South Avondale MARTA Lot to Be Developed
Decatur Metro | October 17, 2007 | 12:55 am
The AJC reports that part of the Avondale MARTA parking lot south of Columbia Drive East College Ave will soon be developed into apartments and street level shops (named Columbia Park) by the Decatur Housing Authority. The property will be leased from MARTA to the housing authority for $136k a year.
Though it may not stack up in size and number of chain restaurants with Lindburgh Station, I’m glad to hear that funding has been granted for this project. Well-built and attractive mixed income housing is important to keeping Decatur diverse and eclectic.
Also, check out the Decatur Housing Authority’s other mixed income development project just down the street, Talley Street Lofts.
Columbia Park will actually be south of E. College Ave., not Columbia Drive.
Columbia Drive runs south out of Decatur starting a few blocks down the street.
The name is unfortunate, and will confuse many people in future years.
Thanks David!
Glad to help.
Since you seem to know Decatur very well, perhaps the name caused you to simply think one thing and type another — something I seem to do even more often as I get older.
Yes…that may have been the case. I was pretty tired when I posted this and remember thinking about East College.
I should know that deserted parking lot well. I used to park there when I would drive from St. Mountain and take the train downtown. Let me tell you, it can get pretty dicey over there at night, though I thought the MARTA cops did a good job patrolling .
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