 Until 1982 approximately thirty families lived here on by lots, until the land was acquired to build the rapid transit station.“In those days, if they wanted your property, they’d condemn it and take it,” says Sam Sawyer, 85, then the pastor of Zion Hill Baptist Church in Johnsontown.Fortunately, T. M. Alexander Jr., a Morehouse College graduate and banker who’d served as the first president of the Atlanta Economic Development Corporation (now Invest Atlanta), volunteered his expertise in helping landowners negotiate settlements many times larger than their original offers.