10:30 a.m. Self-guided walking tour of Atlanta Beltline / Krog St Market area
11:00 a.m. Meet at Brew Dog The Beltline: Atlanta’s Bold Revitalization Plan As a grad student 25 years ago, Ryan Gravel envisioned a plan for 22 miles of mostly abandoned rail lines as a means to connect Atlanta’s neighborhoods and foster growth of affordable housing and community. We will hear the story of that vision, the plans and implementation that followed and see the impact in the community.
Ryan Gravel Founder, Six Pitch Ryan Gravel, AICP, is an urban designer, author, and speaker – an entrepreneur working on ideas about the future of cities. Through his consulting practice, Sixpitch, Ryan is engages the dramatic transformation
coming to cities, offering a range of approaches and partnerships designed to support a more equitable, resilient, and beautiful world. His master’s thesis in 1999 was the original vision for the Atlanta Beltline, a 22-mile transit greenway that with twenty years of progress, is changing both the physical form of his city and the decisions people make about living there. Now a $4 billion public-private investment in the early stages of implementation, the project’s health and economic benefits are already evident through record-breaking use of its first section of mainline trail and over $10 billion of private sector redevelopment since 2005.
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