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What’s in the Beltline’s belt-busting 2024 budget?

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Money was once a big problem for the Atlanta Beltline. What was intended to be the project’s primary funding source—a special tax allocation district (TAD, for short)—was short-circuited from a combination of lawsuits over Atlanta Public Schools foregoing tax revenue to the Beltline and revenue shortfalls from tax abatements, the 2008 recession and the COVID-19 […]

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