MARTA has entered into a partnership with the Housing Authority of DeKalb County to develop a 250-unit affordable community at Kensington Station, located just Inside the Perimeter in Decatur. MARTA officials in January promised a “robust community engagement process” before redevelopment of land around Bankhead station moves forward. The five and ½ acres in question are at the doorstep of Microsoft’s planned 90-acre Atlanta campus, which is expected to break ground sometime next year. For context, that’s roughly the size of Centennial Olympic Park.Įarlier this year, MARTA issued a request for proposals from developers for a TOD around its Bankhead station, the last stop on the Green Line.
Located near the junction of Interstate 20 and I-285, the transit station has 22 acres available for development, according to MARTA. Here's a quick recap of what's happening elsewhere:Īt the westernmost point of the Blue Line, MARTA’s board this week awarded a master-planning contract to the HKS architecture firm for the H.E. It continues a groundswell of TOD activity along the Blue/Green Lines, where the Marchon mixed-use complex recently opened at King Memorial station, the Quill apartments are coming online at Edgewood/Candler Park station, and an affordable-housing project is slated to break ground this fall at Avondale Station. The MARTA board’s actions this week advance pre-development work on TODs at opposite ends of the east-west line: H.E. MARTA leaders call the transit-oriented developments crucial in providing more housing and additional funding for the agency, which in turn should improve the system’s performance and rider experience. That means an additional five stations-from Bankhead to Brookhaven and Stone Mountain-are in the process of seeing various types of development sprout from parking lots and other acreage. MARTA’s Board of Directors took significant steps today toward developing underused land around two more of its 38 rail stations.
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