Land Swap or Cop City?: A Visual Guide

Additional reading:

• A) Atlanta City Prison Farm
  • A Brief History of the Atlanta City Prison Farm
  • The Forgotten History of the Old Atlanta Prison Farm – three part podcast series from ACPC and It Could Happen Here.
• B) Intrenchment Creek WRC
  • Intrenchment Creek WRC Decommissioning/South River WRC Primary Clarifiers Replacement – City of Atlanta
  • South River Watershed Alliance – History
• C) Atlanta Police Department – Key Road Gun Range
  • June 1960 Atlanta Constitution article
• D) Additional Atlanta Police Department Firing Range
  • Photos from Defend the Atlanta Forest Twitter showing the shot up school bus
• E) Closed City of Atlanta Landfill – 1320 Key Road.
  • Creative Loafing, “Atlanta’s Old Landfills Leaking”, January 4th, 2006
  • Jillian Wootten, Atlanta City Planning, “Historical Analysis of the Atlanta Prison Farm”, 1999, pg. 13-26. Please note, much of the history in this document has been disputed. However, parts of it remain interesting as an archive of conversations that were happening at this time concerning the future of the prison farm.
• F) Intrenchment Creek Park Trailhead
  • Saporta Report, “DeKalb parkland owner demolishes park entrance after protester arrests,” 12/22/2022
  • Atlanta Community Press Collective, “Stop the Swap lawsuit plaintiffs file emergency motion in response to destruction at Weelaunee People’s Park,” 12/23/2022
  • Saporta Report, “Blackhall Studios sale did not include 40 acres once in DeKalb County’s Intrenchment Creek Park,” 6/6/2021
  • “Stop the Swap” lawsuit documents
• G) RC Field
  • Atlanta Radio Control Club
  • Oral history holds that the field was “given” to the RC club on a handshake agreement by the county. Legally, it appears that it did remain under county ownership until it was given to Shadowbox Studios and then Ryan Millsap in the 2021 land swap.
  • The RC club is opposed to the land swap as they claim that the new parkland is not suitable for a flying field. However, they have often expressed opposition to the Defend the Forest and Stop Stop City movements.
• H) Metro Regional Youth Detention Center
  • Metro RYDC – Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice
• I) Metro Transitional Center
  • Metro TC – Georgia Department of Corrections
• J) Helms Facility
  • Helms Facility – Georgia Department of Corrections
• K-M) Shadowbox facilities and soundstages
  • Shadowbox (formerly Blackhall) Studios
• N) Ronald McNair High School
  • Ronald McNair – Challenger.org
• O) Metro Re-Entry Facility
  • Metro Re-Entry Facility – Georgia Department of Corrections
  • The Atlanta Journal Constitution, “State Will Close Women’s Prison”, 1/20/2011
  • Formerly Metro State Prison; closed in 2011 as a women’s state prison, re-opened in 2018 as a “re-entry” facility for men.