Westside Design District

 1837 
• Western and Atlantic Railway Lines are chartered, making Atlanta and the Westside an industrial hub

 1864 
• Sherman’s troops march up the present-day Marietta Street corridor

 1881
• Miller Union Stockyards are founded by Capt. John Miller

 1902 
• King Plow Company opens on the site of what now is the King Plow Arts Center; operates until 1986

 1906 
• First listing of White Provision Company, founded by William H. White, appears in Atlanta city directory

1908
• Southeastern Meat Company, used primarily as a butcher shop until the 1980s, is built as part of the Miller Union Stockyards

 1910
• Small building is constructed at the Miller Union Stockyards to house White Provision Company, the South’s first modern meatpacking facility
 
 1917 
• The United Butchers Abattoir building, Atlanta’s second meatpacking plant, is established across the railroad tracks from White Provision

 1922-1924 
• Additions are made to the White Provision plant, resulting in the building’s current footprint

 1925 
• A city map is drawn up, including Sunset Heights subdivision—an African-American neighborhood on the Westside—and Blandtown; residents work at nearby King Plow and White Provision, as well as the Murray Company, Exposition Mills and Atlantic Steel

 1935 
• Swift & Company, the nation’s largest meatpacking company, purchases the White Provision building and adds a storefront facing Howell Mill Road

 1948 
• Developer L.E. Heiman and son, L.M. Heiman, open Star Provision Company in the former United Butchers Abattoir building, creating a new façade; the structure cost $200,000, what a small bungalow in the area goes for today

 1960s and 1970s 
• Westside falls into decline

 1963 
• Beazley Corporation purchases the White Provision building and its 8.3 acres of land for $250,000 and uses it as warehouse

 1971-1998 
• The Star Provision building is purchased by Stoval Lawn Mower Sales and Repair
 
 Early 1980s 
• Owners of the White Provision building try to sell it for $400,000 to pay estate taxes; no bidders until 1991
 
 1990 
• Plans begin to transform a historic factory on West Marietta Street into the King Plow Arts Center, lauded for its reuse and for becoming an arts community and center for the visual, performing and commercial arts
 
 1991 
• Bill Smith purchases the White Provision building for $950,000 and turns half of the space into live/work lofts; residents and tenants include musicians and designers such as Nicholas Storck Design Studios
 
 Early 1990s 
• The movie “Kalifornia,” starring Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis, is filmed on the Westside

 1998 
• Tucker Mott redevelops the former Star Provision building and neighboring structures into the Westside Urban Market, a mecca for home furnishings, food and fashion
 
 1998 
• Richard Martin and George Rohrig purchase Southeastern Meat property, fueling development of the Midtown West District
 
 2004 
• Weaver & Woodberry Company and Tucker Mott begin assembling properties at 14th Street and Howell Mill, creating a new White Provision development with residences, boutiques, design showrooms, art galleries and restaurants
 
 2006 
• The first phase of The Brickworks opens in Midtown West; the name is derived from the Palmer Brick Company, which manufactured bricks there at turn of the century

 2009 
• The first of 94 units in the White Provision Residences opens
• Westside becomes home to more than 50 shops and 25 restaurants
• Nine art galleries in the Westside Arts District participate in art walks on the third Saturday of every month
• Midtown West comprises 16 buildings on 17 acres, boasting 40 stores, restaurants, art galleries and businesses