4th annual Westside Stride celebrates community with takeover of Howell Mill Road this Sunday

This weekend is about Westside pride with the fourth annual Westside Stride Block Party taking over the streets. Organizers for Sunday's event say it's all about building community. "It's about recognizing our local businesses, the amazing food and beverage, the great retailers that we have here, but it's also about recognizing that we all need great and safe infrastructure to be able to move through a place and enjoy a place," said Adeline Collot, the capital projects and programming director for the Upper Westside CID. Westside Stride makes it possible for people to freely enjoy the area by closing nearly a mile of Howell Mill Road to cars and opening it for people to bike or walk. Collot hopes people come to see what's new on Howell Mill, including new bike lanes. "We now have medians, we have new bike lanes, there's new ways to get to the event by bike," Collot said. "I biked here from Midtown straight down 14th Street on the protected cycle track, and now we have new protected cyc