Monday, January 28, 2013
Home Park Community Improvement Association frustrated with Georgia Power as it builds its Midtown substation, set to be completed in June, at the corner of Atlantic Drive and 14th Street.
Construction continued this past week on the Georgia Power substation in the Home Park neighborhood as installation began of the gigantic overhead-to-underground termination poles. The Atlantic Drive substation, which is being constructed on a 1.5-acre site at the corner of 14th Street and Atlantic Drive, has been a contentious issue to some residents in the Home Park community since the idea was introduced in late 2008. As development in the area, including around the nearby Atlantic Station mixed-use development, continues to grow and expand, the demand for electricity in the area will soon exceed Georgia Power’s capabilities to supply electric service from existing substations and distribution lines. While some residents are not …
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The sandwich shop, owned by Aldo Ramirez, has been praised for its community outreach in West Midtown.
The influence of Crazy Cuban, a sandwich shop on 14th Street in Home Park, is not something readily visible on its storefront. Owned by Aldo Ramirez, a tall bearded man with a proclivity for fedora hats and photography, Crazy Cuban has been selling sandwiches to Home Park residents for over two years. What the business is less famous for is its support of the local community. "Crazy Cuban has been a staple in the neighborhood ever since he opened a few years ago," said Dan Noyd, Home Park Neighborhood President. Ramirez describes his clients as business people who work nearby, Home Park locals and a few Georgia Tech students mixed in. "[Home Park] welcomed me when I moved here," he said. His time in Home Park has not been without …
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Monday, May 21, 2012
"The event was very successful and moved us one giant step forward in building a more cohesive and caring community.” - Jim Anderson, Home Park resident
Home Park neighborhood residents and volunteers gathered this past Saturday for a clean up session that resulted in two dumpsters being filled with debris. “It is with heartfelt appreciation that I reach out to you and express my gratitude for your volunteer effort to help clean the sidewalks of Home Park,’’ wrote Jim Anderson, Home Park resident and Home Park Community Improvement Association member, in an email to those who participated. “I observed many neighbors getting to know each other in a very positive way. The event was very successful and moved us one giant step forward in building a more cohesive and caring community.” Home Park is a 100-plus-year-old neighborhood with a residential core and a diverse mix that includes …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Grab some gloves, roll up your sleeves and come help beautiful your neighborhood
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Home Park Community Improvement Association (HPCIA) has organized a neighborhood spring cleaning event for Saturday, May 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. To participate, meet at Tenth Street United Methodist Church at 8:30 a.m. and refreshments will be available at the church throughout the morning. Please bring your work gloves, wagons, carts, rakes and anything else you think might help you in your efforts to clean up the neighborhood. Heavy duty trash bags will be provided. There is a need for a few people to step up and volunteer to be Sector Captains. No special skills needed, just a desire to help beautify the neighborhood, while meeting and volunteering with Home Park residents. If you have any questions or you want to volunteer to …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Saturday's recycling event takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Old Fourth Ward
The second Saturday of the month is upon us and that means Keep Atlanta Beautiful’s monthly recycling event will take place in the Old Fourth Ward. The award winning electronics recycling collection now accepts paper for secure shredding, post consumer polystyrene, popularly known as Styrofoam, and latex paint at the Community Recycling Center located at Walden School, 320 Irwin St, The event takes place the second Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There are no residency restrictions and most items are free to drop off. There is a $10 handling fee per TV. Paint Recycling Fees: 1 gal can $3.00 1 qt can $1.50 1 pt can $1.00 5 gal bucket $15.00 The center recycles more than 18,000 pounds per month of obsolete computers, …
Monday, April 9, 2012
Home Park Community Improvement Association meeting Tuesday; Midtown Neighbors' Association Mix In Mingle gathering Wednesday; and more Midtown news to use.
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Staff Reports After years of pumping out information via 140 characters or less on Twitter, the staff of the Atlanta District 2 City Council office has a bit more elbow room to promote district happenings with the recent launching of the District 2 facebook page. Councilman Kwanza Hall represents District 2, which includes a dozen neighborhoods in the heart of the city including Downtown, Georgia State University, Castleberry Hill, the Marietta Artery, Home Park, Georgia Tech, Atlantic Station, Midtown, Sweet Auburn, the Old Fourth Ward, Poncey-Highland, and Inman Park. _______ On Tuesday night, the Home Park Community Improvement Association will host a community meeting at Tenth Street Underwood United Methodist Church, located at 425 …
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Campus police try out new mobile surveillance system, as well as collaborate with Atlanta police and the community.
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- Amy Wenk
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Looking to combat crime on campus and in the Home Park neighborhood, Georgia Tech police have teamed up with Atlanta police and are reaching out to the community. They're also rolling onto the streets a cool, new crime-fighting tool. Tech police for about two weeks have tested a new mobile surveillance system called SkyCop. The high-tech policing device can stream live video from remote locations, scan license plates to check for stolen cars and flash blue lights just like a patrol car. "We're testing it," Tech's Deputy Police Chief Robert Connolly said Tuesday night at a meeting of the Home Park Community Improvement Association. "So far we like it." Real Deal on Crime That evening, Tech's First Lady Valerie Peterson, wife of President …
It's school redistricting that has many residents on edge.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
There’s been some recent crime in Home Park. But that's not the biggest concern in the neighborhood, said civic association leader Dan Noyd at a meeting Tuesday night. "Even more of an issue than crime," he said, is the current redrawing of Atlanta school districts. Some of Atlanta Public Schools' proposed options zone the approximately 1,200 households of Home Park out of the desirable Grady High cluster. Currently, Home Park kids go to Centennial Place Elementary School, Inman Middle School and Grady High School. “All we want is things to stay the same,” Noyd, president of the Home Park Community Improvement Association, said in the parking lot of Tenth Street United Methodist Church after the group's monthly meeting Dec. 13. Home Park …
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