Fires won't snuff city housing resurgence Metro Edition

Although two major apartment housing projects have been stung by large fires in three months, Atlanta officials and developers agree the losses won't cool the red-hot residential resurgence of the central city. "Atlanta is famous for rising from the ashes; this is only a temporary delay,&q...

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Published inThe Atlanta Constitution
Main Author Melissa Turner, Tinah Saunders
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Atlanta, Ga Atlanta Journal Constitution, LLC 25.06.1999
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Summary:Although two major apartment housing projects have been stung by large fires in three months, Atlanta officials and developers agree the losses won't cool the red-hot residential resurgence of the central city. "Atlanta is famous for rising from the ashes; this is only a temporary delay," Mayor Bill Campbell said Thursday in front of the charred ruins of 51 framed-in units in the mixed-income Centennial Place complex, where a four-alarm fire raged at the construction site the night before. The sensational fire that engulfed part of the historic Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill in Cabbagetown in April and caused $4 million in damage was likely a construction accident. The blaze that destroyed six three-story buildings under construction at Centennial Place, near Georgia Tech and in the shadow of Coca-Cola's headquarters, may have been deliberately set, according to fire officials.
ISSN:2473-1609
2690-8093