Whether Atlanta's third dog park will spur an actual renaissance at Renaissance Park remains to be seen, but Atlanta magazine recounts the significant strides the Old Fourth Ward greenspace has already made. Instead of frolicking canines, the wooded plot played host to used syringes, human waste, empty baggies for crack cocaine and shady characters, their wrists in plastic zip-tie cuffs, awaiting the APD paddy wagon. [Atlanta]
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