Grove Park Community Association

Grove Park Community Association

GROVE PARK'S NAMESAKE

GROVE PARK was named for Dr. E.W. Grove, president of the Grove Park Development Company. In 1912, Grove developed Fortified Hills, a community with winding roads and parkways. The property was bisected by the river car line, which provided access to downtown. The remainder of Grove Park was developed in the 1920's and 1930's by various developers, but primarily by the Grove Park Development Company.
Land use is predominantly residential with some commercial development along Hollowell Highway and Simpson Street. There is some light industry in the northeast corner of the NPU adjacent to the Louisville and Nashville Belt Line. This NPU was annexed to the City of Atlanta in 1952.

GROVE PARK'S SURROUNDINGS

GROVE PARK was developed during the early decades of this century. Annexed to Grove park are other named areas. Center Hill(1907) was Starr and Edwards property. 1910 New Center Hill was property of Dr. G.L. Bush which bordered what is now Hollowell Highway, just west of the original Center Hill. Pine Acres (1933) was first promoted as "an exclusive development for high class colored people." It was bounded by Simpson Road and Detroit Avenue. Other vicinities adjacent to Grove Park are: Dixie Hills, Penelope Neighbors, and West Lake.

GROVE PARK'S AMENITIES

Grove Park Neighborhood Association boasts of famous namesakes:
Carter G. Woodson Elementary School; Ben S. Carson Middle School and Donald Hollowell Highway. Woodson created Black History Month. Carson was a famous physician. Hollowell was a civil rights activist.
GROVE PARK hosts six churches; a public library, a gymnasium; a public park with a tennis court and jogging trails; shopping center, and all of this in a friendly walking distance!
For convenience, there is an Atlanta Marta Transit Station a few steps away in the Grove Park neighborhood.
Plus, Grove Park's shade tree lined streets fan the summertime traffic.

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Grove Park is Hammering Away!

Grove Park is constantly changing. 30318 has become a fertile area in Atlanta for growth and development. Contractors from across the state of Georgia and beyond are either working in the community or constantly driving through and evaluating the terrain and its possibilities for site plans and acquiring land and permits.

Community Folks Are Hammering Ideas, Too

While the neighborhood is welcoming the onslaught of developers, they are speaking their minds in no uncertain terms.
"We don't want them builders to be using up our green space," spoke up, Clara Jones, at a recent meeting of the community.
"We don't want them to be taking up our brown space, either!" echoed Frank Norris. "We gotta have our good growing space for our gardens."
"What would bother me," said Clarence Sims, is houses, buildings and apartments, being constructed on waterways, on top of steep hills, down into valleys and squeezed into darken alleys. Houses with plans that would would have no front, back yards, and no front or back doors. And don't give me one that is built sideways."
"Amen," another said. "I heard of another neighborhood where apartments are built on the edge of sidewalks and near train tracks. Causing folks to move in and out without looking back."

Grove Park is Having More Meetings

To make sure we don't have badly hammered ideas from the proposed builders, we are calling meetings to have our voices heard over the sounds of the hammerings.

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j.l.t.malone@att.net