Tag: real estate

This nearly 12,000-square-foot Mediterranean mansion once belonged to the Hawks’ Steve Smith and to the Braves’ Reggie Sanders.

One of Atlanta’s few authentic loft conversions, the penthouse at the former Hastings Seed Company (circa 1913) features more than 2,100 square feet of mostly open space, with richly textured brick walls, twelve-foot ceilings, oversized metal casement windows, and tulip concrete columns.

This approximately 15,000-square-foot Gothic-Tudor mansion, situated on ten acres in Buckhead’s elite Tuxedo Park, was completed in 1934 by Coca-Cola president Samuel Candler Dobbs.

Residents in Atlanta’s Northcrest subdivision can thank Hollywood for the nostalgia associated with sixties neighborhoods such as theirs—which have starred in countless movies and TV series. That interest has spurred home values.

Let me just start at the beginning—or my beginning of it, anyway, since this is not a story about me but more about the illustrious Sandy Hartman and my experience with her. Sandy’s own beginning was in 1949, when she was born to a penniless single mother in a tiny Illinois town.