Atlanta Beltline Headlines

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The BeltLine Project: Connecting Atlanta

Channel 2 WSB-TV brings you a prime time special that digs into the country’s most comprehensive urban renewal project, and how it is already transforming Atlanta. As Georgia makes history, Channel 2 Action News delivers an in-depth report on the many aspects of the Atlanta BeltLine and the Georgia Tech ...

Home Depot Donates Thousands To Atlanta BeltLine

The stretch of the Atlanta BeltLine located behind Ansley Mall is growing because of a generous donation from Home Depot. Volunteers from Atlanta-based Home Depot joined up with BeltLine employees Friday to work on a bridge over a railroad trestle."We've got eight miles of hiking trail that is currently open ...

Atlanta Beltline Could Spur Thousands of New Homes

The Atlanta Beltline is using a community land trust and an affordable housing trust fund that would keep and create more than 5,000 units of affordable housing in the city, Channel 2 Action News has learned.Organizers said it’s an effort to keep residents already living in city limits, and entice ...

Ga Tech Grad Creator Of Atlanta BeltLine

The Atlanta that we know will look, feel and move differently in 25 years because of an idea that Ryan Gravel had right here in the city he is hoping to change."The project was my graduate thesis at Georgia Tech. It all started off as a transit line then after ...

Rendering of the Beltline reservoir park.

Parks And Trails Along The Atlanta BeltLine: Construction Is Under Way

In the shadow of Atlanta's City Hall East, a lot of new construction is under way. What is now a construction site will soon become Fourth Ward Park, one of several new parks being built along the Atlanta BeltLine. Phase one of this park will open later this year; it ...

Atlanta BeltLine Expected To Create 30,000+ Jobs

The Atlanta BeltLine is a 22-mile loop around the city formerly used for freight rail. It is now being transformed into parks, trails and eventually a transit system -- drastically changing the city's infrastructure. With this investment come jobs in construction and in the businesses that are expected to sprout ...

New York Park Is Model For Atlanta Beltline

By the time the Atlanta Beltline project is complete, it will include 1300 acres of park space. Some of those parks are under construction right now. Part of the design team working on them just finished a major successful project in New York City. Channel 2 Action News reporter Jovita ...

Atlanta Beltline Uses Charlotte As Example

The Atlanta Beltline project is competing with several cities for hundreds of millions of dollars in federal transportation money.One of those cities is just north of Atlanta on Interstate 85. Charlotte, N.C., has already spent $450 million on a 9.5-mile stretch of its light rail system. It's now looking to ...

Giant quarry is centerpiece for new park on Atlanta Beltline

Downtown Atlanta can be a noisy place most hours of the day with sirens, car horns and construction. But just a few blocks away from the downtown bustle sits a very quiet place -- the Bellwood Quarry is on approximately 40 acres of land near North Marietta Street in northwest ...

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Atlanta Area Non-Profits Partner For Earth Day Beltline Cleanup

On Sat, April 17, 150 volunteers are expected to lend a hand for Earth Day to pick up trash, tires, debris and remove invasive plants along the BeltLine from Montgomery Ferry Road to Westminster Drive. Volunteers will meet at Ansley Mall at 8:00 am to check in, grab gloves and ...

Earth Day BeltLine Cleanup

Join volunteers on Saturday, April 18 from 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. as we clear the BeltLine of litter and invasive plants from Freedom Parkway to Dekalb Avenue as a step towards creating a useable connection from Inman Park and Old Fourth Ward up to Piedmont Park.Another smaller group will ...

Metro Atlanta Beltline Rail Project Could Veer Off Track

Beltline supporters thought they were on track for what some call the largest urban redevelopment plan in the country, but it doesn’t appear that way anymore.A last-minute move by the Georgia Department of Transportation to take over rail lines in the northeast corner of metro Atlanta could derail the entire ...

Capital 33 Secures Financing for 'Eco-Driven' Apartment Community on Beltline

Capital 33, an Atlanta-based commercial real estate investment and development firm, has secured a joint venture with JP Morgan Chase & Co. for a 325-unit luxury apartment community located next to Glenwood Park in Atlanta along the Beltline corridor.Construction on the five-acre site, which will house 297,600 square feet of ...

Beltline Meetings

BELTLINE MEETINGSMONDAY - Peachtree Branch Library, 1315 Peachtree St.; 6-8 p.m.TUESDAY - East Lake YMCA, 275 East Lake Blvd.; 7-9 p.m.WEDNESDAY - Mozley Park Recreation Center, 1565 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive; 7-9 p.m.THURSDAY - North Avenue Presbyterian Church, 607 Peachtree St.; 7-9 p.m.

Developer Buys Old Sears Building

A development firm says it has placed a $1 million deposit on the purchase of the old Sears building now used as Atlanta's City Hall East and plans to incorporate the property into a $375 million redevelopment project. Ponce Park LLC said yesterday that it also closed on a $6 ...

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