Development, Unimpeded By Pandemic, Displaces Northwest Atlanta Community

Adan Tobar and his family are among the tenants at Moores Mill Village in Northwest Atlanta who recently received notices to move.

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There’s a small park wedged behind Marietta Boulevard that’s meant to represent diversity. It’s named after Sara J. Gonzalez, a Cuban activist who once lived nearby. 

More than a third of the people in this slice of northwest Atlanta at the edge of Buckhead are Latino, according to recent Census surveys. Another third are Black.