Decatur Looking At Building New Park with Lake in East Decatur Station

East Decatur Station Map

You may recall the reference to “greenspace” in our recent wrapup of all the happenings planned for East Decatur Station in the coming years.  Well, the AJC has dug up a few more details about that blob of greenish yellow between Talley Street and South Columbia on the map above.

According to the paper, the city is in conversations with AT&T to acquire the site, which according to the City’s Lyn Menne is mostly wetlands and ” build a regional retention center, and….turn the land into a park with a lake, similar to what they have at Atlantic Station.”

That would be quite a transformation from the “employee hub and vehicle storage site” that currently occupies the site.

Here’s a photo of the lake at Atlantic Station for your reference…

Atlantic-Station lake

Photo courtesy of Cooperative Conversation of America

12 thoughts on “Decatur Looking At Building New Park with Lake in East Decatur Station”


  2. This is a great idea. I especially like the retention pond in the Old Fourth Ward park. http://www.georgiaconservancy.org/blueprints/stormwater

  4. I’d rather see the city use the pond design at the OFW park next to Masquerade. That one has a beautiful walking path and a bandstand area. The pond at Atlanta station is pretty, but seems inaccessible and viewed from cars.

  6. Anyone know what the smaller green blob in the middle is? I ask because it’s currently where my daughter goes to daycare…

    1. New dog park, since B&GC is selling their property. Hope your daughter likes dogs.

  10. What will the “regional retention center” retain? Water? I’m confused.

    1. Water, as in “retention pond” that would let nature do it’s cleaning before the water continues into Shoal Creek.

  14. Sorry to be sour grapes, but this just looks like spending more tax money to build more housing to attract more kids to our bursting schools.

    1. Maybe your sour grapes can generate some potentially interesting wines. The tax revenue potential of the full East Decatur area is extensive, and certainly well above what’s necessary to offset the cost of the civic/park space that will help make and keep it valuable. And beyond that, the landowners have expressed their interest in including a school site so whatever enrollments get generated by new development can be absorbed.

      1. Yes, but isn’t it more important in the long run to keep our City as unattractive as possible, so as to fend off the hordes at our moatless borders???

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