Friday, November 30, 2012
Ann Parsons Odum gives a painting of Pierce's Corner to hang in Suwanee City Hall. Also, she recently moved her family business to Suwanee.
Her family business is new to Suwanee, but the family name is well known in Duluth and Gwinnett County. Ann Parsons Odum, whose family has owned a business in Gwinnett for generations, was honored Tuesday (Nov. 27) by the Suwanee City Council. The honor was for some of Odum's artwork, which commemorates a piece of Suwanee history. She donated to the city her painting of the Pierce's Corner building on Main Street in Old Town. The painting, which Odum said was done in 1995, will be displayed at City Hall. Odum noted Tuesday that her family began a general store in Bethesda, Ga., and moved it to Duluth in 1925. Parsons Gifts & Cards opened in 1987, and her family moved it to Suwanee in August 2012. New ownership of its location in Duluth …
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Its new location at 1500 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. in the Suwanee Jubilee Shopping Center between Duluth and Suwanee is just beyond the Suwanee City Limits sign on PIB.
Parsons Gifts & Cards opened in its new location in the Suwanee Jubilee Shopping Center between Duluth and Suwanee Aug. 2. The new store site at 1500 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. is just beyond the Suwanee City Limits sign on PIB. The popular Duluth business, owned by Carey and Patsy Odum, was required to move quickly from 2780 Buford Hwy. after their landlord sold the building in the Duluth Station Shopping Center, where the store leased 5,000 square feet of retail space, to a Korean Presbyterian church from Norcross. The church plans to renovate the entire building and relocate to Duluth by October. Parsons Gifts & Cards had 90 days to find a new location with an Aug. 1 moving deadline. The Odums built the building in the Duluth shopping …
Friday, July 13, 2012
Plaque recognizes Parsons tradition of old-fashioned, friendly service for 87 years in Duluth.
Duluth’s Parsons family was honored for 87 years of retail service in the city recently by the Duluth City Council. Parsons, which was founded in Duluth in 1925 by Calvin and Kate Parsons, has continued to have a presence in the city. Mayor Nancy Harris presented a plaque to family members recognizing the Parsons tradition of old-fashioned, friendly service at the July 9 council meeting. Parsons Gifts & Cards, the last Parsons store in Duluth located in the Duluth Station shopping center, is closing at the end of July and moving to 1500 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. in the Suwanee Jubilee shopping center. The new store will be located in Suwanee just beyond the Duluth city limits. Mayor Harris gave the plaque to Carey and Patsy Odum, owners …
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Parsons Gifts & Cards moving from location on Buford Highway to Peachtree Industrial Boulevard.
Parsons Gifts & Cards at 2780 Buford Highway in the Duluth Station Shopping Center is moving to 1500 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard. A church has purchased the building where the store is located from the landlord. “We have to be out by Aug. 1,” said Patsy Odum, who owns the business with her husband Carey. It occupies about 5,000 square feet of the 20,000-square-foot building. The remainder of the building is vacant. Parsons Gifts & Cards will reopen in its new location within a few days after the Aug. 1 moving deadline, she said. They built the building 15 years ago, but sold it about eight years afterwards along with the Parsons Hardware and Garden Center, which later closed. The current owner sold the building to a Presbyterian church …
