By Angel Poventud
A new year begins and work on the 22-mile loop known as the Atlanta BeltLine continues. Here’s an update on the various projects.
Last month, work began on the Eastside Trail with vertical infrastructure of walls and support structures going in until April. Come Spring, a 14-foot-wide concrete trail will be installed and should be complete over the summer.
Once completed, the trail will connect Piedmont Park to DeKalb Avenue for a flat, car-less, amazing way to get around the city.
While on the Eastside Trail, you’ll pass by the completed first phase of Historic Fourth Ward Park, and construction of the north and south parcels leading phase two is well underway for a spring completion.
Further down the trail, the Foundation Skate Park is under construction and expected to be complete by early spring, too. This will be the city’s first official skate park and will be at grade, so you can skate of the trail and directly into the park.
On the south side of the BeltLine, one of two parks is already open. Boulevard Crossing Park has two large multi-use fields as part of phase one of the future 22-acre park. Stanton Park is also underway and will be the first BeltLine park with a little league baseball field. Stanton Park is also Atlanta’s first energy cost neutral park built with solar panels returning power back to the energy grid.
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