By Guest Columnist HEATHER HUBBLE, ULI Atlanta Advisory Board
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The agency is tight-lipped about plans.
Transit orientation? Jobs? Green buildings? Yes.
RangeWater Development said it’s pricey to redevelop an old battery plant.
Also, tax break approved for site of old cold storage on southside BeltLine.
Plus, how North Georgia’s Goodwill is the best one, and more.
Preliminary OK for property tax breaks worth $11.5 over 10 years to Grant Park, Atlantic Station and Downtown developers.
Right now, the site is a disused state building
Echo Street West would be about 18 acres.
Edgewood Avenue, historic Sweet Auburn’s nightlife epicenter has long played host to lively street parties that promise blaring music, fast cars and, sometimes, violence.
Transit funding is poised to emerge in 2020 as a major discussion in Atlanta, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties. In addition, Atlanta is slated to try again to revamp traffic movement in the central business district, regulate e-scooters and possibly reduce the city speed limit to 25 mph – even as a push for transit on the Atlanta BeltLine remains in the mix.
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.
What could become of Murphy Crossing, the 20-acre Southwest Atlanta property neighboring the Beltline’s Westside Trail, is anyone’s guess. But neighbors of the potential redevelopment site—residents of Oakland City, Adair Park, and Capitol View—want to ensure whatever happens there gels with the surrounding culture and doesn’t spur mass displacement.
By Sean Keenan Just a stone’s throw from the northern reaches of the Beltline’s Westside Trail, a 47-unit affordable housing complex is a just few months from completion. This modest investment won’t fix all the affordability issues in a city oft-considered the U.S. capital of income inequality, but it at least moves the needle in […]
Reuben Brooks, previously a U.S. Department of House and Urban Development leader in the southeast, is joining the BeltLine as COO.
What’s been brewing online and in real life for black Atlanta has finally gone mainstream – Old Atlanta versus New Atlanta.
This debate reached critical mass and mainstream media attention recently thanks to Atlanta influencer Isaac Hayes III.
In 2019, Metro Atlanta is prospering, but that prosperity has come with an increase in inequality for many. Depending on what zip code you are born into, you have a 4.5% chance of escaping poverty, according to the Equality of Opportunity Project.
Even as housing affordability gets a lot of attention, the market forces that have been bearing down on the westside for years already are mighty.
Now MARTA shifts to zooming in on each individual project: turning those thick lines on maps into detailed designs of where exactly to lay a rail, where to build a bus lane, where to set up stations and stops.
The proposed investment priorities of More MARTA in the city of Atlanta feels as though we’re coming up short.In gauging the response of the proposed priorities and timeline of the More MARTA plan, it appears few are satisfied or comfortable with the plan as it stands.
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