Locksmith Services in Atlanta, GA

Homes and locks in Atlanta

• Inman Park was planned in the late 1880s by Joel Hurt as Atlanta's first streetcar suburb. Because it filled in over decades, its housing runs from small mill-town shotguns to the Victorian mansions of the original plan, mixed with bungalows from the first three decades of the 1900s. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and became a City of Atlanta historic district in 2002.
• Collier Heights began in 1948 and grew to about 1,750 homes, mostly brick ranch houses from the 1950s and 1960s, built by African American planners for Atlanta's growing Black middle class. It became a City of Atlanta historic district in 2013.
• Buckhead has more than 50 high-rise buildings, almost a third of the city's total, concentrated along the Peachtree Road corridor. Much of west and north Buckhead is still single-family homes in wooded settings.
• Castleberry Hill, in the southwest part of Downtown, was a 19th-century district of cotton warehouses and grocers. Loft conversions began in the 1980s and now make up most of its housing. It became a City of Atlanta Landmark District in 2006.

What that means at the door:

• Inman Park, Collier Heights and Castleberry Hill are designated by the city's Urban Design Commission, so ask its staff before replacing an original door or its exterior hardware. Lock rekeying changes the key inside the existing cylinder, so the face of the door stays as it is.
• If a ranch house has separate locks on the front, side and back doors, rekeying them to one key (when they share a keyway) leaves one key to track instead of three.
• In a Buckhead tower or Castleberry Hill loft building, if management controls the lobby, garage and elevator access, fobs and access cards come from management; the lock on your own unit door is locksmith work.

Businesses and buildings

Buckhead's shopping district, around the intersections of Lenox, Peachtree and Piedmont roads, holds more than 1,500 retail units. Lenox Square opened there in 1959, and office development followed with Tower Place in 1974. Mall and office tenants should check the lease before changing the lock on their own space.

Downtown, Peachtree Center took shape in the early 1970s as a district of convention hotels, shopping galleries and office buildings, most of them designed by John Portman. Enclosed sky bridges link its buildings above the street, so when asking about commercial locksmith work there, list street-level doors and any door onto a bridge corridor.

Car trouble in Atlanta

At MARTA station parking lots, drivers get a ticket from a dispenser on the way in, carry it on their trip and present it at a ticket machine on the way out. After 14 hours, MARTA charges long-term rates at nine stations, including Lenox and Lindbergh, and it charges for partial days.

• If a lockout or lost key keeps your car parked past 14 hours, long-term charges can apply before the car leaves.
• If the parking ticket is locked inside the car, say so in your car lockout request. If the key itself is gone, ask about car key replacement or, for a remote or push-button key, key fob programming.

Requesting service in Atlanta

Georgia Locksmith Pros takes service requests from homes, businesses and drivers in Atlanta. Give the neighborhood and cross streets, the building type (house, loft or condo building, office tower) and who controls the outer doors. For a car, name the MARTA station, garage or deck and the level. See residential locksmith services or the Georgia page.