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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The idea to more intimately link 45 Atlanta neighborhoods through a common trailway began as a graduate thesis at Georgia Tech. In 1999, a city planning and architecture student named Ryan Gravel proposed an overhaul of an abandoned railroad corridor, a 120-page proposal he expected to gather dust. Instead a city councilwoman heard about the proposal and seized on it, using the Beltline as an economic and community development tool. “It’s not only changing the physical form of the city," Ryan Gravel told The New York Times, "it’s changing the way we think about the city.”
