Modern Era
Sweet Auburn was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. However, like so many other inner-city neighborhoods, Sweet Auburn fell victim to lack of investment, heavy, widespread crime, homelessness, and abandonment, compounded by construction of the Downtown Connector freeway that split it in two. In 1992 the National Trust for Historic Preservation recognized that it was one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places and, in 2005, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation included the area in its 2006 list of Places in Peril. The Historic District Development Corporation (HDDC) was formed to turn the trend around, starting with houses surrounding the birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and working outward.
The Peachtree Corridor Partnership has proposed to put a streetcar line that would extend east of the main Peachtree Street line down Auburn Avenue, and west as a circulator around downtown Atlanta, where Auburn Avenue continues as Luckie Street.
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Shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers,
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