The project represented the first voluntary clean up under theGeorgia Brownfields Clean Up Act and received the US EnvironmentalProtection Agency Regional Brownfield Award in March 2004.Demolition revealed the residue of the site's history in remainingpetroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents and heavy metals, thedeveloper says.

Bank of America Community Development Banking provided $7.2million in construction lending and $2.1 million in equity tofinance the project. Turner Associates were the architects. JMWilkerson was the general contractor. Coldwell Banker is providingrealty services on the sale of the condos.

Mtamanika Youngblood, board chair and former president of theHistoric District Development Corp., calls Bank of America "a greatpartner in helping us transform a neighborhood eyesore into anotherwonderful place to live and work in the Historic District."Youngblood says the project "brings back economic vitality back tothis historic and valuable neighborhood."