Downtown Atlanta

Downtown Atlanta refers to the largest financial district in the city of Atlanta. As defined by the Central Atlanta Progress (CAP) organization, the area measures approximately four square miles, and had 23,300 residents as of 2006.[1] This area is bound by North Avenue to the north, Boulevard to the east, Interstate 20 to the south, and Northside Drive to the west. This defination of downtown Atlanta including central areas like Five Points and Fairlie-Poplar and outlying inner-city neighborhoods such as SoNo, and Castleberry Hill.

The Atlanta Downtown Improvement District (ADID) organization, though, defines a much smaller downtown area measuring just one and two tenths square miles. This area is roughly bound by North Avenue to the north, Piedmont Avenue and then Interstate 75 to the east, Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Courtland Street, and Edgewood Avenue to the south, and the railroad tracks to the west. This area only includes the core central business district neighborhoods of Fairlie-Poplar, Five Points, Centennial Hills, and as of May 2007, the Railroad District.

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