![]() “You go to another city to learn,” said Bill Bolling, chairman of the Food Well Alliance and former long-time director of the Atlanta Food Bank. Perhaps as important as specific projects are ideas. ![]() And there has been a 15 percent increase in property values around the park during the past year.” “I believe that what helped Dallas was having that kick in the pants when we lost that major corporate relocation to Chicago.”īut the ambition and cost has been rewarded, she said. The project, which borders a huge arts district, was just one of the moves Dallas would not have made if things had been going smoothly, Green said. The facilities include a reading room, free yoga classes, a children’s playground and concerts. Tara Green, president of the group that runs the park, said it cost $97 million to build the recreational area three years ago and several million dollars a year to maintain and run it. There is likewise discussion – and preliminary planning – of a similar, larger covering above Georgia 400 as it passed the Buckhead MARTA station. “That is one of the stand-out things about this trip because it is replicable and relevant to Atlanta.” In Atlanta, there is talk of covering the Downtown Connector to stitch together Midtown and downtown. And that means any good idea in Dallas is worth looking at for Atlanta, Feiler said.Īnd the best example is 5.2 acre Klyde Warren Park, created when the city built and sodded a covering over a highway that slices through the heart of the city. The size of the regions, the reliance on a huge airport, the relationship with a reluctant state government, the mix of global corporate headquarters and thousands of small businesses make the regions look alike in some critical ways. “Atlanta and Dallas, in many ways, are stunningly similar.” Yet the contrasts are so interesting because Atlanta can learn from the city, said Andrew Feiler, president of MDI Strategies in Atlanta. Dallas has scored strong job growth, a series of corporate re-locations and – perhaps most surprisingly – added regional transit system that includes light rail. For one thing, Atlanta’s presumed economic superiority has evaporated.
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