Virginia Highland
Virginia Highland
Arguably the city’s most quiet yet sought-after address, the largely residential Virginia-Highland area has been called Atlanta’s answer to New York’s SoHo and Los Angeles’ Melrose Avenue. In the 1920s it was constructed to accommodate lower to middle income residents. The two-bedroom bungalows that pepper this tree-lined corner of the near east side now fetch a quarter-of-a-million dollars and more. Virginia-Highlands, or more commonly referred to as “the Highlands,” centers on the intersection of its namesake avenues, Virginia and North Highland, and concentrates its activity around three main hubs. Most points are within easy walking distance of the Jimmy Carter Center in Inman Park, Emory University in Druid Hills, and Piedmont Park in Midtown. For the past fifty years, the prevailing atmosphere has gone from staunch middle class to economically-depressed to an avant-garde reclamation phase to a solid enclave of the in-town upwardly-mobile. Today, young professional couples live alongside the older entrenched crowd that smartly held onto their once slumping yet now-booming properties.
