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Buckhead is a community within the city of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Comprising over 100,000 residents and approximately the northern one-fifth of the city, Buckhead is legally defined as that portion of the city of Atlanta northwest of I-85 and northeast of I-75. Thus, the boundaries are the city limits on the north, northeast, and northwest, and the interstates on the southeast and southwest. Local advertisers stretch the definition, sometimes including places in northerwestern DeKalb County.

History & Economy

Buckhead acquired its name from a long-gone local tavern that prominently displayed a large stuffed buck's head. The community was annexed by Atlanta in 1952, following an earlier attempt by Mayor William B. Hartsfield in 1946 that was voted down by residents.

The main north-south street is Peachtree Road, which extends south into the heart of the city as Peachtree Street. This name change is significant in that it defines a border between Buckhead and Midtown Atlanta. The main east-west street is West Paces Ferry Road, named for a former ferry across the Chattahoochee River. Hardy Pace, one of Atlanta's founders, operated the ferry and owned much of what is now Buckhead, and as far west as Vinings. The area north of Buckhead, beyond the Atlanta city limit, is the city of Sandy Springs.

Buckhead has many attributes of a functioning city, including its central core of high-rise office and residential condo buildings, mainly along the Peachtree corridor, surrounded by heavily-wooded single-family neighborhoods. The central core comprises two main areas: Buckhead Village to the south and the financial/retail district to the north. Buckhead Village is home to several high-rise residential buildings as well as the majority of Buckhead's nightlife. The financial/retail district contains many high-rise office and condo towers and dense retail developments, including Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza regional malls.

Buckhead is one of Atlanta's most important business districts, and includes Atlanta's wealthiest neighborhoods as well as the Georgia Governor's Mansion, a part-time residence of Elton John, and the Atlanta History Center museum and library. Buckhead was also the home of golf legend Bobby Jones until his death in 1971. Although there are some moderately-priced homes in the area, the price of most homes and condos starts at around $500,000 and extends well beyond $10,000,000. Buckhead also helps to cement Atlanta's reputation as the "Shopping Mecca of the Southeast" with more than 1,400 retail units where shoppers spend in excess of $1 billion a year. The primary shopping district comprises Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza. Located diagonally across Peachtree Road from each other, these sister malls together feature more than 350 boutiques and offer the highest concentration of high-end stores in the United States.

The area has numerous luxury hotels, including an InterContinental, a Grand Hyatt, a JW Marriott, and a Ritz-Carlton. The area also includes more modest lodgings, as well as many restaurants, bars, and nightclubs. Buckhead is home to two of the nation's fourteen Mobil five-star restaurants — Seeger's and The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead.[5] Publications have referred to Buckhead as the "Beverly Hills of the South," and Robb Report magazine has consistently ranked it one of the nation's "10 Top Affluent Communities" for "some of the most beautiful mansions, best shopping and finest restaurants in the southeastern United States."

To reverse a downturn in the Village area during the 1980s, minimum parking spot requirements for bars were lifted, which quickly led to it becoming the most dense concentration of bars and clubs in the city. The Buckhead Coalition was instrumental in persuading the Atlanta City Council to pass an ordinance to close bars at 2:30 a.m. rather than 4 a.m., and liquor licenses were made more difficult to obtain. Ben Carter, an Atlanta based developer, assembled 7 acres comprised of a large number of the properties in the East Buckhead Village bordering Peachtree Street for his Streets of Buckhead development, a collection of upscale hotels, restaurants, retail boutiques and office space. Grand opening is scheduled for Fall 2009. Buckhead maintains its title as Atlanta's entertainment district, with more than 100 restaurants, bars and night clubs still in operation.

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