Old Fourth Ward
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Old Fourth Ward is a historically diverse community located east of downtown Atlanta, west of Poncey-Highland and Inman Park neighborhoods, and south of the Midtown neighborhood. The neighborhood was the original home of Morris Brown College and Clark College and later Clark Atlanta University. [1] It is a smaller version of the historic Fourth Ward political area in place until the 1950s when the city changed to a district system.
Today, Old Fourth Ward is often the example used to cite Atlanta's increasingly rapid gentrification. The area, most recently a majority black area, has seen a huge influx of whites in the past decade. The main thoroughfare in the area is a street called Boulevard, and was made famous by local rapper Young Jeezy who used to frequent the area, as well as the infamous Black Mafia Family (BMF) who used the area as their base of operations in the Atlanta area. Despite recent Federal indictments that were touted as the end of BMF, Boulevard is still a haven for drug activity, robberies, and murders. Despite all this, gentrification continues, albeit slowly, as the influx of new residents are attacted to the Fourth Ward for its close proximity to Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead.
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Recently, this neighborhood has seen rampant gentrification, due to its close proximity to the hot areas of Midtown, Inman Park, and Virginia Highlands.
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