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Atlanta has foreclosed property and shuttered banks galore, as well as one of the largest park deficits of any metro area in the country. Ambitious as it sounds, a team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute is working on a solution for all those problems. Kevin Caravati, a senior research scientist at GTRI in Atlanta, is national program director for the “Redfields to Greenfields” project — an initiative intended to show how Atlanta and 10 other U.S. cities can turn the nation’s real estate meltdown into an asset.
