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Here's a look at the winners from our I-285 Ideas Challenge.

Contest images: Far-flung ideas for the (unlikely) future of the I-285 Perimeter In Beltline visionary Ryan Gravel’s competition, pitches range from awesome to adorable to downright horrific.

“Then it started to grow. Others started getting ownership of this vision,” he said. “You could see the public falling in love with it. That led to political support.”

AJC EXCLUSIVE: The Beltline Guy, 20 years after a darn good term paper Atlanta columnist Bill Torpy profiles Ryan Gravel, the visionary whose Georgia Tech master's thesis became the blueprint for the Atlanta Beltline.