Let's Build Together

Lipscomb has good bones — a real downtown grid, history back to 1910, and neighbors who look out for one another. Our future isn't about tearing down or pricing people out. It's about building, together, one block at a time.

A walkable, welcoming Lipscomb — where you can grab a coffee, run an errand, and see your neighbors, all on foot.

The most successful small towns in the South — think the revived main streets of Savannah, Senoia, or the up-and-coming corners of Nashville and Charlotte — didn't get there with one giant project. They got there incrementally: filling vacant lots, fixing up tired storefronts, planting street trees, and making it easy and pleasant to walk. Small, steady, locally-owned steps that compound over time.

Walkable streets

Sidewalks, shade, crosswalks, and slower traffic — so kids, seniors, and everyone in between can get around safely.

Mixed-use, human scale

Shops and cafés at street level with homes or offices above — modest 2-story buildings that fit our town, not big-box sprawl.

Locally owned

Filling empty lots and storefronts with small businesses that hire here and keep dollars in Lipscomb.

Gathering places

A town green, benches, and corners worth lingering on — the public spaces that turn a place into a community.

Revitalization without displacement. Growth should lift up the people already here — not push them out. We build by adding on vacant lots and worn-down corners, supporting longtime homeowners and renters, and keeping Lipscomb's character and its families at the center. A rising tide that lifts our neighbors, not one that washes them away.

What it could look like

Drag each slider to see a real Lipscomb spot today — and how it could come back to life.

These are conceptual illustrations to spark conversation — the "today" images are real street views; the "reimagined" images are AI-generated visions of an incremental, walkable revival. Any real project would follow community input and the City's planning process. This is a starting point for a conversation with you, our neighbors.