Section of Ponce to be closed

June 6, 2012

To enable Eastside Trail construction, portions of Ponce: between Ponce de Leon Place and the Midtown Place Shopping Center (across from Ponce City Market) will be closed June 8 – 11 (9 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday) June 15 – 18 (9 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday) Download the road closure map The…

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Briarcliff Summit renovation

January 27, 2012

The path is now cleared for Evergreen Housing to buy the Briarcliff Summit at Ponce and N. Highland. This project has big public safety aspects for the neighborhood and together with Ponce City Market serves as a beacon of progress along Ponce.

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Ponce de Leon Avenue

March 21, 2010

The AJC reran the good story about PDL Avenue and its many problems and challenges that affect all of us on a daily basis. And speaking of PDL – our friends at MPSA (Midtown Ponce Security Alliance) have an interesting conversation about PDL problems.

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The PDL Avenue CVS Construction Site

November 24, 2009

At first this area only presented a pedestrian hazard with the destruction of the sidewalks here – but City of Atlanta had the contractor move the “sidewalk closed” sign eastward to PDL Place solving that problem. But, now the contractor has moved out into the traffic lanes – effectively forcing westbound traffic in the curbside…

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PDL Avenue

October 3, 2009

The CVS drugstore construction project seems to have somewhat scattered the wannabe workers along PDL, but pedestrian access to the shopping area is still sometimes blocked right at the entrance next to this construction site. It is my hope that the new CVS will not allow the narrow sidewalks along this area to be blocked…

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