Politics & Government
123 Cherry Trees Included in New Hammond Half Diamond Interchange
The PCIDs is spending $250,000 on the landscape design.
The Perimeter Community Improvement Districts is funding the $250,000 landscape design of the Hammond Half Diamond Interchange at Ga.400 and Hammond Drive.
The design by Lowe Engineers will include the planting of 123 cherry trees bordered with bright yellow forsythia bushes, Carissa hollies, little gem magnolias, knockout roses and more than 1,000 yellow daylilies.
“Our plan will provide a magnificent display of vegetation along Ga. 400,” said YvonneWilliams, President and CEO of the PCIDs. “We feel it will not only be a welcoming gateway statement to our business community and the cities, but will be a welcoming entrance from I-285 onto and northward up Georgia 400.”
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A public-private partnership project between the PCIDs and the Georgia Department of Transportation, the Hammond Half Diamond Interchange opened in Sept. 2, 2011 to ease traffic and improve safety in a heavily congested corridor. It provides the first new access to Georgia 400 in Metro Atlanta since 1993.
By offering a new gateway into and out of the Perimeter area, Williams said the interchange spurs new economic development activities in the area.