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Tear-Down Trend Continues At Record Pace In Atlanta

Posted by: Brenda Meyer
Thanks to: Brenda Meyer
21 June 2005 - 9:00am

The challenge for builders has been to retain the look of the intown neighborhoods while giving new residents suburban amenities.

"Atlanta is among just six metropolitan regions in the 1990s that had an increase in infill construction within a five-mile radius of the central business district. That is according to a report last week by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. The study used census figures to compare the 1990s with the 1980s. The other regions are Buffalo, N.Y., Charleston, S.C., Houston, Knoxville and Seattle."

Full Story: Fitting into intown: Incompatible infills anger neighborhoods
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 20, 2005
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