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Blighted Westside Properties Targeted for Condemnation From Joseph E. Boone Boulevard to Donald Lee Holloway Parkway: Mayor Andre Dickens Asks the Atlanta City Council, With Byron Amos in District 3
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is asking the Atlanta City Council to consider resolutions authorizing the city to begin condemnation proceedings on five blighted Westside properties, from Joseph E. Boone Boulevard to Donald Lee Holloway Parkway, Atlanta News First reported. If necessary, the city may have to use eminent domain. Dickens is calling for a special meeting as early as possible. Nothing has been approved, and the five addresses were not published.
Key facts
- What is proposed
- Resolutions authorizing the city to begin condemnation proceedings on five blighted properties
- Who is asking
- Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens
- Who decides
- The Atlanta City Council. It has not voted
- How many properties
- Five
- Where
- Atlanta’s Westside, from Joseph E. Boone Boulevard to Donald Lee Holloway Parkway
- Addresses
- Not published. No individual property was identified
- Council district
- District 3, represented by council member Byron Amos
- Eminent domain
- What the city may have to use — “if necessary,” per the reporting. It has not been used
- Special meeting
- Dickens is calling for one and requesting it be held as early as possible
- Meeting date
- Not published
- Stated reason
- Dickens said the action would protect residents and help address past disinvestment in Atlanta’s neighborhoods
- Property owners
- Not named. No owner is accused of a crime
- Status
- Proposed. Nothing approved, nothing condemned, no property taken
- Sourcing
- One newsroom — Atlanta News First (WANF), Gray Television
- What did Mayor Andre Dickens ask the Atlanta City Council to do about the blighted Westside properties?
- Where are the five blighted Westside properties targeted for condemnation?
- What did Byron Amos say about blight in Atlanta City Council District 3?
- What do condemnation and eminent domain mean in this Westside proposal?
- What has and has not happened yet in the blighted Westside properties push?
- When is the special meeting on the Westside condemnation resolutions?
- How many newsrooms have reported the Westside condemnation plan?
- What is still unknown about the blighted Westside properties proposal?
- What has been updated on this Westside condemnation story?
- What are people asking about the blighted Westside properties?
What did Mayor Andre Dickens ask the Atlanta City Council to do about the blighted Westside properties?
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is asking the Atlanta City Council to help address five blighted properties on the Westside, Atlanta News First reported Tuesday night.
Specifically, the station reported, the mayor is asking the council to consider resolutions authorizing the city to begin condemnation proceedings on the properties. If necessary, the reporting says, the city may have to use eminent domain.
Dickens said the action would protect residents and help address past disinvestment in Atlanta’s neighborhoods, according to the same report. He is calling for a special meeting to push the measure through, and is requesting that the meeting be held as early as possible. If approved, the city could begin the condemnation process.
Everything on this page comes from that one newsroom. The Local Alert has not independently confirmed any of it, and nothing here is asserted in this site’s own voice.
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Where are the five blighted Westside properties targeted for condemnation?
The mayor is focused on five properties from Joseph E. Boone Boulevard to Donald Lee Holloway Parkway, on Atlanta’s Westside. That sentence is the entire geographic detail in the reporting.
Heads up: the addresses of the five blighted Westside properties were not published. No house, no lot and no block was identified. This page does not name one, does not estimate one, and does not place any of the five properties at a specific point on either street.
The count is the fact; the placement is not. Atlanta News First reported five properties “from Joseph E. Boone Boulevard to Donald Lee Holloway Parkway” and published no addresses. The five markers above are spaced evenly so they can be counted. They are not a map, and none of them corresponds to a real address, a real lot or a real building.
What did Byron Amos say about blight in Atlanta City Council District 3?
Atlanta News First reported that Byron Amos, the council member for District 3, has described blight there as a problem going back decades.
“Blight in Atlanta City Council District Three has become historic,” Amos said.
“A lot of these properties you will realize we have went through the traditional code enforcement steps, trying to find the owner, trying to board them up, trying to keep them clean and cut, but it’s time to do something very different so we’re looking at condemnation,” Amos said.
“One of the messages that we want to send is that it is time for you as a property owner for you to do something different with your derelict properties,” Amos said.
Those three quotations are reproduced exactly as Atlanta News First published them, including their grammar. The Local Alert does not edit the inside of a quotation mark.
What do condemnation and eminent domain mean in this Westside proposal?
The reporting uses both terms and puts them in a specific order. Condemnation proceedings are what the proposed resolutions would authorize the city to begin. Eminent domain is described as something the city “may have to use” — and only “if necessary.”
That is as far as the source goes. Atlanta News First did not define either term, did not cite a statute, and did not describe what would happen to any of the five blighted Westside properties after a condemnation.
Attention: The Local Alert tried to open the City of Atlanta site and the Atlanta City Council site on the night this was written to link an official explanation of the process. Both returned an HTTP 403 and could not be read. Because we could not read them, no legal definition of condemnation or eminent domain is offered on this page and no city page is cited here. A page we cannot open is not a source.
This report is not legal guidance, and it does not tell any reader what to do about a property.
What has and has not happened yet in the blighted Westside properties push?
Very little has happened. A request has been made. Nothing has been decided.
| Who or what | What the reporting establishes |
|---|---|
| Mayor Andre Dickens | Asking the City Council to consider resolutions authorizing the city to begin condemnation proceedings on five blighted properties on the Westside |
| Atlanta City Council | Asked to consider the resolutions. Has not voted |
| Council member Byron Amos | Represents District 3. Says blight there “has become historic” and that “it’s time to do something very different so we’re looking at condemnation” |
| The five properties | From Joseph E. Boone Boulevard to Donald Lee Holloway Parkway. Addresses not published |
| Property owners | Not named, not described, not accused of any crime |
| Traditional code enforcement | Already attempted, per Amos: finding the owner, boarding the properties up, keeping them clean and cut |
| Condemnation | What the resolutions would authorize the city to begin. Not begun |
| Eminent domain | What the city “may have to use” “if necessary.” Not used |
| Special meeting | Called for by Dickens, requested as early as possible. No date published |
| Council vote | Has not happened |
| Property taken | None. Nothing has been condemned |
| Stated reason | Dickens said the action would protect residents and help address past disinvestment in Atlanta’s neighborhoods |
| Sourcing | One newsroom — Atlanta News First (WANF), Gray Television |
Six steps, and only two of them have actually occurred. Steps 1 and 2 are established by the reporting. Step 3 was requested but not scheduled. Steps 4, 5 and 6 are drawn with dashed borders because nothing in the source says they have taken place. No step is shown here that Atlanta News First did not describe.
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When is the special meeting on the Westside condemnation resolutions?
No date has been published. Dickens is calling for a special meeting to push the measure through and is requesting that it be held as early as possible, Atlanta News First reported. That is the whole of it.
No day, no time, no location and no agenda item number appears in the reporting, and none is supplied here. If the meeting is scheduled, the date will come from the city, not from this page’s guesswork.
How many newsrooms have reported the Westside condemnation plan?
One. Every fact above comes from Atlanta News First, the Gray Television station in Atlanta, in a story headlined “Blighted Westside properties targeted for condemnation by Atlanta mayor,” published Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, at 10:13 p.m. ET.
There is no second newsroom on this page because we do not have one. Gray Television’s other Georgia stations share Atlanta News First’s parent company, so they would not be independent confirmation in any event. We also could not open the City of Atlanta or Atlanta City Council websites — both returned an HTTP 403 — so this report cites no official city document, no resolution number and no council agenda. That is a gap, and it is stated rather than papered over.
This report is part of The Local Alert’s Atlanta, GA coverage and our wider Fulton County reporting. Related city-government and property stories: Fulton County’s temporary 2026 property tax bills, mailed under a court order, southwest Atlanta renters who say a living room floor split open at Gateway South Apartments, a Cascade Avenue closure after a tree brought down power lines, and a fatal shooting in Vine City, on Atlanta’s Westside.
What is still unknown about the blighted Westside properties proposal?
- The addresses of the five properties. They were not published, and no single property was identified.
- Which side of the corridor they sit on, which blocks they sit on, and how far apart they are.
- Who owns them. No owner was named or described, and no owner is accused of anything.
- Whether the owners have been notified, and whether any of them has responded. Nothing in the reporting says either way.
- The date of the special meeting Dickens is requesting, and whether it has been called.
- The resolution numbers, the text of the resolutions, and which council committee, if any, would see them first.
- How the council is likely to vote. No council member other than Byron Amos is quoted, and Amos is not recorded as stating a vote.
- What the timeline would be if the resolutions passed — the source says only that the city “could begin the condemnation process.”
- What would happen to the properties afterward. No redevelopment plan, buyer, use or budget is described.
- Whether the city expects to use eminent domain on any of the five, or on how many. The source says only that it may have to, if necessary.
- How much any of this would cost, and where the money would come from.
- Whether the five properties are occupied or vacant. The reporting does not say.
What has been updated on this Westside condemnation story?
- Aug. 18, 2026, 10:13 p.m. ET — Atlanta News First publishes “Blighted Westside properties targeted for condemnation by Atlanta mayor.”
- Aug. 18, 2026, 10:40 p.m. ET — This page first published, from that single report. No council vote had been taken and no special meeting date had been published.
What are people asking about the blighted Westside properties?
What is Atlanta doing about the blighted Westside properties?
Mayor Andre Dickens is asking the Atlanta City Council to consider resolutions authorizing the city to begin condemnation proceedings on five blighted properties on the Westside. Nothing has been approved yet.
Where are the five blighted Westside properties?
Atlanta News First reported that the mayor is focused on five properties from Joseph E. Boone Boulevard to Donald Lee Holloway Parkway. That is as specific as the reporting gets.
What are the addresses of the five blighted Westside properties?
They were not published. No address, block or individual property was identified in the reporting, and The Local Alert will not guess at one.
Have the five Westside properties been condemned?
No. The resolutions are proposed, the City Council has not voted, and no condemnation proceeding has begun. If approved, the city could begin the condemnation process.
Will the city use eminent domain on the Westside properties?
That is not established. The reporting says that if necessary, the city may have to use eminent domain. It does not say eminent domain has been used or will be used on any specific property.
Who is Byron Amos and what did he say about blight in District 3?
Byron Amos is the Atlanta City Council member who represents District 3, and he said blighted homes have plagued his district for decades. He said, "Blight in Atlanta City Council District Three has become historic."
What is the Atlanta City Council being asked to vote on?
Resolutions authorizing the city to begin condemnation proceedings on the five properties. The reporting does not give resolution numbers or the text of the resolutions.
When is the special meeting on the Westside condemnation resolutions?
No date was published. Dickens is calling for a special meeting to push the measure through and is requesting that it be held as early as possible.
Why does Mayor Andre Dickens say the city should act?
Dickens said this action would protect residents and help address past disinvestment in Atlanta's neighborhoods, according to Atlanta News First.
Who owns the five blighted Westside properties?
The owners were not named. No owner is accused of a crime, and this page does not identify or characterise any property owner.
What has the city already tried on these properties?
Council member Byron Amos described the traditional code enforcement steps: trying to find the owner, trying to board the properties up, and trying to keep them clean and cut.
How many newsrooms have reported the Atlanta Westside condemnation plan?
One. Atlanta News First, the Gray Television station in Atlanta, published the account on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. No independent second newsroom had the story at the time of writing.
Sources
- Atlanta News First (WANF, Gray Television), Atlanta — “Blighted Westside properties targeted for condemnation by Atlanta mayor,” published 10:13 p.m. ET, Aug. 18, 2026. Source of every fact and every quotation on this page: the five properties, the two street names, Mayor Andre Dickens’s request, the resolutions, eminent domain, the special meeting request, and the three quotations from Council member Byron Amos, who the station reported represents District 3.
- No City of Atlanta or Atlanta City Council page is cited here. Both sites returned an HTTP 403 when we tried to read them on the night this was written, and a page we cannot open is not a source.
Compiled by The Local Alert Georgia Staff from the single source linked above. Heads up: the blighted Westside properties condemnation plan is a proposal. Mayor Andre Dickens has asked the Atlanta City Council to consider resolutions on five properties from Joseph E. Boone Boulevard to Donald Lee Holloway Parkway, in District 3, represented by Byron Amos. The council has not voted, no property has been condemned, no eminent domain has been used, no addresses were published and no owner has been named. This reporting comes from one newsroom, Atlanta News First, and we found no independent second outlet at the time of writing. This is a developing story and details may change. The Local Alert is not a law enforcement agency, not a law firm and not a unit of city government, and nothing here is legal advice. Corrections and removal requests: see our corrections policy.
Reported and fact-checked as of .
Every source linked here was opened and verified at that time. This report reflects what was known and confirmed at that moment — it is not updated automatically as the story develops. The current status of a proposed city resolution is published by the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta City Council.
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