Walkability Gains Popularity With Metro Atlanta Developers

26 November 2007 - 6:00am

Many new developments in metropolitan Atlanta are embracing walkability.

"The buzzword for Atlanta developers in the aughts is walkable."

"Major bucks and brainwaves are being channeled into the belief that an increasingly high-density city must provide accessible, attractive public gathering places for people who will be spending more of their leisure time burning shoe leather instead of rubber."

"Developers are spending as much time designing boulevards, public art and street-level commercial nooks as designer kitchens and luxury master suites to make their projects attractive to buyers."

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 20, 2007
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