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Massive construction and improvement shoot forwards are gradually transforming Atlanta's landscape as the city prepares to innkeeper the world during the 1996 Olympic Games, and the constituent has helped change the lives of 89 families in about of the area's oldest and mostly neglected communities.

As a outcome of a cooperative effort between the city and flotilla Finance, $10 million was committed to restore and revitalize the Summerhill, Mechanicsville and Peoplestown neighborhoods, all near the Olympic Stadium site. The shoot forward Friends of Atlanta Neighborhood Assistance Program (FANAP) has provided the resources wanted to implement major residential improvement plots

The affected neighborhoods are three of Atlanta's oldest predominantly black communities. Settl in the 1860 by means of newly emancipated staves, the area thrived until highway construction and other disentanglement spurred a decline in the 1960

In 1992 community leaders and residents met to discuss the impact of Olympic growth on the ...