The Atlanta City Council on Monday elected to extend a freeze on building permits in the areas around the Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry.
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Affordable housing was already in jeopardy at Westside site before Microsoft’s purchase
Back in February, the firm plotting the redevelopment of a nearly 70-acre swath of land neighboring the Westside’s Bellwood Quarry suddenly stopped discussing plans for affordable housing with the City of Atlanta.
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Tomorrow, on the Atlanta BeltLine: Westside’s Emerald Gem
By Guest Columnist SUNDIATA RUSH, a volunteer with the Atlanta BeltLine
Grandeur. Cambridge defines it as: the quality of being very large and special and beautiful. And a Google search of the term yields over 88 million hits. But you don’t have to look far and wide for it in Atlanta. Just visit the sprawling new greenspace on the Westside and ascend the winding slope just off the central meadow. The magnificence will smack you in the face.
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Could Microsoft development spell trouble for Westside affordability?
The much-anticipated Quarry Yards mixed-use development slated for Atlanta’s Westside appears to be kaput, complicating already intense concerns about the future of affordable living in the area.
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Blank Foundation gives BeltLine largest gift ever for Bellwood Quarry park
The Atlanta BeltLine and the proposed Westside Park at the Bellwood Quarry received major boosts Tuesday morning with the announcement that the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation has awarded a $17.5 million grant for the project.
The Blank grant will accelerate the development of parks and trails along the 22-mile circular corridor – especially on the Westside.
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Atlanta’s new parks commissioner coming with credentials
The City of Atlanta has named a new commissioner of parks and recreation: John Dargle Jr., who has extensive experience running departments of parks and recreation throughout the country.
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Can a BeltLine park provide recreation on, beside, a drinking water reservoir?
By Guest Columnist MARK PENDERGRAST, an Atlanta native and author of ‘City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America’s Urban Future.’
Does Atlanta have the creative capacity and vision to develop the Westside Park as a true community asset? Will the new lake there be its beloved recreational center? The park is literally the biggest promise of the Atlanta BeltLine.
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Atlanta’s (nominated) watershed commissioner helps celebrate progress at Bellwood Quarry
Kishia L. Powell doesn’t officially have the job as Atlanta’s watershed commissioner, but she’s hit the ground running and on Wednesday is to join Mayor Kasim Reed in celebrating a milestone in developing a reservoir at the old Bellwood Quarry.
