Curiosity Lab Receives Transit Funding

A portion of the federal FY22 Omnibus Appropriations Package will allow the city of Peachtree Corners to build a Mobility Hub.

Curiosity Lab, the not-so-hidden gem at the center of Peachtree Corners technology boom, recently announced it will be receiving $495,000 as part of the FY22 Omnibus Appropriations Package. This exciting development will allow the lab to build a Mobility Hub, which will foster the city’s continued work in improving transit options to better accommodate autonomous vehicles, drones and other clean-energy vehicles as technology continues to develop.

Although the information is just being released, this endeavor took more than a year of hard work.

“I am bringing back $5.07 million to Georgia’s 7th District for essential local projects that will make meaningful differences in our community,” said Congresswoman Carol Bordeaux in a letter to the Peachtree Corners mayor and city council. “All ten of my Community Project Funding requests were successfully funded in Congress’s FY22 Spending bill.”

The city doesn’t want this opportunity to languish. Peachtree Corners is already working on making the project happen.

“We’re also in the process of closing on some land to create a mobility hub within the Tech Par,” Assistant City Manager and Chief Technology Officer Brandon Branham mentioned recently in a guest blog for 3blmedia. “Solar will be a big part of regenerating the grid, which will also be geared around electric vehicle charging and the operations of that facility overall, including things like lighting and security. Right now, we’re going through the necessary calibrations to see how much solar this hub will require. The goal is to try and create a sustainable, off-grid model for micro-mobility and the transit station.”