A plan to cap part of Atlanta’s Downtown Connector nets $1 million in federal funding

The Sew, a plan to cap a part of the Downtown Connector in Atlanta, has secured $1.16 million in federal funding, because of a Neighborhood Mission Funding request made by U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams.

What’s The Sew? The formidable challenge would set up 14 acres of greenspace-topped platform above the connector between the Civic Middle MARTA Middle at West Peachtree Road and Piedmont Avenue.

• Central Atlanta Mission estimates finishing The Sew will value round $300 million.

Why it issues: The Sew, in line with Central Atlanta Progress, would bridge the “long-standing bodily separation characterised by large-scale infrastructure, noise, air pollution, and flooding in the neighborhood created by the development of a 16-lane interstate freeway.”

• When transportation officers in Georgia and elsewhere within the nation constructed the interstate freeway system, they directed a part of the route by predominantly Black neighborhoods.
• The development of the freeway system disrupted companies and created limitations that completely modified the feel and appear of these neighborhoods.
• Williams stated in an announcement that the challenge would undo “60 years of injustice.”

Sure, and: Jack Cebe, The Sew’s improvement supervisor, additionally stated in an announcement the challenge would additionally embody greater than 3,000 inexpensive housing models, improve the Civic Middle MARTA Station and revamp current streets to make them extra pedestrian and bicycle pleasant.

Zoom out: The Sew isn’t the one interstate-topping thought floating round Atlanta. One plan, the Midtown Connector Mission, would cap the interstate with greater than 17 acres of greenspace between tenth Road and North Avenue.

• To the north, the Buckhead Neighborhood Enchancment District can be exploring its HUB404 proposal. The proposal would high Ga. 400 with a nine-acre park between Peachtree and Lenox roads.