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Originally Posted by ATLSkyPalaceOwner
So I've only been here a couple of years and I hope someone can enlighten me. How did it come about that almost all of the high rise activity came about to the east of the freeway but there's comparatively little to the west of the freeway?
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Mostly because of the MARTA stations.
In a nutshell, before MARTA was created, the only high-rises were Downtown. With the planning and development of MARTA, the City of Atlanta initiated a massive up zoning of areas within 1/4 to 1/2 mile of rail stations. In Midtown, this area coincided with a large hippie concentration that the City wanted to displace.
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