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Episode Description

Piedmont Park is Atlanta’s backyard, but it has never stood still.

In this episode of ATL: All Things Local, we walk the full timeline of Piedmont Park. From the Walker family’s $450 land purchase in 1834, to the Cotton States & International Exposition, to today’s $160M+ expansion tied to the Atlanta BeltLine and the growing footprint of the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

We cover:

• Where the original Walker cabin sat and why it matters

• The Active Oval, Auburn vs Georgia, and the Piedmont Driving Club

• Olmsted’s vision and how the park was designed as a health-focused retreat

• Why Atlanta keeps building beautiful things and then tearing them down

• Festivals, Music Midtown, weddings, and the business of a public park

• The unfinished BeltLine, sewer infrastructure, and the infamous “stink stretch”

• The Monroe and Piedmont redevelopment, density battles, and what’s coming next

If you live near the park, run the BeltLine, or sit in traffic on Monroe wondering what happened, this episode connects the dots between history, growth, and what’s coming.