CITYWIDE—Advocates for a comprehensive Atlanta BeltLine light-rail system, it appears, can breathe a sigh of relief—probably. Collie Greenwood, MARTA CEO, told the Atlanta City Council transportation committee during a meeting this week the mayor’s plan to create four infill MARTA stations as a means of boosting ridership will not replace plans for extending streetcar services into the BeltLine corridor.
Following Mayor Andre Dickens’ bombshell Monday announcement, MARTA is planning to explore how a combination of federal, state, and local funds—combined with revenue from mixed-use developments next to transit stations on MARTA land—could provide money needed to build four additional stops, as Axios Atlanta relays.
The only known infill station location would be near Murphy Crossing and the Westside Trail, creating an easy link between MARTA rail transit and the BeltLine. Greenwood told councilmembers MARTA is weighing the viability of other rail station sites that have been previously studied—including other stops along BeltLine trails, at points across town—but that conditions of today might call for different locations and implementation tactics.
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BANKHEAD—A nearly 16-acre slate of Bankhead warehouses and open post-industrial land could be home to a whopping 1,600 residential units and 700,000 square feet of commercial space, including BeltLine-adjacent offices, built by the Florida-based developer behind West Midtown’s growing Star Metals District. That’s according to reporting this week from Bisnow Atlanta that cites a recent rezoning request filed by The Allen Morris Company, which bought the 1060 Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway property for $31 million in May 2022.
The linear site in question along Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway. Brock Built’s Ten29 West townhome project is seen at left, as construction began a couple of years ago. Courtesy of Allen Morris Company
Plans call for direct access to an…
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