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Old 07-03-2014, 09:30 PM
 
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Vonage to move Atlanta office to suburb | www.ajc.com

Moving about a mile or two from the new Braves stadium. Reading this board you would think something like this would never happen and that all companies were knocking doors down to move TO Midtown.
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Old 07-03-2014, 10:02 PM
 
Location: Atlanta - Midtown
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*Yawn* ....... Cobb-loses-2-000-Coke-jobs-to-new-Atlanta-HQs
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Old 07-03-2014, 11:05 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, Ga
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Tax incentives, tax incentives, tax incentives
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Old 07-04-2014, 08:13 AM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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Oh no! Some company moving from town to the burbs?!?!?! How will we ever live????
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Old 07-04-2014, 08:57 AM
 
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I didn't see the entire future of Atlanta noted as in jeopardy in the OP, just an article on a company's decision. I just don't understand the defensive reactions.
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Old 07-04-2014, 09:56 AM
 
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What's good for Cobb is good for the city of Atlanta. This whole ITP/OTP business is completely bogus.
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Old 07-04-2014, 10:06 AM
 
Location: NW Atlanta
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I see that the ITP/OTP b--chfest has already started.
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Old 07-04-2014, 10:40 PM
 
Location: West Cobb (formerly Vinings)
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What's good for Cobb is good for the city of Atlanta. This whole ITP/OTP business is completely bogus.
I agree, it's so 90s.
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Old 07-05-2014, 12:53 PM
 
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And spending $500M tax dollars to replace a perfectly fine 22 year old stadium is? (its 300m up front, but the city is financing a good bit of maintenance in the future).
You're taking some leeway with your numbers there. Any way you crunch it noticeably less tax dollars are going to the new Atlanta stadium than Cobb. But yes, neither is a good deal and should be approved. But the New Atlanta stadium at least is a huge step in the right direction. The dome was 100% tax payer funded, the new stadium is only 17% and no additional cost to tax payers. The revenue that was maintaining the dome is just being redirected. Again, better if it was eliminated all together but still not a terrible deal since we are getting a new stadium for the price of maintaining the old one.
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Old 07-05-2014, 01:37 PM
 
Location: West Cobb (formerly Vinings)
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What's good for Cobb is good for the city of Atlanta. This whole ITP/OTP business is completely bogus.
I agree, it's so 90s.
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I agree, it's so 90s.
How is something that's going to increase traffic for Atlanta and decrease accessibility to Atlanta good for Atlanta? Even if the traffic situation doesn't materialize quite as bad as feared while the stadium has high attendance (very doubtful), that's pulling people out of downtown, that won't be spending money in Atlanta, so how is that good for Atlanta?
Huh? What does that have to do with the ITP/OTP being so '90s?
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