Sixteen Mile Stretch of Interstate in West Georgia May Become the Most Restorative Highway in The U.S.

  This summer, friends and associates of Ray C. Anderson gathered on what would have been his 80th birthday to dedicate the naming of a 16-mile stretch of Interstate 85 in West Georgia in his honor.  A West Point, GA native and graduate of Georgia Tech, Ray founded Troup County–based Interface, Inc., the world’s largest carpet tile manufacturer, and led his company to become a highly lauded and emulated model of sustainable industry.    Fittingly, the Ray C. Anderson Memorial Highway extends from exit 2 to exit 18, bookend exits to two Interface manufacturing plants located in West Point and LaGrange.   Beyond recognizing this visionary son of Troup County, The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has launched a vision study to explore the possibility of making the Ray C. Anderson Memorial highway the world’s first restorative transportation corridor.     Its long-term goal:  to demonstrate and display cutting-edge technologies and to foster innovative and sustainable practices in highway design, stewardship and management that change the way we think about highways.     How did a seed of an idea inspire something bigger and better than anyone could imagine?   Read more.