Not many residents of Atlanta can say they remember what the Atlanta skyline looked like 30 years ago, because many Atlantans did not grow up here, just relocated later in life. Maybe it is this reason that the Atlanta Business Chronicle celebrated its 30th anniversary by looking back at Midtown Atlanta to see how it has changed and grown over the past 30 years. This article “Midtown: From hippies to high-rises” gives the history of Mitdown Atlanta starting with the hippie population of the 1960s. The concentration of the hippie population was  on “the strip” - Peachtree Street from Fifth Street to 14th Street. A near riot between hippies and police broke out at Piedmont Park in 1969, and while this one incident probably did not directly cause the decline of Midtown, this hip part of the city did indeed begin to decay in the 1970s when the suburbs began to boom. However this decade was also the time that the first mixed-use development appeared in Midtown, Colony  Square.

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Tomorrow night author James McBride will be at the Margaret Mitchell House to discuss and sign his new novel, “Song Yet Sung,” about Liz Spocott, a runaway slave in pre-Civil War Maryland who has visions of the future.

Built in 1899 by Cornelius J. Sheehan, the two-story, single-family home on Peachtree Street was converted in 1919 into a 10-unit apartment building. It was there, from 1925 until 1932, that Margaret Mitchell lived in Apartment #1 and wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gone With the Wind.

Residents of 1010 Midtown have the unique opportunity to walk to events like this book signing, to a delicious dinner and back home to a relaxing condo overlooking the city of Atlanta. 1010 Midtown is a 35-story, 630,000-square-foot mixed-use development featuring 443 high-rise condominiums and 38,000 square feet of retail and dining space. 1010 Midtown is under construction now, with homes available this fall. Spacious one-, two- and three bedroom residences will range from $200,000 to more than $1,000,000. For more information visit www.1010midtown.com.

An article on Forbes.com named Atlanta the Number 3 Best City for Young Professionals.

The list was compiled by tracking where the graduates of top universities across the country ended up 10 years after graduation, where the best job opportunities exist, which cities had the most young and unmarried people, and which cities paid young professionals the best.

The young professionals who already live here can attest to the fact that Atlanta is a great place to be. A great example of the lifestyle available in Atlanta is at 1010 Midtown, Atlanta’s hottest new midtown Atlanta condo building.