As Atlanta celebrates 50 years of the Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) system, we are reminded of the importance of putting neighborhoods at the center of who we are as a city. 

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Each of the 242 neighborhoods, with individual characteristics and styles, plays a unique role in telling the story of our city’s past, present, and future. 

While our neighborhoods face both common and unique challenges, the creativity and energy of the people in each community can teach us a lot about finding shared solutions for a brighter future for all. Few Atlanta neighborhoods have been successfully searching out those creative solutions longer than the 120 years that Ansley Park has been at it. 

For all its hard-earned historic pride, Ansley Park is not a museum or time capsule, but a living, breathing community. Rising from the rolling hills of venerated hunting grounds and farmland, Ansley Park today offers a fascinating collection of more than a century of architecture and design, an ever-evolving assortment of styles and interpretations of how to live within an exceptionally dynamic and growing part of our city. 

Anchored by a foundation of 100-year old homes, the neighborhood continues to thrive even as Midtown Atlanta continues to rise. That contrast, that mix, has a lot to do with why Ansley Park has withstood so many challenges and yet retains such a strong pull on Atlantans old and new. Generation after generation continue to choose Ansley Park because of the contrasting landscapes, architecture and activities. It’s a central flavor in our secret sauce.

The unique selection of homes featured in this year’s Tour demonstrates exactly how that happens. Together, they tell an important story about channeling the pressures of change and growth into constructive solutions. We invite you to share in this story and help us carry the conversation forward. All Atlanta neighborhoods are in this together. 

Across our city there is a fine tradition of neighbors opening their homes and gardens for tours – the Ansley Park tour has been a fixture for over 50 years – and all these home tours reflect an important point. Opening one’s home to family and friends is a time-honored display of caring, an act of love. Opening one’s home to the greater community is an act of civic engagement. A meaningful demonstration of welcome, sharing, and exploring important elements of our social fabric across time and place. A way to nourish the beloved community. 

So, welcome to our home. Welcome to Ansley Park. We look forward to seeing you soon.