With the World Cup packed up, intown Atlanta gets back to the everyday business of building, eating, and arguing over its streets. The city broke ground on an $18.5 million Monroe Drive Safe Streets redesign a decade in the making, while Invest Atlanta and the BeltLine rolled out up to $30,000 in down payment help for longtime residents on the south and west sides. Buckhead says a temporary goodbye to Apt 4B, Little Five Points lines up more tacos, and Amy Sherald's acclaimed 'American Sublime' hangs at the High Museum through September. In Summerhill, neighbors are fighting to keep the 1996 Olympic cauldron right where it belongs. Mayor Andre Dickens, meanwhile, took a victory lap on six weeks of World Cup festivities that turned Downtown into the center of the soccer world.
Atlanta Breaks Ground on a Safer Monroe Drive After a Decade of Pushing
The city broke ground on an $18.5 million redesign of Monroe Drive that trades a lane of traffic for a center turn lane and safer crossings, a project a decade in the making.
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