Affordable housing could be bound for an area near the Atlanta Beltline — and in Buckhead no less.
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Atlanta BeltLine: Equitable development report amid concerns over citizen input
The Atlanta BeltLine’s most dramatic influence on the city’s growth and decline appears in two areas of Northwest Atlanta. Since 2000, population has dropped by 16 percent south of the future Westside Park, and more than doubled west of Atlantic Station, according to an Oct. 14 report on equitable development along the BeltLine.
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New Westside development adds affordable housing amid supportive services
A new residential development planted just blocks from the Atlanta Beltline’s Westside Trail recently began welcoming its first residents, and more are on the way from nonprofit City of Refuge’s philanthropic programs.
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Atlanta’s equitable development: No easy answers, but other cities could light way
As Atlanta struggles with the idea of equitable development in blighted areas, such as along the southern crescent of the Atlanta BeltLine, efforts in Washington, Detroit and Boston present real-time examples.
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Targeted affronts to Atlanta’s lower-income residents spotlighted
Flaunting a more redeeming nickname — “The City Too Busy to Hate” — one might expect more from Atlanta in terms of class parity, as recent news reports have underscored a trend of seemingly targeted discrimination among folks living in the city’s margins.
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Atlanta BeltLine Partnership to hire consultant to nurture businesses along Southside Trail
The Atlanta BeltLine’s fundraising arm intends to hire a consultant to knit together the business community on the southernmost segment of the BeltLine to promote business development and forestall gentrification.
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$900,000 gift paves way for affordable housing in Atlanta’s minority neighborhoods
A nearly $900,000 gift to the Atlanta Land Trust (ALT) is expected to help produce up to 50 new permanently affordable housing units in the city’s “black and brown neighborhoods,” according to a press release from the organization.
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Atlanta BeltLine passes milestone that marks ingenuity of funding, engineering
The Atlanta BeltLine is passing an historic milestone. This one has not been celebrated with a party – though in May it won national acclaim.
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Construction barriers outside Beltline’s Southside Trail surprise motorist, causing pastor to crash
Virtually camouflaged by the shadows of trees hanging overhead, concrete barriers on United Avenue, near the Beltline’s interim Southside Trail, seemed to appear out of nowhere, a witness told SaportaReport after he watched a local pastor smash his car into the barricade.
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WRS’ Scott Smith urges Invest Atlanta, ABI to reconsider Murphy Crossing deal
T. Scott Smith, CEO of WRS Realty, said in a telephone interview Friday morning that Invest Atlanta and Atlanta BeltLine Inc. need to revive Place Properties’ proposed Murphy Crossing development.
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WRS not part of Murphy Crossing development team for months
South Carolina developer WRS Realty had not been part of the Murphy Crossing development team since Christmas.
Cecil Phillips, the CEO of Place Properties, said Thursday that T. Scott Smith, CEO of WRS, had stepped back from the project last December.
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Atlanta BeltLine and Invest Atlanta cancel $200 million plan for Murphy Crossing
It’s back to square one for Murphy Crossing.
The Atlanta BeltLine Inc. has terminated a memo of understanding that it had with the development team that had proposed investing $200 million to transform a 20-acre site on the southern part of the BeltLine.
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TAD funding for affordable housing near Beltline could get a boost
Atlanta’s economic development agency, Invest Atlanta, could be directing more funding for affordable housing along the Beltline during the next fiscal year.
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Five outdoors projects in metro Atlanta tentatively win $9.5 million in state funding
Five projects to improve access to the great outdoors in metro Atlanta are to share in up to $20 million in funding the state has tentatively awarded to conservation and outdoor recreation projects.
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A matter of trust, equity: ARC weighs fate of Atlanta BeltLine rail as deadline looms
By Guest Columnist FRED O. SMITH JR., a founding member of BeltLine Rail Now
Trust is a strange thing. It is easy to lose. And once lost, it is difficult to regain. When it comes to transit in this city, an imminent decision by the Atlanta Regional Commission and MARTA officials will help determine whether they retain the citizens’ trust, or squander it. If it is squandered, this could negatively impact transportation in this city for generations. The draft of the 2020 Atlanta Region’s Plan Regional Transportation Plan is in its final public comment phase at the Atlanta Regional Commission, and it will not be revised again for another four years.
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East Side Trolley Greenway, Highland Avenue pedestrian remake move to land acquisition phase
Land acquisition is about to begin in and southeast of Inman Park for two awaited projects – the pedestrian corridor along Highland Avenue, near Inman Park Village, and the East Side Trolley Greenway project that’s to stretch from the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail and connect with an existing PATH trail near Coan Park.
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Park to park: Connecting Atlanta communities with a future-proof streetcar
By Guest Columnist HOWARD S. WERTHEIMER, executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Piedmont Park Conservancy.
A number of years ago, when I was leading the Office of Capital Planning and Space Management at Georgia Tech, at a time when the City of Atlanta was deep into the throngs about building a new streetcar system, many people questioned the merits of making such a significant financial investment into a transit modality with limited flexibility. … It was more than obvious to many thought leaders that we should not invest in 19th century technologies….
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Beltline CEO: “Missing middle jobs” key to fostering equitable growth, affordability
Beltline CEO Clyde Higgs said boosting the amount of missing middle jobs is crucial for fostering equity and sustainable affordability along the popular multi-use trail.
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Sandy Springs adopts trail system longer than BeltLine, seeks to hasten construction
Sandy Springs has adopted a master plan for a trail system that sets the city on course to build a trail network nearly 10 miles longer than the Atlanta BeltLine. The first 7-mile phase is to be built within a decade – sooner if money can be provided.
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Almost 1,000 units are in the Beltline’s affordable housing pipeline. Here’s where.
The Atlanta Beltline has miles to go, in terms of fulfilling its goal of producing and preserving 5,600 units of affordable housing along the popular multi-use trail.
