Rollins Airport

Urban expansion and increased land value. The airport was located in what is now the heart of Atlanta's affluent Buckhead district. As the city grew, the land became exceptionally valuable for commercial and high-density residential real estate, making its use as a private airstrip unsustainable.

The site of the former airport has been completely redeveloped and is unrecognizable as an airfield. It is now part of the dense urban core of Buckhead, one of Atlanta's primary business and financial districts. The land is occupied by luxury high-rise condominiums like Park Place on Peachtree, office towers, upscale hotels, and retail centers. There are no physical remnants of the runway or any associated airport structures.

Rollins Airport was a private airfield owned by the influential businessman O. Wayne Rollins, founder of Rollins, Inc. (the parent company of Orkin Pest Control). The airport, located behind his family estate in the Tuxedo Park neighborhood, featured a single unpaved runway approximately 2,500 feet long. It was used by the Rollins family and their associates for private travel, serving their personal and business needs with general aviation aircraft. It represented the kind of private infrastructure maintained by wealthy industrialists in the mid-20th century before the area became the dense urban center it is today.

Zero. The prospect of reopening an airport at this location is nonexistent. The site is situated in one of the most densely populated and highest-value real estate markets in the southeastern United States. Reacquiring the land and clearing the existing skyscrapers and infrastructure to rebuild an airport is physically, financially, and logistically impossible.