In preparation, fundraisers want to create a personalized brick trail linking the BeltLine to University Avenue

It’s been decades since Pittsburgh was recognized as a bustling, thriving southside Atlanta neighborhood, but a philanthropy-focused, adaptive-reuse project could soon help tip the scales in the community’s favor.

Pittsburgh Yards, a (rare) community-driven project adjacent to the Atlanta BeltLine, aims to repurpose a former brownfield site as the area’s newest mixed-use destination.

But this development—slated to wrap phase 1 construction by year’s end and one day border the BeltLine’s Southside Trail—is expected to be a far cry from the other major multi-use builds lining the popular path.

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Source Curbed – Atlanta

A series of photos showing early work, as well as planned development, was shared recently by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

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Source: Atlanta Business Chronicle

“At a site long planned for redevelopment, construction launched in March on Pittsburgh Yards, a multifaceted adaptive-reuse venture spearheaded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a philanthropic organization that aims to better the lives of American children, alongside partners Core Ventures and Columbia Ventures. The goal is to make Pittsburgh Yards as welcoming to welders, carpenters, and graphic designers who work there as Beltline bikers and pram-pushers. …”

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Source: Curbed – Atlanta