Atlanta Downtown Improvement District

ATL’s Parking Score metric lands near bottom of major U.S. cities analyzed

Officials: Highway-capping park project has tallied $42M; public visioning session planned soon

Funding from Eastside TAD would go toward "preliminary engineering activities"

Atlanta mayor to Washington, D.C. congregation: "Now is the time for change”

Project meant to weave Connector-divided downtown back together lands one of first Reconnecting Communities program grants

New Stitch info source provides cost updates, breakdown of park sections, history

But $1.2M is drop in the bucket for greenspace project described as transformative

But Central Atlanta Progress estimates the highway-capping park wouldn't be complete for a decade—at the earliest

With World Cup on horizon, encouraging signs for Atlanta's "front yard"—including federal funding—abound. But is it too ambitious?

Broad Street urbanism project had been fenced-off and worn out

Plans between Memorial Drive, Peachtree Street call for "safer, more multimodal street for all users"

As with the BeltLine's Southside Trail, U.S. DOT grant will aim to help fuse neighborhoods back together