Good and bad areas in Smyrna - 30082 and 30080 how are they?

[techugagrad]

Originally Posted by JoeP

That is not true at all - maybe for renting, but there are good options for owning and property values (recent national economic crisis aside) have been consistently positive.

There are too many apartments there that have been showing up on the news for various criminal activities. I looked at homes in the Highlands and Springhill subdivisions out there because they were lower priced, but the neighborhoods didn't have as positive trends as other areas in Smyrna. Plus Argyle is worse than the other schools in Smyrna.

[Saintmarks]

As cities are getting out of the Public Housing business, section 8 apartment complexes are today's "Projects." Being privately owned, they are not as easy to level as the public housing complexes that Atlanta and Marietta have levelled in the last decade. The folks that subsist on this type of housing have to go somewhere. That's why once nice complexes can take a drastic turn for the worse in a relatively short time.

Overall, would agree with the previous assessments of Smyrna. Will wait to see if the redevelopment of Belmont Hills will do much to make areas north of Windy Hill turn around. Great location for redevelopment.

Atlanta Road going south of Windy Hill is much, much tonier than it used to be. Drove by my brother's old place on Westwood Circle when I was in town recently, an $800,000 beauty sits where his old brick 50s ranch once stood. Similar redevelopment all around.

[Windu]

Agree with most points generally, but a couple of notes:

1. The border of "nice" in Smyrna is not So. Cobb Drive to the east. Ivy Walk and some very nice neighborhoods are east of So. Cobb.

2. Completely contradicting what I just wrote, you'll find periodic armed robberies of businesses on Atlanta Road near I-285 if you check out the blotter at the Smyrna PD website. In the last year robbers hit the Waffle House, the Subway next to the Texaco, Vinings Bank and a couple of others.

I found it odd that Atlanta Road businesses were robbed much more often than So. Cobb @ 285 businesses, since the So. Cobb area has more run down shopping plazas and all the motels, while Atlanta Road has new development.

[JoeP]

There are too many apartments there that have been showing up on the news for various criminal activities.

Then it needs to be stressed that some apartment complexes in that area are bad. I lived in (owned) a townhouse in Afton Downs and it was and is nice in that neighborhood. No crime, no issues, but great access to so much.

The neighborhood also appreciated fine - again recent economic crisis aside.

Plus Argyle is worse than the other schools in Smyrna.

I suppose that is an issue if you have children. The state of neighborhood can’t be based solely on renting and schools. If one is not renting or attending school but lives in a neighborhood that is nice and has appreciated, then it’s really a totally different dynamic.

[DONNIEANDDONNA417]

rcsteiner...its probably campbell middle school

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by DONNIEANDDONNA417

rcsteiner...its probably campbell middle school

Actually, I think it's Griffin Middle based on this site:

Edulog's Web Query

[brownhornet]

Two murders? I mean is there a part of town that DOESN'T have that? Maybe my perspective on this type of thing is just different but I don't know of not one part of the metro area that hasn't had SOME form of crime.

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

FWIW ... we're in Mableton just outside the Smyrna city limits (and two subdivisions south of Vinings Estates), but we're zoned for Nickajack Elementary and Campbell High School. I don't remember which middle school off the top of my head.

Stonybrook(e) and ~95% of Vinings Estates attend Griffin Middle School.


(the other ~5% of Vinings Estates attends Harmony-Leland Elementary, Lindley Middle, and Pebblebrook High)

[wxjay]

Originally Posted by spacelord75

You're kidding right? There was even a ceremony when they did the ground breaking for West Village because they bulldozed a crack house! techugagrad is right about the bad areas centered around those apartment complexes. No doubt it's not like they are Bankhead Courts or whatever, but there's definitely a lot of crime in those areas.

West Village is on Atlanta Road, isn't it?

And while some parts of S Cobb Drive are undesirable (the further north you go), there are plenty of nice areas along that road and just off of it. For example, the S. Cobb/Cooper Lake Rd area is quite nice.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by wxjay

West Village is on Atlanta Road, isn't it?

Yup ... just south of Cumberland Parkway and north of I-285 on the west side, and home of the Blue Moon Pizza place my wife and I are quite fond of.

And while some parts of S Cobb Drive are undesirable (the further north you go), there are plenty of nice areas along that road and just off of it. For example, the S. Cobb/Cooper Lake Rd area is quite nice.

I think Cooper Lake Road is nice along most of its length, though the half mile or so closest to Veterans Memorial on the south end maybe isn't as nice (I admittedly have a bias against apartment complexes, though, and I know nothing about the one which is living there ... Cooper Lake Apartments, I think?).