Join the AJ Shades Dealer Network in Greene County, GA

Greene County is Lake Country’s luxury address. Greensboro, the county seat on Interstate 20 about halfway between Atlanta and Augusta, is ringed by the reservoir that reshaped the local economy: Lake Oconee, 19,000 acres with 376 miles of shoreline, the second-largest lake in Georgia, created by the Wallace Dam in 1979. The shoreline it built is lined with golf communities, lakefront estates, and retirement buyers who measure outdoor living in golf rounds and sunsets — and who pay resort prices for the shade that makes those hours usable.

Reynolds Lake Oconee is the center of gravity. The gated resort community spans more than 10,000 acres, holds around 3,000 homes with more still building, and runs six golf courses under one brand — plus the Ritz-Carlton Lodge, the only lakefront Ritz-Carlton in the country. It is the county’s largest employer and the engine of a visitor economy measured in the hundreds of millions. For a shade dealer, that concentration is everything: thousands of premium terraces, pool decks, and fairway patios inside one set of gates, all owned by homeowners who already spend lavishly on the outdoors.

Here the need is built into the price tier. Fairway-facing terraces bake through the afternoon, waterfront decks catch lake glare right at cocktail hour, and evening pests own every unprotected resort porch. A Somfy-powered screen that lowers on a remote — or a retractable that shades the terrace on command — is not a luxury add-on in this zip pattern; it is what makes the view usable. The live demonstration does the selling.

Greensboro itself is a preservation town. Founded around 1780 and named for Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene, it holds the Old Gaol of 1807 — Georgia’s oldest standing masonry jail — and streets of antebellum homes and churches that draw day-trippers for antiquing and dining. Design-conscious buyers on these streets reject anything that cheapens a facade, which makes full-cassette retractables the natural answer: sealed housings, crisp lines, and the ability to vanish completely when retracted.

The growth numbers back the opportunity. The county pulls in millions in hotel and motel tax every year, homebuilding keeps expanding inside and around Reynolds, and day visitors stream in from Atlanta, Macon, and Athens. The competitive picture is equally favorable: Atlanta shade retailers treat the lake as a resort side market, and no one is running a wholesale dealer program in Greene County. A local dealer with wholesale American-made product plants a flag in the richest concentration of outdoor-living buyers in middle Georgia.

Our factory builds every unit to order in an American plant and trains dealers in person and remotely, but installation stays a local relationship: your crews or lake-country contractors you trust handle every Greene County job, backed by our measuring guidance and factory technical support. A golf-community remodeler, an outdoor-living builder, or a Greensboro contractor can fold the line into work they already do — no warehouse, no new trucks — and pitch straight into the wealthiest buyer concentration in the Lake Country.