Westside Provisions District

This guide to Westside Provisions District in Atlanta follows the brick meatpacking plant built in 1910 for the White Provision Company, later joined by Swift and Company, and the still-working rail line that once carried cattle and hogs straight to its doors. It traces the building's long comedown after the killing floors went quiet, from a bonded customs warehouse in 1963 to a U-Haul self storage center and scattered lofts by 1991. You'll hear how two developers rediscovered the site in 1998, drawn by brick walls thick enough to have outlasted every earlier use. Listen for the trains still running beneath the footbridge as you cross.