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Apartment complex to rise at old Green Hunter Homes site in Gainesville
City officials hold groundbreaking ceremony for Atlanta Street project
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Gainesville Housing Authority board Chairman Broughton Cochran welcomes visitors to Thursday morning's groundbreaking for the new Walton Summit apartments. The new apartments will be at the site of the former Green Hunter Homes on Atlanta Street.
Standing amid the remains of the Atlanta Street homes Thursday, Broughton Cochran harkened back to his time as a social worker helping single mothers and kids in broken homes. “Needless to say, I saw some pretty distressful circumstances, but at times I would find children that had abnormally high self-esteem and didn’t exhibit the typical distress,” said Cochran, board chairman for the Gainesville Housing Authority. From the rubble of 65-year-old Green Hunter Homes, a new apartment complex offering at affordable and market prices will rise in the coming years.