Atlanta City Councilmember Natalyn Archibong will host a community meeting on Dec. 3 for the public to see the final draft of the plan for Imagine Memorial, the design studio project to re-imagine the Memorial Drive corridor. The meeting will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Old Council Chambers at City Hall, 55 Trinity Ave. There will also be an opportunity to discuss the draft plan with members of the design team after its conclusion. This fall, the design team from the Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning drew together the previous Master Plans for the corridor and collected new data from research in the field. Additionally, the team met with neighborhood residents, community organizations, stakeholders and businesses to develop a comprehensive plan to shape future development along Memorial Drive. Register to attend at imaginememorial.eventbrite.com.
Just in time for Thanksgiving, low-income families from District 2’s Boulevard corridor have launched their own food co-operative. The Boulevard Food Co-Op is the result of a year of planning and monthly community-based work sessions in partnership with the Atlanta Community Food Bank and Truly Living Well Urban Agriculture. The 15 founding families of the co-op come from the Bedford Pines community and the Atlanta Housing Authority’s Cosby Spear highrise. On the first and third Thursday of each month, the families will gather at Fort Street Memorial United Methodist Church to distribute food from the Atlanta Community Food Bank and Truly Living Well’s urban farm. For a nominal fee, each family receives 40 pounds of food from the food bank as well as fresh produce from Truly Living Well. In 2015, the co-op will expand to other local families. To learn more about the Boulevard Food Co-Op, visit District2Atlanta on Facebook.
The Atlanta BeltLine Partnership has appointed Chuck Meadows as the organization’s new executive director. Meadows grew up in Washington Park, an Atlanta BeltLine Westside neighborhood before graduating from Morehouse College and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He will step down from his post as President of Jim Adams LLC, an urban agriculture social enterprise, and become chairman of the board. Meadows has also served at the Metro Atlanta Chamber as vice president for public policy.
