A portion of the Downtown Connector that will be capped by a new park called the Stitch
The plan to build a park on top of the Interstate 75/85 interchange that cuts through Downtown Atlanta is moving forward with a major infusion of federal funding.
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded a $157.6M grant to The Stitch, a project that would develop a 4-acre park over the Downtown Connector between Courtland and Peachtree Streets, according to a press release from Georgia Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
The new park, which would be built south of the historic St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and north of SunTrust Plaza, will also include enhanced pedestrian connections to the MARTA Civic Center station.
The funding was derived from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act’s Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program, which provides more than $3B to community projects for underserved and economically disadvantaged areas.
“This tremendous federal award for The Stitch is a direct result of the people of Georgia sending Jon Ossoff and me to the Senate, and it’s exactly the kind of investment I had in mind when I championed legislation last Congress to invest in reconnecting communities severed by highway construction,” Warnock said in a statement.
The effort is part of an envisioned larger cap that would create a 14-acre urban greenspace spanning three-quarters of a mile between Ted Turner Drive and Piedmont Avenue.
“This is monumental for the city,” said Jack Cebe, The Stitch development manager for the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District, whose stakeholders own properties along the proposed route of the Stitch.
Cebe told Bisnow the…
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