Buckhead CID Announces Atlanta’s Park over GA400 Steering Committee
Atlanta – Nov. 29, 2017 – As plans for Buckhead’s community centerpiece continue, the Buckhead Community Improvement District (BCID) today announced the formation of the Atlanta’s Park over GA400 volunteer Steering Committee designed to serve as an advisory group to project leadership during the proposed park’s planning phase. The nine-member committee will eventually advise a soon to be launched nonprofit entity that will manage next-stage planning, fundraising, permitting, relationship building and construction of the park.
The Steering Committee members represent a variety of corporate, nonprofit and education heavy-hitters, including:
Mr. Paul Brown
Chief Executive Officer
Arby’s
Mr. David D. Cummings
Chief Executive Officer
Atlanta Tech Village
Mr. Raj Deshpande
Chief Executive Officer
Pulseworks LLC
Mr. Lane Moore
Managing Partner, QuarterMoore
Co-founder, Rubicon Global
Mr. Keith Parker
Chief Executive Officer
Goodwill of North Georgia
Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice
President and Dean
Morehouse School of Medicine
Mr. Robert Sheft
Chief Executive Officer
Installation Made Easy, Inc.
Mr. Larry Smith
Former General Counsel
The Home Depot
Ms. Carol Tomé
Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice
President of Corporate Services
The Home Depot
Since July, BCID has worked with its project partners, ROGERS PARTNERS Architects+Urban Designers and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, to develop a detailed plan to name the park, create a nonprofit entity to manage construction and operations, and prepare for the design, engineering and permitting phase, which is planned to begin in January 2018. The goal is to have community involvement throughout the process. “Ground-making” for the project is planned for 2020 and the park is projected to open by 2022, and be fully operational by 2023, significantly reducing previous timelines by 12 to 24 months.
The yet-to-be-named “Atlanta’s Park over GA400” will create nine acres of elevated green space in Buckhead, which currently has the least amount of public park space per capita in the city of Atlanta. Located at the remarkable confluence of Georgia 400, Peachtree Road, PATH400 and the MARTA redline, the park will provide vast and unique regional connectivity. The new park will be a crucial link and destination on the soon-to-be-completed PATH400, a 5.2-mile greenway currently under construction.
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About Buckhead CID
The objective of the Buckhead Community Improvement District (BCID), working with the City of Atlanta and its community partners, is to meet the challenges resulting from Buckhead’s rapid, primarily automobile-based growth, including improving safety, traffic mobility, enhancing the pedestrian environment, creating better access to public transit, initiating intra-district transportation alternatives, encouraging better integration of land uses and improving linkages to the region’s automobile, transit and bicycle networks.
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