Atlanta’s long-standing apartments, famed for the “Atlanta’s Population Now” sign facing Peachtree Street have changed hands yet again — and soon it will join the city’s ranks of affordable housing units.
The Darlington apartments were first built in 1951 as some of the city’s first post-World War II working-class housing, but it gained additional popularity in 1965 when then-billboard mogul Ted Turner erected an “Atlanta’s Population Now” sign on the Buckhead street.
Turner later founded CNN, and the population sign became the backdrop for Metro Atlanta’s ever-growing population. Over the years, the property earned a reputation for troubled conditions and several ownership changes before getting an overhaul and rebrand in 2022 as The Lofts at Twenty25…