Atlanta Steps Up Downtown Housing Efforts

Atlanta, more spread out than all the largest American cities, according to recent data, has only about 25,000 downtown residents. That's tiny compared with Chicago's 300,000 residents.

Central Atlanta Progress, downtown's chief booster, predicts more than 8,000 new homes will be built downtown by 2007. hat's half the growth predicted for Midtown, but for downtown, it's a surprising number and a "big goal," admits A.J. Robinson, president of Central Atlanta Progress.

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