Inside the Emory Village

Our Story
In 1999 - concerned over the declining state of Emory Village - a small group of Druid Hills Civic Association (DHCA) members, neighbors, Emory Village businesses/property owners and representatives from Emory University formed a steering committee. Its sole purpose was to develop ideas to improve the Village's future.
Today that committee has become a unique alliance representing these different stakeholders. Beginning with a series of community input sessions, we asked for wide-ranging recommendations, refined them, and made initial recommendations to implement them.
In 2001, AIEV became a non-profit organization, and was fortunate to receive expertise in urban design funded by Emory, DeKalb County and nominal seed money from DHCA.