Will Rogers pens a piece for Huff Post on balancing preservation and change, citing the story of the MLK National Historic Site in Atlanta, where another piece of the civil rights leader’s childhood street has been preserved. Rogers was in Atlanta recently to celebrate the event: As a group of us stood watching children jumping [...]
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This month’s issue of Next American City has a great article on Atlanta’s Beltline project, a 22-mile loop of parks, trails, transit and medium-density, mixed-use development encircling Atlanta’s urban core. Usual write-ups about the Beltline talk of the transformation potential of the parks, transit and trails of the project. This one goes a bit deeper [...]
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Another interesting development from the Nov. 4th election was passage of a constitutional amendment in Georgia allowing more money for Tax Allocation Districts, a form of tax increment financing. The amendment came about after Atlanta’s Beltline parks, trail and transit project was set to use the tool. Says the Atlanta Journal Constitution: TADs encourage development [...]
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Progress is being made on Atlanta’s face-changing Beltline project, as a two-mile segment of trail recently opened, and groundbreaking just occurred on the project’s first new park. We’ll be posting on the Beltline’s progess and different aspects of what it is all about — trails, parks, economic development and transit. But today, we’d like to [...]
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