Atlanta Commercial REALTORS® Make Smart Growth Real for Suburban Rail Station

Since 2005, the Atlanta Commercial Board REALTORS^® (ACBR) has been working to make quality growth a priority – not only for their 2,800 members, but for their entire metro area. In 2011, the ACBR had the opportunity to take their convictions to the next step — to help turn a smart growth plan into a viable commercial/residential development. The property in question was a rail station in Edgewood — an older suburb of mostly single-familyhomes southeast of downtown. Through a series of collaborative sessions with community stakeholders, an NAR Smart Growth grant, funds of their own, and public/private partnerships they made it happen.

• Read “A Force for Making Smart Growth Realty” (page 6 of Commercial Connections, an online publication)