Residents’ Plans For Hulsey Yard Put On Hold
Roxanne Scott
Rail company CSX announced last week it would reactivate Hulsey Yard, as reported by Curbed Atlanta.
Residents hoped the company would sell the large lot that sits among four intown neighborhoods and the Atlanta BeltLine.
For Nicole Seekeley, chair of the Hulsey Yard Study Committee, hearing about the rail company’s plan for the site was an upset.
“I think everybody is still excited about the opportunities that this property could hold,” she said. “We might just have to wait a little longer than we hoped.”
Hulsey Yard sits smack in the middle of the neighborhoods Reynoldstown, Cabbagetown, Inman Park and Old Fourth Ward.
Last year, Seekeley spoke proudly about how the neighborhoods got together in 2017 to begin the process of creating create a master plan.
“We didn’t want to do what other people might have done, which is to just plop out a plan without feedback for the neighborhood,” she said. “So we started from the very beginning, asking the neighborhoods what they wanted to see.”
What the neighbors wanted included a park, art space and better ways to connect the neighborhoods other than the Krog Street Tunnel.
But now there will be no green space or increased connectivity.
CSX announced last week that they will reactivate the lot and plans to run up to 25 trucks a day to transfer dry goods.
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