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How This $4.8 Billion Walkway Is Redefining Atlanta
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:06 am
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:06 am
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The metro Atlanta region emerged as a national economic bright spot in recent decades. Population growth has boomed in Atlanta's sprawling suburbs, fueling concerns over equity. The current vanguard of groups in the city are attempting to build with density while preserving affordable housing. Local planners believe that the BeltLine, a 22-mile-long pedestrian path, will reconnect communities and provide a bridge to the city's future.
Financial and tech firms continue to flock toward metro Atlanta. This builds on the city’s strong logistics, entertainment and film, and health services industries.
Demand for quality housing in the region has become fierce, particularly in the city center.
“Atlanta is becoming a wider city,” said Nathaniel Smith, founder and chief equity officer at the Partnership for Southern Equity. “Now, whether we’ll be able to kind of balance that out and ensure that, you know, black folks don’t get pushed out ... I’m not sure.”
In September 2022, the median home in the city of Atlanta was valued at about $400,000, according to Zillow’s Home Values Index. That price would be out of reach for the typical household in the city of Atlanta, which made about $64,179 annually in recent years. Rents also have ticked above the national median.
Some Atlanta locals believe ambitious urban redevelopment projects, such as the BeltLine, have contributed to fast-rising prices in the area.
The BeltLine is a 22-mile loop of walking and cycling trails built largely on abandoned rail lines and developed as a public-private partnership.
It was intended to connect different neighborhoods in the city with each other and to create, along the path, walkable communities where residents could access a variety of services without needing a car.
“We’ve put about $700 million into the BeltLine to date,” said Atlanta BeltLine Inc. CEO Clyde Higgs. “What we’ve seen is roughly an $8 billion private investment that has followed the BeltLine. That has caused a number of good things and also a number of pressures within the city of Atlanta.”
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Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:09 am to rickgrimes
Beltline is pretty awesome. Something that New orleans could never ever have in their stupid shitty city (I just know new Orleans fans will come into this thread and talk about how shitty Atlanta is - like they do with every single thing posted about Atlanta on this website)
This post was edited on 11/30/22 at 11:18 am
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:11 am to rickgrimes
cool idea, but they need to figure out a way to make it 26.2 miles long.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:11 am to rickgrimes
Because a 22 mile walkway is how communities connect....from 22 miles apart.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:14 am to rickgrimes
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public-private partnership.
These always work out so well for the taxpayers.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:21 am to rickgrimes
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“Atlanta is becoming a wider city
Sure doesn’t seem that way
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:28 am to rickgrimes
Just looking at the Founders, CEO's, and Chief Equity Officers of the "private" organizations involved with this, I can see tons of fraud and pockets getting padded.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:32 am to rickgrimes
People need to understand politics. The only reason Atlanta is Atlanta and Houston is Houston, etc… is because they all have had Presidents in the White House. If anyone from Louisiana ever made it to the White House then New Orleans would have a boom for 30 years plus. That’s how it works. Long term funding and business is set up by the powers at be. Before LBJ and Bush and Carter those cities were lesser than New Orleans. This is fact.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:32 am to rickgrimes
At some point the Beltline will connect with the Silver Comet Trail and it will run all the way to the Alabama state line.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:34 am to rickgrimes
The main point to this is to keep black folks from getting pushed out?
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:43 am to rickgrimes
Greenville, SC has a similar greenway that has encouraged new/redevelopment all the way to another town, Travelers Rest (a bedroom community 10 miles away). It’s nice to have this amenity.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:44 am to rickgrimes
Posted on 11/30/22 at 12:00 pm to rickgrimes
Exercising is for libtards and homos. They could've used that space to add another lane to a highway
Posted on 11/30/22 at 12:03 pm to rickgrimes
If they tried that here people would biatch and politicians would balk.
Progressive thinking (Kip's loop and downtown park) isn't appreciated around here.
Little things to make the city better fail.
The city even put out trash cans downtown to help with litter, but folks would rather throw trash down where they stand.
Progressive thinking (Kip's loop and downtown park) isn't appreciated around here.
Little things to make the city better fail.
The city even put out trash cans downtown to help with litter, but folks would rather throw trash down where they stand.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 12:09 pm to rickgrimes
Video shows unintended consequences also. Instead of bringing people together, it just increased rents along the BeltLine.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 12:48 pm to rickgrimes
If you've seen the Katy trail in TX or the Highline in Manhattan, you see what they are trying to emulate. But Katy, TX and the Upper West Side ain't downtown ATL.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 12:53 pm to rickgrimes
I'm still trying to wrap my mind about a $4.8 BILLION project.
22 miles = 116,160 feet (5280*22)
$4,800,000,000 / 116,160 = $41,322.31
So, it cost over $41K per FOOT? Did they at least give the City taxpayers a reach around?
22 miles = 116,160 feet (5280*22)
$4,800,000,000 / 116,160 = $41,322.31
So, it cost over $41K per FOOT? Did they at least give the City taxpayers a reach around?
Posted on 11/30/22 at 1:51 pm to rickgrimes
Looks like a place where cyclists ride, hoping they can yell at walkers that it’s legal for them to be there while also yelling at people on e-bikes who legally use the pathway.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 2:13 pm to rickgrimes
If it’s not The Line in Saudi Arabia, I don’t want to hear about it.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 3:45 pm to rickgrimes
That is one seriously expensive rape trail.
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