Atlanta Beltline - Page 41

ATLaffinity · #**801** Posted **Sep 10, 2010, 3:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by cybele

Well, one thing about the Beltline, where is it going to take you. Say I get on the HSR thing at Sears, which will get me to Piedmont Park. But then I got to get off and take it back to my car, so why not just drive to Piedmont to start with, plus I can take the dog?

I am not saying I'm against it I am just asking.

Since you don't live in the city, we don't care. For those in the city, it connects parks and increases livability.

cybele · #**802** Posted **Sep 12, 2010, 3:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATLaffinity

Since you don't live in the city, we don't care. For those in the city, it connects parks and increases livability.

Well, all right I guess living down there all that time and building the MARTA and whatnot don't amount to anything when you get old. They just throw you on the scrap pile.

smArTaLlone · #**803** Posted **Sep 14, 2010, 5:56 PM**

The 4th Ward Park water feature is starting to take shape.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/beltline/sets/72157624822597341/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/beltline/sets/72157624822597341/

L.ARCH · #**804** Posted **Sep 14, 2010, 9:27 PM**

Went there the other day.. It's already my new favorite park in the city and it doesnt even have plants yet!

trainiac · #**805** Posted **Oct 6, 2010, 4:16 PM**

Spiffy new lights with solar panels going in yesterday

trainiac · #**806** Posted **Nov 1, 2010, 6:38 PM**

Great news! The old A&W.P. depot on the Beltline at Memorial Dr is re-opening next Tuesday as Harper Station, "A Watering Hole". Doesn't look like they tinkered much with what The Depot had done.

The ground-breaking on Saturday for NE trail went well. They should be starting soon on a 14' wide paved path from DeKalb Ave up to Piedmont Park. Yippee!

ATLaffinity · #**807** Posted **Nov 1, 2010, 7:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by trainiac

Great news! The old A&W.P. depot on the Beltline at Memorial Dr is re-opening next Tuesday as Harper Station, "A Watering Hole". Doesn't look like they tinkered much with what The Depot had done.

The ground-breaking on Saturday for NE trail went well. They should be starting soon on a 14' wide paved path from DeKalb Ave up to Piedmont Park. Yippee!

does that trail just follow the tracks?

L.ARCH · #**808** Posted **Nov 1, 2010, 8:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATLaffinity

does that trail just follow the tracks?

It will run alongside where the future tracks will go.. They're basically building for the future condition so when it does happen they'll be ready to lay the tracks without having to deconstruct the new trail.

Chris Creech · #**809** Posted **Nov 3, 2010, 5:04 AM**

The only concern I have about the 4th Ward Park as an intowner, is that the way the walkway and lakes areas are sort of "sunken" and hidden away, and there's all those blind corners and tucked away areas. Would you feel safe walking your dog there at night, or just walking through there if it was dark? How are they doing to keep it from being a magnet for urban outdoorsmen?

226_226 · #**810** Posted **Nov 4, 2010, 9:08 PM**

I attended the groundbreaking for the Eastside Trail last week... very exciting.

Anyone know where they'll start paving first (10th/Monroe vs. Dekalb Ave) and when?

ATLaffinity · #**811** Posted **Jan 26, 2011, 4:20 PM**

Old Fourth Ward Skatepark is sorta The Beltline...

reet · #**812** Posted **Jan 28, 2011, 3:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATLaffinity

Old Fourth Ward Skatepark is sorta The Beltline...

I'm totally confused on where this skate park is. Is it connected to the main O4W park that's being built? We took a walk on the NE section of the Beltline a couple of weeks ago -- I looked for the skate park and couldn't see it.

L.ARCH · #**813** Posted **Jan 28, 2011, 6:38 PM**

It's close to where the Beltline goes under Freedom Parkway.. It's not physically connected to the O4W Park but is close by. It's hard to see from the trail because of the grade but it will be connected by a path when they pave the trail later this year.

trainiac · #**814** Posted **Jan 29, 2011, 3:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by L.ARCH

It's close to where the Beltline goes under Freedom Parkway.. It's not physically connected to the O4W Park but is close by. It's hard to see from the trail because of the grade but it will be connected by a path when they pave the trail later this year.

Yeah, it's right by the gigantic WSB tower. That's why the stretch of Freedom Parkway has a weird roof -- to protect the road if ice was to drop off the guy-wires of the tower. As WSB is owned by Cox, this is even called the Cox Parcel (I assume they donated something). Here's an Oxblue camera view:

http://oxblue.com/pro/open/reevescontracting/coxparcel

NativeAtlantan · #**815** Posted **Jan 30, 2011, 2:34 AM**

I always wondered why that stretch had a roof!!! Thanks for sharing that tidbit - can check that one off the list, now.

(four 0 four) · #**816** Posted **Jan 31, 2011, 5:17 PM**

On Saturday I walked the section from Monroe to Dekalb Avenue and then Sunday walked from Monroe to where tracks go under I-85. The pathway have been cleared of kudzu and trash (mostly) and it was already quite active.
South from the park: To me it was surprising how easily and quickly you could go from Piedmont Park to Home Depot/Whole Foods and then the Parish/Highland Bakery area. What a major asset for people living in that area! I can definitely see how this project will change the lives of those that have access to it. O4W park looks fantastic...I'm anxious to see it open.
North from the park: The new expansion of Piedmont Park, even though not complete, is amazing! According to a Piedmont Park Conservancy group I ran across, the finished portion should be open soon. This section of the Beltline was really beautiful as it runs along the park and then Ansley Golf Club. This was more difficult to walk than the south side so I didn't get as far as I would like, another trip for another weekend.

A new section of the path has been open for a while now near where I live...it goes from the deadend of 26th Street through a Civil War battlefield and ends at the golf course on Colonial Homes Drive. It has several beautiful bridges over Tanyard Creek and seems very secluded despite being just 1-2 blocks off Peachtree. This section is only about 1 mile but its amazing how active it is. What did all these people do before the path?

I think the thing I liked best about any of these trails is the unique, new perspective I got of neighborhoods that I have lived in or enjoyed for several years. Again, I can see how this will easily change (for the better) how people will live in the intown communities.
Take the free Beltline tour to get your taste of what's to come...
http://www.beltline.org/GetInvolved/TourtheBeltLine/tabid/1746/Default.aspx

(four 0 four) · #**817** Posted **Jan 31, 2011, 5:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by NativeAtlantan

I always wondered why that stretch had a roof!!!

I can't recall the cost of the roof when it was built in 2000 but remember thinking that for that amount of money they could have run heating lines up the wires or even had trained monkeys standing by as ice scrapers.

ATLaffinity · #**818** Posted **Feb 3, 2011, 4:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by (four 0 four)

South from the park: To me it was surprising how easily and quickly you could go from Piedmont Park to Home Depot/Whole Foods and then the Parish/Highland Bakery area. What a major asset for people living in that area!

It is great.

You could honestly bike casually from Inman Park to Ansley Mall quicker than you could drive.

That superblock that contains Trader Joes, Home Depot, Whole Foods etc is horrible. It keeps everything disconnected.

L.ARCH · #**819** Posted **Feb 3, 2011, 6:49 PM**

Agreed! Pedestrian connections have been explored across the site, however the neighborhood is adamantly opposed to any vehicular connections. They voted against the long term plan to reintegrate the property into the existing street network surrounding it last year that would have divided it up into blocks for redevelopment..

PedestriAnne · #**820** Posted **Feb 7, 2011, 8:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by (four 0 four)

A new section of the path has been open for a while now near where I live...it goes from the deadend of 26th Street through a Civil War battlefield and ends at the golf course on Colonial Homes Drive. It has several beautiful bridges over Tanyard Creek and seems very secluded despite being just 1-2 blocks off Peachtree. This section is only about 1 mile but its amazing how active it is. What did all these people do before the path?

I lived on that dead end for a year, back when it was Yorke Downs apartments. I can't believe how different it is now. You'd never know it's the same place. I loved that neighborhood, but I hated how the "number" streets (25, 26 and 28) were cut off from each other. Does anyone know why there's no 27th Street?

Anyway, there used to be a sort of secret shortcut out of the dead end. It was a seriously steep, curved driveway that went around and behind a really small apartment complex that is/was just to the right of the entrance to what's now City Place. It was right here. The other end of the driveway came out on Ardmore Circle. I don't know if the little apartment complex is back there anymore, but as you can see, that driveway has been plowed up, covered up and grown over.

I've still not been on a Beltline tour so I just signed up for one this weekend.