Atlanta Beltline and Parks Updates 2013 (Glenwood, Buckhead: leases, neighborhood, calculated)

[arjay57]

It looks like the Beltline is getting whupsided already, with the development going to the northside.

Fourteen projects were under construction in 2012. That compares to four projects in 2011, three in 2010, and nine in 2009. There were 31 projects being built in 2008, according to the new report from the city’s Bureau of Planning.

The concentration of development in northeast Atlanta – half the projects being built last year were in the Freedom Parkway subarea – speaks to the issue of equitable development, which is the subject of an advisory group that’s to meet Friday.

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The concentration of development in northeast Atlanta is a concern for some city policy makers. They want to ensure that the $20 billion in development expected along the BeltLine is spread across all of the BeltLine, and not concentrated in the northern areas of Atlanta.

See more at BeltLine: Construction returns as advisory group ponders equity issues | SaportaReport

[Nanosolar]

Equity cannot be achieved. Only equal access to education and justice. The city should work on those two, and not force developers to build where they do not want.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by Nanosolar

Equity cannot be achieved. Only equal access to education and justice. The city should work on those two, and not force developers to build where they do not want.

You can't force them, but it's worth working on. Spreading things around would be good for everyone, including the northeast quadrant of the Beltline. If things keep going the way they are now, nobody will be able to afford to live there.

In addition, there's tons of great land in in other sections of the Beltline that could stand some more investment. Why not give everybody a slice of the pie?

[Seatlien]

Spending hundreds of millions in one small area of the city and then wondering why development is inequitable is stupid.

[arjay57]

I remember going to the early Beltline meetings. The only way the proponents got the city council on board was by assurances that the northeast quadrant wouldn't get all the goodies and leave the rest of the city behind.

Of the 50+ Beltline projects that have been built since 2008, how many have been on the south side of town?

[Nanosolar]

Originally Posted by arjay57

I remember going to the early Beltline meetings. The only way the proponents got the city council on board was by assurances that the northeast quadrant wouldn't get all the goodies and leave the rest of the city behind.

Of the 50+ Beltline projects that have been built since 2008, how many have been on the south side of town?

If people (speaking frankly, college educated, white, 20-30 something's) don't want to live there, why force it? Over time it should naturally happen. It has already happended in the O4W and Westside.

[Seatlien]

Originally Posted by Nanosolar

If people (speaking frankly, college educated, white, 20-30 something's) don't want to live there, why force it? Over time it should naturally happen. It has already happended in the O4W and Westside.

100's of millions in public investment (O4W) is not a natural occurrence. Getting your own dedicated police precinct (O4W) is not a natural occurrence. These are calculated, political decisions. That O4W got all of this is great for them. It sucks for those of us getting nothing right now in terms of public investment.

[JPD]

Originally Posted by arjay57

You can't force them, but it's worth working on. Spreading things around would be good for everyone, including the northeast quadrant of the Beltline.

You know, it wasn't very many years ago that the stretch of Highland through Inman Park and O4W was a bunch of crappy, underutilized warehouses. So now that it's undergone a wildly successful revitalization, it's somehow a problem? What has happened along that street should serve as a model for wat can happen in other parts of the city.

[jsvh]

Originally Posted by JPD

You know, it wasn't very many years ago that the stretch of Highland through Inman Park and O4W was a bunch of crappy, underutilized warehouses. So now that it's undergone a wildly successful revitalization, it's somehow a problem? What has happened along that street should serve as a model for wat can happen in other parts of the city.

Yea, it will continue to spread. Just continue to build out the Beltline and development will follow. There will always be imbalances, but the empty lot a few hundred feet further down the trail will always be an attractive target for development. O4W with all its under utilized properties right on the new trail was the first wave, but continue on the trail and development will continue to spread along the trail south and west.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by Nanosolar

If people (speaking frankly, college educated, white, 20-30 something's) don't want to live there, why force it? Over time it should naturally happen. It has already happended in the O4W and Westside.

How do we know they don't want to live there?

Why not simply put a moratorium on permits in the NE until the other sections of the Beltline have a chance to catch up?

Otherwise, we're likely to wind up with the same lopsided development patterns that plague us now.

Look at what happened to downtown when all the businesses moved up to Midtown and Buckhead (and beyond). Is that something we want to repeat? This time we have a chance to stop it early.