The Cascade Road community in the heart of southwest Atlanta has waited nearly four years for city construction crews to finish a major revamp of the roadway.

The slow progress on the project, business owners along the corridor said, hurt their profits and reduced vital foot traffic in the area.

But this week — after they amped up pressure on the city to finish construction — those business owners stood alongside Atlanta officials to finally celebrate the reopening of Cascade Road.

“I made a promise — a promise made is a promise kept,” Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said while standing along the roadway Wednesday. “Cascade Road is now open from the city limits on, all the way to Ralph David Abernathy (Boulevard).”

Dickens served on Atlanta City Council in August 2021 when the body appro

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