Benteen Park

{{short description|Neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia}}

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Benteen Park is a neighborhood in southeast Atlanta, Georgia, bounded on the west by Boulevard and the Chosewood Park neighborhood, on the north by Boulevard Heights, on the east by Custer/McDonough/Gulce and on the south by Atlanta Federal Prison, which also lies in the Benteen Park neighborhood. The Atlanta Streetcar formerly served the neighborhood, with a line running down Mcdonough Ave.{{Cite web |title=OpenWorld Atlanta |url=https://atlanta.urbanspatialhistory.org/streetcars/1924 |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=atlanta.urbanspatialhistory.org}}

The neighborhood experienced gentrification during the first decade of the 2000s, with low housing prices yet proximity to facilities in Grant Park.{{cite journal |last1= Ward|first1= Coley|title= Benteen Park: A Neighborhood In Transition – But Check Out Those Prices!|date= March 16, 2005|journal= Creative Loafing|url= https://creativeloafing.com/content-185004-cover-story-benteen-park|access-date= January 4, 2011}}

In Fall 2023, the neighborhood held its first annual "[https://www.benteenparkfallfest.com/ Benteen Park Fall Fest]" and plans to have another one in October 2024. [https://www.benteenpark.org/ Friends of Benteen Park] was established subsequent to the 2023 Benteen Park Fall Fest in order to increase community involvement in improving Benteen Park.

A number of large developments are happening in the neighborhood as of 2023/2024, including an Epic Development Project on Boulevard near Red's Beer Garden, and other projects in nearby Chosewood Park.{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Josh |date=2022-05-19 |title=Don't look now, but Atlanta's southside is blowing up |url=https://atlanta.urbanize.city/post/southside-development-blowing-up-beltline-chosewood-park |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Urbanize Atlanta |language=en}}