When someone in Acworth says "meet me downtown" this October, which street do they mean? For years the answer was Main Street. This fall the answer depends on the day. This year's new openings, the restored historic building and most of October's family events all sit on one stretch of Cherokee Street, on the edge of Logan Farm Park.
The city calls that stretch the Parkside District. Visit Acworth lists restaurants, event spaces, the Community and Visitor Center, an art gallery, the Rosenwald School, Doyal Hill Park and the Acworth Community Center as part of it. Most of that has been there for a while. What changed in 2026 is the number of reasons to walk that block on an ordinary weekday morning.
Three Addresses, a Few Doors Apart
The numbering tells the story. Logan Farm Park sits at 4405 Cherokee Street. Within a few doors of it:
- 4415 Cherokee St. is the restored McCray Farmhouse, now being turned into Bizarre Coffee.
- 4438 Cherokee St. is 1885 Grill. It describes itself as a Parkside District restaurant and has been serving since 2013.
- 4443 Cherokee St. is TapTown, which had its grand-opening ribbon cutting on Friday, May 8, 2026. The city described it as a gathering place for craft beer and chef-crafted American comfort food.
1885 Grill is the anchor. It was on this block more than a decade before the newer arrivals. TapTown also has a morning side that's easy to miss if you've only stopped in for a pint. Parallel Coffeehouse is listed at the same 4443 Cherokee St. address, inside TapTown. Its Visit Acworth profile describes all-day coffee and Southern biscuits in the morning. One address now covers both the early coffee stop and the evening tap list.
That matters for the block's rhythm. A restaurant row that only fills at dinner is quiet for most of the day. With coffee at one end and a second coffee shop on the way at the other, the block is set up to stay busy from breakfast through dinner, and the park is right beside it.
The Farmhouse That Still Says "Coming Soon"
On Thursday, July 16, Mayor Allegood, Alderman North, Alderwoman Haase, Alderman Houston and city staff gathered in Parkside to celebrate the restoration of the historic McCray Farmhouse. The city's announcement credited the project team with keeping the building's historic integrity intact. It also honored the McCray family's memories of growing up in the house, and the handoff to the Kaylor family. Sabrina Kaylor will open it to the community as Bizarre Coffee, which the city said would happen "this autumn."
Autumn has arrived, and as of early October the shop's own Acworth page still says it isn't open yet. It reads:
*COMING SOON* ... We're hard at work bringing Bizarre Coffee to Downtown Acworth. Stay tuned, we can't wait to welcome you and make your day!
The page gives no opening date or hours. It does confirm the plan. The shop will sit "right next to Logan Farm Park" and will have an outdoor patio, and the company says it wants to keep "plenty of the character that makes this house so special." Check their page or social channels before you plan a morning around it.
If you've been to Bizarre Coffee in a nearby town, you already have a sense of what's coming. The company runs shops at 121 E. Marietta Street in Canton and 440 Chambers St. in Woodstock, both open daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. A third, at 1090 Alpharetta St. in Roswell, stays open until 7 p.m. The brand's general menu includes handcrafted coffee drinks and made-to-order food such as smoothies, bowls, bagels and sandwiches.
In Acworth, the brand gets a building with its own family history, right next to Logan Farm Park.
The Park Next Door Is Doing the Hosting
Both the farmhouse and TapTown face Logan Farm Park's Cherokee Street side. The city's park page lists 120 acres with a nature trail, a lighted one-third-mile track, a multipurpose field, a half-acre fishing pond, a rental pavilion, Amos Durr Community Field, and a destination playground plus two smaller ones. It's open from 6 a.m. to midnight. The newest addition is Fit at the Farm, an outdoor fitness area for accessible resistance training that opened May 15, 2025. Tom Kris & Sons Plumbing funded it, and it is dedicated to Kristy Reidy.
Next door, the Acworth Community Center has two regulation basketball courts that are also lined for volleyball and pickleball, along with a classroom, an exercise room and a banquet hall.
This October, the park and the community center host most of the family events. On the city's calendar, three of the month's big community events take place on the Parkside side of downtown:
- Saturday, October 10, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The free Acworth Book & Storytelling Festival is at Tanyard Creek Overlook in the Acworth Community Center. The 2026 theme is "Weaving Tales, Building Community Through Story."
- Saturday, October 24, 3 to 7 p.m. Halloween JamBOOree takes over the large field by the playground at Logan Farm Park.
- Saturday, October 31, 2 to 7 p.m. The Fall Downtown Classic Car Cruise fills Logan Farm Park. It's free for spectators, and the city asks for a $5 vehicle-entry fee from people showing cars.
All three take place within a short walk of 4443 Cherokee St., where TapTown and Parallel Coffeehouse are already open.
Main Street Keeps the Big Traditions
None of this takes anything from Main Street. The two streets split the season between them, and Main Street still hosts the events that draw the largest crowds and carry the longest history.
Taste of Acworth runs Saturday, October 17, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on downtown Main Street. Organizers list more than 150 booths and estimate about 18,000 visitors a year. The Saturday farmers market skips that morning. The Historic Downtown Acworth Farmers Market runs from 8 a.m. to noon on Fridays through October 30 and Saturdays through November 14. The city lists no Saturday market on October 17 or November 7.
The rest of the season follows Main Street and the lake. Here is the order the dates fall in:
- November 21. The 17th annual Acworth Turkey Chase runs a 5K through downtown and along Lake Acworth.
- December 4. Santa's Arrival festivities start downtown at 6 p.m., Santa is due at 6:30 p.m., and the tree lighting is on the plaza behind Henry's.
- December 5, 1 to 5 p.m. Free Santa photos at Depot Park. Bring your own camera, since no photographer will be there.
- December 12, 1 to 5 p.m. Free horse-and-carriage rides downtown. Santa won't be at this one.
The two-Saturday format is the same one Christmas in Acworth used in 2025, when Santa came to Depot Park on December 6 and the carriage rides followed on December 13. Henry's Louisiana Grill at 4835 N Main St. hosts the tree lighting again, now under new owners. Brian and Taylor Cowart took over on December 15, 2025, and held a public ribbon cutting on January 9, 2026.
Put the two calendars side by side and the pattern is clear. October's family events are mostly in Parkside, and November and December are mostly on Main Street and the lakefront. A resident who sticks to one street this fall will miss about half of what's happening.
What the November 3 Ballot Proposes for This Block
The city's own planning documents point the same way. Acworth's proposed SPLOST renewal goes to voters on November 3, 2026. Every project on its list is a proposal and depends on that vote. Several of them touch the area covered above.
The proposed list includes $1 million for Logan Multi-Use Trail Renovation Phase 2. It also sets aside $1.25 million for the rest of the Cauble Park work: restrooms, park trails, a bridge and paved parking. That follows Cauble Park Phase I, which the city finished with a March 5, 2026 ribbon cutting, adding new pavilions, picnic areas and a wider 12-foot trail.
On the Main Street side, a proposed $1 million streetscape phase would close the Dallas Street alley between Henry's and Hill Brothers Flooring to make room for gatherings. It would also add dining bump-outs on Main Street, expand parking and widen usable sidewalk space. The city also says it is still looking for properties to expand public parking in the Mill District, the Parkside District and the Historic Downtown District. The Parkside District sits on that list next to the historic core. The city's planning treats it as a second downtown district to support.
One piece of work is already funded. The city expects the sidewalk from Main Street to Acworth Industrial Drive to be finished in late 2026.
For now, the practical takeaway is simple. TapTown and Parallel Coffeehouse are open at 4443 Cherokee St., 1885 Grill is at 4438, Logan Farm Park hosts JamBOOree on October 24 and the car cruise on October 31, and the McCray Farmhouse at 4415 Cherokee St. is one opening announcement away from giving the block its second coffee shop.
At Purpose Driven Real Estate Group, we follow how a historic farmhouse becomes a coffee shop and how a quiet block becomes the place everyone meets, because those changes shape how Acworth feels to live in. If you have questions about Parkside, downtown or anything else changing around you, Schedule Your Free Consultation and we'll talk it through.
