Belt Line - Park Component

Park Component

The BeltLine plan calls for the creation of a series of parks throughout the city creating what the working plan, The Beltline Emerald Necklace, calls the thirteen "Beltline Jewels". These would be connected by the trail and transit components of the plan. The Trust for Public Land first identified areas that would be appropriate for parkland, and spurred the inclusion of the park component in the current plan. The Trust is currently active in acquiring land for the project, which it intends to sell to the city after bonds have been issued from the beltline tax-allocation district.

The plan would expand these existing parks:

• Enota Park from 0.3 to 10 acres (40,000 m2)
• Maddox Park from 52 to 114 acres (0.46 km2)
• Ardmore Park from 2 to 8 acres (32,000 m2)

and create these new parks:

• Peachtree Creek Park 65 acres (260,000 m2) at Peachtree Creek near Buckhead
• Hillside Park 28 acres (110,000 m2) at the current McDaniel CEO facility
• Holtzclaw Park 2 acres (8,100 m2)
• Historic Fourth Ward Park (formerly North Avenue Park 63 acres (250,000 m2) at the to-be-renovated Ponce City Market (formerly the Sears building, then City Hall East)
• Waterworks Park 204 acres (0.83 km2)
• Westside Park 351 acres (1.42 km2) - roughly twice the size of Piedmont Park - on the site of the former Bellwood Quarry. The 100 feet (30 m)-deep former gravel pit will become a reservoir.