This new park is going to have a little bit of everything!

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — The demolition of an old building is paving the way for the first park of its kind in Georgia.

Channel 2's Sophia Choi was on Skyland Drive in DeKalb County where an old State Vital Records Office is being demolished.

The office location used to be an elementary school on about four acres of land, but will soon become the new Skyland Park.

Brookhaven’s Mayor John Earnst took the first bite out of the now-vacant building with a big excavator Monday.

When the city swapped land with DeKalb County Schools, Brookhaven took over the property.

DeKalb County Schools got the current Skyland Park’s land in exchange, and the district plans to build the first school in the nation named after civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis on the property they received.

“We think that this will reflect everything that’s great about John Lewis. The diversity of the community which we live in, the forthright thinking about how our community works together,” Marshall Orson with DeKalb County Schools told Choi.

The new John Lewis Elementary School will be built right next to the new Skyland Park, which county leaders said will ultimately save taxpayers money.

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Orson said, “there are things like not duplicating the parking, which will save money, but also save greenspace that can’t happen if local governments aren’t working together.”

The greenspace will have two dog parks, a couple of sand volleyball courts, two picnic shelters, a large open space field and several unique features, including an electric car charging station, and special areas with solar charging stations.

“People can charge their iPads, iPhones and stuff while they’re walking the dog or watching their friends play sand volleyball,” Earnst told Choi.

Crews will spend the next few weeks getting asbestos out of the old records building, before the real demolition starts.

The new park will cost Brookhaven just over $3 million to build and DeKalb schools will spend ten times as much -- $30 million -- for the new school.

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