Self-Guided Tour – Southeastbeltline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Atlanta-BeltLine-Self-Guided-Tour_Southeast.pdf6. LAFARGE () Lafarge is the primary user of the rail lines in

Updated December 2008

Self-Guided Tour – Southeast Inman Park/Reynoldstown Marta Station to I-75/85

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Intrenchment Creek

Stanton Park

Mead St4 Corners Park

Memorial Dr

McDonough Blvd SE

Ormewood Ave

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DeKalb Ave NE

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Trinity Ave SW

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Edgewood Ave SE

Ridge Ave SW

Marietta St NW

Confederate Ave SE

Grant Park

Downtown

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Summerhill

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Reynoldstown

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Peoplestown

South Atlanta

Inman Park

Sweet Auburn

Benteen Park

Old Fourth Ward

Custer/McDonouoyland

State Facility

Cabbagetown

Capitol Gateway

Oakland

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Boulevard Heights

The Villages at Carver

pitol View Manor

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Englewood Manor

City

Atlanta University Center

Grant

Zoo AtlantaCyclorama

TurnerField

Chosewood

Federal Penitentary

Georgia National Guard

Pittman

Benteen

Arthur LangfordMemorial

Oakland Cemetery

M.L.K.

King Center

Milton Ave SE

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Confederate A

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Glenwood Ave SE

Lake A

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Auburn Ave

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Garnett King Memorial

Georgia State

Dome/GWCC/Philips/CNN

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Cook

Price

Parks

Carver

Walden

Dunbar

Benteen

Parkside

Maynard H. Jackson

Stanton, D.H.

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Boulevard Crossing Park

South Atlanta

Chosewood Park

High Point

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The vibrant character of South-east Atlanta continues to grow as new houses and lofts, mixed-use developments, and refurbished properties sprout up in older neighborhoods and alongside established homes. Spur trails will provide easier access to more places, including Grant Park and Zoo Atlanta.



Memorial Dr

DeKalb Ave NE

Reynoldstown

Inman Park

Old ourth Ward

Cabbagetown

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Edgewood Ave NE

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START OF TOUR

INMAN PARk bEGINS

DEPART Inman Park/Reynoldstown MARTA Station heading west on Edgewood Avenue. 0.6 mi

1. ThE TROLLEy bARN (www.thetrolleybarn.com)Inman Park Trolley barn was the center of trans-portation for the neighborhood dubbed ‘Atlanta’s first Suburb.’ The trolley transported people to and from downtown, and as the hub of activity for the area, the community grew up around it. Over the years the facility has been preserved and refur-bished, and now operates as a nostalgic space that can be rented out for special events and private parties.

LEFT (south) on Krog Street. 0.2 mi

INMAN PARk ENDS. CAbbAGETOwN bEGINS.

2. hULSEy yARDhulsey Rail yard is an inter-modal (‘piggyback’) freight transfer facility owned by CSX. Trains un-load their goods onto trailer trucks for further transport, and this transfer also happens in reverse – truck to train. Its massive size (approx. 33 miles of track on the lot) and location (directly crossing the corridor’s path ) present a challenge to con-necting the beltLine from the Inman Park area north of Dekalb Avenue to the Cabbagetown and Reyn-oldstown neighborhoods south of Dekalb Avenue.

LEFT (east) on Wylie Street. 0.4 mi

CAbbAGETOwN ENDS. REyNOLDSTOwN bEGINS.

3. CAbbAGETOwN/REyNOLDSTOwNPearl Street straddles the border of two historic Atlanta neighborhoods, Cabbagetown (to the west) and Reynoldstown (to the east). Reynoldstown was a settlement for freed slaves and was named after Madison Reynolds, an ex-slave and entrepreneur who ran a popular grocery store in the area. The store’s building still stands on wylie Street. The communities served as villages for railroad workers and workers in mills, including the Fulton bag and Cotton Mill, just west of Cabbagetown. Adjoining Cabbagetown along its western end is Oakland Cemetery, one of the city’s most interesting and his-torically significant parks.



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Ormewood Ave

DeKalb Ave NE

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Cross the beltLine on wylie Street. Stein Steel is to the right; hulsey yard is to the left.

RIGHT (south) on Flat Shoals Avenue. 0.1 mi

RIGHT (south) on Gibson Street. 0.3 mi

The beltLine runs parallel to Gibson St. approximately 1/10 mile to the right.

RIGHT (west) on Memorial Drive. 0.1 mi

4. ThE DEPOTThis old freight depot formerly serviced freight operations in the corridor and sits right on the belt-Line. In 2007, the facility was renovated into a res-taurant/bar, a good example of restoring an old structure into a modern amenity for the community. The intersection adjacent to the depot presents an excellent locale for a transit stop that would serve residents in the mixed-used developments and homes nearby.

LEFT (south) on Bill Kennedy Way (aka Glenwood-Memorial Connector). 0.5 mi

The beltLine shares the street along the Connector from Memorial Dr. to Glenwood Ave.

REyNOLDSTOwN ENDS. ORMEwOOD PARk ON LEFT.GRANT PARk ON RIGhT.

5. GLENwOOD PARk DEvELOPMENT(www.glenwoodpark.com)Glenwood Park is a ‘new-urbanism’ mixed-use de-velopment with walk-up shops, cafés, and other re-tail spaces melded with condominiums, townhouses, and single family homes throughout the property. Two park areas are also integrated into the lay-out. The development is built on a former industrial plant of the blue Circle Concrete Company and represents the type of innovative development that can transform old sites along the beltLine into vi-brant new communities. Glenwood Park is a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified property planned and built by former Mindspring CEO, Charles brewer.

The train cars straight ahead are on the beltLine.



Intrenchment Creek

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Ormewood Ave

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Ormewood Park

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Englewood Manor

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Right (west) on Glenwood Avenue. 0.5 mi

6. LAFARGE (www.lafarge.com)Lafarge is the primary user of the rail lines in the Southeast corridor, which in general gets little activ-ity. Several times per week Lafarge receives loads of sand via rail car to be used for concrete produc-tion. The development of beltLine transit and trails in the Southeast section can happen only after this rail activity is no longer necessary.

7. MAyNARD h. jACkSON hIGh SChOOL(http://apskids.org/southside/)Maynard h. jackson (formerly Southside) is one of 4 Atlanta Public high schools that sit right along the corridor, and one of 20 schools within ½ mile to the beltLine. The corridor’s location here will translate to increased mobility and travel options for students and staff commuting to and from the school. LEFT (south) on Waldo Street. 0.5 mi

LEFT (south) on Confederate Avenue. 0.6 mi Look left at the intersection of Ormewood Ave. & Confederate Ave. The beltLine crosses over Ormewood Ave. on a historic red-brick bridge about ¼ mile down. Cross under the beltLine just after The Enclave at Grant Park (residential development on left).

GRANT PARk ENDS. bOULEvARD hEIGhTS bEGINS

RIGHT (south) on Edie Avenue. 0.1 mi

RIGHT (west) on Hamilton Avenue. 0.3 mi

Look right (north) at intersection of hamilton Ave. and boulevard Dr. about 50 yards up. The beltLine crosses boulevard Dr. and continues west on the embankment, running above the future boulevard Crossing Park.

LEFT (south) on Boulevard Drive. 0.3 mi

8.bOULEvARD CROSSING PARkBoulevard Crossing is planned to be one of the first parks developed on the beltLine. Its 21 acres will stretch over several properties at this site that were acquired by the Trust for Public Land and sold to the City in june 2007. The new greenspace will be a great resource for the community, and should encourage diverse development around it. Plans also call for spur trails and related greenways to connect this site to Grant Park and Zoo Atlanta (approx. 3 blocks north), as well as to Chosewood Park (approx 2 blocks south).



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Federal Penit

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RIGHT (west) on Englewood Avenue. 0.6 mi

9. ENGLEwOOD MANOR Along Englewood Avenue, and across the street from the future boulevard Crossing Park, Atlanta housing Authority (AhA) has plans to convert the conventional public housing community into a new mixed-income development in its ongoing efforts to de-concentrate poverty and create more diverse residential nodes as part of its ‘Quality of Life’ initiative. A beltLine spur trial is expected to run through Englewood Manor, giving residents convenient access to enjoy the new greenspace.

10. SkyLINE vIEwjust after the street’s apex on Englewood Avenue, be sure to look right to see an amazing view of At-lanta’s skyline. This aesthetic adds to the area’s ap-peal and could help to spur development initiatives around the new park.

LEFT (south) on Hill Street. 0.3 mi

SHARP RIGHT (north) on Milton Avenue.0.8 mi

The beltLine crosses Milton Ave. at street level about ¼ mile after Lakewood Ave. joins Milton St. from the left. At the rail crossing sign, look left about ¼ mile down to see view of historic tunnel leading west (keep this in mind… the opposite side of tunnel will come into view soon – by the New Schools of Carver running along University Ave).

ChOSEwOOD PARk ENDS. PEOPLESTOwN bEGINS

RIGHT (north) on Hank Aaron Drive 0.0 mi QUICK RIGHT (east) on Boynton Avenue. CONTINUE straight on Boynton Ave until street ends at intersection with Martin St. 0.3 mi

The beltLine forms the southeast boundary (off to the right) of DL Stanton Park

11. DL STANTON PARk DL Stanton Park sits adjacent to the beltLine and will conveniently connect the surrounding community of Peoplestown to other areas along the corridor. Re-lated beltLine development will bring landscape en-hancements and additional recreational amenities to the park.

U-TURN on boynton Avenue. 0.3 mi



Intrenchment Creek

Stanton Park


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Memorial Dr

Jonesboro Rd SE

McDonough Blvd SE

Ormewood Ave

Pry

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Lakewood Ave

DeKalb Ave NE

Spring

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Che

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Decatur St SE

Pie

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Glenwood Ave SE

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Martin Luther King Jr Dr

Bouldercrest D

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Bouldercrest R

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Sawtel

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Flat Shoals Ave SE

Trinity Ave SW

Peters

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Edgewood Ave SE

Ridge Ave SW

Stone Mountain Fwy

Marietta St NW

Confederate Ave SE

Moreland Ave

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Memorial Dr

Grant Park

Downtown

East Atlanta

Edgewood

Lakewood Heights

Browns Mill Park

Lakewood

Kirkwood

Ormewood Park

Summerhill

Pittsburgh

Reynoldstown

Mechanicsville

Leila Valley

Peoplestown

Polar Rock

South Atlanta

Norwood Manor

Inman Park

Thomasville Heights

Sweet Auburn

Benteen Park

Old Fourth Ward

Custer/McDonough/GuiceJoyland

Perkerson

South River Gardens

State Facility

Rosedale Heights

Swallow Circle/Baywood

Cabbagetown

Glenrose Heights

Rebel Valley Forest

Capitol Gateway

Betmar LaVilla

Oakland

Amal Heights

Castleberry Hill

Boulevard Heights

Woodland Hills


Capitol View Manor

Hammond Park

Sylvan Hills

Englewood Manor

Vine City

Candler Park Lake Claire

Atlanta University Center

Grant


TurnerField

Chosewood

Federal Penitentary


Pittman

Brownwood

Benteen

Arthur LangfordMemorial

Oakland Cemetery

M.L.K.

King Center

Browns Mill Golf Course

South Bend Park

Milton Ave SE

University Ave SW Englewood Ave.

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Garnett King Memorial

Georgia State

Peachtree Center

Dome/GWCC/Philips/CNN

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Walden

Waters

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Maynard H. Jackson

Whitefoord

Thomasville

Stanton, D.H.

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Cleveland Avenue

Burgess-Peterson

Bus Yard Lakewood

Five Points

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12. FOUR CORNERS PARkjust west of hank Aaron Drive between weyman Avenue and haygood Avenue sits Four Corners Park, another small greenspace in the Peoplestown neighborhood. A basketball court and recreation center forms the core of the park grounds. Future plans call for Four Corners Park to be expanded, fleshing out eastward to Hank Aaron Drive, and south to weyman Avenue. In addition, either a spur trail or new greenspace path along boynton Av-enue will connect Four Corners Park to DL Stanton Park, about ½ mile to its east.

LEFT (south) on Hank Aaron Drive. 0.2 mi

SLIGHT RIGHT (west) across railroad onto University Avenue. 1.2 mi

The beltLine tunnels below the multi-street intersection of hank Aaron Dr. /McDonough blvd. /University Ave., then comes out right beside the New Schools of Carver, running in the trench along the left side of University Ave. This is the other side of the historic tunnel viewed from Milton Avenue.

13. NEw SChOOLS OF CARvER (www.newschoolsatcarver.org)The beltLine tunnels under the multi-pronged in-tersection at hank Aaron Drive and McDonough Road, and travels right next to the New Schools of Carver, the 2nd of 4 high Schools along the cor-ridor. The Old Carver high School was renovated and re-vamped in 2005 by Atlanta Public Schools and is now home to 4 individual, college-prep fo-cused learning centers. The school has now become a high-performing program where many families seek to enroll their kids. This site was the original home of Clark College (now Clark University), and after that housed the Interdenominational Theo-logical Seminary.

As University Ave. crosses Pryor St, look left. The beltLine corridor crosses Pryor St. on a bridge about ¼ mile down. It then continues west, tunneling under I-75/85

CONTINUE west on University Ave. and pass under I-75/85.

PEOPLESTOwN ENDS

END OF SOUTHEAST SECTION

Documents

Self-Guided Tour – Southeastbeltline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Atlanta-BeltLine-Self-Guided-Tour_Southeast.pdf6. LAFARGE () Lafarge is the primary user of the rail lines in