The Buckhead Community Improvement District (BCID) received a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation through the Safe Streets for All program to help complete a $40 million project to make Lenox Road from the Lenox MARTA station to Piedmont Road more friendly to pedestrians.
The Lenox Road Complete Safe Street Section III is an effort to improve connectivity and safety for pedestrians and cyclists by adding a shared-use bridge along the south side of Lenox Road across the GA 400 intersection. This bridge will connect to PATH400 and serve as a gateway to the planned highway-capping park, HUB404.
“The Safe Streets and Roads for All funding is essential to help us transform this section of Lenox Road and provide safe, easy access for pedestrians and cyclists to reach the Buckhead and Lenox MARTA stations and many other locations in the Buckhead core,” said Jim Durrett, former executive director of BCID and president of the Buckhead Coalition.
BCID is working with the City of Atlanta and the Georgia Department of Transportation to construct the 0.62-mile shared-use path. The engineering design for Section III is expected to be completed by August 2025, and construction will start following the public bidding process in October 2025. BCID and GDOT anticipate the project will be completed by January 2028.
Section I of the project features an urban linear park dubbed Lenox Boardwalk, and Section II will enhance pedestrian infrastructure and safety between Peachtree Rd. and Phipps Blvd. The plan came from the 2017 Buckhead Redefined master plan, and all three sections are currently in progress.
In conjunction with the announcement about the Safe Streets grant funding, Durrett asked Buckhead supporters to donate to the HUB404 Conservancy, the organization established in 2020 to collect charitable donations to the park project.
“A significant gathering place for the community to come together is necessary for the continued vibrancy, even viability, of Buckhead as an important activity center in a growing Atlanta,” he said in an email.
The BCID is beginning the process next week of selecting architecture and engineering teams to take the HUB404 Concept Plan through the pre-design phase.
“And we are actively working on another exciting element to make this park a reality sooner than we believed possible,” Durrett said.
Editor’s Note: A previous version incorrectly stated Durrett had stepped down. This error has been corrected.
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