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Buckhead Gets Funding To Develop 2 New Parks

July 6th, 2017

Buckhead is getting more than $2 million from the city of Atlanta to develop two new parks.

The city already owns four acres in the Pine Hills neighborhood, on Lenox Road, and 0.7 acres on Old Ivy Road, near PATH400. Now it has allocated the money to turn the parcels into parks, with accessible walking paths, pavilions and playgrounds.

Atlanta City Councilman Howard Shook, who represents Buckhead, says designs for the Old Ivy park are already underway.

“There will be some groundbreaking work on that fairly quickly, I would think. There’s been enough back and forth that there’s a pretty detailed, fleshed-out design that is already on file,” Shook says.

But Shook says planning for the Pine Hills park has just started, and he expects the design phase to take at least two months.

“The Pine Hills property is really going to be starting from scratch and, you know, the neighbors and the parks department folks will have to come together and draw up a mutually acceptable design,” Shook says.

The city of Atlanta says these parks should break ground around mid-fall.