Dan Sweat oral history interview, January 22, 1997

Interviewed by Shep Barbash and Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Downtown Atlanta church community; downtown loft housing; Mike Trotter; Central Atlanta Progress; Homeless Task Force; Connie Curry; Joannah Adams of Central Presbyterian Church; Bill Boling; Andrew Young; St. Luke's; Ethel Mae Matthews; Ed Loring; First Baptist Church; Tom Cousins; Anita and Jim Beaty; homeless problem; Sam Williams. Chattahoochee River Corridor Plan; Georgia Law Number 5; Atlanta Regional Commission; development of MARTA; Regional Transportation Plan; Sweat's hopes and fears for Atlanta's future; Atlanta as post-Olympic city; Governor Zell Miller. Advice on running a city: compromise, good communications; Atlanta Regional Commission; Judge Durwood Pye; James Mackay; Frank Carter.