Atlanta Parks

[Chris Creech]

LOL - notice that of all the high minded talk of the role of parks in stress reduction, cleaning the air, building community, play areas for children, etc. That in Atlanta the push always seems to come when the people in all the highrise condos realize they need somewhere to walk their dog?

[micropundit]

[cybele]

Originally Posted by Chris Creech

LOL - notice that of all the high minded talk of the role of parks in stress reduction, cleaning the air, building community, play areas for children, etc. That in Atlanta the push always seems to come when the people in all the highrise condos realize they need somewhere to walk their dog?

Well a man's dog has got to get out, you can't keep him cooped up in some big condo all the time. A dog would just as soon lay down in a mud puddle as look at you. They won't let him on the bus or probably the beltline, so where is he supposed to go.

[pawelra]

Hey guys, I've found interesting proposal for downtown connector transformation.
I don't know if you seen/heard about this before but I post that anyway.
http://www.atlantadowntown.com/initi...nnector_Vision

And new trail along Georgia 400.
A new trail in Buckhead is going to wind through the woods along Georgia Highway 400 and tie into the BeltLine.
The north end of the trail will be near the Georgia 400 toll plaza.
The Buckhead C.I.D. has already completed a feasibility study of the trail, and is planning to pay for the design and part of the construction costs.
http://www.11alive.com/news/article/...GA-400-planned

It would be nice to see this in progress.

[ATLaffinity]

BTW, there's not a square inch of graffitti in O4W park despite the comments from the peanut gallery (ie Cummings).

There is this though.

[smArTaLlone]

The proposal to transform 16 acres of city-owned, mostly vacant land along Joseph E. Boone Boulevard into Historic Mims Park, a majestic $55 million greenspace celebrating Atlanta's role in civil rights — took a major step yesterday toward becoming a reality.

An Atlanta City Council committee today OK'ed consolidating parcels owned by the city and Invest Atlanta and executing a 50-year lease with the nonprofit organization that wants to build, operate, and maintain the park that would span three city blocks on the edge of Vine City. The proposal now awaits the approval of the full City Council and Mayor Kasim Reed.

The Park is the brainchild of Atlantan Rodney Mims Cook who helped create the Millennium Gate in Atlantic Station. The greenspace Cook's proposing is modeled after the original Olmstead designed Mims Park that once stood in the area but was razed in the 1950s to build a school.

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Creative Loafing

[smArTaLlone]

Lovers of Piedmont Park and followers of the stalled Phase One expansion of Midtown’s favorite green space will be happy to know that park construction has resumed in the northern end of the park near Ansley Mall.

“Phase One expansion continues in Piedmont Park in keeping with a promise of adding an additional 53 acres,” Piedmont Park Conservancy (PPC) President & CEO Yvette Bowden recently told local volunteer leaders at the Neighborhood Planning Unit-E meeting.

Twenty-six acres of the planned expansion were previously activated including the Legacy Fountain and the Promenade, the wetlands, a re-naturalized Clear Creek, basketball courts, bocce courts, the new aquatic center, the Greystone event facility, an expanded dog park and new lawns.

http://midtown.patch.com/articles/ppc-expansion

[smArTaLlone]

http://www.travelandleisure.com/arti...-city-parks/13

The concert lineup here has included Sir Paul McCartney, the Eagles, and the Dave Matthews Band—and those are just the rock legends. Jazz takes over for the annual May festival, and music also plays a part in the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, which celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2011 with more than 70 sets (from a Native American flute performer to a Turkish folk dance group). Groundbreaking on a 53-acre extension started in 2008 and has already produced a bocce court, an aquatic center with lap lanes, and a children’s splashing area.

Coolest Time to Visit: Memorial Day Weekend is the high point of the annual Atlanta Jazz Festival, which has seen legends like Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie perform.

[smArTaLlone]

http://www.11alive.com/news/article/...inal-expansion

[shivtim]

Very thorough article on O4W park:
http://landscapeonline.com/research/article.php/17483