All hail Old Fourth Ward, your 2024 tournament champion!

Josh Green

Thu, 01/02/2025 – 14:23

After two weeks of spirited competitions, the Best Atlanta Neighborhood 2024 tournament has come to a close, and Old Fourth Ward has officially triumphed as this year’s victor!

Nearly 4,500 votes came in across all contests in the 16-seed tourney. That goes to show how Atlanta is truly a patchwork of wonderful neighborhoods and ITP places, a city brimming with neighborhood pride.

In taking the 2024 crown, Old Fourth Ward is only the second Atlanta neighborhood to become a REPEAT champ in this hallowed, criteria-free competition, following West End’s triumphs in both 2015 and 2017.

Here’s a quick recap of Old Fourth Ward’s difficult path to glory in this year’s competition:

Round 1: Escorted Adair Park to the door

Elite Eight: Edged Summerhill

Final Four: Soundly defeated neighboring Inman Park

Championship: Bumped out EAV

As usual, Beltline-connected O4W’s happenings this year were numerous. Two high-rise hospitality concepts—New City’s diamond-patterned Forth hotel and the Scout Living tower over Ponce City Market—opened in 2024, as rare for-sale condos debuted nearby at The Leon on Ponce. Elsewhere on Ponce, a Complete Streets overhaul came together as an effort to improve pedestrian and bike connections between Boulevard and John Lewis Freedom Parkway. Meanwhile, the Atlanta Civic Center redo edged toward groundbreaking, and the relatively affordable evolution of Boulevard continued to rise—to name just a few highlights of another busy year in this booming intown nabe.

Throughout the end of 2024 and now 2025, Old Fourth Ward proved itself exceptionally proud and capable of rallying support.

Here’s permission to keep on bragging, O4W, all year long!

The Golden Urby Chalice of Champions 2024.