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The Carver Community housing project (aka "Carver Homes") in southeast Atlanta was finished on February 17, 1953, [2] costing $8.6 million and consisting of 990 units for African-Americans. [4] Named for George Washington Carver, the project was located near Joyland, an amusement park for black Atlantans. The project was demolished in 2000 and ...
Capitol View, Atlanta. Coordinates: 33.71661°N 84.415947°W. Capitol View is a historic intown southwest Atlanta, Georgia neighborhood. The neighborhood is 2.5 miles from downtown and was named for its views of the Georgia State Capitol building. Its boundaries include Metropolitan Parkway to the east, Lee Street to the west, and the Beltline ...
Southwest Ranches is a town in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is a suburban community part of the Miami metropolitan area and is located on the eastern edge of the Everglades, 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Fort Lauderdale and about 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Miami. It is unusual in that it consists of three non-contiguous areas ...
In 1996, The Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) created the financial and legal model for mixed-income communities or MICs, that is, communities with both owners and renters of differing income levels, that include public-assisted housing as a component. This model is used by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's HOPE VI ...
The Atlanta Urban Design Commission was established by city ordinance in 1975. In 1989, the city enacted its current historic preservation ordinance. Since that time, the city has designated more than seventy individual properties and eighteen districts. There are specific criteria for each type of designation.
April 19 — Fulton County Commission approves (5–2) sale of Bellwood Quarry for Westside Park. July — Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. (ABI) was formed by Invest Atlanta and the Five Year Work Plan was adopted by City Council. September 21 — developer Wayne Mason who owns the 5-mile (8 km) northeast segment (from DeKalb Ave up through Ansley Park ...
Mozley Park. / 33.750827; -84.426455. Mozley Park is a typical early 20th-century residential neighborhood, located approximately three miles west of downtown Atlanta. The community is named after the original landowner, Dr. Hiram Mozley, whose heirs inherited the land after his death in 1902.
Website. beltline.org. The Atlanta BeltLine (also Beltline or Belt Line) is a 22 miles (35 km) open and planned loop of multi-use trail and light rail transit system on a former railway corridor around the core of Atlanta, Georgia. The Atlanta BeltLine is designed to reconnect neighborhoods and communities historically divided and marginalized ...