{"323581":{"#nid":"323581","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Under guidance of prof. Dobbins, Georgia Tech students devise framework plan for the Memorial Drive corridor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMemorial Drive was buzzing a decade ago as homebuyers picked up units located close to Downtown Atlanta and Midtown, but at prices that reflected the street\u2019s gritty urban texture. These days, humming may be a better word to describe the pace of development. Another difference? Now there\u2019s a bona fide effort to plan for the future of the corridor along a 5.5-mile stretch from I-75\/85 to Candler Road. A group of Georgia Tech graduate students, working under the guidance of professor Mike Dobbins, are devising a framework plan for the Memorial Drive corridor. A handful of Tech students presented results of their first three weeks of work at a meeting late Monday afternoon at Drew Charter School\u2019s Senior Academy. The finished product is due by the end of the year. Their plan would create a unified vision for an urban corridor that transitions from an industrial nature closer to the state Capitol to houses and mom-and-pop shops as the road makes a straight line toward Decatur and Stone Mountain.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2014-09-10 12:26:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:14","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"maritime","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/saportareport.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/memorial-drive-planners-face-mash-up-of-serene-homes-scenes-compared-to-ukrainian-civil-war\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"489","name":"atlanta"},{"id":"53221","name":"dobbins"},{"id":"102631","name":"downtown"},{"id":"11060","name":"framework"},{"id":"102621","name":"memorial drive"},{"id":"10788","name":"Midtown"},{"id":"166847","name":"students"},{"id":"167507","name":"studio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}