The October meeting of the Roundtable is at noon, Thursday, October 17th at the downtown Capital City Club.
We’re pleased to have as speaker Jim Durrett of the MARTA Board of Directors. Jim will present on MARTA’s transformation, with a focus on plans for expansion, renovation and placemaking.
Jim Durrett is the Executive Director of the Buckhead Community Improvement District, an organization dedicated to making Buckhead a more walkable, livable urban environment through projects, plans, initiatives, and studies. Founded in 1999, the BCID’s active projects include the “Park over GA400”, a greenspace being constructed over GA 400 and the Buckhead MARTA station.
Jim is an Atlanta native and has promoted smart growth development and livable communities since 1996, when he left his hydrogeology practice and went to work at the Georgia Conservancy. From there he joined the Metro Atlanta Chamber where he was VP of Environmental Affairs. Jim then worked for the Urban Land Institute, where he was founding executive director of ULI Atlanta, and the Livable Communities Coalition, where he was founding executive director.
Jim has a BS degree in economics from the University of Virginia and an MS in geology from the University of Georgia.