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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.
By 1872 the Atlanta Constitution called it "a considerable little town outside the corporate limits of Atlanta" which had two grocery stores. [1] Blooming Hill is commemorated by a sculpture at the Hyatt Midtown hotel. [4] During this period 10th Street was also known as Bleckley Avenue. [5] By 1883 the area was rechristened "North Atlanta". [6]
The Eastside Trail is a walking and biking trail stretching northwest to southeast on the Eastside of Atlanta, part of the Beltline ring of trails and parks. [1] It is lined with numerous notable industrial buildings adapted into restaurants, shops, apartments, condos, and two major food halls and mixed-use developments.
May — Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, first ever temporary public art exhibit on the Atlanta BeltLine, opened to the public. The Atlanta BeltLine Lantern Parade was born. June 19 — $5 million donation from Kaiser Permanente and PATH to build graded hardscape from DeKalb Ave north to Ponce de Leon Ave to be completed within a year.
Midtown to Northeast: from North Ave. MARTA station (1) east along North Ave. to the BeltLine, then north along BeltLine to 10th and Monroe (southeast corner of Piedmont Park) (2) and south to Edgewood St. (3) and connection to the Downtown streetcar at its eastern terminus (which would be extended from it current proposed terminus at Jackson St.)
From its founding in 1847, Atlanta has had a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased.As early as 1903 (see section below), there were concerns about the confusion this caused, as "more than 225 streets of Atlanta have had from two to eight names" in the first decades of the city.
"North Atlanta" was defined at the time roughly as today's Midtown, Georgia Tech, and English Avenue: [8] today's Midtown between Myrtle St. in the Midtown Historic District and Cherry St., now inside the Georgia Tech campus, as far north as 14th St (then called Wilson Ave.) most of what is now the Georgia Tech campus, south of what was then ...
A shantytown named Tight Squeeze developed at Peachtree at what is now 10th Street in Midtown Atlanta. It was infamous for vagrancy, desperation, and robberies of merchants transiting the settlement. [35] [36] A smallpox epidemic hit Atlanta in December 1865, with few doctors or hospital facilities to help.