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Old 04-20-2015, 10:19 AM
 
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"Traffic almost never gets backed up at that intersection" Are you for real? Do you live in any proximity to this area or drive in the area from 6:30-8:30 am or 4:30-6:30 pm? I do live and travel it multiple times daily and can tell you it has been one of the most avoided intersections for over 25 years!

Not to mention the new road that's going to dump out onto Woodstock. Yeah. No issue there.

This thing is atrocious. It's over 350 feet long on Woodstock at 55' high. Not the vision of Historic Roswell.
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Old 06-19-2015, 01:06 PM
 
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I’ve seen several negative comments on-line, along with “better” suggestions of perhaps converting the present building to a restaurant as was done for Diesel Pizza. To those people, I say, “put -your- money at risk.” If you think that is the best use for the property, buy it and build a noodle house. It will take 200 years profit to pay off the $1.6M loan on the property. It would be great if the proposed architecture was more in keeping with the tradition of Roswell, but an honest appraisal of original commercial Roswell architecture is “early slap it up with what you got”. Take a look at Crabapple for as appealing as small town progress can get. Now our old commercial buildings are historic sites with a limited ability for the owners to make logical and profitable improvements/replacements. If it were not for Bill Greenwood launching the restaurant scene in Roswell by building on Green Street, (with a fight on his hands for every decision he made) there would be no debate on how to improve down town Roswell now. We would just follow the cars to Crabapple, Alpharetta, and Avalon. Don’t bring the tired argument ‘against’ of lower property values. If the proposal did not bring more taxes in, the council would have killed it by now. The decisions only get hard when the money is right and the voices opposed are loud. If the developers first request is 4.5 stories, they are fools to not have a 3.5 story plan B in their pocket as a show of compromise.

Everything is not historic. Some things are just old.
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