In 1994 the Atlanta Housing Authority, discouraged by the failure of its public housing projects and encouraged by the federal HOPE VI program, embarked on a policy of demolishing public housing projects and building mixed-income communities in their place.[1]
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Replaced by Capitol Gateway
Located in southeast Atlanta, west of South Atlanta and east of Joyland and High Point. Replaced by The Villages at Carver.
Replaced by Magnolia Park in 2000. Located in Vine City[2]
Replaced by The Villages of East Lake. Offsites replaced by Columbia Commons and Columbia Village.
Located in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood, replaced by Ashley Auburn Pointe mixed-income community.
Built 1956. Replaced by Ashley College Town[3]
Adjacent to Castleberry Hill neighborhood southwest of Downtown Atlanta. Replaced by The Villages of Castleberry Hill mixed-income community.
41 acres (17 ha), 293-unit[4] compelx in the northwest corner of Mechanicsville, torn down between February and May 2006.[5] Replaced by Columbia at Mechanicsville Station.
Built 1959,several buildings destroyed by tornado march 24 1975,buildings replaced 1976-77.project Demolished in 1999.[6] Replaced by West Highlands, which includes:
First public housing project in the United States,opened 1936 located in in the Centennial Hill district of Downtown Atlanta, replaced by Centennial Place. Kimberly Courts off-site replaced by Ashley Courts at Cascade. Other offsite replaced by Ashley Terrace at West End.
Senior citizen highrise built 1965. Architect John C. Portman, Jr. One of Portman's earliest and most influential projects, his first atrium building and only public housing project.[8] Located at 126 SE Hilliard St. SE, Downtown. Demolished 2009 including annex. Portman pleaded to save the building to no avail.
Built 1970.As of January 2011, "demolition was underway".[9]
As of January 2011, "demolition was almost complete".[9]
Built 1970. Demolished 2008.
Located in the east part of the English Avenue neighborhood, east of Northside at John and Grey. Built 1941. As of January 2011, "demolition was almost complete".[9] Named for Alonzo F. Herndon, born a slave, founded the Atlanta Life Insurance Company and became Atlanta's richest African American.[10] video
As of January 2011, "demolition was almost complete".[9]
Senior citizen highrise. Will be demolished floor-by-floor during Spring 2011.[13]
Senior citizen highrise located at the southwest corner of Centennial Olympic Park Drive and North Avenue. Built 1973. Contained 150 apartments. Demolished with explosives on February 27, 2011.[13]
Built 1967, demolished 2010.[9]
Built in 1938 on the site of the former Beaver Slide slum. Seen as the African American counterpart to Techwood Homes, the first public housing project in the nation. Architect William Augustus Edwards. Demolished 2008-9. As of April 2011 still in the planning stages to become another mixed-income community.
Torn down in May 2008.[14]
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