Peer Region, Atlanta, Implementing the Atlanta BeltLine

The Atlanta BeltLine is an ambitious public works project that seeks to create a 22-mile public transit, trails and park system with an overall investment of $2.8 billion. However, what makes this project standout is the various benefits it seeks to provide the City of Atlanta. A major component of the project is to revitalize some of the city’s most blighted neighborhoods by remediating over 1000 acres of brownfield sites, and constructing 5,600 workforce housing units. The project seeks to create 30,000 permanent jobs and a $20 billion tax base increase over 25 years, based on leveraged private investment. In addition around 2000 acres of new, expanded and improved parks will be connected by a multi-use trail.

Photo Courtesy of Beltline.org Resource Library
Photographer: Christopher T Martin

Land Trust’s South Cumberland Region Conservation Plan

In partnership with the Lyndhurst Foundation and the University of the South’s Sewanee Environmental Institute, The Land Trust for Tennessee recently completed a landmark conservation plan for the South Cumberland region. The planning area encompassed almost 4 million acres in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.

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