College Park - Georgia - 4K Downtown Drive
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 Published On Oct 8, 2020

Afternoon drive around the city of College Park, just south of Downtown Atlanta.
Filmed: September 2020

College Park by the Numbers:
City Population: 13,942
City Area: 11.13 sq mi
Metro Population (Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA): 5,286,728
CSA Population (Atlanta-Athens-Clarke County-Sandy Springs, GA-AL): 6,054,858

From Wikipedia:
College Park is a city in Fulton and Clayton counties, Georgia, United States, adjacent to the southern boundary of the city of Atlanta. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,942.Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport is partially located in the city's boundaries (including the domestic terminal, Concourse T, Concourse A, and about two-thirds of Concourse B), and the Georgia International Convention Center, owned and operated by the City of College Park, is within the city limits. The city is home to the fourth-largest urban historical district registered with the National Register of Historic Places in the state of Georgia. The city is also home to the Gateway Center Arena, home of the College Park Skyhawks and Atlanta Dream.

The community that would become College Park was founded as Atlantic City in 1890 as a depot on the Atlanta and West Point Railroad. The town was renamed Manchester when it was incorporated as a city in 1891. It was renamed again as the city of College Park in 1896. The city's name came from being the home of Cox College (where the city hall and other buildings now stand) and Georgia Military Academy (now the Woodward Academy). The east-west avenues in College Park are named for Ivy League colleges, and the north-south streets are named for influential College Park residents.

Although the Atlanta hip hop music scene in the 1980s and 1990s was largely credited to artists from nearby suburban Decatur, College Park and the adjacent city of East Point have been strongly associated with artists and record producers from "SWATS" ("Southwest Atlanta, Too Strong"), whom have substantially contributed to the evolution of the southern hip hop genre over the course of the 2000s.

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