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The project was named for Alonzo F. Herndon, who was born a slave, and through founding the Atlanta Life Insurance Company became Atlanta's richest African American. [34] [35] On June 15, 2016, Atlanta Housing Authority announced a development team has been selected to create a mixed-use mixed-income community on the site, "Herndon Square". [36]
Like all of Atlanta’s other housing projects, it deteriorated and became very dangerous throughout the late 70s, 80s and 90s. After being scheduled to be demolished in 1999, a private investor bought and made plans to renovate turning the community into a Section 8 housing project; one of the main reasons they still exist today. It remains ...
Bankhead Courts was a public housing complex located in Bankhead, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.It was demolished in 2011, [2] with the ultimate plan of redevelopment into a mixed-income community, although as of 2018, development has not yet occurred.
The Antoine Graves building was a midrise public housing project intended for senior citizens in Atlanta, Georgia. Built in 1965, the building was located at 126 SE Hilliard St. After sustaining tornado damage in 2008, the main highrise and its annex were demolished the following year.
In 1920, women won the right to vote with the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In 1929, English writer Virginia Woolf published her landmark essay, A Room of One’s Own ...
Atlanta Machine Works; Atlanta Rolling Mill; Atlanta Union Station (1853) Atlanta Union Station (1871) Atlanta Union Station (1930) Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium; Atlantic Steel; Augustus Hurt house
Learn about the history and services of the AHA, the largest housing agency in Georgia and one of the largest in the US. The AHA provides affordable housing for low-income families, and has a long history of slum clearance and public housing projects.
The first public housing project to receive attention under this program was the Techwood Homes in downtown Atlanta. Techwood Homes, located next to the Georgia Institute of Technology, was the first public housing project that came as a result of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Housing Act. [2]