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For living, Id take Montrose. It functions as a more cohesive neighborhood with more practicalities.
For visiting, Id take Little Five Points. Its a more interesting and unique neighborhood.
That's the thing, though. L5P isn't a neighborhood, it's a commercial junction where four neighborhoods come together. Most people consider it to be the Eastern edge of Inman Park.
Because even mid-rise development would be entirely inappropriate there.
Depends on the end result, though. You're right that it definitely stands out amongst the low rises. But the area could go vertical like one of those Asian cities, in which case the scale would balance out. The high rise did come from market demand, after all.
Depends on the end result, though. You're right that it definitely stands out amongst the low rises. But the area could go vertical like one of those Asian cities, in which case the scale would balance out. The high rise did come from market demand, after all.
Yeah, I'm hoping for L5P to have a few mid or high rises that have giant TV screens and flashing neon signs everywhere. Meanwhile the 5 way intersection where Euclid, Moreland, and McLendon meet can be a scramble crosswalk. Basically I want L5P to look like Shibuya in Tokyo.
Yeah, I'm hoping for L5P to have a few mid or high rises that have giant TV screens and flashing neon signs everywhere. Meanwhile the 5 way intersection where Euclid, Moreland, and McLendon meet can be a scramble crosswalk. Basically I want L5P to look like Shibuya in Tokyo.
That would kill the aesthetic (minus the scramble). L5P is supposed to be gritty and authentic, not high rise flashy like Midtown.
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That would kill the aesthetic (minus the scramble). L5P is supposed to be gritty and authentic, not high rise flashy like Midtown.
Methinks the comment you are responding to was tinged with a teeny-weeny bit of sarcasm.
Highrise development in L5P would look as bad as...well, as bad as that picture of the highrise in Montrose posted earlier.
Native Atlantan here/ Little Five Points (where Moreland Avenue, Euclid Avenue and McClendon Avenue cross in northeast Atlanta) is Atlanta's second oldest business district. It is named after Five Points in Downtown Atlanta (Where Peachtree Street meets Marietta Street, Decatur Street and Edgewood Avenue) which is Atlanta's oldest business district. Five Points is also the point of origin for Atlanta's streets (Northeast, northwest, southeast. southwest are designated from this intersection).
No, it is NOT a neighborhood, but served as a "neighborhood business district" for some of Atlanta's early Victorian era streetcar suburbs most notably Inman Park, which bills itself as "Atlanta's first suburb" was built for the city's "movers and shakers" and has an enviable inventory of restored Victorian mansions. Candler Park, across Moreland Avenue has its own business district along McClendon Avenue. The Edgewood Retail District is the "big box" shopping center referred to is southeast of Little Five Points and really is centered in a different community (and across railroad tracks.)
Little Five Points, for most of its history, was a neighborhood business district of the type that existed throughout Atlanta before the middle of the 20th century (think West End. Kirkwood, Cascade Heights, Virginia Highland, even the Buckhead Village, another "five pointed intersection") and basically contained "everyday necessities" like grocery stores, drug stores, hardware stores, etc.) Little Five Points even had the community's high school (the defunct Bass High School, now a loft development) for decades due west of the "strip". By the 70's/ 80's it had developed into a bohemian district for which it still has s reputation for, although it seems QUITE "white bread" normal compared to when I visited the area when I was in high school in the early 1990's.
Just a tangent, aside from the "numbered streets of Midtown" Atlanta really doesn't have a regular street grid. Our city is basically a "hodge-podge" on old Indian trails (Peachtree Street, Atlanta's "Main Street") and "farm to market roads (Marietta Street, Decatur Street, Roswell Road, etc.) The result is we have MANY "five pointed" intersections spread throughout the city including the "named ones": Five Points in the heart of downtown, the discussed Little Five Points, and many unnamed ones (The Buckhead Village uptown was an intersection of Peachtree, Roswell Road, and Paces Ferry Road on the southern flank of the "Triangle".
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