A major project is underway at the Atlanta Botanical Garden that will bring walkways, bridges, flowering shrubs and water features to its undeveloped northern end.
Construction has already begun on the project's first phase, which should be complete by April 2015. The cost is estimated at $7 million.
The improvements will all take place in an area called the Storza Woods, along Piedmont Avenue.
One of the last urban woodlands in the metro area, this copse of old hardwoods was fenced off for years, and attracted the sort of visitors — vandals, drug dealers, seekers of illicit sex — that were not appreciated by the garden’s managers.
In 2010, that changed. The Canopy Walk opened, a treetop-level walkway that brought visitors safely across the garden’s main automobile entrance and ushered them down into the woods, where walking paths were created.
Now this 15-acre wooded parcel will be enhanced with shade blooming flowers and native azaleas arranged in “garden rooms.”
Read more here: http://on-myajc.com/1safKOc
