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Atlanta Community Bridges the Gap Between Two Urban Spaces

Spoke ATL, a transit-oriented development next to the Edgewood/Candler Park MARTA railway station in Atlanta’s Edgewood community, replaces an underperforming station parking lot with a bridge between two separated halves of the area’s urban fabric.

The community forms the first part of a three-phase development, originally conceived by developer Columbia Ventures in a deal with MARTA. To ensure that the project was ultimately in the community’s best interest, the development and design team conducted a series of meetings with nearly a dozen community groups, as well as professionals and stakeholders.

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Source MultiFamily Executive Magazine

Edgewood MARTA’s transit development lands performing arts center

Rail-connected project for Atlanta youth dance group is scheduled to break ground Thursday

Where six acres of surface parking once collected tumbleweeds in Edgewood, hundreds of MARTA-connected apartments were unveiled this year as the initial phase of Spoke, the agency’s first transit-oriented development to finish as part of a citywide push.

Now, it appears those renters will be getting some artistic new neighbors. …”

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Source: Curbed – Atlanta

Report: MARTA’s recent impact on Atlanta office, housing scene is staggering

Cushman & Wakefield analysis highlights influence of transit as the city evolves.

As Atlanta development observers are fully aware, MARTA is succeeding in harvesting a built-in customer base at stations from Chamblee to Decatur, where seven hubs are in various phases of seeing parking lots transformed into transit-oriented communities. …

In a new report called “The Growing MARTA Market,” Cushman & Wakefield, a global real estate services firm, describes the appetite for MARTA proximity in Atlanta as “insatiable” right now. …”

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Source: Curbed – Atlanta

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