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All about the BeltLine

August 19, 2010 | by Rachel | filed under: BeltLine

We’re all about it. And we think you should be too because it will take Atlanta from a moderately cool city to an uber-cool city that rocks.

It’s “the country’s most comprehensive urban renewal project,”  so says WSB, which, as you can see by the link, is also all about it.

http://www.wsbtv.com/beltline/index.html

What I can’t understand is why the buzz seems limited to people “ITP” — that’s inside the perimeter for anyone reading this who is not from the ATL, a.k.a. even further “OTP,” which is an insult that ITP-ers use for OTP-ers. As in: “Oh no. I would never go there, not even for Target. It’s way OTP.”

What I also can’t understand is why every project or group nowadays goes by a compound word that’s mashed together so the second word starts with a capital letter a la BeltLine.

In any case, the project is a dream come true. Specifically, Ryan Gravel’s dream. It was his thesis as a 25-year-old grad student at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture. The 127-page report, written in 1999, is also on WSB’s Web site.

Hooray for WSB for its dedicated, thorough coverage on such constructive (yes, pun intended) news.