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Personal CITY OF A LANTA DEPARTMENT of PARKS Office of General Manager Atlanta, Georgia 30303 January 28, 1969 JACK C. DELIUS MEMORANDUM GENERAL MANAGER TO: Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. FROM: Jack C. Delius, General Manager of Parks and Recreation The only park project presently on the drawing boards involving any location in the downtown area is the complete renovation and redevelopment of Pershing Point Park, located where Peachtree and West Peachtree merge out near Brookwood Station. This is an extremely prominent location consisting of .335 acres plus or minus. We have received numerous requests from citizens and members of the Board of Aldermen for the complete restoration of this important location. The Graduate Landscape Architectural School of the University of Georgia presently is working on a design and suggestions for its redevelopment. As you perhaps know, it contains a granite monument to soldiers of World War I. I have discussed with our four landscape architects what their plans are for this park and what they think the University of Georgia will suggest. It is felt tha.t the park should contain at least a fountain, properly lighted, with possibly a piece of statuary, along with complete new shrubs, sidewalks, benches , etc. The architects feel that f or somewhere in the neighborhood of $50,000 an absolute, first-class job could be done on this l ocation. We have another minor project at Peachtree and Fifteenth , which involves the replacement of the inadequate and very antiquated small fountain with a new modern system, again properly lighted . Also, for downtown, we are developing our tree planting pro gram . However, our first s ugge s tion is Per shing Point. We particularly appreciate your interest. JCD:jw �