VIA INVEST ATLANTA
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In the heart of Atlanta lay a 138-acre brownfield. What was once the site of Atlantic Steel in the early 1900s fell into toxic, abandoned blight by the late 1990s. Its transformation into what is now Atlantic Station represents one of the country’s largest urban brownfield redevelopments and the extraordinary possibilities that exist within a TAD.
tlanta Hoop Company opened its doors in 1901 with a massive steel mill churning out wagon wheels, cotton bale ties and barrel hoops. Business boomed, and the company was renamed Atlantic Steel in the 1920s, adding nails, barbed wire, plough shears and galvanized steel to its production output. A During its heyday in the 1950s, Atlantic Steel employed more than 2,300 employees and produced 750,000 tons of steel products per year. But that success began to wane in the 1980s with the rise of foreign competition and the country’s shift towards de-industrialization. By 1997, Atlantic Steel was a shell of its former self, down to a mere 400 employees. One year later the company ceased operations and closed its doors.
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