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Category Archives: Development
Your Lights Are On
The hard-working folks on the Beltline started burying the keg-sized bases for lights about a month ago. Carefully digging around all of the beauties planted by Trees Atlanta and having to put up cones to divert the spring-time foot-traffic around … Continue reading
New little Beltline extensions 2019
Complete as of late March from Wylie to Kirkwood Ave. They took a while to get the curb cuts and traffic table in place so this little twenty foot section was fenced up for six months. The section from Kirkwood … Continue reading
Last section of NE Beltline is poured
Between Piedmont Park and the Krog Street tunnel only had one little unfinished part which was waiting on the completion of The Edge condo building. It’s pretty much done now but the segment isn’t officially connected yet although you can … Continue reading
A bill from Olmsted for Druid Hills
The Library of Congress just released a clutch of Olmsted documents and there was a nice little Atlanta bit in there. I hoped for more, but this was nice. LOC link Joel Hurt had begun the buildout of Inman Park … Continue reading
How did Portman do it?
The recent passing of John Portman has led me to a lot of thinking about what parts of Atlanta he saved and what he could be said to have destroyed. Arguably, downtown would have completely turned into cement bunkers, surface … Continue reading
MLK Day 2018
Here’s MLK Sr.’s entry in the 1935 Atlanta City Directory and a shot of the official planning map from the time with a large Ward “4”, the nearby original Morris Brown campus and a little stretch of the future Atlanta … Continue reading
Links for today – transit and Olympics
Nice little write-up from Saporta Report about the state of MARTA train cars: MARTA’s trains are old. They’re to reach their lifespan in 2021. Each vehicle received a mid-life overhaul at some point between 2005 and 2008, a solicitation shows. … Continue reading
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A Brief History of 280 Elizabeth
Ok, it’s real brief right now 😉 This was an old creek bed that ran between N Highland and Lake/Sincair and when it was a giant surface lot for the Mead factory, it flooded the houses to the east frequently. … Continue reading
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19 Hilliard Street
Well, from what I can tell that’s the address. There’s hasn’t been a business there since the 1930’s. I believe it was the the Trio Laundry and later the Tanner Laundry. It’s about 40 feet south of the new streetcar … Continue reading
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Midtown from on high
View from the patio at 999 Peachtree at the beginning of March 2012 Here’s a shot from two weeks later
Posted in Development, Midtown
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