athens | 6.6 | 14 |
| University of Georgia campus | 7.8 | 14 |
| Piedmont Athens Regional | 8.1 | 15 |
| Downtown Athens | 8.6 | 14 |
| Athens Ben Epps Airport | 9.7 | 16 |
| I-20 at Madison | 24.9 | 36 |
| I-85 at Braselton | 31.7 | 47 |
| Lawrenceville / Gwinnett County | 38.6 | 53 |
| Downtown Atlanta | 68 | 87 |
| Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Intl. | 79.2 | 106 |
| Port of Savannah | 213.9 | 268 |
Sources: Distances and drive times are approximate, measured from the property by road, free-flow conditions. August 2026 · OSRM routing on the OpenStreetMap network.
The trade area
Who lives and works in Oconee County?
Oconee County has the second-highest median household income of Georgia's 159 counties, 55.9% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and 44,893 residents as of the July 2025 estimate.
$121,217
Median household income
2nd highest of Georgia's 159 counties
ACS 2020–2024 · U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
55.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher
Georgia: 34.9%
ACS 2020–2024 · U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
ZIP 30677 — the primary trade area
The businesses that need this building
123
Construction establishments in Oconee County
The county's 2nd-largest industry by establishment count
2024 · Data USA
334
New housing units permitted in Oconee County
~300–400/yr sustained since 2020
2024 · U.S. Census Bureau / FRED
107,700
Total nonfarm jobs, Athens MSA
+4.1% year over year
June 2026 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The corridor
The county’s front door.
Building 700 fronts Moreland Heights Road, a right turn off Macon Highway, which meets the Watkinsville Bypass at a roundabout. US 129/441 runs north from there to the Athens Perimeter — a nineteen-mile freeway-standard beltway around Athens — in about six minutes, and south toward Madison and I-20. The corridor is part of Georgia’s Governor’s Road Improvement Program, with widening segments programmed in and around Oconee County.
The consequential move on this road happened in July 2023, when Oconee County opened its consolidated administrative building at 7635 Macon Highway and moved every county office there. Planning, permits, inspections, public works, utilities, the tax commissioner. For a contractor, an engineer, a surveyor, or any business that pulls permits or bids public work, that is the single most-visited address in the county — and it is next door to this one. The courts stayed downtown at the historic courthouse on North Main.
Downtown Watkinsville is one mile away.
A Georgia Main Street community of about 2,900 people, with a restored 1902 schoolhouse arts centre and a tavern on the National Register since 1970.One mile
A Georgia Main Street community.
Downtown Watkinsville is a Georgia Main Street community of about 2,900 people that punches far above its weight. The Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation operates out of the restored 1902 schoolhouse on School Street and has anchored the downtown’s revival since the early 1990s. Eagle Tavern, built around 1801, has been on the National Register since 1970. There are sixteen-plus restaurants and cafés on and around Main Street, a Saturday farmers market, three downtown parks, and a downtown development plan the city adopted in January 2026.
Downtown Watkinsville is also growing. Wire Park, the adaptive reuse of a former wire factory, now houses the new county library. CK Capital’s “15 South” is putting 203 apartments, 24 townhomes, six cottages, a locally owned grocery store and commercial space on sixteen acres of a former concrete pipe plant, with sidewalk connections to Main Street.
The commercial node
Butler’s Crossing, 2.8 miles.
Where US 441 meets Hog Mountain Road and Experiment Station Road is Oconee County's established commercial center.
75,505 SF
Publix-anchored center at Butler's Crossing
Fleet Feet, Workout Anytime, Urgent Care Oconee and about a dozen other tenants
2026 · Crossman & Company
Butler’s Crossing carries a 75,505 SF Publix-anchored center with Fleet Feet, Workout Anytime, Urgent Care Oconee and about a dozen other tenants, drawing roughly 1.4 million visits a year. Within a four-mile radius of that intersection, average household income runs about $131,858.
What else is coming to this corridor?
Oconee Mercantile
Polias · 0.7 miles from Building 700
158,959 SF approved across 7 buildings on 23.14 acres
In development
Developer’s project pageButlers Grove
Polias · 2.8 miles from Building 700
Anchor and outparcel opportunities — eat, drink, wellness, provisions
In development
Developer’s project pageTaken together, this is a corridor filling in rather than a road with a building on it. Within about a mile and a half of Building 700: the county’s consolidated administrative offices at 7635 Macon Highway, a recently opened QuikTrip across US 441, the 158,959 SF Oconee Mercantile redevelopment, and Polias’s 441 Central anchor site. Downtown Watkinsville is a mile south; the Butler’s Crossing retail node, where Butlers Grove is adding an eat-drink-wellness destination, is under three miles west.
Institutional anchors
The neighbours that hold this corridor up.
- Athens Academy
- 887 students, PK through 12, on a 152-acre campus with 24 buildings, located in Oconee County with frontage on US 441.NCES
- Presbyterian Village Athens
- The area's only Life Plan Community, on roughly 70 acres between Hog Mountain Road and US 441, opened in 2020 with approximately 200 staff positions. A satellite campus at the Oconee Connector was reported in early 2026.pvathens.org
- Oconee County Schools
- Twelve schools, ranked #2 in Georgia and #111 nationally by Niche for 2026, with a 99.7% four-year graduation rate for the Class of 2025 and SAT scores ranking third in the state.Niche, 2026
- Medical
- Piedmont's Oconee Health Campus on Jennings Mill Road provides primary care, urgent care, imaging, cardiology and orthopedics locally. Piedmont Athens Regional (427 beds) is fifteen minutes away; St. Mary's is fourteen.Piedmont Healthcare
Athens and the University of Georgia
Fourteen minutes north.
The University of Georgia enrolled 43,888 students in fall 2025 and employs 12,063 people — roughly 56,000 people on the ground daily in a county of 130,000 — and generated a record $9.2 billion in economic impact on Georgia in FY2025. The university’s new School of Medicine welcomed its first class in July 2026, with a 93,000 SF medical education and research building opening in December 2026.
Downtown Athens is about twenty walkable blocks, a National Register historic district, and the region’s dominant dining, music and entertainment draw. Athens-Clarke County saw $454 million in visitor spending in 2023, supporting 4,456 local jobs. The Classic Center’s economic impact rose 24% to $89 million in the fiscal year ending June 2026 across 606 events, and its 8,500-seat Akins Ford Arena has pushed the venue’s draw radius out to 150–200 miles.
Oconee County is where a great many of the people who work in that economy choose to live. Median household income in Oconee County is $121,217 — second-highest of Georgia’s 159 counties — against $53,625 in Athens-Clarke. Homeownership is 81.3%. Nearly 56% of adults hold a bachelor’s degree or higher.
$89M
Classic Center annual economic impact
606 events; up 24% YoY; 8,500-seat Akins Ford Arena
FY2026 · Flagpole
Building 700 is pre-leasing now.
7,200 square feet, divisible to ±3,600 SF, at $15.50 per square foot per year, triple net. Availability and pricing current as of September 2026.