Current activities: 

(June 2025)  Sign and landscape installation is substantially complete. Coordination with Georgia Power for power supply to the signs is ongoing.   

(March 2025) Gateway signs installed on Mount Vernon Road, Chamblee Dunwoody Road at Spalding Drive and on Hammond Drive. 

(Jan. 2025) Next signs to be installed will be at Roberts Drive, North Shallowford Road and North Peachtree Road.  Power connections are being coordinated with Georgia Power. 

(December 2024) Letters for all signs have been fabricated.  The next signs to be installed will be at Roberts Drive, North Shallowford Road, and North Peachtree Road. Power connections are being coordinated with Georgia Power. 

Project details:

Dunwoody’s Gateway Sign Plan has five guiding principles: improve amenity awareness within the Perimeter market, create a unified Dunwoody, create a sign package that is unique to Dunwoody and timeless, create a sense of place, and focus on pedestrians as well as vehicles. The gateway signs have vertical and horizontal designs, varying in size depending on location. Cities and counties commonly use gateway signs.

The City of Dunwoody has been talking about gateways and gateway signs since 2010. The current plan dates back to 2019. Discover Dunwoody spearheaded the effort after finding in two separate surveys that visitors didn’t know they were in our city, making signage a priority.

A stakeholder group from the City of Dunwoody, Discover Dunwoody, and PCIDs discussed ideas, fonts, and materials with a team from TSW.

City Council approved the sign designs in January 2020 and signed off on the Gateway & Wayfinding plan in December of that year. The construction contract was approved in August 2023. The plan is funded through a combination of federal funding, hotel/motel funds, and general capital project funds. 

Installation of the signs began in September 2024. The construction contract was approved in August 2023. Click to read the memo and final concepts.

The plan includes 16 sign locations, which are mapped below (click on the image for a closer view):