One of the less-successful venues from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is the former tennis stadium. The site sits, unused, in Stone Mountain. But now it may get a new life, thanks to a land swap deal.
Gwinnett County will buy about 35 acres near Stone Mountain Park in DeKalb for about $1.2 million. Then Gwinnett will exchange the property for the deed to the tennis venue, which is held by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association.
Gwinnett County Commission chair Charlotte Nash says the county will take bids from all kinds of developers interested in the property. She says because it hasn’t been kept up, the tennis stadium will likely come down.
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