Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottom and Atlanta BeltLine Inc. have negotiated nearly $12 million to be allocated for affordable housing in 2020. Most of the money is reserved for land acquisition to ameliorate costly market-rate prices.
A small but important stretch of path of the Atlanta BeltLine connecting Edgewood and DeKalb avenues—where Old Fourth Ward meets Inman Park—is officially open. Take a look at the photos from its opening day.
A coalition of public and private organizations behind this challenge are seeking to identify AgTech solutions that position food as a platform for health, economic development and cultural expression, creating benefits for all—particularly low-income residents and families.
The Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry will be Atlanta’s largest green space—spanning 280 acres—as well as home to a two billion-gallon reservoir of emergency water for the city.
The Atlanta BeltLine’s original master plan outlined ambitions to create 5,600 affordable housing units along the trail over a 25-year period. Brian McGowan, who stepped into the project’s CEO role amid concerns of undelivered affordability promises, wants to increase the promised number of affordable units to 10,000.
Brian McGowan, President and CEO of Atlanta BeltLine Inc., talks transit, housing, foreign investment, and the 22-mile project’s role in fostering inclusion amid Atlanta’s new era of breakneck growth.
There’s growing concern that the construction of light-rail transit along the full Atlanta BeltLine loop may not be moving forward as planned. As MARTA officials work to finalize what they can afford to build with the limited funding available, an advocacy group is mobilizing citizens to demand transit for the BeltLine.
Art on the Atlanta BeltLine is looking for proposals for their 2018 exhibition. Art pieces seek to enhance the visitor’s sense of discovery and adventure through street-style performances, art-making along the trails, interactive art, and works that embody navigating urban space as an experience as well as a place.
Atlanta City Council unanimously approved legislation to require affordable housing for new residential units near the BeltLine and the Westside District.
The Atlanta BeltLine now owns all the property needed to extend the popular Eastside Trail up to the Armour area, a blossoming jobs hub near Lindbergh and Buckhead’s southeastern fringes.
