Atlanta Bought Two 10,000-Acre Forests for a Second Airport. It Might Sell Them

Staff Report From Georgia CEO

Friday, February 7th, 2025

In the 1970s the city of Atlanta worried it might someday need a second airport, so it bought a pair of 10,000-acre tracts of land in exurban Paulding and Dawson counties.

The two sites have been managed as public recreation land by the state since 1975 — all while the city’s interest in building that second airport evaporated.

Read More At: The Atlantic Journal-Constitution