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In April 1968, Cousins purchased the NBA's St. Louis Hawks basketball team and moved them to Atlanta. At the time Atlanta did not have a major-league caliber arena, but Cousins was building a local arena complex. [10] Cousins also owned the Atlanta Flames until he sold them in 1980 for approximately $16 million to a consortium from Calgary. [11]
Thomasville Heights was a 350-unit public housing project in Atlanta, Georgia, built in 1967, demolished in 2010, and the remainder of the Thomasville community which is section-8 housing Forest Cove Apartments (also known as Villa Monte or 4 Season) is also scheduled to be demolished. Forest Cove (formerly Villa Monte) was constructed in 1971 ...
Quarry Yards is a mixed-use development under construction in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. First proposed in 2018, the development would be located in the Grove Park neighborhood, next to Bankhead station, Westside Reservoir Park, and Proctor Street Greenway. [1]
Techwood Homes New Georgia Encyclopedia; Techwood history at artery.org; Atlanta Housing Interplay; Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. GA-2257, "Techwood Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Parker Street, William Street & Lovejoy Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA", 30 photos, 4 measured drawings, 46 data pages, 6 photo caption pages, and 24 other entries for individual ...
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. [36] [37] 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". [38]
The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, commonly known as Cop City, is a police and fire department training campus under construction in the South River Forest area of DeKalb County near Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Much of the land included in the plans was formerly part of the Old Atlanta Prison Farm, which was abandoned in 1995.
Selig Developments, a subsidiary of Selig Enterprises, announced the development on August 11, 2017. [2] [3] The project would see the reconversion of 40 buildings on property in Atlanta's Upper Westside owned by Selig, which had accumulated much of the area over 50 years, which would be completed in phases over the course of five to ten years. [3]
On December 10, 2005, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin announced a plan to acquire the lease and the land in order to create a 351-acre (1.42 km 2) park with a 45-acre (180,000 m 2) lake which would also serve as a drinking water reservoir. The plan was a portion of the extensive BeltLine project to construct a ring of parks, trails, and transit ...