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Techwood Homes was an early public housing project in the Atlanta, Georgia in the United States, opened just before the First Houses. The whites-only Techwood Homes replaced an integrated settlement of low-income people known as Tanyard Bottom or Tech Flats.
The Works (also known originally as the Works at Chattahoochee) [1] is a partially completed 80-acre (32 ha) mixed-use development on the Upper Westside of Atlanta.It is being developed by Selig Development and will consist of 40 buildings, including several historic structures.
Atlanta: Lakewood Amphitheatre August 7, 2008 Phoenix: Cricket Wireless Pavilion August 9, 2008 Mountain View: Shoreline Amphitheatre August 10, 2008 Irvine: Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre August 12, 2008 Greenwood Village: Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre August 13, 2008 Bonner Springs: Sandstone Amphitheatre August 15, 2008 Cincinnati: Riverbend ...
In 1952, Atlanta annexed Buckhead as well as vast areas of what are now northwest, southwest, and south Atlanta, adding 82 square miles (210 km 2) and tripling its area. By doing so, 100,000 new affluent white residents were added, preserving white political power, expanding the city's property tax base, and enlarging the traditional white ...
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]
At this time, the project was known as 98 14th Street, [3] and it was expected to be constructed in phases and completed by 2020. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The tallest of the three skyscrapers would be 720 feet (220 m), just 3 feet (0.91 m) shorter than the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel , making it the sixth-tallest building in the city.
The revival of the project was named the Phoenix Project for Atlanta's association with the phoenix (mythology) and for the "resurrection" of a forgotten archeological collection. Glover now uses the collection as a teaching resource for students and it has been the subject of two master's theses and multiple presentations.
The Gathering at South Forsyth is a proposed mixed-use development in the Atlanta metropolitan area to be located in Forsyth County, Georgia near the city of Alpharetta.The centerpiece of the development is an 18,000-seat arena, intended to bring a National Hockey League franchise back to the Atlanta area.