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Today’s walk covered the area immediately around West Sixth Brewery and Coolalvin park. There is definitely an energy here, centered around the retail on Sixth and Jefferson. This is an older neighborhood and is outwardly focused, but not overly so. There are occasional brightly-painted houses but nothing engages the street quite the way the brewery does.
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The biggest story here is an essentially unwalkable street (Todd’s Road between Palumbo and Woodhill) with two mini-neighborhoods on each side, completely cut off from nearby opportunities (including the soon-to-be-completed Eagle Creek branch library). The neighborhoods themselves are unique, with some cute homes and mixture of density.
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The second walk in a row though a neighborhood with houses and lots well larger than average, this time in the older Lansdowne-Merrick area. This neighborhood has some nice features, including access to Lansdowne Merrick Park through several different cul-de-sacs. It has fewer street trees and the main thoroughfare, Montevesta, feels more plain than Day 101’s Kenesaw.
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Another visit to one of the areas along Kenesaw Road, featuring large houses, limited setbacks, tall trees and a nearby park. All of these things contribute to a rich feel. This neighborhood uses decorative lampposts as a distinguishing element but they are overwhelmed by the design of the streets themselves.[load]
I had hoped that my 100th walk would be loaded with interesting things and valuable insights, but it didn’t exactly work out that way. While there were lots of signs of both economic trouble (vacant buildings) there were also signs of investment (construction projects, institutions that were doing fine). There were a lot of people out today, very much in line with other heavily African-American neighborhoods in the city which in general feel more outwardly more social.
