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Old 09-14-2015, 08:18 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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BRT huh? Guess we'll see. Still think a gold line extension would help a bit more, but BRT is a start, especially if it were then carried down Buford Highway! But all that would require a joining of MARTA. Too bad that wasn't an option suggested!

It is odd that there wasn't any represitatives from Gwinnett County Transit... unless they're included with Gwinnett DOT?
I do not think it is a true BRT system, with lane separation.
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Old 09-14-2015, 08:27 AM
 
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Looking back Atlanta is not a stable place. Good areas today can and will turn into bad areas tomorrow. Bad areas today can turn into good areas. As people, normal working people, you get no say into how the area develops.
Trust the wise men. They know what is in your best interest.
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Old 09-14-2015, 08:30 AM
 
Location: Prescott, AZ
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I do not think it is a true BRT system, with lane separation.
The plan does suggest lane seperated BRT. They talk about possibly using lane seperated streetcar, but going with BRT as a cost saver.
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Old 09-14-2015, 08:34 AM
 
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The CID worked hard on this plan.

Unfortunately, the CID has no real power. All it can do is plan and suggest. The county has to approve and budget any project.

It's a real shame that they had to leave all of the mall owned property out of the plan. Moonbeam Capital, who owns the mall, is completely useless. What good have they done? Nothing.
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Old 09-14-2015, 06:00 PM
 
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Hmm...I would like to think that this will change things but if the mall itself has nothing going for it...I dunno. So many malls are just so generic and I think many people have grown tired of those kinds of malls.
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Old 09-15-2015, 03:14 PM
 
Location: Augusta GA
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I really wish they would turn it into an international Asian/Hispanic shopping mall. Kind of take the Mega Mart idea and expand with it!
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Old 09-15-2015, 03:52 PM
 
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I really wish they would turn it into an international Asian/Hispanic shopping mall. Kind of take the Mega Mart idea and expand with it!
Yeah, because Mega Mart did so much to help revitalize the mall.

Heralded as it was as the savior of the mall, Mega Mart did strikingly little to help anything. The top two floors are almost completely vacant. Mega Mart owns its space. You could make an argument that the mall would have been better off with vacant space than with Mega Mart because at least then it might be able to least it out to someone that will actually use more than the first floor.
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Old 09-15-2015, 04:05 PM
 
Location: Just outside of McDonough, Georgia
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The CID worked hard on this plan.

Unfortunately, the CID has no real power. All it can do is plan and suggest. The county has to approve and budget any project.

It's a real shame that they had to leave all of the mall owned property out of the plan. Moonbeam Capital, who owns the mall, is completely useless. What good have they done? Nothing.
Why does that sound so familiar?

- skbl17
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Old 09-16-2015, 07:15 AM
 
Location: North Carolina for now....ATL soon.
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They mauled the mall.
This is so hilarious, I almost coughed up my breakfast!!
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Old 09-16-2015, 12:15 PM
 
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Looking back Atlanta is not a stable place. Good areas today can and will turn into bad areas tomorrow. Bad areas today can turn into good areas. As people, normal working people, you get no say into how the area develops.
I think that has been due to migration patterns that revolved around a lack of boundaries/limitless cheap land around metro, and race. Gridlock is ending the limitless boundary thing, and while race still matters--it is not nearly as important as it once was.
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