Business View Magazine - November 2016

Business View Magazine - November 2016 113 been done in the downtown area for a long time; ven- dors and owners had come and gone and there wasn’t a lot of consistency in the historic downtown area. So the city really wanted to do some work there. We had that first project that envelopes the square and the court house. After that, we started branching off and were able to complete several more phases, down each of the streets that come off of the square. We finished another streetscape project in 2011 and an- other in 2013.” The last phase of Gallatin’s streetscape project was the completion of the Town Creek Greenway, a two- mile corridor of bike and pedestrian trails that linked together two previously unconnected greenway proj- ects, as well as providing direct pedestrian access between downtown and Triple Creek Park and the Gallatin Civic Center on the northeast side of town. “It created some great connectivity,” says Tuttle. “That’s one of the things that people are really interested in when they’re looking to move to a community. They talk about greenways and other recreational ameni- ties that are available.” Rosemary Bates, the Economic Development Agency’s Special Projects Director says that the streetscape projects cost approximately $3 million, much of it paid for with funds leveraged from other sources. “Most of AT A GLANCE WHO: Gallatin, Tennessee WHAT: A city of 34,000 WHERE: Northern Tennessee, about 30 miles northeast of Nashville WEBSITE : www.gallatin-tn.gov