Editing Chamblee, Georgia (section)

=== Neighborhoods ===
[[File:City Hall Park, Chamblee GA.jpg|thumb|{{center|City Hall Park in Downtown Chamblee}}]]
*'''Downtown''': Downtown Chamblee has been preserved has an early 20th-century railroad community. Many of the buildings are of historic vintage, and the district has architectural similarities to other similar former railroad communities, such as Decatur and Norcross. Much of the downtown businesses are devoted to Chamblee's antique industry, but that has been changing. The district has attracted significant commercial development since 2000, including lofts and townhomes. The [[Chamblee (MARTA station)|Chamblee MARTA Station]] and City Hall are both located downtown.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chambleega.com/About/PrivateDevelopment.aspx |title=Chamblee, GA - Private Development |access-date=2011-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708134315/http://www.chambleega.com/About/PrivateDevelopment.aspx |archive-date=2011-07-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Massive economic development including the Town Center Initiative and downtown revitalization projects, have turned Downtown Chamblee into a mecca for foodies. A recently opened brewery and distillery<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cooper |first=Carly |date=2022-06-27 |title=The Distillery of Modern Art opens in Chamblee |url=https://www.atlantamagazine.com/drinks/the-distillery-of-modern-art-opens-in-chamblee/ |access-date=2022-07-18 |website=Atlanta Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> flank downtown Chamblee. A new Chamblee signature event called, Taste of Chamblee, debuted in the mid 20 Teens, showcases the food of the Chamblee area.
*'''Buford Highway Corridor:''' The Buford Highway community is home to one of the highest concentration of foreign-born residents in the country, including Mexican, Central American, [[Chinatown, Atlanta|Chinese]], Korean and Vietnamese. The area attracted many [[Latino (demonym)|Latino]] workers during the construction boom that preceded the [[1996 Olympic Games]]. Asian business owners were attracted to the stretch of highway by cheap leases and reliable traffic flow. The more than 1,000 immigrant-owned businesses are owned by and patronized by a wide variety of ethnic groups, including Korean, Mexican, Chinese, and Vietnamese, and Indian, Bangladeshi, Central American, Somali, and Ethiopian. The DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce calls the area the "International Corridor."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-05-25 |title=The DeKalb Chamber Of Commerce Visitor Information |url=http://dekalbchamberofcommerce.org/dekalbchamber/visitor.asp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525144612/http://dekalbchamberofcommerce.org/dekalbchamber/visitor.asp |archive-date=2009-05-25 |access-date=2022-07-18}}</ref>
*'''DeKalb–Peachtree Airport:''' [[DeKalb–Peachtree Airport]] is the third-largest payer of property taxes in DeKalb County, responsible for an estimated 7,300 jobs, and generates approximately $130 million in income for local residents. PDK, as the airport is commonly called (each public-use airport has an official Department of Transportation code of letters and/or numbers), has averaged 230,000 operations-takeoffs and landings-annually for more than thirty years. PDK is the second-busiest airport in Georgia, behind only Hartsfield-Jackson.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.pdkairport.com/ |access-date=2022-07-18 |website=PDK Airport |language=en-gb}}</ref>  A multitude of private and public airlines/pilots fly out of PDK every day. PDK's economic development, the Globe, is home to small businesses invested in the airline trade.
*'''Sexton Woods''': Partially in Chamblee and partially in neighboring city Brookhaven, Sexton Woods is mixed neighborhood of 1950s ranch style homes and more recently new craftsman style infill housing. Sexton Woods is bordered by Chamblee-Dunwoody Road, Harts Mill Road, and Ashford Dunwoody Road. Sexton Woods is also the home of Chamblee Middle School, located on Chamblee-Dunwoody Road until 2006.
*'''Keswick Village''': Adjacent to Sexton Woods, Keswick Village, originally built in 1950, is a neighborhood of renovated original homes and craftsman style infill housing. It is adjacent to Keswick Park, the second largest park in the city.
*'''Clairmont Park''': Residential neighborhoods along Clairmont Road, south of Peachtree Boulevard, near Peachtree Dekalb Airport.
*'''Huntley Hills''': Huntley Hills is a neighborhood established in the early 1960s, though the first house was built on Plantation Lane in 1950. Huntley Hills Elementary School is located in the middle of the neighborhood. Huntley Hills Elementary has a Montessori program added during the 2000–2001 school year<ref>{{Cite web |title=Huntley Hills Montessori program |url=http://schools.dekalb.k12.ga.us/huntleyhills/about/montessori.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824145249/http://schools.dekalb.k12.ga.us/huntleyhills/about/montessori.html |archive-date=2010-08-24}}</ref> and was opened on August 21, 1964. Huntley hills also has a wide range of special needs programs for children ranging from high to low disorders.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Huntley Hills Elementary School Homes for Sale |url=https://www.redfin.com/school/29842/GA/Chamblee/Huntley-Hills-Elementary-School |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=www.redfin.com}}</ref>
*'''Beverly Hills/Beverly Woods''': Beverly Hills/Beverly Woods is a neighborhood established in the early 1950s in a portion of Chamblee that annexed into the city in 2013. Many houses in this area were built as housing for the Doraville GM plant employees that worked nearby. This neighborhood borders Chamblee-Tucker Road, Shallowford Road, and Beverly Hills Drive. Mostly Mid Century ranch style and split level houses with minimal infill housing as of 2017.

According to Biz Journal, the Atlanta metropolitan area is home to an "...&nbsp;estimated 50,000 Chinese-Americans...." This suburb of [[Atlanta, Georgia]] is home to a [[Chinatown]] ({{lang-zh|c=亚特兰大唐人街|p=Yàtélándà tángrénjiē}}) that was built in 1988,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BR2lBZ-lYNUC&q=Atlanta+Chinatown&pg=PA37|title=Unrelated kin: race and gender in women's personal narratives |isbn=9780415911399 |last1=Etter-Lewis |first1=Gwendolyn |last2=Foster |first2=Michèle |year=1996 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Zhao |first=Jianli |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IezxVUzEcVMC&q=Atlanta+Chinatown&pg=PA84 |title=Strangers in the City: The Atlanta Chinese, Their Community, and Stories of |publisher=Psychology Press |year=2002 |isbn=9780815338031}}</ref> and is one of the first of the "New Chinatowns" according to the [[World Journal]]. Although the city of [[Atlanta]] itself does not have a "Chinatown", Chamblee's Chinatown mall is referred to as "Atlanta Chinatown."  The neighborhood is part of the [[Buford Highway]] international market area and is located near the [[Chamblee station|Chamblee MARTA station]] and New Peachtree Road.<ref>{{cite web |title=中國城頂好超級市場 |trans-title=Chinatown top good supermarkets |url=http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_news/22114170/article-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E5%9F%8E%E9%A0%82%E5%A5%BD%E8%B6%85%E7%B4%9A%E5%B8%82%E5%A0%B4?instance=news_pics |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426235552/http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_news/22114170/article-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E5%9F%8E%E9%A0%82%E5%A5%BD%E8%B6%85%E7%B4%9A%E5%B8%82%E5%A0%B4?instance=news_pics |archive-date=2014-04-26 |access-date=2015-06-05 |language=zh}}</ref>  According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), refers to this "Chinatown Mall" as "...&nbsp;Atlanta's place for Chinese culture."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ajc.com/photo/lifestyles/fashion-style/39f0419837e49163fc9bbe8e1383d07c/pfJLD/|title=Chinese culture in Atlanta}}</ref>  According to the official website, "Atlanta Chinatown" is located at 5379 New Peachtree Road.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atlantachinatown.com/home.html|title=Atlanta Chinatown|access-date=2015-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150129081200/http://www.atlantachinatown.com/home.html|archive-date=2015-01-29|url-status=dead}}</ref>  According to the Huffington Post, this Chinatown is an example of a "modern Chinatown", with [[Chinatown, Albany|Albany]],<ref name="tsui">{{cite book |author=Tsui |first=Bonnie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5qkGWDO2c4C&q=albany+chinatown&pg=PT246 |title=American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods |date=11 August 2009 |isbn=9781416558361}}</ref> [[Chinatown, Las Vegas|Las Vegas]], [[DFW Chinatown, Richardson|Dallas-Richardson]], and [[Chinatown, North Miami Beach|North Miami Beach, Florida]] referenced as similar examples, with regard to the quality of Chinese food.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Menuism/best-chinese-restaurants_b_2194073.html|title=The Best Chinese Probably Isn't In Chinatown | work=Huffington Post | date=4 December 2012}}</ref>  There is an annual [[Chinese New Year]] event that is held to celebrate the festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.teachchinesega.com/2013/02/08/chinese-new-year-celebration-at-atlanta-chinatown-2013/|title=Chinese New Year Celebration at Atlanta Chinatown 2013|access-date=2015-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427035028/http://www.teachchinesega.com/2013/02/08/chinese-new-year-celebration-at-atlanta-chinatown-2013/|archive-date=2014-04-27|url-status=dead}}</ref> The author further states that Atlanta's Chinatown is "...&nbsp;unlike many older cities" which exists in an urban setting. Atlanta's Chinatown according to her is "...&nbsp;in a strip mall" setting.<ref>{{cite book|title=[[The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food]]|last=Lee|first=Jennifer 8.|author-link=Jennifer 8. Lee|date=3 March 2008|page=[[Google Books]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=wn7lo5iQHyMC&q=Atlanta+Chinatown&pg=PT134 PT134]|isbn=9780446511704}}</ref>  Bonnie Tsui further states in her book that the new Chinatowns rely on the Chinatown being built before the Chinese population comes, as she quoted about Las Vegas' Chinatown.<ref name="tsui" />

The Atlanta Chinatown market opened on August 8, 1988, and was further expanded in 1996 with an influx of new immigrants from [[Beijing]].  
<ref>{{cite web |title=洋經理和她的中國城 |trans-title=Yang manager and her Chinatown |url=http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_news/21994968/article-%E6%B4%8B%E7%B6%93%E7%90%86%E5%92%8C%E5%A5%B9%E7%9A%84%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E5%9F%8E?instance=news_pics |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410091618/http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_news/21994968/article-%E6%B4%8B%E7%B6%93%E7%90%86%E5%92%8C%E5%A5%B9%E7%9A%84%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E5%9F%8E?instance=news_pics |archive-date=2013-04-10 |access-date=2015-06-05 |language=zh}}</ref>  According to the previous source, Atlanta's Chinatown has bakeries, restaurants, cosmetics, bookstores, a newspaper office, and many other Chinese-oriented stores.

According to Biz Journal, Atlanta Chinatown was completely redone in the year 2000 by developer Peter Chang, who purchased the old "Chinatown Square Mall". The plans call for "...the 65,000-square-foot mall [to include] a Chinese food court which contains 7 vendors, two dine-in restaurants, several offices, a supermarket, gift shops, a bookstore, jewelers, a video rental store, a beauty salon and other retailers. It will be part of the International Village project, a 375-acre live and work community with a global theme that is being developed by local business leaders, the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce, DeKalb County and the city of Chamblee."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2000/01/17/story8.html?page=all|title=New look for Chinatown}}</ref> According to this article, the plans are to make Atlanta Chinatown a tourist destination rather than it just being another shopping mall.