![]() “This is our opportunity to show the world, and the rest of Atlanta also, that College Park is a good place to live,” said Artie Jones, College Park’s economic development director. This summer, the government approved a master plan for a project it’s calling Airport City, an ambitious $1.5 billion undertaking that would boost College Park’s population once again and - city leaders hope - attract new businesses and travelers to make College Park a destination. ![]() When the people left, churches and stores followed.įrom 1980 to 2018, Census estimates show that College Park - population 15,212 - lost 38% of its residents.Ĭity leaders hope this new development will get many of them back. Atlanta and the federal government bought residents out of their homes beginning in the 1970s, as Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport’s expansion ate up existing communities. But the area around him had long ago been largely abandoned. Price, 82, said people had still been coming to his corner for their cuts and shaves. The shop closed in September, after the city purchased the land with plans to build a massive mixed-use development on 375 acres that included Price’s property. For 30 years before that, it was his father’s barbershop. For 32 years, Charles Price cut hair at the corner of Harvard Avenue and Conley Street in College Park.
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