The last time Georgia Tech put together a comprehensive plan for ambitious growth and enhanced livability around campus was way back in 2004.
However dusty, that document ended up being potent, in that it laid the groundwork for several defining enhancements around not just the institute’s campus but Midtown, including the development of Tech Square, the innovative EcoCommons greenspace, and the John Lewis Student Center, collectively an estimated capital investment of $2 billion.
Now Georgia Tech is at it again.
Following two years of analysis, data collection, and outreach efforts that included town halls, campus tours, surveys, and meetings with neighborhood associations and Atlanta city leadership, Georgia Tech has unveiled the 2023 Comprehensive Campus Plan, outlining a bevy of thought-provoking possibilities for growth and infrastructural retrofitting.
The CCP study delineates the campus into zones where land use recommendations and development guidelines hope to create a uniform vision. Georgia Tech Comprehensive Campus Plan
The CCP sets no timelines for changes in stone, as it’s meant to function more as an adaptable, flexible “living document” that supports “the growing needs of the campus community for the next 10 years and beyond,” according to a school announcement. It does delineate the campus into zones where land use recommendations and development guidelines hope to create a uniform vision.
Highlights include the possible removal of the tired, low-rise Peters Parking Deck located just north of Bobby Dodd Stadium for a versatile new greenspace called Peters Park. Another idea calls for permanently reopening the Third Street tunnel, which tuned-in observers note would create “a true game-changer” with the first dedicated bicycle and pedestrian crossing of the Connector freeway in the area.
Other aspects of the plan call for making areas defined as Georgia Tech’s core campus car-free, installing pathways…
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