The Midtown Improvement District rolled out its vision for Midtown Green at the annual Midtown Alliance Meeting on Tuesday, one year after announcing the first property purchase in the district's history. The four-acre site at 98 14th Street has sat long vacant. Now it's slated to become what CEO Kevin Green called a cultural destination without walls, open, accessible, and always evolving.
Midtown Alliance hired Field Operations, the firm behind New York City's High Line, to design the concept. The renderings show a layered landscape with walking paths, public art, pavilions, and performance spaces spread across a 70-foot grade change. Rather than flatten the site, the design works with the topography. Field Operations partner Sarah Astheimer said it will make the four-plus acres feel expansive.
Midtown Improvement District is one of the only Community Improvement Districts in Georgia to own property. A year of community input shaped the design. Construction timeline and final funding plan were not announced with the vision reveal, though the district previously took on debt for the first time to buy the land.
