Joe Urban | Sam Newberg, Urbanist


Longing for Atlanta

Dateline: 6:06 pm July 17, 2009 Filed under:

I’ve never seen anything like it. Descend from street level at Atlantic Station in to one of the numerous access points, and you are not underground. Not even close. You are still three stories up, as the ground level is the third level of underground parking below the street. You can see for what seems like an eternity in every direction in a bizarre underworld of parking. I had been hearing about Atlantic Station for some time, as it is held up as a good example of TOD and infill. I was in Atlanta for a short time on business,…