City Council seeks federal funding for Downtown Atlanta’s ‘The Stitch’ project

ATLANTA – The Atlanta Metropolis Council has accredited a plan to hunt federal funding on an enormous mission that might deliver much more inexperienced house to Downtown.

The mission, generally known as the Sew, could be a three-quarter mile platform that might be positioned over the Downtown Connector and be positioned between Ted Turner Drive and Piedmont Avenue.

Designers say the platform would create the house for a 14-acre park in Atlanta in addition to engender 14 million sq. toes of recent growth, which officers say could be targeted on inexpensive housing and attracting residents Downtown.

Town council unanimously accredited making use of for a grant to assist match the funding put fourth from town and the Atlanta Downtown Enchancment District. If accredited, town would have $21 million for the mission’s preliminary engineering.

“I’m grateful to my friends on Council for his or her imaginative and prescient, in addition to the state directors and federal officers who’re a part of this effort,” stated Councilman Amir Farokhi, who launched the invoice. “Hopefully, this mass present of help will push this catalytic mission to the highest of the nationwide utility checklist. This can be a generational alternative to restore wounds of the previous, add housing and park house to our middle metropolis, and show that our ambitions can turn out to be actuality.”

The proposal additionally obtained letters of help from Rep. Nikema Williams, Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, and the Georgia Division of Transportation.

“It [the Stitch] will reconnect divided communities, [and] promote equitable-development and environmental justice via inexpensive housing and transportation,” stated Warnock. “[It will] catalyze financial growth, facilitate people-focused mobility and neighborhood connectivity, improve environmental resilience, and enhance the well being and wellbeing of Atlantans.”

The invoice now heads to Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens’ desk for remaining approval. The ultimate deadline to submit the formal utility to the U.S. Division of Transportation is Oct. 13.