Intown Neighborhood Review For Cabbagetown, Garden Hills, Midtown, and Scottdale!
Thursday, May 05, 2011
This is installment number seven where we feature unique intown Atlanta neighborhoods; Some well known and some ‘less famous secrets’!
If you go to our Property Search button, then click on ‘Featured Neighborhoods’, you will get a brief ‘thumbnail’ of the community AND, when you click on the name of the neighborhood, you’ll instantly see homes that are currently ‘For Sale’ in the community! Enjoy!!
Cabbagetown
After the Battle of Atlanta the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill began operations in 1881 and Cabbagetown was built as the surrounding mill town. Until the mill closed in 1977, Cabbagetown was home to a tight-knit community of people. Afterwards, the neighborhood went into decline which didn’t end until Atlanta’s intown renaissance of the mid-1990s. The mill itself was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and re-developed into lofts in 1996.
Garden Hills
Garden Hills is a large ‘urban forest neighborhood’ between Peachtree and Piedmont Roads, bordered on the north by Pharr Road and on the south by East Wesley Road. For intown living, Garden Hills has it all: winding streets lined with old trees, an imposing mix of early 20th century homes, pocket parks, landscaped traffic islands and a neighborhood pool/recreation center – all convenient to Buckhead shopping, transportation, schools and churches.
Midtown
Midtown Atlanta is a district situated between the commercial and financial district of downtown to the south and the affluent residential and commercial district of Buckhead to the north. Midtown includes about one-third of the city’s high-rises and is bounded roughly by the future Beltline just east of Monroe Drive on the east, the 85/75 “Connector” to the north, Northside Drive on the west and North Avenue to the south.
Scottdale
Scottdale is known historically as the location of the Scottdale Cotton Mill. The Scottdale Cotton Mill development included the mill and surrounding housing occupied by mill workers. The mill shut down in 1982. The commercial district of Scottdale is on East Ponce de Leon, which bisects the community from the southwest to the northeast. The DeKalb Farmers Market is located on this road, but it remains primarily known for autobody shops and industrial buildings. Most of the available housing is located north and south of Ponce de Leon.
- Scott Askew
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