community planning
Town Centers
Streetscape
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| east main street, blue ridge
The City of Blue Ridge is a bustling tourist destination.
The downtown business district has an extensive
history, including the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway,
still running today. Narrow East Main Street is no
longer able to handle the number of daily visitors.
The jB+a Urban Design Studio worked with Blue
Ridge to address their growing pains with a Transportation
Enhancement (TE) grant. jB+a designed new
decorative concrete sidewalks with brick banding accents
and intersection plazas. Traffic and parking ef-
ficency issues were addressed, creating more space
for pedestrians. Crosswalks and a special street
plaza will also be built out of brick pavers. Decoractive
lights, furniture, and landscaping were approved
by the citizens and special islands were designed to
create landscape areas, complete will street trees.
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East Main Street, Blue Ridge
TE Streetscape Project
Blue Ridge, Georgia
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