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By 1872 the Atlanta Constitution called it "a considerable little town outside the corporate limits of Atlanta" which had two grocery stores. [1] Blooming Hill is commemorated by a sculpture at the Hyatt Midtown hotel. [4] During this period 10th Street was also known as Bleckley Avenue. [5] By 1883 the area was rechristened "North Atlanta". [6]
The Eastside Trail is a walking and biking trail stretching northwest to southeast on the Eastside of Atlanta, part of the Beltline ring of trails and parks. [1] It is lined with numerous notable industrial buildings adapted into restaurants, shops, apartments, condos, and two major food halls and mixed-use developments.
The Atlanta Beltline is 22-mile long multi-use corridor on a former railway corridor which encircles the core of Atlanta, Georgia.The Atlanta Beltline is designed to reconnect neighborhoods and communities historically divided and marginalized by infrastructure, improve transportation, add green space, promote redevelopment, create and preserve affordable housing, and showcase arts and culture.
From its founding in 1847, Atlanta has had a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased.As early as 1903 (see section below), there were concerns about the confusion this caused, as "more than 225 streets of Atlanta have had from two to eight names" in the first decades of the city.
In 2023, Trees Atlanta opened its new headquarters on the east side of Oakland City near Adair Park. Founded in 1985, Trees Atlanta is a nonprofit community group that protects and improves Atlanta's urban forest by planting, conserving, and educating. The 23,000-square-foot headquarters building is along the BeltLine Westside Trail. [5]
From its incorporation in 1847, the municipal boundaries of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were extended repeatedly from a small area around its railroad station to today's city covering 131.7 square miles (341 km 2). Prior to 1954, Atlanta was divided into political divisions called wards. The number of wards were increased as the city grew.
Peoplestown is a neighborhood of Atlanta just south of Center Parc Stadium and Downtown Atlanta. Ormond Street and the Summerhill neighborhood on the north, Hill Street and the Grant Park neighborhood on the east, the BeltLine and the Chosewood Park neighborhood on the south, and
Midtown Atlanta is a commercial district in its own right, containing 22 million square feet (2,000,000 m 2) of office space, [4] with 8.2 million square feet (760,000 m 2) of office space added to the area since 1997, with up to 3.8 million square feet (350,000 m 2) more planned. [28]