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Fort Valley - Making Connections
Fort Valley - Making Connections
Author(s)
Campbell, Travis
Carpenter, Ann
Dyson, Wendy
Johnson, Raushan
Obregón, Oliver
Patterson, Lynn
Pearlstein, Alex
Poile, Aidan
Ward, Jason
Leigh, Nancey Green
Skach, John
Dagenhart, Richard
Carpenter, Ann
Dyson, Wendy
Johnson, Raushan
Obregón, Oliver
Patterson, Lynn
Pearlstein, Alex
Poile, Aidan
Ward, Jason
Leigh, Nancey Green
Skach, John
Dagenhart, Richard
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Abstract
The Georgia Institute of Technology City and Regional Brownfield Redevelopment
Studio began with a focus on 37 sites that were identified as brownfields in Fort Valley
when its application for EPA Brownfield grants was made. It soon became clear that, in
the broadest sense of the term, Fort Valley is a brownfield community. Consequently,
the brownfield redevelopment plan presented here is, in fact, a community-wide
redevelopment plan. For the key to addressing wide-scale scattered brownfields in
a community is found by placing the sites within the overall community context.
An overall redevelopment focus can help strengthen the local economy and market
conditions which, in turn, can generate the interest in, and demand for, re-using its wide
array of brownfield sites.
While the history of Fort Valley suggests that is has been a typical small southern
town, divided down the middle by railroad tracks and race, the full potential of Fort
Valley's future rests upon the town resolving that "there is no other side of the tracks."
This requires enhancing the value and ability to contribute of all members of the
community.
The town has to resolve and rectify past environmental injustices and demonstrate its
commitment to prevent future environmental injustices. This requires the incorporation
of current business and economic development activities. Most importantly, it will
require making connections between the poorly functioning districts and nodes of
the community so that they can augment and support each other. Successfully making
connections will mean that the whole of Fort Valley can become greater than the sum
of its disparate parts.
Thus, the focus of this redevelopment plan is on making connections for Fort Valley.
The research and analysis of the studio has revealed numerous and exciting proposals
for making connections that will transform all of Fort Valley into a quality small-town
for everyone.
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Date Issued
2002
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Masters Project
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Studio Report