Margaritaville hopes to drop anchor in downtown Atlanta (Marietta, Conley: crime, home)

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by Iconographer

I don't think there's enough righteous indignation out there to get any traction on this. Pick your battles, I always say.

Now if you're talking about buildings that need to be destroyed, I happen to have a laundry list.

That hideous green parking deck on the Kimball House site.
The parking decks that obscure the formal entrance to the Biltmore on Crescent.
Kell Hall at GSU (Yes, a former parking deck).
That booger of a parking deck that shadows UA and the old Depot on Courtland.

Yes, to ALL of these!


I'll add that hideous deck at 3rd and Spring that looks like it's dripping in mildew.

[All_4_augusta]

Ugh, just renovate the building.... build Margaritaville over and around it and have the building be incorporated in the new design, make it the gift shop on the way out or something. Place one of those historical landmark things there that explains what the building was and keep it moving.. Problem solved.... the building stays, and Margaritaville gets built. Win/win!!

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by All_4_augusta

Ugh, just renovate the building.... build Margaritaville over and around it and have the building be incorporated in the new design, make it the gift shop on the way out or something. Place one of those historical landmark things there that explains what the building was and keep it moving.. Problem solved.... the building stays, and Margaritaville gets built. Win/win!!

Yes.

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by All_4_augusta

Ugh, just renovate the building.... build Margaritaville over and around it and have the building be incorporated in the new design, make it the gift shop on the way out or something. Place one of those historical landmark things there that explains what the building was and keep it moving.. Problem solved.... the building stays, and Margaritaville gets built. Win/win!!

this sounds like the best solution. it seems like they would want to incorporate the studio and see it as an asset to their business. hell, it would get me to check it out and i don't care anything about margaritaville.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

this sounds like the best solution. it seems like they would want to incorporate the studio and see it as an asset to their business. hell, it would get me to check it out and i don't care anything about margaritaville.

What studio? Any remnant of it is long gone.

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by cqholt

What studio? Any remnant of it is long gone.

the building itself i meant. they do historical recreations of things all the time, why not the recording studio where country music got started? i would imagine they could make something neat out of it.

[samiwas1]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

the building itself i meant. they do historical recreations of things all the time, why not the recording studio where country music got started? i would imagine they could make something neat out of it.

It wasn't even really a studio. It was a building where they set up some portable recording equipment to record a few songs.

“The Nashville of its Day”:
Recalling the Origins of Recorded Country Music in 1920s Atlanta

The record companies saw radio as a serious commercial threat and responded by seeking out new audiences for their wares and new performers who might appeal to those audiences. In particular, some in the business felt that African Americans and southern whites represented two potentially lucrative markets, and so engineers set out, portable recorders in hand, to test the waters. Atlanta quickly became a principal destination.

Peer approved the idea, and Brockman rented space on Nassau Street and invited Carson and a number of acts to participate. No one in the makeshift studio that day could have anticipated the cultural phenomenon they were launching.

From the sounds of it, this was a space used for a day to record a few artists. Since the building itself holds no intrinsic value for what happened there, and likely nothing original even exists inside, maybe the better idea would be to incorporate a recreation of it inside the new development, rather than trying to work around the building.

[bryantm3]

the most interesting thing about cities is their layers. it is nice to see older structures incorporated into newer developments, it just makes things more interesting. with the amount of parking lots and unused space we have in this city, i don't understand why we have to keep tearing down what little we have. it makes no logical sense. we just get the stars in our eyes about being a "world class city" and mow everything down for any carpetbagger who comes into town with a big flashy idea.

when the celebs first started showing up it was kind of neat. now it's suffocating, the city's being taken over by all of these rich and famous people who are not from here and don't care anything about our history, the environment, or the people that already live here. so many on this forum are cheering them on, and i cannot understand why.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

the most interesting thing about cities is their layers. it is nice to see older structures incorporated into newer developments, it just makes things more interesting. with the amount of parking lots and unused space we have in this city, i don't understand why we have to keep tearing down what little we have. it makes no logical sense. we just get the stars in our eyes about being a "world class city" and mow everything down for any carpetbagger who comes into town with a big flashy idea.

when the celebs first started showing up it was kind of neat. now it's suffocating, the city's being taken over by all of these rich and famous people who are not from here and don't care anything about our history, the environment, or the people that already live here. so many on this forum are cheering them on, and i cannot understand why.

This hotel/resort will be consuming a surface parking lot as well. I agree it would be better to incorporate the historic building row facade into the hotel. Maybe DCP, Time Keane can work with the project to preserve the facades.

[JPD]

Originally Posted by cqholt

What studio? Any remnant of it is long gone.

You don't have any way of knowing that. A studio doesn't have to be the type of thing you see in Pink Floyd documentaries. In the days when this building was used for recordings, "recording studios" were any space you could find that could fit a musician and a guy with a microphone and tape recorder. It's entirely possible the room where these songs were recorded is still intact.