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January 17, 09 |
Bayfront Park
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The 6th Annual Haitian Independence Festival. Kassav, T-Vice, CaRiMi, Hangout, Krezi, Gabel, Suave, Djakout, Nu-Look, Zenglen & More. |
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4 P.M To 12 A.M |
301 Biscayne Blvd |
Firmin |
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$25 |
Miami |
954-436-8585 |
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$More |
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ATLANTA
has long been known for its abundance of
trees
and
green spaces
to add natural setting in various areas of the city.
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| The privately
funded, state-owned $57 million
Centennial Olympic Park,
a 21-acre green space located downtown adjacent to the Georgia World Congress
Center, Georgia Dome and CNN Center, served as a central gathering place during
the Olympic Games. The park, the largest center-city park developed in
the United States in 20 years, will become a permanent civic symbol and
community focal point as well as a long-term catalyst and anchor for new
residential and commercial development downtown. The park connects the Georgia
World Congress Center and the Georgia Dome to the downtown hotel
district. The distinctive light towers, fountains, commemorative brick pavers
and popular Fountain of Rings will remain in the park.
The Fountain of Rings
is the world’s largest fountain utilizing the Olympic symbol of five
interconnecting rings. Other park features include a court of 24 flags – one
Olympic flag and 23 flags honoring the host countries of the modern Games; the
Southern Company Amphitheater, a natural amphitheater seating 1,200; a six-acre
great lawn; and pathways of commemorative bricks that stitch together pieces of
the park’s quilt-like landscape. The Centennial Plaza area with the
amphitheater and the Fountain of Rings is open daily with regularly scheduled
musical water shows. |
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The
Georgia International Plaza
features a six-acre landscaped urban park with walkways, park benches,
park-type lighting and a fountain. The facility, financed by the state of
Georgia and parking revenues, was finished in June 1996 and is an attractive
front door for the Georgia World Congress Center and Georgia Dome campus.
The pedestrian plaza serves as a gathering place for visitors and
conventioneers and is home to “Flair Across America,” a dramatic sculpture that
was donated to the state. The project also includes an additional 1,000-space
parking deck beneath the plaza.
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| Woodruff
Park in
downtown Atlanta underwent a $5 million facelift, courtesy of a grant from the
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, named for the late Coca-Cola president. Located
between Edgewood and Auburn avenues on Peachtree Street, the area features a
30-foot fountain, a waterfall, benches and a music pavilion. The bronze statue,
“Phoenix Rising from the Ashes,” a figure of a woman and a bird representing
Atlanta’s comeback after the Civil War, was relocated to the park’s western
corner from an obscure spot on another city street. |
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| Freedom
Park,
a 45-acre park with biking and jogging paths adjacent to Freedom Parkway near
the Carter Center in southeast Atlanta, has undergone a $13 million,
federally funded renovation. The property is owned by the state of Georgia and
is located on the site of the former Presidential Parkway. The area includes a
pedestrian and bicycle trail called Freedom Trail, providing access to all
facilities in and around the park, forming a section of the Atlanta/Stone
Mountain Trail, continuing into downtown Atlanta. |
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| The 180-acre
Piedmont
Park in
midtown Atlanta recently underwent a $66 million renovation. Improvements
include restored entrances, landscape improvements, a refurbished playground,
new sewer overflow facility, bike paths, promenade and a new visitors center. |
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| Hardy
Ivy Park,
located at the point where Peachtree and West Peachtree streets split, is a
small reminder of the city’s first permanent settler. A new pavilion placed in
the park is made from pieces of the city’s old Carnegie Library. |
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| Southside
Park,
Atlanta’s only softball park, is located in southeast Atlanta and has recently
been expanded and improved. |
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| Nine miles
along the Chattahoochee River will be the site of
Chattahoochee Park,
an extension of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area,
sponsored by the city of Atlanta, the PATH Foundation and the Turner
Foundation. It will serve as a Natural Resource Conservation area for the
protection of the river’s floodplains, wetlands, creeks and mature forests, and
also as a wildlife corridor for migrating birds and the movement of regional
wildlife. Park of the development will include renovation of the state’s
historic and cultural resources such as fortifications from the War of 1812,
the Civil War and
Cherokee Indian villages
dating back 12,000 years. Other plans include a riverside park with foot trails
that wind through the woods and meadows with interpretive exhibits along the
way. Portions of the park opened in 1996 with completion scheduled in 1999. |
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In recent
years, the nonprofit PATH Foundation, in cooperation with the city of Atlanta
and DeKalb County, began constructing a system of multi-use greenway trails in
metropolitan Atlanta. These hard-surface, off-street trails will be used by
walkers, joggers, roller-bladers, cyclists and others. To date, the foundations
have constructed more than 18 miles of greenways and more than 22 miles of
on-street bike routes. The 18-mile Stone Mountain/Atlanta Trail connects
the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to
Stone Mountain Park
via
Freedom Park,
the
Martin Luther king, Jr. National Historic Site,
the
Carter Center
and the
Fernbank Museum of Natural History.
Portions of the project were funded by the Georgia Department of
Transportation.
The seven-mile Trolley Lane Trail connects downtown Atlanta to Agnes
Scott College in Decatur via Georgia State University, the Martin Luther King,
Jr. Historic Site, and the historic Cabbagetown, East Lake and Reynoldstown
neighborhoods. The 10.6- mile Westside Trail connects Greenbriar Mall in
southwest Atlanta to downtown Atlanta via the Hightower MARTA station. This
route connects all of the MARTA stations on the west line and passes the
Atlanta University complex and the Georgia World Congress Center/Georgia Dome/
Omni Coliseum complex. A portion of the
Chastain Greenway Trail,
consisting of a 3.3-mile loop around Chastain Park in northwest Atlanta, is now
under construction. The PATH Foundation and the city of Atlanta are planning
more trails throughout the metropolitan area. The project will build upon
existing on- and off-street routes and comprise some of the approximately 350
miles of on-street bike routes to be constructed in Atlanta during the next 15
years. |
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| The city also has a new Bicycle Parking Program and
has installed some 190 bike racks in public spaces throughout the city in 1996
– most of them downtown. Approximately 180 more were installed in 1997. The
city of Atlanta has also begun the New Sidewalk Construction Program,
which anticipates the construction of more than 100 miles of new sidewalks in
the city over the next 15 years. Of the 136 projects now included in this
program, more than 100 are located adjacent to bus routes and 10 link to
transit stations. These projects are intended to improve the safety and
accessibility of the pedestrian network throughout Atlanta by linking
residences to schools, shopping opportunities and mass transit. |
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