Living Downtown

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Downtown is where Atlanta began. It's where the city grew up and where generations of Atlantans came to work, shop, and have a good time. As Atlanta makes its way into the 21st Century, Downtown remains at the hub of it all -- and what better reason is there to live Downtown?

"More than $3 billion in development is underway in Downtown in a series of projects that are moving the center-city toward a goal of an international, seven-day-a-week, 24-hour city."
- Central Atlanta Progress, 2001

For a few pioneers, Downtown has been home for a long time, as people took advantage of spaces nobody seemed to want, like warehouses and office buildings. For many Downtown became home during and after the Olympics, when the flame truly began to be kindled. Suddenly Downtown saw more and more people moving in and beginning to live the sort of urban lifestyle found in other cities across the country and around the world. In the years since then, more and more people have been drawn in, with Downtown no longer a place nobody wants, but home to a community of residents.

It's a lifestyle where you look out the window and there are skyscrapers, where major events take place right in your backyard, only your backyard is the city street.

Instead of spending Saturday morning mowing your lawn, you hang out drinking coffee with the neighbors or go running around Centennial Olympic Park.

Downtown is a place where your car can often stay in the garage. You can walk around the neighborhood and take care of your errands or find a place to have a drink. MARTA is there to take you virtually any point in the city, with several train stations, including Five Points, serving the neighborhood, and dozens of buses running in all directions. And if you do need to drive somewhere in town, Downtown is never very far from anything.