Macon’s Tindall Heights homes OK’d for demolition (Atlanta: apartments, neighborhoods)

[xDarrylx]

Macon is removing all the eye sores around Mercer. Macon

[Airforceguy]

This will be another boost for the area. Now the gentrification process that Mercer stated 8 years ago will now spread south of Mercer University Dr. Also with the city focusing on East Macon, I could see the projects on Main Street biting the dust.

[midgeorgiaman]

Finally.

[Southern Soul Bro]

and where are these people going to be moving to?

[Airforceguy]

It looks like families will begin moving out next summer and demolition will begin shortly after that...

As they head down the hill into the bowl that encloses Tindall Heights, they see about 27 acres of two-story red brick or avocado green apartment blocks. There are more than 400 apartments total. Clotheslines spider web through empty spaces between the buildings. All of this dates back to World War II.

The Macon Housing Authority manages Tindall Heights. It has a plan to level it all and build back about 330 apartments, 270 here and the balance somewhere else in town.

In so doing, Tindall Heights would join other decades-old public housing projects such as Cabrini Green in Chicago or Bowen Homes in Atlanta on the list of properties knocked down in the name of progress. The idea is to disperse poverty across cities and give residents an opportunity to live in new neighborhoods with access to schools of their choice or better access to jobs.

Read more here: Progress coming to Tindall Heights, but there's uncertainty for some residents | The Telegraph

Progress coming to Tindall Heights, but there's uncertainty for some residents | The Telegraph