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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. [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 highway heads south from Portland Manor Farm Drive to a dead end. [1] This segment of Old Solomons Island Road was bypassed in 1963. [15] MD 778M is a 0.05-mile (0.080 km) spur located on the northbound side of MD 2 north of the MD 258 intersection north of Tracys Landing. [1] This segment of Old Solomons Island Road was bypassed in 1963. [15]
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It links the Atlanta metropolitan area with Athens, home of the University of Georgia. The first 5 miles (8.0 km) of the state highway is a freeway , but the rest of the route is at-grade with traffic signals with the exception of its junction with SR 81 east of Bethlehem .
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 ...
Garden Hills is a neighborhood in the Buckhead section of Atlanta, Georgia between Peachtree and Piedmont Roads, bordered on the north by Pharr Road and on the south by Lindbergh Road. In 1987 the neighborhood was given historic district status by the city of Atlanta.
The Edgewood Retail District is a 44 acre (17.6-hectare) mixed-use village located off Moreland Avenue, on the fringe of Little Five Points.Built by Sembler on land formerly owned by Atlanta Gas Light in northwest Edgewood, it is made up of 531,287 square feet (49,358.2 m 2) of retail, [3] including the first intown Lowe's home improvement store.
The original 10-story Georgian Terrace Hotel was designed to conform to Atlanta's early trolley rail lines that met at the corner of Peachtree Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue. It was one of the first hotels built outside of the city's downtown business district in a then residential neighborhood, which had been land originally owned by Richard ...