Long-term growth patterns...

[Tdiddy0027]

oh, and I think counties on the southside will continue to grow at a rapid pace due to areas on the northside becoming too expensive. North Fulton will be a well established and revered business/suburban area the way places like Westchester and Fairfax are today. Cobb and Gwinnett will become increasingly diverse in terms of racial and socioeconomic make up similar to Los Angeles county. The southside counties will become havens to middle/upper class african americans like many of the Maryland counties outside DC. Parts of Clayton will be regentrified by upper class blacks and Henry, south fulton, parts of Fayette and maybe Coweta will be middle class with a large number of blacks and other races as well. Forsyth will become alpharetta. Cherokee will become cobb. Continuous line of development from atlanta to athens.
Atlanta: 800K
Core ARC counties: 7 Million
Entire Metro: 8.5 Million
Piedmont Atlantic Megalopolis (Bham to Charlotte): 30 Million
-this is all by 2030 btw

[south-to-west]

Originally Posted by blondandfun

It all depends on where the poor losers live. Poor loser welfare scum are everywhere, but they staked out their claim in the Cumberland area. I bet you many educated white folks will choose to live more near marietta square where they won't get shot or robbed.

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[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by blondandfun

It all depends on where the poor losers live. Poor loser welfare scum are everywhere, but they staked out their claim in the Cumberland area. I bet you many educated white folks will choose to live more near marietta square where they won't get shot or robbed.

In the Cumberland Area? Really? Where? There isn't any residential in the Cumberland area at all except one or two upscale apartment complexes at most, and the adjacent areas of Vinings and Smyrna are hardly areas where I would expect to see what you describe.

[Godfather27]

No one can accurately predict how the metro area will turn out within the next 20-30 years. If current trends continue, the area inside the perimeter will definitely become a higher priced, upper middle class to upper class area with lots of high density developments. The far out counties such as Walton, Bartow, and Newton, will see growth slow as the core counties and the counties immediately adjacent to them with existing infrastructure grow more dense. The beltline, perhaps an expansion of Marta, and more transit oriented development will take place. Atlanta's city limit's can certainly grow to well over 700-800,000 residents which will be wonderful. This will only happen if we can get our leaders to handle our problems associated with urban sprawl, land use, traffic, and the EXTREMELY important water battle that we are entangled in with AL and FL.

[jdawg24]

As a Grant Park resident, I see the intown area continuing to improve for the forseeable future, especially once the beltline gets further along. Even right now, in the midst of the recession its looking very strong in the past few months .... for example, i can count 5 restaurants that are opening in the next month within a mile of my house (granted 3 are replacing existing places, but as soon as they closed somebody else took the building & started running with their idea). Construction has resumed @ Glenwood Park to build a 300 unit apartment complex that will help support & fill all of that retail space. The Beltline is happening -- they are working right now to make running trails on the beltline area. We have a 25 acre park slated to be built just south of Grant Park on the beltline -- it's two blocks from my house in multiple directions. If I still live here when the paved trails go in, i'll be able to bike pretty much anywhere in town as quickly as I could drive there.

Crime got bad for a bit this time last year, but seems non-existent for most of the last year.

I drove down Moreland Ave this weekend and noticed another major housing project torn down across from the drive in -- this is happening everywhere. They go from projects to looking like parks. The "bad" areas on Memorial Drive just north of I-20 are getting very squeezed & seldom... compared to 2 years ago they have significantly decreased. Look @ Old Fourth Ward, on Boulevard between I-20 and Midtown ... major Beltline Park is under construction right now behind city hall east to open this year and the only bad area left is on Boulevard. That area is PRIME real estate b/c of the location and affluent people are buying up the houses. That bad area's days are numbered, and then the entire stretch from Midtown south to I-20 will be nice.

Look up the plans for the Fort McPherson redevelopment, they are AWESOME. The entire area surrounding it is full of great old (well built) housing stock in proximity to downtown, the airport, is on Marta & is CHEAP.

Young people are buying houses in-town. I see this trend continuing.