Tech Square is BOOMING! (Marietta: high crime, place to live, trailer)

[CashmereEsquire]

Originally Posted by afonega1

No they are not.Where are you thinking this is?

They are literally a 5 min drive down northside from each other.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

Originally Posted by CashmereEsquire

They are literally a 5 min drive down northside from each other.

No Tech Square is in Midtown. Its heart is 5th and Spring. It is across the connector from Tech campus at 5th. You'd have to pass through the frat houses, Tech Campus and get to Northside and then finally go down that to get to it. They are also too ghetto for STEM employees to want to live in.

[afonega1]

Originally Posted by CashmereEsquire

They are literally a 5 min drive down northside from each other.

No its not.I lived in Vine City for 9 years.Tech Square is solidly in Midtown.
Even by car its close but so is West Midtown and Downtown but they are hardly close enough where anyone would tie the areas together.

Its not even walk able from each area which would have to be necessary for any development to spread.

[afonega1]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

No Tech Square is in Midtown. Its heart is 5th and Spring. It is across the connector from Tech campus at 5th. You'd have to pass through the frat houses, Tech Campus and get to Northside and then finally go down that to get to it. They are also too ghetto for STEM employees to want to live in.

Not really.Go on Jones AV in English Ave,A few Georgia Tech alumni and faculty live around there.Its right on the edge near Northside Drive near the Exxon Station. Several nice new homes clustered on the end of Jones Av.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

I thought that was where the bluff was

[afonega1]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

I thought that was where the bluff was

It is but the Bluff is not what it once was,Its not good but hardly as dangerous as its reputation is.
I lived had a brand new house I bought in Vine City for 9 years.It was fine.Against all protest from my family and friends still alive and doing fine.

[ATLfromJAX]

Ummm...Vine City and the Bluff is WAY too hood for 98% of the workers at Tech Square.

May not be hood enough for the Original Poster, but it's not the most comfortable area for people use to the nice suburbs.

Simpson Rd at Ashby (I'm mean Lowery) still has some visible dealers on that corner. And still too many boarded houses for my taste.

My daughter takes tennis lessons at Washington Park cause the coach there is really good with kids. So I'm over there 3 times a week.

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by ATLfromJAX

Ummm...Vine City and the Bluff is WAY too hood for 98% of the workers at Tech Square.

May not be hood enough for the Original Poster, but it's not the most comfortable area for people use to the nice suburbs.

Simpson Rd at Ashby (I'm mean Lowery) still has some visible dealers on that corner. And still too many boarded houses for my taste.

My daughter takes tennis lessons at Washington Park cause the coach there is really good with kids. So I'm over there 3 times a week.

That's already starting to change, slowly but surely. Gentrification has been a very real phenomenon in Atlanta for several years, and it won't be long until you can visibly see it take hold in those neighborhoods.

[afonega1]

Originally Posted by ATLfromJAX

Ummm...Vine City and the Bluff is WAY too hood for 98% of the workers at Tech Square.

May not be hood enough for the Original Poster, but it's not the most comfortable area for people use to the nice suburbs.

Simpson Rd at Ashby (I'm mean Lowery) still has some visible dealers on that corner. And still too many boarded houses for my taste.

My daughter takes tennis lessons at Washington Park cause the coach there is really good with kids. So I'm over there 3 times a week.

Yes it was too "hood" thats not why I left . I was there for 9 years.I left because I had a free 4 bedroom house my parents gave me in the suburbs.

I miss living in the city being able to walk to the Ashby MARTA station and Walmart.Most of the tenants I had when I owned 2 houses there at one time were students or professors at Tech and GSU.

No its not the most comfortable for most people but its hardly as bad as people try to make it

[CashmereEsquire]

lol "Too Hood". I see people jogging with their dogs through Vine City nowadays, and the point of my post was could the boom spark development in those areas in regard developing them into intown neighborhoods that people would eventually want to go live in opposed to having to leave town to find a place to live. Nobody is talking about Vince City/English Ave in its current state.

People are talking like the distance from "Da Bluff" to Tech Square as if we are talking about driving from Downtown to Marietta. This is a major city people make commutes, so it is almost idiotic to say those areas are too far, as ATL is tiny as hell.