State grants $750,000 toward Buckhead’s GA 400 trail

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Governor Nathan Deal announced today the approval of$750,000 to the Buckhead CommunityImprovement District (BCID) to go towards the GA 400multi-use trail being implemented by Livable Buckhead,
It is one of 12 infrastructure projects totaling more than$8 million in grants and loans that will be funded by the GeorgiaTransportation Infrastructure Bank (GTIB), a revolving infrastructureinvestment fund through which only Community Improvement Districts (CIDs) areeligible for grant funding.

Left to right at grant presentation: Atlanta City Councilman Howard Shook,
Buckhead CID board member Scott Selig, Gov. Nathan Deal, Livable
Buckhead Executive Director Denise Starling, CID board member Lynn
Rainey and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle at the Capitol building. 

The GA400 Trail is the backbone of the BuckheadCollection, the Greenspace Action Plan for Council District 7 in Buckhead initiatedby Councilman Howard Shook in 2010.
Envisioned as a concrete 8’ – 14’ wide multi-use path forbicyclists, skaters, walkers and runners, it will be the primary spine of theBuckhead Collection’s Trails and Greenways System connecting Buckheadneighborhoods to parks, trails, schools, the Buckhead Business District, andultimately to the Atlanta BeltLine.
The Trail is approximately 5 miles long – extending fromthe historic cemetery site and proposed trailhead off Loridans Drive NE southto the Atlanta BeltLine’s Peachtree Creek spur trail – and passes by NorthBuckhead, Wieuca Trace, and Peachtree Park Neighborhoods, as well as TowerPlace and the Lindbergh/Sidney Marcus commercial area.
“World class communities have world class parks, and thisaward brings the Buckhead community one step closer to achieving our goal ofadding 106 acres of publicly accessible greenspace to ensure we are positionedto compete in a global economy in which quality of life, economic prosperity,social responsibility, and sustainability are the basic principles,” saidDenise Starling, executive director of Livable Buckhead.
Added Jim Durrett, executive director of the BCID, “Toadd Infrastructure Bank funding to the present commitments from the CID, PATHFoundation, the city of Atlanta and others demonstrates the power andattraction of a good idea, but also underscores the importance ofpublic/private partnerships to make things happen. We hope that this willstimulateadditional financialsupport to soon put us over the goal line.”
“The GTIB program is a way for communities who areserious about investing in their infrastructure to apply for the help they needto complete or move their projects forward,” said Governor Deal. “Theseprojects are the kind of investments that not only sustain communities, butthey also strengthen communities by providing more job opportunities.”