ABSTRACT

Public-private partnerships have been crucial to Atlanta's development. Although this approach has been used throughout the United States and around the world, it has been particularly important to Atlanta in achieving civic goals that neither the public nor the private sector could have done alone. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to dispose of all of the land that Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) still owned from its urban renewal projects. In the early 1980s, the City of Atlanta created the Atlanta Economic Development Corporation (AEDC), largely as an initiative by both Maynard Jackson and Dan Sweat. Hosting the Centennial Olympic Games in 1996 was the biggest and boldest civic event in Atlanta's history, but opinions differ as to whether this undertaking was a public-private partnership. Hope House, a transitional residence for homeless men, was developed by Progressive Redevelopment, Inc., a non-profit developer, on land owned by the city on Washington Street near Memorial Drive.