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Old 11-25-2020, 04:27 PM
 
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https://whatnowatlanta.com/undergrou...redevelopment/
Underground Atlanta Switches Hands Amid Height of Redevelopment Plans
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Old 11-26-2020, 07:35 PM
 
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https://whatnowatlanta.com/undergrou...redevelopment/
Underground Atlanta Switches Hands Amid Height of Redevelopment Plans
I didn't think you could get sketchier than WRS.

No functional website, and the only Google hit is some people in Missouri confirming no one has ever heard of these folks.
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Old 11-27-2020, 09:31 AM
 
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This is also on WhatNowAtlanta for Underground:
https://whatnowatlanta.com/target-ey...round-atlanta/
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Old 11-27-2020, 09:59 AM
 
Location: 30080
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A target there seems like a waste. It's too bad someone that actually knows how to run Kenny's Alley as a legit night spot. The setup was perfect for clubs and bars.
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Old 11-27-2020, 10:08 AM
 
Location: NW Atlanta
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A target there seems like a waste. It's too bad someone that actually knows how to run Kenny's Alley as a legit night spot. The setup was perfect for clubs and bars.
Why? Having a Target would be a boon to residents in the area.
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Old 11-27-2020, 03:57 PM
 
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A target there seems like a waste. It's too bad someone that actually knows how to run Kenny's Alley as a legit night spot. The setup was perfect for clubs and bars.
Been there, done that.

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Why? Having a Target would be a boon to residents in the area.
Gulch is right - you don't make a neighborhood livable and integrated with the community around it without having the things people need to live.

A bunch of bars and clubs down there was great and all for suburbanites looking to go bar hopping and get wasted, except that lasted for a few years in the 90's, then no one wanted to go down there from the burbs any more.

So now you've got a bar/club district with (basically) one tenant in the reopened Masquerade and otherwise a wasteland, and a reasonable number of folks living downtown in GSU housing, Fairlie Poplar, Auburn Avenue, etc, that all have to get in their cars and drive several miles away to get to a grocery store or a general retailer a la Target/Walmart.

People didn't start moving into Atlanta until it became possible to live in the city without driving 20 minutes to the burbs to shop; that's been the model in every newly popular neighborhood in town over the last few years - downtown's just been left behind.
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Old 11-27-2020, 07:50 PM
 
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The article also states a Lidl is a possibility there. Those would work well together. I also suspect Target could provide needed parking for large groups.... a deck like Midtown's Whole Foods.
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Old 11-28-2020, 03:04 AM
 
Location: Atlanta
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While gaining a City Target & Lidl would be a game changer for Downtown, what developer releases names of prospective tenants in the middle of lease negotiations? This is pretty much unheard of, and tenants definitely never like it.
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Old 11-28-2020, 05:22 AM
 
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A developer with little to no business crumb trail?
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Old 11-28-2020, 05:58 AM
 
Location: Atlanta
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A developer with little to no business crumb trail?
Bingo, seussie! This sounds like nothing more than WRS version 2.0 to me. I would love to be wrong, but these people don't pass the smell test...

I personally wish Newport, the developer redoing South Downtown would take over. Those people are Jamestown alums, and are backed by tons of German $$$. They know what they're doing.
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