page_title: English Avenue and Vine City
section_title: Historic Westside Village and Walmart
hierarchical_section_title: English Avenue and Vine City / Revitalization / Historic Westside Village and Walmart
caption_attribution_description: English: Westside Village, New development in Vine City, north side of King Dr.
context_page_description: English Avenue and Vine City are two adjacent and closely linked neighborhoods of Atlanta, Georgia. Together the neighborhoods make up neighborhood planning unit L. The two neighborhoods are frequently cited together in reference to shared problems and to shared redevelopment schemes and revitalization plans.
  English Avenue is bounded by the railroad line and the Marietta Street Artery neighborhood to the northeast, Northside Drive, the North Avenue railyards and downtown Atlanta to the east, Joseph E. Lowery Blvd. and the Bankhead neighborhood to the west, and Joseph E. Boone Blvd. and Vine City to the south. Its population was 3,309 in 2010.
  Vine City is bounded by Joseph E. Boone Blvd. and the English Avenue neighborhood to the north, Northside Drive and downtown Atlanta to the east, Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. and the Atlanta University Center to the south, and Joseph E. Lowery Blvd. and the Washington Park neighborhood to the west. Its population was 2,785 in 2010.
context_section_description: In 1999, the Atlanta Housing Authority first announced plans for the "Historic Westside Village", a $130 million commercial, residential and retail project at the area's southern end near Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. at Ashby St. A Publix supermarket opened in May 2002 but the overall project stalled by 2003 as further anchor tenants did not materialize. This, along with disappointing sales, caused the Publix - the only full-sized supermarket for miles around - to close in December 2009. Creative Loafing called the project the most notorious "municipal boondoggle...to have tarred Atlanta" during mayor Bill Campbell's era; the project "fell victim to...cronyism, bureaucratic incompetence and a flagrant disregard for federal lending guidelines". In December 2010 things looked up as the Atlanta Development Authority announced plans for Wal-Mart to open a store on the site, which Mayor Kasim Reed called "an end to the food desert in the area". In January 2013 the Wal-Mart opened for business.
caption: New townhomes at Westside Village, August 2012
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