What are you impressions of Atlanta in 2024?

[tdawg]

I lived in Atlanta in the 90s before moving to NYC, where I now live. One of our best friends moved there a few years ago (to the edge of Oakhurst and Decatur) so we've been going down to visit quite frequently. It's night and day to the place I left. Midtown, in particular, is becoming very dense and has great energy, and there is a lot of great infill happening across the city's intown neighborhoods. You also feel the energy and influence that the TV and film industries have brought. Everything occurring along the Beltline is also incredible. I know that MARTA is getting new rail cars beginning next year but the system really needs to be expanded and I'm happy to hear they're planning some infill stations. It's a place that we would definitely consider moving to (or back to in my case) after we're "done" with New York.

[iheartthed]

Stumbled across a recent list of the largest Black owned (or partially Black owned) companies by revenue in the U.S. Here are the top 20 + location:

1. World Wide Technology - Maryland Heights, Missouri (St. Louis)
2. Act 1 Group - Torrance, CA (Los Angeles)
3. Bridgewater Interiors - Detroit
4. Coca-Cola Beverages Florida (independent distributor) - Tampa
5. Modular Assembly Innovations - Dublin, Ohio (Columbus)
6. Bridgeman Foods - Louisville, KY
7. Thompson Hospitality Corp - Reston, VA (Washington)
8. Anderson-DuBose - Rochester, NY
9. Urban One Inc - Silver Spring, MD (Washington)
10. Hightowers Petroluem - Middletown, OH (Cincinnati)
11. Fair Oaks Farms - Fair Oaks, IN (Chicago)
12. Millennium Steel Service - Princeton, IN (Evansville, IN)
13. Global Automotive Alliance - Detroit
14. Millennium Steel of Texas - San Antonio
15. Adams Communication & Engineering Technology - California, MD (Baltimore-Washington CSA)
16. Baldwin Richardson Foods - Macedon, NY (Rochester, NY)
17. Bird Electric - Midland, TX
18. Georgetown Metal Processing - Georgetown, KY (Lexington)
19. Devon Industrial Group - Detroit
20. Salamander Hotels & Resorts - Middleburg, VA (Washington)

https://www.blackenterprise.com/be100s/top100/#top-100

The largest Black owned companies still skews HEAVILY "Rust Belt", with nearly half the list in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, or upstate New York. Detroit leads the top 20 for a single city, while Baltimore-Washington edges out Detroit for the most in a single metro.

[3rd&Brown]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Stumbled across a recent list of the largest Black owned (or partially Black owned) companies by revenue in the U.S. Here are the top 20 + location:

1. World Wide Technology - Maryland Heights, Missouri (St. Louis)
2. Act 1 Group - Torrance, CA (Los Angeles)
3. Bridgewater Interiors - Detroit
4. Coca-Cola Beverages Florida (independent distributor) - Tampa
5. Modular Assembly Innovations - Dublin, Ohio (Columbus)
6. Bridgeman Foods - Louisville, KY
7. Thompson Hospitality Corp - Reston, VA (Washington)
8. Anderson-DuBose - Rochester, NY
9. Urban One Inc - Silver Spring, MD (Washington)
10. Hightowers Petroluem - Middletown, OH (Cincinnati)
11. Fair Oaks Farms - Fair Oaks, IN (Chicago)
12. Millennium Steel Service - Princeton, IN (Evansville, IN)
13. Global Automotive Alliance - Detroit
14. Millennium Steel of Texas - San Antonio
15. Adams Communication & Engineering Technology - California, MD (Baltimore-Washington CSA)
16. Baldwin Richardson Foods - Macedon, NY (Rochester, NY)
17. Bird Electric - Midland, TX
18. Georgetown Metal Processing - Georgetown, KY (Lexington)
19. Devon Industrial Group - Detroit
20. Salamander Hotels & Resorts - Middleburg, VA (Washington)

https://www.blackenterprise.com/be100s/top100/#top-100

The largest Black owned companies still skews HEAVILY "Rust Belt", with nearly half the list in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, or upstate New York. Detroit leads the top 20 for a single city, while Baltimore-Washington edges out Detroit for the most in a single metro.

Not surprised by this. But as we see in many ways today...where you make your money and where you live are often different. Could be that the children of all of these business owners live in places like Atlanta, tbh. Ditto with Miami. People are like, Miami is booming, look at everyone moving there?

Guess what? The rich people moving to Miami make their money elsewhere. They couldn't find the skill in Miami they would need to staff and recruit for their companies, but they can live wherever they want.

[Crawford]

There are a lot of HNWI in Miami or Palm Beach area for exactly 183 days per IRS. Their butts might not be there, but they'll be there for the magic 183 when tax times comes around.

Thank you, plutocrats, for paying your fair share and not trying to scam out of taxes (sarcasm).

[ColDayMan]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Stumbled across a recent list of the largest Black owned (or partially Black owned) companies by revenue in the U.S. Here are the top 20 + location:

1. World Wide Technology - Maryland Heights, Missouri (St. Louis)
2. Act 1 Group - Torrance, CA (Los Angeles)
3. Bridgewater Interiors - Detroit
4. Coca-Cola Beverages Florida (independent distributor) - Tampa
5. Modular Assembly Innovations - Dublin, Ohio (Columbus)
6. Bridgeman Foods - Louisville, KY
7. Thompson Hospitality Corp - Reston, VA (Washington)
8. Anderson-DuBose - Rochester, NY
9. Urban One Inc - Silver Spring, MD (Washington)
10. Hightowers Petroluem - Middletown, OH (Cincinnati)
11. Fair Oaks Farms - Fair Oaks, IN (Chicago)
12. Millennium Steel Service - Princeton, IN (Evansville, IN)
13. Global Automotive Alliance - Detroit
14. Millennium Steel of Texas - San Antonio
15. Adams Communication & Engineering Technology - California, MD (Baltimore-Washington CSA)
16. Baldwin Richardson Foods - Macedon, NY (Rochester, NY)
17. Bird Electric - Midland, TX
18. Georgetown Metal Processing - Georgetown, KY (Lexington)
19. Devon Industrial Group - Detroit
20. Salamander Hotels & Resorts - Middleburg, VA (Washington)

https://www.blackenterprise.com/be100s/top100/#top-100

The largest Black owned companies still skews HEAVILY "Rust Belt", with nearly half the list in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, or upstate New York. Detroit leads the top 20 for a single city, while Baltimore-Washington edges out Detroit for the most in a single metro.

And more than half if you include the ultimate "Rust Belt" state, Ohio.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by ColDayMan

And more than half if you include the ultimate "Rust Belt" state, Ohio.

Whoops. I did mean to mention Ohio as well lol.

[Six Corners]

Although my experience of Atlanta is limited to Street View (and layovers at ATL), I have a more favorable opinion of the city now than I did 10-15 years ago. Over that time, Atlanta seems to have shifted its growth toward creating quality urban spaces, whereas it once epitomized endless sprawl. The architectural design of many new buildings appears more thoughtful, and there's been a noticeable effort in urban planning to encourage multimodal access. In contrast, many other booming southern cities, except for Miami, don’t seem to have put as much consideration into their urban development. While there's still some separation between Atlanta’s more urban neighborhoods, I think this gap will shrink as more development occurs.

That said, I’m still not entirely on board with the Braves' decision to move to the suburbs. Even though they've built an urban neighborhood around the stadium, it feels like an island of 'drive-to' urbanism, especially with freeways on two sides. However, I’m less frustrated with them than I am with the Rangers, who moved from a traditional-design ballpark to a structure that looks more like a 4H show barn at the state fair—complete with surface parking lots out front, which the old ballpark didn’t have.

[Segun]

Maybe it's not mentioned yet, but the first observation I noticed when I touched down in Hartsfield on my first trip to Atlanta was that the trees grow differently. Maybe it's my imagination, but they seem taller and thicker than those in the Midwest and The East (around DC it starts to seem similar). Every time I'm in Atlanta there's some neighborhood where the way houses are situated remind me of cabins in national parks. I remember going to a sidewalk-less stroad you might find the exurbs of a major American city, complete with strip malls, Wal-Mart, etc. Yet, the periphery of the area was walled in with trees. Again, it was like someone built development in the middle of a forest preserve. You could barely see how it connected to a neighborhood. Maybe the frequency of tall trees is greater. Whatever it is, it's noticeable.

[llamaorama]

I always thought that of the big 3 super sprawl monsters (Houston, Dallas, Atlanta), that Atlanta had the most cool big city stuff, like a subway system. Houston has the fewest, and Dallas is in between. That's my completely useless subjective interpretation.