I-20 and I-520 to far away from downtown (Atlanta, Gordon: loans, live in)

[tckr83]

I fail to understand how anyone who has lived in Augusta long enough has many good things to say about the Augusta commission at any point in time... I know you love Augusta, but the commission is nothing more than a you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours club. You thought the issue about the commission meeting place was a non-starter... I disagree. Leaders lead and it should've been settled long ago, hence the incompetence part of this group.

When all is said and done with this group, more is said than done... this much is true.

[therealpattman]

This is a drawing I did of my vision of the Augusta Skyline. The ball is what I call the Orbital, it will be a huge observation tower that will house a resturant and maybe a Augusta National Masters Hall of Fame. The Westobou Plaza is a 40+ skyscraper that along with the Orbital will highlight the research park. There are also 3 to 4 new 30+ buildings as future growth.

Also I have encluded a map. The blue outline is midtown heights, home to the tallest buildings and the orbital. The red is the medical district, and the yellow is downtown.

[amlovingit]

I.like that layout but I think it will be nice if we can build a unique for the Master hall of frame like a golf ball building or golf clubs building. Something like the hard rock cafe in myrtle beach with the big guitar but a golf ball or golf club. Then we need a name that stand out like a sore thumb that bring tourist all year round. Specialty master week all the famous people will come

[therealpattman]

Originally Posted by amlovingit

I.like that layout but I think it will be nice if we can build a unique for the Master hall of frame like a golf ball building or golf clubs building. Something like the hard rock cafe in myrtle beach with the big guitar but a golf ball or golf club. Then we need a name that stand out like a sore thumb that bring tourist all year round. Specialty master week all the famous people will come

That is what the oribital is, it is a huge golf ball on a tee that is as high as a 15 story building, like the one in Dallas Texas. You can also add a resturant and maybe condos.

[amlovingit]

Originally Posted by dpatt.marine1

That is what the oribital is, it is a huge golf ball on a tee that is as high as a 15 story building, like the one in Dallas Texas. You can also add a resturant and maybe condos.

That will be great. Hey have you every watch Man vs food when he go to different restaurant and he his try eat the biggest burger or something like that. That will be good to have something like that in the restaurant shape like a big golf ball. It don't have to be a burger or shape like a golf ball but it will make a lot tourist want try the Master Ball.

[The Georgia Man]

Cool but what about hotels, even though not many people would probably stay in Augusta

[All4Augusta]

I wish the MLB would pick up the green jackets...... Build the stadium down town and about 3 or 4 15 plus hotels for visitors coming to the games who wouldnt quite neccesialry wanna go directly home afterwards. Splost would support the hotels and the MLB would support the stadium and the green jackets franchise also there ripkin on board with the team in addition to the mayors very outspoken support!!

[Akhenaton06]

Augusta doesn't come close to having the population base to support MLB. Even Charlotte is questionable in that regard and it has a metro area 3-4 times larger than Augusta's.

[amlovingit]

Originally Posted by Akhenaton06

Augusta doesn't come close to having the population base to support MLB. Even Charlotte is questionable in that regard and it has a metro area 3-4 times larger than Augusta's.

What charlotte have to do with augusta, they might night like baseball like Augusta. Just because augusta is a smaller city doesn't mean it want get support. Atlanta has 6mil plus in their metro but still couldn't support a NHL team why is that because they don't have enough fans that live in atlanta metro area. Yes you need the population but what really mightier are the of number fans and augusta metro has baseball fans.

[EastsideDave]

ugh...

Major league teams set up operations in larger metros because the higher population means there is a higher likelihood that tickets will sell there.

Augusta barely supported the hockey team in their first season, very few games even got the arena to 50% occupancy. I'll give it to you that Augusta supports the minor league baseball team pretty well, but the stadium still doesn't sell out that often.

There just is NOT enough people in Augusta metro to support any sort of major league team, it's a pipe dream. Just look at all the metros that are at 1 and 2 million people and don't have a MLB team, I'm sure there's plenty of baseball fans in those metros too.