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Some of the most common aging-in-place services we provide include:

 In-Home Support Suwanee, GA

If someone you care about is unable or unwilling to stay alone either during the day or overnight, our in-home caregiver services can provide the assistance they need. We understand that loneliness can have a significant impact on an individual's mental and physical health, and we are here to offer the necessary support to ensure their well-being.

 Personal Care Suwanee, GA

Opa caregivers provide much-needed help with maintaining personal hygiene, dressing and eating, and aiding with mobility. We also provide transportation assistance, help facilitate communication, assist with medication management, offer support with home maintenance, and provide assistance with shopping and meal preparation.

 Home Health Aides Suwanee, GA

Long-term spouses and partners rely on one another for companionship and love. That's why, at Opa, we can develop specialized care plans for aging couples who need home care in Suwanee, GA.

 Senior Companionship Suwanee, GA

Opa caregivers are here to help you or your elderly family member with running errands like getting to and from medical appointments, picking up prescriptions or groceries, and attending community activities to stay engaged and active.

 Medical Care At Home Suwanee, GA

Sometimes, seniors need around-the-clock in-home care. Our experienced caregivers are available to stay with your loved ones for an extended period to ensure they stay happy and healthy at home.

Companion

Short-Term Companion Care Services

Loneliness can greatly affect someone's mental and physical well-being. That's especially true after having a major surgery or illness. If your loved one cannot or does not want to be left alone after being discharged from a hospital or care facility, our short-term caregivers are ready to help.

Personal

Short-Term Personal Care Services

Short-term caregivers from Opa can provide essential support with daily personal care, including grooming, getting dressed, eating, and getting around. Our services also include transportation, communication assistance, medication management, household upkeep, and help with shopping and meal preparation.

Assistance

Stand-By Assistance

We offer stand-by assistance while your senior loved one takes a shower, goes to the bathroom, moves from room to room, and walks outdoors. We can also provide stand-by assistance while your senior completes exercises and activities prescribed by Physical and Occupational Therapists.

Here are three of the most difficult challenges that family caregivers may encounter when looking after their elderly parents or loved ones.

Home Care Services Suwanee, GA

Poor Sleep

As people age, their sleep patterns can be disrupted, causing them to wake up multiple times during the night. This can be due to a shift in their internal body clock, stress, or worry. If dementia is a factor, you may need to be vigilant, as sundowning and wandering could occur. Caring for your parents or a loved one requires a clear and rested mind, which is why getting enough sleep is essential for both your well-being and your ability to provide the best care. After all, you don't want to get so burnt out and tired that you take a trip to the hospital. Avoid getting burnt out and exhausted, as it could lead to a trip to the hospital.

 Elderly Care Suwanee, GA

Lack of Support

Taking care of aging parents can feel overwhelming and like you're shouldering the entire brunt of responsibility. Moreover, thinking that you're the sole caregiver can be stressful and put unneeded strain on other relationships in your life. It's crucial to understand that caregiving is not a one-person task. Trying to handle it alone can lead to burnout, depression, and other serious health issues. It can also negatively impact the quality of care your parents receive.

 Senior Assistance Suwanee, GA

No Privacy

Living with your parents can affect both your physical and emotional privacy, especially if one or both need significant amounts of attention. This can lead to feelings of fear and disorientation when you're not around. Similarly, it can be challenging for your parents to maintain their own privacy while you're taking care of them.

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Development Begins on New Multifamily Building in Suwanee

Construction has begun on a new 212-unit community in Suwanee. The property, to be known as McGinnis Ferry, is expected to open for leasing in summer 2025.McGinnis Ferry will include one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans ranging from 700 to 1,200 square feet. The building will include five and six stories, situated on six acres near Suwanee Town Center.Amenities will include a rooftop terrace and clubhouse with a catering kitchen, a saltwater resort-style pool with cabanas and a hammock garden, a café...

Construction has begun on a new 212-unit community in Suwanee. The property, to be known as McGinnis Ferry, is expected to open for leasing in summer 2025.

McGinnis Ferry will include one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans ranging from 700 to 1,200 square feet. The building will include five and six stories, situated on six acres near Suwanee Town Center.

Amenities will include a rooftop terrace and clubhouse with a catering kitchen, a saltwater resort-style pool with cabanas and a hammock garden, a café with gourmet coffee bar, an outdoor kitchen and entertainment area, landscaped courtyards with a fire pit, grilling stations and a bocce court, a 24-hour fitness center, EV charging stations and a dog spa.

McGinnis Ferry is a joint venture between Atlanta-based Imperium Development, Stockbridge Capital Group and Leaven Capital Group.

“Given our deep ties to the Atlanta MSA, we fully understand the appeal of Suwanee and the need for the type of product we are developing,” Imperium Development co-founder Greg Power said in a news release. “The strategic location of this project along McGinnis Ferry Road offers a distinct value proposition, enabling professionals of all ages to live in an upscale setting less than two minutes from Interstate-85 and within walking distance to downtown Suwanee’s shopping, dining and entertainment.”

McGinnis Ferry is Imperium’s fourth development project in the Atlanta area. The company has broken ground on Walker’s Ridge Apartments in Cartersville, South Davis Apartments in LaGrange and Ava Oakwood in Oakwood.

“Atlanta continues to benefit from strong population and corporate inflows, and we are pleased with the pace at which we have been able to move these projects forward,” Imperium Development co-founder Mike Handza said. “We look forward to expanding our footprint here as well as in other southeastern markets that exhibit similar growth profiles.”

Atlanta-based firms Dynamik Design and New South Construction are working on the design and development of McGinnis Ferry. Financing for the project was provided by SeaCoast Bank and Trustmark.

BWE, a commercial and multifamily mortgage banking company, announced this week that it secured a $31 million loan for the building of the project.

Thomas Wiedeman, senior vice president in BWE’s Atlanta office, originated the construction loan on behalf of Imperium Development, according to a news release. He was supported by a team that includes Alan Tapie, executive vice president, Brad Walker, senior vice president, and Hanley Long, production analyst.

Odyssey Escape Game Coming to Suwanee

Nuketown Diner, Jack the Ripper, and Titanic are among the distinct themes at Odyssey Escape Game, an Alpharetta-based, internationally ranked escape room expanding to Suwanee soon.Owner Michael Cook aims to create an immersive, polished experience with themes you might not typically find at an escape room.“I stayed away from the tried-and-true escape room themes,” Cook told What Now Atlanta. &...

Nuketown Diner, Jack the Ripper, and Titanic are among the distinct themes at Odyssey Escape Game, an Alpharetta-based, internationally ranked escape room expanding to Suwanee soon.

Owner Michael Cook aims to create an immersive, polished experience with themes you might not typically find at an escape room.

“I stayed away from the tried-and-true escape room themes,” Cook told What Now Atlanta. “There’s a lot of them out there. I want what you’re experiencing at Odyssey to be original and unique.”

The new Suwanee location, which will be at 4000 Smithtown Road, will have four themes: Mankind’s Last Chance – A.I. Takeover, The Nuketown Diner, Jack the Ripper – Solve the Mystery, and Titanic – The Final Hour. Expect to engage all senses, with sights, sounds and temperatures all coming into play.

Cook comes up with the ideas himself, writing the game flow, sourcing the props, and physically building the games. His background as a writer (he’s the author of the Black Earth Saga series and the FalconClaw Detective series) keeps the wheels turning on new ideas.

Odyssey Escape Game began in Alpharetta in 2016. (The brand also has a location in Schaumburg, Illinois.) The company was ranked the #7 escape room in the world in 2019.

Cook hopes to bring Suwanee residents an escape room experience that’s fresh and challenging.

“People on that side of town are running out of escape rooms,” he said. “Once you’ve played all the escape rooms in a particular facility, where are you gonna go? It’s like seeing the same movie over and over.”

Escape rooms offer immersive experiences in which participants must solve riddles and puzzles to make it out of the room. They are commonly used for corporate team-building, family activities, date nights and social outings.

Cook used his prior experience developing another company to make improvements to the escape game experience. One of those improvements is a conference room with a live TV feed to the games, helpful for parents who want to view their children solving puzzles.

“People would be in the lobby and ask if there was a place where they could watch their kids play,” he said. “Parents want to take in the joy of their children having fun. Parents revel in that.”

Another unique element is multi-room games, keeping things fresh as players move from room to room, solving puzzles and cracking codes.

“The big reveal, going from room one to room two, or room two to room three, that’s a big deal,” Cook said.

Odyssey Escape Game in Suwanee is expected to open June 29, 2024.

[Editor’s Note: This article has been updated with an opening date for Odyssey Escape Game.]

Bitzel’s Chocolate will offer chocolate workshops, tastings and a tour of how chocolate is produced.

While Bitzel’s Chocolate may not have Willy Wonka manning the store, and the chocolate river is more akin to a chocolate trail, Suwanee’s newest confectionery will offer an immersive chocolate experience where visitors can learn about the production of their truffles, bonbons and chocolate bunnies from start to finish.Slated to unlock its doors Jan. 17 at 453 Northolt Parkway, the shop opens into an artificial cacao forest, complete with paper leaves, replicas of orange-red cacao pods and real tree trunks. A brown path, ca...

While Bitzel’s Chocolate may not have Willy Wonka manning the store, and the chocolate river is more akin to a chocolate trail, Suwanee’s newest confectionery will offer an immersive chocolate experience where visitors can learn about the production of their truffles, bonbons and chocolate bunnies from start to finish.

Slated to unlock its doors Jan. 17 at 453 Northolt Parkway, the shop opens into an artificial cacao forest, complete with paper leaves, replicas of orange-red cacao pods and real tree trunks. A brown path, called the journey of chocolate, encircles the shop and takes visitors through the different chocolate-making processes.

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A counter at the front of the store promises an array of goodies conceived by Sabrina Coombs, Bitzel’s in-house chocolatier and executive chef. Coombs previously worked as the executive pastry chef for Atlanta’s Nobu Hotel and Epicurean Hotel before joining the company in March 2023, but chocolate is where her passion lies.

“I love chocolate because of the science of it, and the ever-growing knowledge that you can have from it,” she said.

The 7,000-square-foot facility houses a seating area for customers, a gelato counter that will serve a rotating mix of flavors, a retail section to peruse the day’s treats and, the main event, the journey of chocolate.

Visitors can see how their chocolate is made, starting with a video that shows the Ugandan and Ecuadorian farms from which owner Ray Bitzel sources his cacao beans. The journey details the fermenting process, then circles around the glass perimeter of the main chocolate factory where Coombs and her team temper the chocolate and operate the machinery that produces the candy, including an oversized chocolate bunny mold rotating in the air.

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Bitzel wanted to incorporate an immersive experience into the shop so customers could see how intensive the process of chocolate making really is, from harvesting the beans all the way to packaging the chocolate bars.

“We just didn’t want to hide (it),” Bitzel said. “What you see is what you get.”

The chocolate menu will be ever-evolving, but to start, Coombs said they’ll offer bonbons, molded chocolates, chocolate-dipped strawberries, chocolate-covered nuts and an assortment of chocolate bark with flavors like dark chocolate raspberry, rocky road, confetti and white chocolate apricot with almonds.

In addition to classic dark and white chocolate, Bitzel’s is offering ruby chocolate, which comes from the ruby cacao tree and possesses a natural rose color. The flavor has hints of raspberry with a yogurt tang, great for mixing with dark chocolate, Bitzel said.

This summer, they plan to introduce a Georgia peach truffle that looks like a baby peach on the outside with a filling of real fruit puree, and they will add gelato-filled bonbons to the menu, so it’ll be like biting into an ice cream sandwich.

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Bitzel is no stranger to the ins and outs of running a chocolate shop; about 20 years ago, he owned Bellejais, a small chocolate shop in Woodstock. He said they hand-produced about 1,000 pieces a day and supplied companies like the Georgia Aquarium and the Atlanta Falcons. Bellejais came to an end after the Las Vegas resort Bellagio accused the company of trademark infringement, Bitzel said.

In the years following, he worked in various other industries, even living in Zurich and England for some time, but he couldn’t stay out of the chocolate business forever. He and his business partner, Dave Rose, decided to take a chance on Bitzel’s, and they kicked off the operation in February 2023.

This time around, he’ll be increasing production capabilities up to 250,000 pieces per day, he said, thanks to the extensive chocolate-making machinery in the store.

Bitzel’s Chocolate will offer tours that bring visitors inside the chocolate factory, and beginning in February, there will be chocolate-making workshops where attendees can learn about the science of chocolate and basic techniques. There will also be chocolate tastings and wine and chocolate pairing events. Prices for the tours and workshops will vary from $20-$120 per person and will require online reservations.

“People want to see (the process),” Bitzel said. “I think they really want to see everything because every other chocolate place hides what they do, and I don’t get that because it’s really cool.”

453 Northolt Parkway, Suwanee. 770-758-1550, bitzelschocolate.com.

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Bitzel's Chocolate to bring immersive chocolate experience to Suwanee, Georgia this fall

Chocolate lovers are in for a treat as Bitzel’s Chocolate, a 7,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility, is set to open its doors in Suwanee, Georgia this fall.The brainchild of chocolatier and entrepreneur Ray Bitzel, former owner of Bellejais Chocolatier, Bitzel’s Chocolate will feature a line of affordable, chef-crafted delicacies conceived by master chocolatier Sabrina Coombs, former executive pastry chef at Nobu Atlanta and season eight fina...

Chocolate lovers are in for a treat as Bitzel’s Chocolate, a 7,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility, is set to open its doors in Suwanee, Georgia this fall.

The brainchild of chocolatier and entrepreneur Ray Bitzel, former owner of Bellejais Chocolatier, Bitzel’s Chocolate will feature a line of affordable, chef-crafted delicacies conceived by master chocolatier Sabrina Coombs, former executive pastry chef at Nobu Atlanta and season eight finalist on Food Network’s “Holiday Baking Championship.”

The factory will offer retail and wholesale chocolate treats including chocolate bark, chocolate-covered fruits and nuts, ice cream-filled bonbons and truffles and molded chocolate products as well as fresh, continuously churning gelato.

Bitzel plans to offer a true “Willy Wonka”-style experience, allowing visitors to watch as these chocolate creations move through an automated production process using the widest range of specialty equipment of any chocolatier in the Southeast. Visitors also can see how cacao is harvested and learn about cacao growers and harvesters from Ecuador, Uganda and the Dominican Republic while walking through an artificial cacao forest.

“We’re making a quality product with real ingredients, and guests can see how it’s made, from bean to bar,” says Bitzel. “Guests will have the ability to see the whole process from production to packaging in-house.”

Bitzel’s creations will utilize different types of chocolate in addition to the standard milk chocolate and dark chocolate. “We’ll have a caramel chocolate, sometimes called gold chocolate,” says Coombs. “And we’re going to have ruby chocolate, which is a fantastic chocolate made from ruby cacao. It has a tart, raspberry flavor, and as far as we know, we’ll be the first chocolatier to introduce it to the U.S. on a large scale. We’re very excited about that.”

Bitzel’s Chocolate products will be available in the factory’s retail space. Additionally, Bitzel plans to work with local and national brands to create private-label chocolate and custom packaging options for corporations, restaurants, wineries, and private events.

“A lot of the chocolate on the shelves today doesn’t meet the legal definition of chocolate,” Bitzel says. “We’re providing authentic chocolate goods designed and conceived by an extremely talented chef, and our production process allows us to offer them at a reasonable, value-driven price. Guests get to see how the chocolate is made, and people are going to love the entire experience.”

For more information, visit bitzelschocolate.com.

Bitzel’s Chocolate to Bring Sweet Experience to Suwanee

A new chocolate shop and factory coming to Suwanee is aiming to make quality sweets accessible – and to take visitors behind the scenes.It’s looking like Bitzel’s Chocolate will open around early October, co-founder Raymond Bitzel told What Now Atlanta, and it won’t be your typical chocolate shop. The 7,000-square-foot, custom-built space at 453 Northolt Parkway, building 2, will include an overhead cacao forest, interactive screens with educational co...

A new chocolate shop and factory coming to Suwanee is aiming to make quality sweets accessible – and to take visitors behind the scenes.

It’s looking like Bitzel’s Chocolate will open around early October, co-founder Raymond Bitzel told What Now Atlanta, and it won’t be your typical chocolate shop. The 7,000-square-foot, custom-built space at 453 Northolt Parkway, building 2, will include an overhead cacao forest, interactive screens with educational content, continually churned gelato and a machine capable of injecting ice cream into chocolate.

Bitzel said the team has been training on demo versions of the equipment in Buffalo, New York.

“If I had a dollar for every time someone said, we’ve never seen that before…” he said. “We’re importing equipment no one’s ever seen before, the city or state has never seen before. It’s been interesting.”

Bitzel’s Chocolate will be doing both retail and wholesale. Customers can get a glimpse of the factory and watch the process from behind the glass, and get even more involved with interactive experiences, like chocolate tastings and truffle making.

“You can put on your chef hat, your chef coat, and you get to be Willy Wonka for a few hours,” Bitzel said.

The business is a larger variation of a small chocolate shop from 20 years ago, he told What Now Atlanta. They did well, even winning competitions and a national packaging award. But they wanted to eventually go bigger and better.

“We decided to wait until we could do it the right way,” he said, of the decision to start building a larger space and full-fledged factory. “It’s been a long time.”

Bitzel’s experience in the chocolate world goes back even further. His parents owned a small chocolate shop, and he helped dip truffles by hand.

Ultimately, they hope to offer quality chocolate and sweets at an affordable price point, giving customers a middle ground between small specialty shops and large corporations.

“One of the reasons we’re doing this is there’s a huge gap between the very small and the Hershey’s,” he said.

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