Neighborhoods
Rooted in Atlanta’s history. Rising again.
Four Neighborhoods. One Story.
Southwest Atlanta holds stories most of the city has forgotten. Four neighborhoods — Mechanicsville, Pittsburgh, Capitol View, and Capitol View Manor — were built by working people: railroad mechanics, formerly enslaved freedpeople, domestic workers, tradespeople, and their families. They built homes, businesses, churches, and community institutions that anchored Black Atlanta for generations.
These neighborhoods endured decades of disinvestment, highway construction that severed streets and displaced thousands, and the slow erasure of the very history that made them remarkable. But they also produced civil rights leaders, community organizers, artists, and entrepreneurs who shaped Atlanta and the nation.
Now, with the Atlanta BeltLine extending through Southwest Atlanta, new investment arriving, and a generation of Atlantans rediscovering these communities, these neighborhoods are rising again.
At Resurgens Properties, we believe the history of these places is inseparable from their future. We research, document, and celebrate that history — because the people who built these neighborhoods deserve to be remembered, and because understanding where a community comes from is the only honest way to understand where it is going.
Mechanicsville
Atlanta’s original railroad ward, established in 1870 to house the mechanics and laborers who kept the city’s rail yards running. Home to Paschal’s Restaurant — the kitchen table of the American civil rights movement, where Dr. King planned the March on Washington, and where John Lewis, Julian Bond, and Jesse Jackson gathered to strategize. A neighborhood that lost two thirds of its population between 1960 and 2000, and is now rising again in the shadow of Mercedes-Benz Stadium and the BeltLine’s Westside Trail.
Pittsburgh
Founded by formerly enslaved people in 1876, Pittsburgh was built from nothing in the smoky shadow of the Pegram railroad yards. It is the neighborhood of Carrie Steele Logan — a formerly enslaved maid who wrote her own autobiography to fund Georgia’s first Black orphanage, which she opened here in 1888. Today, Pittsburgh is anchoring one of Atlanta’s most ambitious equitable development projects: Pittsburgh Yards, a 31-acre community-driven mixed-use campus directly adjacent to the BeltLine’s Southside Trail.
Capitol View
A streetcar suburb platted between 1910 and 1914, Capitol View’s streets are lined with some of Atlanta’s finest surviving Craftsman bungalows and Country Victorians — homes built for working- and middle-class families who believed ordinary people deserved beautifully designed places to live. The neighborhood transitioned to a predominantly Black community through the 1960s and 1970s, and its long-term Black residents kept it alive through decades of disinvestment that the city largely looked past.
Capitol View Manor
Capitol View’s sister neighborhood, established in 1920 on the eastern side of Metropolitan Parkway. Its Craftsman bungalows and ranch homes were built for working-class Atlantans through the interwar decades. The construction of the I-75/85 Downtown Connector severed Manford Road and permanently altered the neighborhood’s geography — one of countless such wounds inflicted on Black Atlanta neighborhoods by mid-century highway policy. The Capitol View Neighborhood Association has maintained community life here through the hardest decades and continues to do so today.