A Message From Buckhead Coalition Chair Eric Tanenblatt

The Buckhead Coalition has led in solving the most significant challenges facing our city and community for more than thirty years.

Along the way, we’ve bolstered Buckhead’s global reputation as a dynamic crossroads of industry, innovation, art, and education by mobilizing the resources and expertise of the business, government, and civic sectors.

One of the Coalition’s greatest strengths is its ability to convene diverse, sometimes even conflicting, interests in a common cause.

Business leaders, the faith community, and families all come together in a contest of ideas to address local problems—from paralyzing road congestion to public safety and municipal services.

To paraphrase the old proverb, it takes a village to make a world-class neighborhood.

This collaborative whole-community approach fosters a culture of ownership in our shared future.

As chair of the Buckhead Coalition, I want every business and resident to exercise their ownership stake in our community.

As we hold our government accountable to its taxpayers, we will continue to convene task-oriented partnerships with the City of Atlanta, the Metro Atlanta Chamber, Central Atlanta Progress, Midtown Alliance, Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods, and the Atlanta Committee for Progress to name a few. We have a great deal of proof that this model works.

Through multiple years of work, the Buckhead Coalition’s campaign for increased public safety in cooperation with city hall, the Atlanta Police Department, and the Atlanta Police Foundation resulted in the most robust security plan in the city’s history. Today, Buckhead has three police precincts. That significant increase in law enforcement presence as well as the programs developed through collaboration have precipitated a significant decline in crime in Buckhead over the past two calendar years.

Other examples include our partnership with the Buckhead Community Improvement District (CID) to develop a 21st-century infrastructure plan in the commercial district and to make HUB404, the proposed nine-acre greenspace project above GA 400, a reality as well as supporting Livable Buckhead in their efforts to build out PATH 400 and deploy the BUC shuttle.

If Atlanta is the first city of the South, Buckhead is first among the region’s neighborhoods. The Buckhead Coalition will ensure that it stays that way.