Piedmont Heights is an intown neighborhood on the east side of Atlanta , Georgia , founded in the early 20th century as a streetcar suburb . It is located between the BeltLine on the west; across from the Sherwood Forest neighborhood; I-85 on the north, across from an industrial area (Armour Drive); and Piedmont Avenue /Road and Morningside-Lenox Park on the east.
6-658: Originally the area was open country. The second oldest house in Atlanta is located here, a two-story frame Liddell house on Montgomery Ferry, built circa 1860. The first references to Piedmont Heights at the county tax offices are from 1912. The area was developed during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Largely due to efforts by the Morningside civic association MPLA, construction of I-485 was avoided which would have gone either close to or through part of Piedmont Heights. Ansley Mall, originally built in 1968 as an outdoor mall, now
12-466: A hybrid of outdoor mall and strip mall, is located at the southern tip of Piedmont Heights. There is additional retail along Monroe Drive and Piedmont. Ansley Mall is a historic open-air shopping mall that opened in the 1960s. The community is zoned to Atlanta Public Schools . Gotham Park is owned by the residents of Piedmont Heights (and not by the City of Atlanta), and it is run and maintained through
18-548: Is the most famous example of the Atlanta freeway revolts . After I-485, and parts of SR 400 and SR 410, was canceled, a portion of the right-of-way of the canceled highway was used to build Freedom Parkway , now part of SR 10 . SR 400 north of I-85 was constructed in the early 1990s as a toll road , and the section south of I-285 was constructed in the mid-1980s and designated I-675 . This U.S. state of Georgia road or road transport-related article
24-546: The Downtown Connector ( I-75 / I-85 ) and used the highway that is now State Route 410 (SR 410) east to the interchange with the also-proposed SR 400 . There, it would have turned north to end at I-85 near SR 236 (Lindbergh Drive). Each of those freeways would have continued beyond the termini of I-485. SR 410, the Stone Mountain Freeway , would continue east beyond
30-512: The I-285 perimeter highway, and SR 400 would extend both south and north outside the perimeter. A short piece of I-485/SR 410 was constructed from I-75/I-85 east to Boulevard Northeast. Activists in the neighborhood of Morningside , along the SR ;400 portion of I-485, were the first to fight the road, although opposition surfaced in a number of nearby surrounding neighborhoods. This
36-661: The Gotham Park Committee of the Piedmont Heights Civic Association. In addition, Piedmont Park is diagonally across from the southern tip of Piedmont Heights. Interstate 485 (Georgia) Interstate 485 ( I-485 ) was a proposed auxiliary Interstate Highway that would have traveled eastward and then northward from Downtown Atlanta , in the US state of Georgia . The 5.9-mile-long (9.5 km) route would have begun at
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