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The city of Atlanta, Georgia is made up of 243 neighborhoods officially defined by the city. [1] These neighborhoods are a mix of traditional neighborhoods, subdivisions , or groups of subdivisions. The neighborhoods are grouped by the city planning department into 25 neighborhood planning units (NPUs).
The neighborhood consists of Marietta Street and the city blocks immediately to the east and west of it, stretching from 8th Street NW on the north to North Avenue NW on the south. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Home Park on the north, Georgia Tech on the east, downtown Atlanta on the south, and English Avenue on the west. [3]
Detailed map of Atlanta annexations by City of Atlanta at Georgia State Library digital collections. Annexation Map of Atlanta from the 1980s; Property map of Emory University in 2017, attached to a press release from the university about its formally asking Atlanta to annex it; Maps showing annexation of CDC/Emory University area:
In November 1994, the Atlanta Empowerment Zone was established, a 10-year, $250 million federal program to revitalize Atlanta's 34 poorest neighborhoods including the Bluff. Scathing reports from both the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs revealed corruption, waste, bureaucratic ...
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.
Highland Avenue, east of the BeltLine North Highland Avenue, is a major thoroughfare in northeast Atlanta, forming a major business corridor connecting five Intown neighborhoods: Highland Avenue begins at Central Park Place NE in the Old Fourth Ward and proceeds eastward past the Atlanta Medical Center and crossing Freedom Parkway a first time.
Edgewood Avenue near Boulevard and "Church" bar Edgewood Avenue near Boulevard at night 1883 map showing Foster Street, before Edgewood Avenue existed. Edgewood Avenue is a street in Atlanta, Georgia, United States which runs from Five Points in Downtown Atlanta, eastward through the Old Fourth Ward.
Prior to the arrival of white settlers, Five Points was the intersection of two Creek Indian trails, the Peachtree Trail and the Sandtown Trail. In 1845, George Washington Collier opened a grocery store at what is now Five Points, and the store later served as Atlanta's first post office in 1846.