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A New EcoHome on Edgewood Avenue
My client broke ground April 1st on 546 Edgewood Avenue. Christened LEEDing Edge, this home is on track to be one of Atlanta's first LEED for Homes Platinum Certified residences. Look for the location on the map below at the corner of Howell St. and Edgewood Avenue. Click on the property and home for sale icons for more information on this ground-breaking home.
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Burke Sisco
For more mapping fun, check out the Walk Score map for this property. The score of 83 is defined as "Very Walkable." You can see from the map that there are lots of stores, restaurants, coffee shops, bars, businesses, etc. within walking distance. I got out and walked around the neighborhood yesterday and found several very cool destinations like the Thumb's Up Diner and Java-ology Coffee House within a casual stroll of the address. Alternative transportation is included in the mix with a MARTA bus stop and PATH bike lane out the future front door and the King Memorial MARTA Station only 1/2 mile away.
The nearby destination with the most symbolic significance is the Martin Luther King Jr. birthplace which is not more than 500 paces away. As gas prices approach $4 a gallon, the future resident of 546 Edgewood Ave., if willing to walk, could declare some measure of freedom from rising gas prices.
Burke Sisco
Creating off-the-grid, energy-efficient housing in “greenfield” suburbs and rural enclaves will still require each adult in the family to commute to separate daily needs in separate automobiles, canceling out many of the energy gains. Over the last 30 years, the number of miles Americans drive has grown three times faster than the population and almost twice as fast vehicle registrations. Spread-out development-sprawl is the main reason for that. Research suggests that people who move into compact, walk-able neighborhoods are making as big a contribution to fighting global warming as those who buy hybrid vehicles but remain tied to car-dependent lifestyles. We need to make living in more dense configurations appealing.
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If you scroll east two or three blocks on the map, you'll see a broad red band I've drawn on the map. That's the future BeltLine right-of-way. According to the Google Maps distance measurement feature, it's exactly 1251.14 feet away from LEEDing Edge.
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