Avenue NE, from 1972 until their closure in 2001 or 2008. The high-rise was renamed on May 19, 1983, honoring Cosby A. Spear, a former president of the U-RESCUE Villa High-rise Tenant Association. Herman J. Russell, Joel Cowen, and Lamar Seals formed Bedford Towers Ltd also constructed a 150-unit building, creating housing for elderly people and disabled people. 272 The development of housing projects for seniors, the disabled, and low-wage earners, came out of the resident advocacy brought a significant satisfaction to former residents and advocates. 273
Figure B-18: Two boys doing cartwheels in front of U-RESCUE Villa Copyright Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Courtesy of Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library
“They maintain that positive change is not the enemy. Change that holds no regard for the people, change without social responsibility, change that does not lift all of us by lifting the poor is the enemy! 274 ~Rev. Jesse Jackson
CURRENT TIMES Atlanta’s Boisfeuillet Jones Civic Center, sits closed on the western side of a vast lot covered mainly by a large swath of vacant and thick, verdant, rolling grassy green hills after serving the city for almost 50 years. 275 Across the street to the South sits Georgia Power headquarters, which holds a 24-story tower and a large parking lot. The Bedford-Pines neighborhood is currently undergoing another wave of redevelopment, attracting higher-income residents to occupy luxury townhouses and 272 Colleen Teasley, “Bedford Pine’s Master Plan Moves a Bit Closer to Reality”. 273 Teasley, “Bedford Pine’s Master Plan Moves a Bit Closer to Reality”. 274 “S weet Auburn : The Next Buttermilk Bottom” , The Great Speckled Bird, v.10 no.4, August 1984. 275 "Atlanta Civic Center," Wikipedia, last modified February 14, 2014, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Civic_Center.
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