InPhil Designs – ChoseLine

Filling in a key piece of underutilized BeltLine adjacent property is not only essential to making rail on the BeltLine successful but is also crucial in providing much needed housing and services in the underserved Chosewood Park neighborhood.

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Today

Location along the BeltLine and within the neighborhood: GoogleEarth

The area today is a mix of underused warehouses and maintenance yards surrounded by booming residential development. In the immediate vicinity there are currently over 2000 units approved with Zephyr, Englewood South, and Skylar. There’s also plans for a massive new park, Boulevard Crossing Park adjacent to the site but has no identified funding.

Despite rumors of a Publix-anchored shopping center within Zephyr a few years ago, there’s been no movement or signs of that being true. This has left the area severely under-served by grocery, services, and general commercial offerings.

The Future

My sketch idea sees a community of roughly 1000 homes ranging from apartments and condos to courtyard focused townhomes.

The retail aspects contain BeltLine fronting grocery, kiosk style small-scale shops, and eateries. There is also an adaptive reuse food hall. Larger neighborhood-focused restaurants and retail are shown too.

The community would be stitched in a cohesive way to the BeltLine and surrounding neighborhood by numerous pedestrian pathways, expanded grid system, and multiple greenspaces, event lawns, and plazas.

We can not afford to have this level of under-utilization along a key stretch of BeltLine frontage which is also now slated to contain the first phase of rail according to the Mayor.

NOTE: I do not own, control, have actual say, etc over any of the proposed redeveloped parcels. This is just an idea and just a sketch.

FURTHER READING

InPhil Designs: InPhil Designs

All ideas: The Urban Connector

All things Atlanta: ATLANTA

Phil Veasley is a Professional Engineer and CNU accredited member working to design safer multimodal infrastructure in cities throughout the US.

My goal is to create cities that are safe and effective for all people to move about outside of cars. To achieve that we have to focus on creating equitable, dense, and vibrant cities full of walkable neighborhoods with a various mix of housing choices, schools, restaurants, transit, and services. We cannot have safe multimodal infrastructure without the density to support it and we cannot have equitable density without safe multimodal infrastructure. Outside of designing safe streets, my passions are sketching ideas for infill neighborhoods, floor plans, urban photography, and exploring our cities on foot or bike. Please check out the menus above for all of my ideas and also check out my YouTube, Instagram,  BlueSky Social, and Twitter accounts.

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