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Ansley Park
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Ansley Park is a residential neighborhood in Atlanta, GA, located just east of Midtown and north of Piedmont Park. One of the first suburban neighborhoods in the city designed for automobiles, it features wide, winding roads rather than the grid pattern typical of older streetcar suburbs. It has been designated a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.

Alpharetta, Georgia
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Alpharetta is a city in Fulton County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 34,855. Georgia 400 (U.S. 19) is the freeway connecting suburban Alpharetta with Atlanta to the south. It parallels surface highway S.R. 9, which was originally multiplexed with U.S. 19 and was the only paved road through town prior to the county merger. Alpharetta is now home to numerous mid-rise buildings of 10 or more floors each, which are home to many high-tech companies including Lucent, Nortel, IBM, Sun Microsystems, AT&T, Siemens, Verizon, Alltel, E*Trade, and the headquarters of ChoicePoint.

Atlantic Station
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Atlantic Station is a huge new urban renewal project on the northwestern edge of Midtown Atlanta. First planned in the mid-1990s, its 138 acres (558,000 m²) of mixed-use land development is on the former brownfield site of the Atlantic Steel mill. It is so large it now has its own ZIP code: 30363.

Buckhead (Atlanta)
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Buckhead (sometimes Buckhead Village and denoted on some signs as Buckhead Community) is a community, comprising several neighborhoods, forming roughly the northern one-fifth of Atlanta, Georgia.

Buckhead is one of Atlanta's most important business districts, and includes Atlanta's wealthiest neighborhoods, with the Georgia Governor's Mansion, a part-time residence of Elton John, and the Atlanta History Center, a museum. Buckhead was also the home of golfing legend Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones until his death in 1971. Although there are some moderately priced homes in the area, a majority of the homes and condos start around the $500,000 mark and extend well beyond $10,000,000. Buckhead is also an entertainment and shopping mecca, including Lenox Square Mall, Phipps Plaza, two of the most sought after shopping destinations in the Southeast. Lenox is notable for its size and many prestigious retailers, including a J.W. Marriott Hotel, while its cross-street rival, Phipps Plaza, is nationally known as one of the most upscale shopping centers in the United States. There are several other luxury hotels in the area, as well as somewhat more modest lodgings. Many restaurants, bars, and nightclubs are to be found in the neighborhood also. Local residents, with some justification, often call Buckhead the "Beverly Hills of the South." Robb Report magazine has ranked Buckhead one of the USA's 10 "Top Affluent Communities" for "some of the most beautiful mansions, best shopping and finest restaurants in the southeastern United States" between Old Bel-Air and Upper East Side Manhattan.

Candler Park
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Candler Park is a 55 acre (223,000 m²) city park located at 585 Candler Park Drive, NE, in Atlanta, Georgia, named after Asa Griggs Candler who donated this land to the city in 1922. The park features a 9 hole golf course, a swimming pool, a football/soccer field, a basketball court, tennis courts, and a playground. Candler Park is also the name of the neighborhood surrounding the park. It is entirely in the DeKalb County side of the city, bordering Lake Claire, Inman Park, and Druid Hills. The Candler Park Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983, with a boundary increase on March 17, 2005. It includes portions of Lake Claire. The neighborhood is home to the original location of one of Atlanta's most popular brunch spots, The Flying Biscuit.

Downtown Atlanta
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Downtown Atlanta refers to the largest financial district for the city of Atlanta. However, it is considered that Atlanta is dominated by three financial areas.

These are considered the three business districts of Atlanta:

• Buckhead
• Downtown Atlanta
• Midtown Atlanta

Of the three, Downtown Atlanta is the largest. This area contains among the tallest buildings in Atlanta. The tallest building in Atlanta, the Bank of America Plaza building, is situated between Midtown Atlanta and Downtown Atlanta. The Bank of America Plaza is also the tallest building in a state capital, and the tallest building outside of New York City, and Chicago.

Grant Park (Atlanta)
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Grant Park is the oldest city park in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Second in size only to Piedmont Park, Grant Park has two major attractions besides the park itself: Zoo Atlanta, established in 1889 and originally known as the Grant Park Zoo; and the Atlanta Cyclorama, a cyclorama featuring the 1864 Battle of Atlanta from the American Civil War. The park serves over two million visitors per year.

Inman Park
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Inman Park is a neighborhood of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, its first planned suburb. It is adjacent to Little Five Points.
During the battle of Atlanta, the area which would become Inman Park was the scene of a number of skirmishes. Inman Park was developed by Joel Hurt in 1887 who handled the civil engineering aspects while Joseph Forsyth Johnson took care of landscape architecture. Largely from Johnson's contribution the original 138 acre (558,000 m²) development was the first naturalistic suburb plan south of the Mason-Dixon line, its only precursors in the country were Llewellyn Park and Riverside Park. The centerpiece of the neighborhood was ten-acre Springvale Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted

Little Five Points
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Little Five Points (also L5P or LFP) is an area of Atlanta, Georgia, 2.5 miles (4 km) east of downtown. It was established in the 1920s as the commercial district for the Inman Park neighborhood, which lies to the west, and is home to many retail stores, restaurants, bars, theater companies, and music venues. Within metropolitan Atlanta, Little Five Points is often thought of as a center of liberalism and cultural diversity. Little Five Points is surrounded by the following neighborhoods: Inman Park, Kirkwood, Candler Park and Poncey-Highland.

Midtown Atlanta
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Midtown Atlanta is a district in Atlanta, Georgia situated between the commercial and financial district of downtown to the south and the affluent residential, shopping, and nightlife district of Buckhead to the north. It is roughly bounded by North Avenue to the South, the Downtown Connector to the west, Monroe Drive to the east, and Interstate 85 to the north. Midtown is the arts and entertainment heart of the city. It is the home of the Fox Theatre, the Woodruff Arts Center, the Richard Meier-designed High Museum of Art, as well as the Atlanta Ballet Company, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and other arts and entertainment venues. Currently, the Arts Center and its campus are being expanded and will include a new Atlanta Symphony Hall designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The High Museum has recently doubled its size with an addition designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. The High is currently collaborating with the Louvre to house a temporary collection of masterpieces from the Paris museum. As well as being a major arts and entertainment enclave, Midtown Atlanta is home to a vibrant cultural community.

East Atlanta
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East Atlanta is an area located east-southeast of downtown Atlanta, Georgia. It is generally considered to be the roughly 10% of Atlanta's area which was part of the 1909 annexation into a neighboring county, putting it into DeKalb while the remainder is in Fulton. For this reason, it is also sometimes referred to as Atlanta-in-DeKalb, particularly when referring to taxes and government services handled by each county. Edgewood, Georgia was an incorporated municipality which was taken over in the annexation.
The urban village of East Atlanta and its surrounding neighborhoods have seen considerable urban renewal efforts since the late 1990s. East Atlanta is neighborhood planning unit M (NPU-M).

Sandy Springs, Georgia
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Sandy Springs (once known as Hammond) is a newly-incorporated city (as of December 2005) in Fulton County, Georgia, north of Atlanta and south of Roswell. It is named for the sandy spring which still exists in the city today, protected by a park.

Stone Mountain
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This article is about the Stone Mountain in Georgia, USA. For other uses, see Stone Mountain (disambiguation). Stone Mountain is a granite mountain located in Stone Mountain, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. It is the world's largest exposed piece of granite and one of the largest monoliths in the world, behind Mount Augustus in Australia, and larger than Haystack Rock on the Oregon coast. Only a third of the massive rock is exposed at the time. At its summit, the elevation is 1683 feet or 513 meters AMSL. It is well-known not only for its geological status, but also for the enormous bas-relief on its north face, the largest bas-relief in the world. Three figures of the Confederate States of America are carved there: Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. The mountain was the site of the founding of the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915, and the Klan was intimately involved in the design, financing, and early construction of the monument. However, they were not the originators of the idea.

Virginia-Highland
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Today, the neighborhood is prosperous with many restaurants and shops and hosts its major festival, Summerfest, the first Saturday of June. Culturally, Virginia-Highland has recently become a small musical center, home of the "Grape Tree" scene which produced a plethora of small, mostly inconsequential garage-rock bands as well as a handful of not-so-inconsequential artists, most notably Supreeme, an internationally-themed rap group, No Face, an experimental pop band, and The Good Moods, a locally-themed mariachi group.