On Tuesday, Atlanta residents vote on the idea to sell $250 million in bonds to fix some of the city’s ailing infrastructure. The list of projects that would get funded isn’t final yet, but the biggest project on it at this point isn’t a bridge repair or a street redesign. It’s an indoor swimming pool.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Natatorium sits empty on Boulevard, near the King Center. If you’re driving by, its big windows seem foggy, like there’s leftover humidity from when the pool was full of water.
It closed three years ago.
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