What’s Old Is New and We Want To See Your Point of View

sarahbackhouseLast fall, you captured Buckhead’s PATH400SM at its autumnal best. Now with the weather fallphotowinnerfb warming up, it’s time to grab your iPhone, your SLR or even that old Polaroid if you like and head out to the greenway.

Most of the plants that we worried over all winter have survived and will soon be in full bloom, making PATH400 a picture-perfect place to get out and enjoy spring.

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Former McClatchey School Site Acquired for Greenspace Along PATH400

Livable Buckhead partners with City of Atlanta for purchase of 1.55 acres

August 18, 2016 – ATLANTA – For the second time this month Livable Buckhead has partnered with Councilman Howard Shook and the City of Atlanta Parks Department to add greenspace acreage to Buckhead, this time at a key site at PATH400’s northern end.  Livable Buckhead has brokered the acquisition of the 1.55-acre site where D.F. McClatchey School used to stand before it was torn down to make way for GA 400. The parcel is adjacent to the Lowery-Stephens Cemetery, presenting an opportunity to integrate the historic site into the user experience along this future segment of PATH400.

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PATH400 Construction Update – August 2016

The PATH400 theme for this month is “INSTANT ” – blink an eye and you will miss the cool things about to happen!

INSTANT Landscape – Thanks to Atlanta Public Schools (APS), we will have hundreds of trees arriving in the fall between Old Ivy and Wieuca! A c60db288-bsignature feature of the Atlanta Tree Protection Ordinance is “recompense,” the purpose of which is to recoup some of the lost public value that occurs in the destruction of trees. In this case, recompense will be satisfied by the “in-kind” planting of replacement trees. APS needed to recompense for construction and PATH400 needed trees. A win for both parties.

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Help Us Show that Parks RULE, Cars DROOL on PARK(ing) Day

da93a96d-2If Buckhead had a birthstone it would be concrete. Our paved paradise has some of Atlanta’s best high rises, restaurants and shopping, but our parks game is weak. Livable Buckhead is working on that…and we need your help.

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Livable Buckhead Sails Past $250,000 Goal, Matches Gift from Loudermilk Family Foundation

Commercial real estate companies, Buckhead residents and public entities chip in to raise first $605K toward $9 million PATH400 capital campaign goal

ATLANTA – May 5, 2016 – In response to a generous matching gift from the Loudermilk Family Foundation, Livable Buckhead issued a call to help raise $250,000 for the construction of PATH400.SM Today Livable Buckhead announced that the community responded enthusiastically, pushing the nonprofit organization well past its goal and securing a total of $605,000 for PATH400.

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Fit Fridays on PATH400SM

It’s not news that walking is healthy and people who walk or otherwise exercise regularly tend to be more calm, alert and happy than people who are inactive. To combat afternoon slumps in enthusiasm and focus, take a walk during the lunch hour.

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Sandy Springs City Council Gives Green Light to PATH400 Extension

Vote clears the way for work on “missing link” between Buckhead, Sandy Springs segments to proceed
ATLANTA – February 18, 2016 – Thanks to a vote by the Sandy Springs City Council Tuesday night,
PATH400 is officially headed to Sandy Springs.

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