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The Atlanta Streetcar (also known as the Downtown Loop) is a streetcar line in Atlanta, Georgia. Testing on the line began in summer 2014 [ 4 ] with passenger service beginning as scheduled on December 30, 2014.
From 1889–1901, the famed Nine-Mile Circle line ran from Downtown Atlanta to Ponce de Leon Springs and what is now Virginia Highland. In 1924, Georgia Power operated the following streetcar lines (see map above): [6] 1 Decatur St.-Marietta St-Marietta Rd; 2 Ponce de Leon-West View (east terminus: Ponce at East Lake Rd.) 3 Boulevard-West Hunter
Ponce de Leon Avenue begins at Spring Street at the south edge of Midtown Atlanta, though prior to the construction of the Downtown Connector, it started a block further west at Williams Street (across from Georgia Tech, one block east of Bobby Dodd Stadium) [5] It passes West Peachtree Street and then Peachtree Street, the city block which has the BellSouth Building (now Tower Square) and the ...
The Atlanta Beltline is 22-mile long multi-use corridor on a former railway corridor which encircles the core of Atlanta, Georgia.The Atlanta Beltline is designed to reconnect neighborhoods and communities historically divided and marginalized by infrastructure, improve transportation, add green space, promote redevelopment, create and preserve affordable housing, and showcase arts and culture.
The main portion of John Lewis Freedom Parkway, running east from an oversized interchange with the Downtown Connector (I-75/85) and then north at the Carter Center to Ponce de Leon Avenue (US 29/US 78/US 278/SR 8), is numbered and signed as SR 10.
It is located adjacent to the intersection of the BeltLine with Ponce de Leon Avenue in the Old Fourth Ward near Virginia Highland, Poncey-Highland and Midtown neighborhoods. The 2.1-million-square-foot (200,000 m 2 ) building, one of the largest by volume in the Southeast United States, was used by Sears , Roebuck and Co. from 1926 to 1987 and ...
Located where the BeltLine crosses Ponce de Leon Avenue in the Old Fourth Ward, a mixed-use development occupies the historic Sears, Roebuck & Co. building. The 2,100,000-square-foot structure is one of the largest by volume in the Southeast United States, and the building's lot spans 16 acres.
Ponce de Leon Ave. from where it made a loop: north along N. Boulevard (now Monroe Dr.) east on Virginia Ave. south along N. Highland Ave., and; west on Ponce de Leon back to the intersection of Ponce de Leon and Boulevard. The line started operation in late 1889, and was the second electric line in Atlanta, after the Edgewood line to Inman Park.