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Piedmont Park plans expansion with new Morningside entrance
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...enox-park.html
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Piedmont Park Conservancy is feeling expansion fever with ambitions stoked by other projects underway in the immediate area.
Led by CEO Doug Widener, the conservancy hopes to purchase nearly 4 acres of land at Monroe Drive and Piedmont Avenue to grow the park’s boundaries. A vision for the corner could arise in an upcoming master plan for the entire park, which will be crafted beginning next year.
The corner eyed for new greenspace is now home to a Shell gas station, restaurant and hookah bar Octopus Kitchen, pizzeria Varuni Napoli, and other businesses. An aging shopping center owned by the City of Atlanta takes up most of the site, located in Morningside/Lenox Park on the edge of Piedmont Heights.
“It’s going to be transformative: a local entry point at the corner, connecting the whole park with the BeltLine and the Botanical Garden expansion,” said Widener, who stepped into his role this fall. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the park and make it complete.”
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