Tear-Down Trend Continues At Record Pace In Atlanta

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

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June 21, 2005, 9:00 AM PDT

By Brenda Meyer

"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."

Thanks to Brenda Meyer

FULL STORY: Fitting into intown: Incompatible infills anger neighborhoods

Monday, June 20, 2005 in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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