The City of Atlanta is applying for a grant to turn a forested area in southwest Atlanta into a new neighborhood park.
Through a sparse forest and down a hill, there’s a forest with a little lake tucked into a neighborhood off Campbellton Road.
“The neighbors here that were so insistent that this park was beautiful and it needed some attention and hadn’t been given any attention for quite a while,” said Tara Buckner, an urban planner with the City of Atlanta’s Department of Parks and Recreation.
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