Family land to become public park!
Soon after Lucinda and Dr. Robert Bunnen bought a house on Randall Mill Road in Buckhead in 1956, they began buying adjacent land. Over the next 68 years, they amassed 30 acres, an area larger than Centennial Olympic Park and Woodruff Park combined. When Lucinda passed away in 2022 at age 92, her children, Robb, Belinda Bunnen Reusch and Melissa Bunnen Jernigan, wanted to preserve the land and house as a public park instead of selling it to developers.
The Conservation Fund in Washington, D.C., and the City of Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation teamed up with the family to provide funding for what will tentatively be named The Lucinda Bunnen Nature Preserve. For their contribution to enhance the community through preservation, the family was awarded Buckhead Heritage’s Belle Turner Lynch Preservation Award.
A high profile photographer, arts activist and collector who helped establish the High Museum’s photo collection, Bunnen loved to walk her dogs off leash and created a challenging 2-mile trail under a tree canopy that takes hikers up steep hills with beautiful vistas all the way down to Peachtree Creek. “We have a place we can still go to remember our mother every day,” Robb says. “I think she would be thrilled at the outcome.”
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