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	Piedmont Park--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		The grounds of this park were originally used in the late 19th century as the driving grounds and racetrack of the Gentleman's Driving Club.
		The landscapes and vistas of Piedmont Park, as designed in the early 20th century, largely remain today, and provide much needed green space for the increasingly urbanized neighborhoods surrounding the park.
		Piedmont Park is bordered by 10th St., Southern Railway, and Piedmont Rd. It is open to the public 6:00am to 11:00pm daily.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/atlanta/pie.htm (372 words)

	Piedmont Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piedmont Park is the "Central Park" of Atlanta, Georgia, located in Midtown, north of the city center.
		In 1904, the city bought the park on June 15th, and in 1912 the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect for Central Park in New York) John and Frederick, Jr.
		Piedmont Park is considered the focal point of the vibrant Midtown community of Atlanta.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piedmont_Park (566 words)

	Piedmont Park -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Piedmont Park is the " (A large park in Manhattan) Central Park" of (Click link for more info and facts about Atlanta, Georgia) Atlanta, Georgia, located in (Click link for more info and facts about Midtown) Midtown, north of the city center.
		A (The 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it)) centennial celebration was held for the park in June 2004.
		Supporters say that the parking deck is a hidden section of the park and frees up green space and helps relieve the parking problems the park has been plagued with.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pi/piedmont_park.htm (412 words)

	Piedmont Park may get garage \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Piedmont Park Conservancy is considering the project, said Debbie McCown, director of the private nonprofit conservancy, which manages the park under agreement with City Hall.
		Piedmont Park has a lot with 150 spaces, and is within walking distance of the MARTA train line.
		Friends of Piedmont Park, a park preservation advocacy group, argues that the Piedmont Park Conservancy is commercializing the park with special events and revenue generating projects such as the parking garage.
	www.ajc.com /metro/content/metro/atlanta/0404/26piedmont.html (680 words)

	Piedmont Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1982, Piedmont Park was the location of the first football game in the South between Auburn University and the University of Georgia.
		In 1904, the city bought the park on June 15th, and later the sons of Frederick Law Olmstead (landscape architect for Central Park in New York) designed a master plan for the park.
		A centennial was held for the park in June 2004.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/piedmont_park (318 words)

	TSW and Associates \| Redevelopment and Improvement of Piedmont Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		TSW has been involved in Piedmont Park enhancements since 1993.
		Tunnell-Spangler-Walsh and Associates is developing a master plan for the Piedmont Park Conservancy and the City of Atlanta covering more than 50 acres of currently unusable and inaccessible land in and adjacent to Piedmont Park.
		Piedmont Park, first developed as the site of the Cotton States Exposition in 1895, has evolved into Atlanta's premier urban open space boasting over 4 million visitors a year.
	www.tunspan.com /projects_piedmontpark.htm (1082 words)

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		Piedmont Park has also served as an important meeting point for Atlanta’s citizens, whether they are engaging in leisure activities, or gathering for special artistic or performance events.
		The Piedmont Exposition and the Cotton States and International Exposition were integral to the actual modernization of the city of Atlanta, with most of the growth and development of the city being facilitated after the events.
		Today Piedmont Park continues to be used by the citizens of Atlanta as a place to come together with their families and friends, to play with their dogs, and most importantly to utilize the park as a temporary escape from urban life.
	monarch.gsu.edu /piedmont/P2.htm (1782 words)

	Piedmont Park
		Piedmont Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, America's most noted landscape artist.
		Piedmont Parks grounds were part of the battle at Peachtree Creek during the civil war, at the time of general Sherman's attack on Atlanta.
		Piedmont Park is the oldest and largest park in the Atlanta Metro region.
	www.angelfire.com /in/piedmontpark/theparknew.html (243 words)

	Piedmont Park deck OK'd again \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Debbie McCown, executive director of the Piedmont Park Conservancy (in green), counts hands as the board votes Tuesday to allow a parking deck near the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
		For the second time, the Board of Directors of the Piedmont Park Conservancy voted overwhelmingly to build a six-story parking deck in Piedmont Park as part of a master plan that will add 53 acres to the Midtown park.
		Douglas Abramson, who presides over the group Friends of Piedmont Park, which led opposition to the deck, said he was not surprised by the vote.
	www.ajc.com /metro/content/metro/atlanta/1204/22piedmont.html (495 words)

	BRO News: Piedmont, CA Public Skate Park... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Piedmont is one of the first cities in Northern California to open its skate park to bicycle use.
		The Mayor of Piedmont, Al Peters, is to be highly commended for his dissenting view at the meeting, stating his preference to allow the BMX riders into the park from the beginning.
		Park riding involves jumping and, upon completion, grinding or balancing of some kind, or in mid-air some kind of twisting or turning of the rider's body or vehicle," she said.
	bmxriders.org /bro/news.view.cfm?contid=80 (5274 words)

	Piedmont Park in Atlanta, GA - AOL City Guide
		Enter the Piedmont Park Conservancy in recent years, in partnership with the City of Atlanta, raising funds to rehabilitate, enhance and protect the park and you've now got a burgeoning urban oasis, living up more and more to its fabulous potential.
		Dog lovers and their canine companions congregate with the like-minded for convivial gatherings at the fenced-in, off-leash 'dog park.' The park is a classic for people watching, especially on weekends and holidays and during festivals when it can feel like a sea of humanity.
		Oak Hill, running along the 10th Street side of the park, entered the new century with a transformation which included new green Bermuda turf, paths, park benches and the planting of 180 more trees to compliment the historic ones that still flutter in breezes on the hill.
	search.cityguide.aol.com /atlanta/entertainment/piedmont-park/v-51813 (649 words)

	Great Public Spaces: Piedmont Park \| Project for Public Spaces (PPS) - Placemaking for Communities
		The Park's lush green spaces, scenic paths and athletic fields, Lake Clara Meer, and a new off-leash dog park draw residents of all ages and backgrounds.
		Despite this, the park's beautiful vegetation continues to flourish, thanks to a public-private partnership between the City of Atlanta and Piedmont Park Conservancy (PPC) to maintain and preserve this urban treasure (the Conservancy is nearly halfway through a $25 million restoration, financed largely by private donations).
		Piedmont Park is the best place to observe Atlanta’s diverse humanity firsthand, as children and adults of all different races and backgrounds relax together.
	www.pps.org /gps/one?public_place_id=596 (1470 words)

	Atlanta Piedmont Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Piedmont is surrounded on three sides by the Alps mountain range, including the Monviso, where the Po river rises.
		A "piedmont" (piemonte in Italian) is a foothill, and "piedmont" has become a generic designation forfoothill regions in geography.
		Passive recreation is that which emphasizes the open-space aspect of a Park and whichinvolves a low level of development, including picnic areas and trails.
	www.bodawg.com /point/38799-atlanta-piedmont-park.html (615 words)

	TheStoryGroup.com: TBS awards Piedmont Park Conservancy $1.2 million (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Piedmont Park Conservancy announced last week that it had received a $1.2 million gift from Turner Broadcasting System in honor of the park’s 100th anniversary milestone.
		Piedmont Park Conservancy also plans to host a city wide 100th birthday party and picnic day in the park on June 12.
		Piedmont Park Conservancy has raised more than $17 million in private funds to complete the first half of improvements outlined in the 1995 Master Plan, including the renovation of Oak Hill, the lake and the Meadow.
	www.the-stories.com /gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid:3026 (392 words)

	Hill Street Press \| New Books
		For the hundredth anniversary of Atlanta's Piedmont Park in June 2004, the Piedmont Park Conservancy, under the editorship of Darlene Roth and Jeff Kemph, has drawn the definitive, lavishly illustrated history of the city's backyard in Piedmont Park: Celebrating Atlanta's Common Ground.
		Home to the Piedmont Arts Festival, AIDS Walk, Atlanta political rallies, concerts from everyone from The B-52s to the ASO—as well as countless ballgames and courtings—the park has over two million visitors each year.
		Founded in 1989, the Piedmont Park Conservancy is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and restoration of Piedmont Park as a vital, healthy green space and as a cultural and recreational resource which enhances the quality of life for all Atlantans.
	www.hillstreetpress.com /PiedmontPark.html (669 words)

	Market time near at Piedmont Park \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Piedmont Park Conservancy is looking for more farmers, artisans, and craftsmen to join Nufer at the second Green Market to sell Georgia-grown produce and specialty food items.
		The Green Market was introduced last year as a part of the Piedmont Park centennial celebration and is hosted by Piedmont Park Conservancy, in conjunction with the city of Atlanta Parks, Recreation, and Bureau of Cultural Affairs.
		Piedmont Park Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that oversees the restoration and the majority of the daily maintenance at the park through individual and corporate donations.
	www.ajc.com /metro/content/metro/atlanta/0205/24green.html (411 words)

	Paving Piedmont Park? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On May 19, Piedmont Park Conservancy Executive Director Debbie McCown stood in front of 40 citizens concerned about the future of the park and, pointing at a steep hill covered in high grass, weeds and trees, told them the land might soon be replaced with a parking deck big enough for 500 cars.
		As secretary of Friends of Piedmont Park, Abramson is one of 15 volunteers whose self-appointed mission is to watch over the park -- and keep an eye on the conservancy.
		She said several times during the public meeting that the parking deck was merely a proposal.
	www.cpt-atlanta.org /article.php3?id_article=64 (698 words)

	TheStoryGroup.com: North Woods plan to create new opportunity for Piedmont Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With record crowds drawn to Piedmont Park every weekend by the streak of favorable weather, the Piedmont Park Conservancy continues to plan for future use and crowds, including a plan to improve the area of the park that has come to be known as the North Woods.
		These six principles are: increase the amount of usable park land, create sustainable public green space of the highest quality, increase and enhance pedestrian access to the park, increase and enhance access for visitors coming from outside walking distance, ensure long-term sustainability and provide meaningful experiences and activities for populations currently underserved by the park.
		The diverse populations using Piedmont Park are represented in the advisory board of almost 40 people, consisting of members from various groups, organizations, neighborhoods, conservancy advocates and city representatives.
	www.the-stories.com /gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid:3180 (747 words)

	Piedmont Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Interactive walking tours of historic Piedmont Park, sponsored by the Piedmont Park Conservancy, are available every Saturday at 11:00 a.m.
		Understand the many influences which shaped the landscape such as the Piedmont Industrial Exposition of 1887, the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895 and the design produced by the nation's premier landscape architectural firm, the Olmsted Brothers, in 1912.
		The Visitors' Center is located inside the 12th Street entrance to Piedmont Park, at the intersection of 12th Street and Piedmont Avenue.
	www.midtownatlanta.org /ppark.htm (284 words)

	Piedmont Parks
		The east entrance to the park is at 711 Highland Avenue where large sloping lawns surround the city¹s Community Hall.
		An informal park on eight acres of land in an abandoned rock quarry, Dracena Park consists of two separate levels connected with a series of pathways.
		A manicured jewel on just an acre of land, Crocker Park sits at the corner of Crocker Avenue and Hampton Road on property that was once the home of Wallace Alexander, one of the city¹s founding fathers.
	www.ci.piedmont.ca.us /html/visitor/parks.htm (478 words)

	History of Piedmont Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Piedmont Park was designed by Joseph Forsyth Johnson in 1887 when he landscaped the grounds for the Piedmont Exposition in that year, creating the oval along Piedmont Avenue, formerly a racetrack and now playing fields.
		Although Frederick Law Olmsted was consulted about designing the exposition grounds in 1894 and his sons actually produced a plan for the public park in 1909, the Olmsteds were never commissioned to implement any of their plans.
		Piedmont Park covers 185 acres, and is adjacent to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.
	www.midtownatlanta.us /content/HistNarrPiedmontPark1.shtml (217 words)

	Project for Public Spaces (PPS) \| Community Committees: A Primer from Piedmont Park Conservancy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Community Committee for the Piedmont Park Conservancy - the nonprofit supporting Atlanta, Georgia's flagship park - is instrumental in providing a forum for communication, input and relationship-building between the Conservancy and the park's many constituencies.
		To assist in the achievement of our mission to preserve and restore Piedmont Park through partnership and communication between the conservancy and key community organizations and leaders.
		To provide opportunities for discussion and input regarding improvements to the park, and to seek solutions which will make the park a more pleasant, healthy and safe place for all.
	www.pps.org /topics/community/engagecomm/Piedmont_Park_CCC (569 words)

	Friends of Piedmont Park - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		December 21: New Vote on the parking garage proposal by the PPC Board which approved the 800 car deck plan again, but this time the public was allowed to be present.
		The PPC is developing some strategies to improve underutilized portions of the Park, but buried in those plans is a proposal to construct the parking deck, primarily to serve the private interests of PPC and ABG (e.g., events such as weddings and corporate meetings).
		In the 1970's cars were banned from driving through Piedmont Park to make it a more tranquil place, to eliminate vehicular conflicts with pedestrians, and to return parkland to "park" purposes.
	www.friendsofpiedmontpark.org (1256 words)

	Friends of Piedmont Park - FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Since people often come to the park to exercise, they are just as likely to park in the neighborhoods and walk to the park for free, perhaps leaving us with a largely unused parking facility.
		The expansion of and improvements to Piedmont Park are not tied to the parking deck and will occur even if the parking deck is not built.
		As information about the parking deck is shared with the public, more and more groups are voicing their opposition to it and are urging the City to develop a better solution.
	www.friendsofpiedmontpark.org /Pages/FAQ.html (1035 words)

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