Boulevard (Atlanta)

Its height, width and number of magnificent homes, with their spacious lawns, assure every observer a boulevard that any city may point to with pride.

One institution in particular anchored the African-American presence on the neighborhood: Morris Brown College was founded in 1885 at Boulevard and Houston St. (now John Wesley Dobbs Ave.) and in 1922 expanded, acquiring the land at the southeast corner of Boulevard and Irwin St.[2] The college moved to its present location at the Atlanta University Center in 1932;[3] the site is now occupied by the Helene Mills Senior Center and the Mt.

[4] The flight of better-off residents from Intown Atlanta also affected Boulevard and the houses were replaced with apartments, which eventually came to fall under "Section 8".

[5] In January 2012, City Councilman Kwanza Hall revealed a seven-point strategy, "Year of Boulevard", marketed as "YoBoulevard!"

to revitalize the Boulevard corridor in the Old Fourth Ward, which included:[6] As of July 2012, Creative Loafing (Atlanta) reported that the program was having some success with mentoring of local young people and "fewer guys hanging out on the street dealing drugs".