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Futuristic Pedestrian Bridge Opens Near Atlanta The city of College Park, Ga., southwest of downtown Atlanta, now counts a can’t-miss, sculptural piece of people-friendly infrastructure that links two popular destinations and helps keep pedestrians and cyclists out of vehicle traffic. Spanning 200 ft. across the four-lane Camp Creek Parkway, the Global Gateway Connector Bridge opened June 17, 2025, as a link between downtown College Park and the Georgia International Convention Center — a key part of a broader multi-use trail initiative in the area. According to STV, an engineering firm with 60 offices across North America and the designers of the suspension bridge, the span is punctuated by an 80-ft.-tall steel baskethandle arch that required five cranes to lift and install in September 2024. Urbanize Atlanta also noted other components, including dramatic lighting at night, a suspended deck and custom fence detailing and architectural rails. The bridge project, situated a few hundred feet from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, cost $13.7 million, including work on support walls and improvements to nearby multi-use trails, according to STV. Despite inflation, the project’s cost was still less than half of downtown Atlanta’s controversial serpentine bridge structure deluxe, Urbanize Atlanta reported June 19, 2025. see BRIDGE page 6
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A photo of the new pedestrian bridge over Camp Creek Parkway
Robins Air Force Base Site of New Battle Management Complex
Robins Air Force Base photo
(L-R) are Col. Adam Shelton, 461st Air Control Wing commander; Col. Christopher Dunlap, 116th Air Control Wing commander; Lt. Col. Laureen James, 950th Spectrum Warfare deputy group commander; Lt. Col. Richard Elmore, the 472nd Electronic Combat Squadron commander; and Troy Funk, Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District construction division chief
A groundbreaking ceremony was held May 19, 2025, at Robins Air Force Base in central Georgia to mark the beginning of construction for a new Battle Management Combined Operations Complex (BMCOC), the U.S. Air Force announced. Representatives of the 461st Air Control Wing (ACW), 950th Spectrum Warfare Group (SWG), 472nd Electronic Combat Squadron (ECS) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) were on hand to lay the groundwork for the multiyear construction phase. “It took a lot of time, effort and investments to get this building where it’s at,” said Col. Adam Shelton, commander of the 461st ACW. “[Air Combat
Command] has put a lot of time into this to make sure that we get it right.” When completed, the $109 million facility will house the 461st ACW, the 950th SWG, the 319th Reconnaissance Wing, the 116th ACW and the 472nd ECS missions. This consolidation of units into a single location is designed to enable Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, a key element of the Air Force’s modernization efforts for future warfighting. “This building will be the operational heartbeat of what we are going to be providing from an electromagnetic spectrum perspective to the warfighter,” said Lt. Col. Laureen James, 950th SWG’s deputy group commander. “It is the pinnacle hub for delivering electromagnetic
spectrum operation assessments to all of the combat air forces.” The BMCOC will house the 728th Battle Management Control Squadron operations center and a headquarters suite, featuring a tactical operations center, rapid deployable payload control element staging and storage, a maintenance operations center and comprehensive training and academic space for hardware and software testing. Each will be supported by raised flooring, a 239-rack server room, standby generators, an uninterruptable power supply, robust utility and communication infrastructure and mission-critical power redundancies, according to the Air Force. see BASE page 6