69161 external_news 1312449734 1475893503 Atlanta has foreclosed property and shuttered banks galore, as well as one of the largest park deficits of any metro area in the country. Ambitious as it sounds, a team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute is working on a solution for all those problems. Kevin Caravati, a senior research scientist at GTRI in Atlanta, is national program director for the “Redfields to Greenfields” project — an initiative intended to show how Atlanta and 10 other U.S. cities can turn the nation’s real estate meltdown into an asset.

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