A Welcome to Engage the Community
Courtland Street Improvements Project Slideshow
A plan by the city of Atlanta and Central Atlanta Progress to upgrade Courtland Street has prompted St. Luke’s to embark on one of the most exciting enhancements our campus has experienced in years.
The plan, now in its early stages, imagines a transformation of the entire Courtland Street side of the church campus to bring a welcoming new exterior and gateway that is on par with the image the church projects toward the Peachtree Street corridor. Clients walking into Crossroads Community Ministries or the Training and Counseling Center and parishioners coming into the Courtland Street parking lot would find themselves greeted by a new streetscape and spruced up exteriors that reflect the “Campus of Miracles” that the St. Luke’s community treasures.
The city is already planning to transform Courtland into a corridor that will serve the developing residential neighborhood. The plans call for a wide pedestrian-friendly sidewalk, generous bike lanes, and a reduced footprint for automobile traffic. Courtland is a high-use street, and more people see that side of our church campus every day than view our front entrance on Peachtree Street. The city is also preparing to redevelop the nearby former Civic Center property into a mixed-used community with hundreds of new housing units. The first impression for those residents will be our Courtland Street side.
This is a big project that will likely take several years to complete. It makes sense for St. Luke’s to do as many of its upgrades as possible while the city is upgrading the street, sidewalks and landscaping. The Rev. Winnie Varghese has generously asked to help kick off this project by directing gifts in honor of her installation toward the Courtland Street Project. The St. Luke’s property committee is working on plans and a budget for the enhancements. Gifts in honor of Winnie’s installment will allow the early phases of the Courtland Street project to begin.