Buford Highway Corridor

Buford Highway in Chamblee is one of the most culturally dense and visually distinctive commercial corridors in the Southeast, offering filmmakers an unmatched, real-world backdrop that communicates global diversity immediately on screen. This stretch of roadway is widely recognized for hosting hundreds of restaurants and retail businesses concentrated along a few miles, making it one of metro Atlanta’s most active and textured filming environments.

Within Chamblee and the surrounding Buford Highway corridor, there are well over 300 restaurants and food-focused businesses and hundreds more retail shops, markets, plazas, and service storefronts, many of them independently owned and immigrant-operated. For productions, this density allows multiple distinct looks—often representing different countries or cultures—to be captured within a short geographic footprint.

Buford Highway is equally notable for the breadth of ethnic representation, with businesses reflecting dozens of nationalities and cultural backgrounds. The corridor prominently features cuisines and retail tied to Latin American communities (including Mexican, Central American, and South American), alongside a wide range of Asian communities, particularly Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, and Japanese. Additional representation includes Middle Eastern, Caribbean, and other international influences, often visible through multilingual signage, storefront design, and culturally specific architecture.

Visually, the area is defined by tightly packed strip malls, freestanding restaurants, international grocery stores, bakeries, cafés, nightlife venues, and specialty retailers lining a continuously active roadway. Daytime filming captures constant movement, commerce, and color; nighttime filming benefits from illuminated signage and storefront lighting that creates a vibrant, cinematic streetscape.

Production highlights:

• Corridor with hundreds of restaurants and retail businesses
• Representation of dozens of ethnicities and national cultures
• Strong Latin American and Asian cultural presence visible on camera
• Multilingual signage and authentic, lived-in commercial architecture
• High-density strip malls ideal for multiple looks in close proximity
• Active day and night environment for dynamic exterior scenes
• Located in Doraville, DeKalb County, with direct access to metro Atlanta production infrastructure

Buford Highway in Doraville offers filmmakers a rare, production-ready setting where global culture, everyday life, and visual energy intersect—making it an exceptional choice for stories that require authenticity, diversity, and a true sense of place.