Atlanta GA Atlantic Station Reflections Goodyear Blimp Architectural Cityscape Art

by Reid Callaway

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Atlanta GA Atlantic Station Reflections Goodyear Blimp Architectural Cityscape Art

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Reid Callaway

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Atlanta GA Atlantic Station Reflections....by Reid Callaway
Goodyear Blimp Architectural Cityscape Art

The Goodyear blimp was in town for a football game and wandered into my picture at top right.
Goodyear tires are on my Chevy 2012 Classic Avalanche. I love them... Enjoy!

Atlantic Station is a neighborhood on the northwestern edge of Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States. First planned in the mid-1990s and officially opened in 2005, the neighborhood's 138 acres are located on the former brownfield site of the Atlantic Steel mill.

Atlantic Station is located on the site of the Atlantic Steel mill, which opened in 1901. The steel mill was nearly closed in the mid-1970s, but it remained nominally operational primarily to avoid the huge costs it would have required to remediate the soil contamination present after years of operation.

Developer Jim Jacoby, who also redeveloped Florida's Marineland, began putting the project together in 1997 when his company became the property contractor of the land. The redevelopment of the land into what is now Atlantic Station was financed largely by private investment, but was heavily supplemented by a special tax district to pay for city tax bonds for public utilities (streets, sidewalks, and sewers). The development was originally planned to include 15,000,000 square feet of retail, office, residential space as well as 11 acres of public parks. Its size encouraged the Postal Service to award the neighborhood its own ZIP code: 30363.

Atlantic Station was designed with energy efficiency in mind and many of the buildings are LEED certified.[4] Additionally, the project was developed to help mitigate urban sprawl and reduce air pollution by allowing many more people to live and work within walking distance of most everyday things they need, with many alternative transportation options nearby. The proposed BeltLine transit/greenway project is expected to pass within a few miles of the development.
In October 2003, the very first residents moved into the development. The 17th Street bridge was completed in January 2004 and the first round of retail establishments opened in October 2005. Atlantic Station received the EPA's 2004 Phoenix Award as the Best National Brownfield Redevelopment, as well as the Sierra Club's 2005 America's Best New Development Projects listing

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September 8th, 2017

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