Community Corner
What Should Go Here: Avondale Villa Apartments
This apartment complex is boarded up and surrounded by a fence.
You may have overlooked this shuttered apartment complex.
A thick cover of trees blocks the view of Avondale Villa Apartments at 2860 Villa Circle, off Forrest Boulevard and just outside the Avondale Estates city limits.
It's close to and .
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A fence encircles the apartment complex property and all the buildings are boarded up. A commercial real estate website says the complex has 40 units in 10 buildings, all built around 1958.
Nobody has lived there in several years.
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What would you like to see on this property? Remember, it doesn't have to be multi-family housing. Can you think of something Avondale Estates needs that might fit on this property?
About this column: Every week or so, we'll post a picture of a vacant store or lot in Decatur and Avondale Estates. You can tell us what you think should replace the empty space. Know of an empty building we should highlight? E-mail ralph.ellis@patch.com.
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