ATLANTA — Atlanta leaders celebrated a new project meant to add a little more beauty to the city.
The MLK Innovation Corridor is now complete.
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It’s a seven-mile corridor stretching down Martin Luther King Drive, from Northside Drive to Fulton Industrial Boulevard.
We asked Mayor Andre Dickens what it means to him.
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“We’ve installed road improvements, we made sure we added safety improvements like medians and crosswalks, and we also made sure we had art installed out this corridor, so it’s beautiful. So I encourage everyone to walk or bike on it,” Dickens said.
The whole project took $27 million to complete.
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