Underground Atlanta launches tech-based art initiative as redevelopment lingers + Update from WRS Representative

[seussie]

Yeah, it's totally disappointing. People are going to see if this rumor mill strategy's actually going to result in anything. I mean, we all hope something happens to UA, don't we? All I can do is hope–bleh. When I go pick up my Warnock yard sign (another bleh) I'll bike through SDA. I haven't been there in a lonnnnnng time.

[JMatl]

I've seen recent pics of Hotel Row. The buildings look fantastic returned to their original facades.

[brownhornet]

Originally Posted by BobbyJayATL

Been there, done that.



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.

There is NO ONE that's going to be excited about a damn target down town lol. If that's all they were going to do with it they
should've just left it as it was. That plan is trash. And that's from someone with actual property in the vicinity.

[bryantm3]

They really need public involvement on Underground like they're doing right now with the shared space on Peachtree. It was really too much of a public asset to sell in the first place.

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by brownhornet

There is NO ONE that's going to be excited about a damn target down town lol. If that's all they were going to do with it they
should've just left it as it was. That plan is trash. And that's from someone with actual property in the vicinity.

Where does it say that Target was the only thing going in there?

[seussie]

Me and my neighbors are excited. People I know immediately south of 20 are excited by the prospect. It means more food options, more retail options rather than OTP or heavily trafficked Targets around the city. Sure, there may be folk disinterested–haven't encountered one yet who actually lives in the city though. And it'd be nice to though, because I'd want to know where else they go.

[Atlanta Scientist]

Originally Posted by brownhornet

There is NO ONE that's going to be excited about a damn target down town lol. If that's all they were going to do with it they
should've just left it as it was. That plan is trash. And that's from someone with actual property in the vicinity.

The people who live downtown will be lol.
Downtown needs to be a place to live and not just to visit.

[BobbyJayATL]

Originally Posted by brownhornet

And that's from someone with actual property in the vicinity.

You may have property in the area, but you clearly don't live in it.