Renaissance Park is a park in the
Old Fourth Ward
The Old Fourth Ward, often abbreviated O4W, is an Intown Atlanta, intown neighborhood on the Eastside (Atlanta), eastside of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The neighborhood is best known as the location of the Martin Luther King Jr. National H ...
neighborhood of
Atlanta, Georgia
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. The land was originally part of the
Buttermilk Bottom
Buttermilk Bottom, also known as Buttermilk Bottoms or Black Bottom, was an African-American neighborhood in central Atlanta, centered on the area where the Atlanta Civic Center now stands in the Old Fourth Ward. It was considered a slum area, h ...
slum which was razed in the 1960s.
In a 2007 study, many area residents stated that the park is unusable due to aggressive panhandling, drug sales and use including
crack cocaine
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, public urination, and the threat of being mugged, tying these threats and crimes to individuals using the nearby Peachtree Pine shelter.
"Digest of Peachtree Pine Responses", Midtown Ponce Security Alliance
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As of November 2013, a new dog park occupies the upper portion of this park. The Renaissance Park Dog Park is a great amenity for the residents living in the Fourth Ward West neighborhood of the Old Fourth Ward and the surrounding Downtown and Midtown neighborhoods. Since the opening of the dog park, the loitering, panhandling, etc. once prevalent in the park have decreased.
References
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Dog parks in the United States
Parks in Atlanta
Old Fourth Ward