ATLANTA | Development Thread V - Page 17

briantech · #**321** Posted **Apr 9, 2009, 2:43 PM**

So I heard the Equitable building is going up for auction. Anyone have any details or heard about that?

briantech · #**322** Posted **Apr 9, 2009, 3:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by briantech

So I heard the Equitable building is going up for auction. Anyone have any details or heard about that?

Wow never mind, didn't see the article 7 posts above my question!

Poor equitable

cabasse · #**323** Posted **Apr 9, 2009, 4:32 PM**

maybe the next owner won't be so eager and willing to sell the naming rights replacing the iconic equitable logo across the top. also, i definitely hope that the hgi rendering above was just a general idea of what it will look like... yikes.

delarosa · #**324** Posted **Apr 9, 2009, 5:56 PM**

don't recall seeing mention on here, but some atl construction project funding included in bond package...reported by the ajc a few days ago

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/s...tlanta.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

includes funding for GaTech Learning Commons...concept:
http://www.whistle.gatech.edu/archives/08/jun/16/clough%20lc.shtml

and GSU outdoor student rec facility for which i've not seen any renderings.

scpatl4now · #**325** Posted **Apr 9, 2009, 8:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by delarosa

don't recall seeing mention on here, but some atl construction project funding included in bond package...reported by the ajc a few days ago

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/s...tlanta.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

includes funding for GaTech Learning Commons...concept:
http://www.whistle.gatech.edu/archives/08/jun/16/clough%20lc.shtml

and GSU outdoor student rec facility for which i've not seen any renderings.

First thing I noticed is that Dekalb (#2 in population) only gets 4-5 million which is less than any county listed other than Cherokee Co. It seems if you are represented by someone with a (D) after their name you were shut out. Is this stimulus money?

STrek777 · #**326** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 12:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by scpatl4now

First thing I noticed is that Dekalb (#2 in population) only gets 4-5 million which is less than any county listed other than Cherokee Co. It seems if you are represented by someone with a (D) after their name you were shut out. Is this stimulus money?

I'm a little put off by the fact that every project that is listed here when finished... is done. There is not a penny for the Beltline that has the potential to spurr development for decades. Nothing for MARTA or the parks of GA. Correct me if I'm wrong but I see nothing here that is being invested in that will enspire further mass developments as a direct result of the initial investment.

Free · #**327** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 12:43 AM**

^ Completely agree. Georgia is governed by fools.

STrek777 · #**328** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 2:13 AM**

In case ya'll wanted a cool website full of video renderings check out the link below.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D20%26um%3D1

mayhem · #**329** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 5:29 AM**

Hey guys,

I see my name brought up a few times in regards to complaints against Mark. I used to delete 80% of the posts on this thread and everyone complained until they were blue in the face. Then I just let it run wild because I got tired of getting 15 PM's a week complaining that their post about something not on topic was deleted.

I still lurk and check to see if there is any good news but when I got bombarded with complaints I basically gave up my status as a moderator because I don't have the time to sit on the internet and argue about what is or isn't on topic.

Hopefully we'll see some things get off the ground and we won't have to ask who owns the Checkers on 10th St 100 times to keep ourselves entertained.

In the meantime, please respect M II A II R II K because he is only trying to keep the thread on topic and not let it run rampant with bickering and unrelated chat.

sevensixtwo · #**330** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 6:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by Free

^ Completely agree. Georgia is governed by fools.

Are they fools or thieves (or both)? And is it possible that DeKalb's corruption problems have something to do with them receiving so little money?

skapunkskatedude · #**331** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 6:33 AM**

Who owns the Checkers on 10th St?

sabino86 · #**332** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 7:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by skapunkskatedude

Who owns the Checkers on 10th St?

ME ME ME ME ME ME!!!!!!

joecool · #**333** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 10:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by skapunkskatedude

Who owns the Checkers on 10th St?

Yeah, every time I drive down spring heading south I pass the radio tower, funeral home and Checkers and it makes me wanna vomit. That area needs someone to hook it up BAD! Whoever owns the Checkers lot is an idiot, what a prime location to just let a Checkers come in.... blah!

gttx · #**334** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 11:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by joecool

Yeah, every time I drive down spring heading south I pass the radio tower, funeral home and Checkers and it makes me wanna vomit. That area needs someone to hook it up BAD! Whoever owns the Checkers lot is an idiot, what a prime location to just let a Checkers come in.... blah!

It has only become a "prime" lot in the past 10 years. The owner isn't an idiot...he knows he is sitting on a gold mine and is probably just biding his time.

joecool · #**335** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 11:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by gttx

It has only become a "prime" lot in the past 10 years. The owner isn't an idiot...he knows he is sitting on a gold mine and is probably just biding his time.

Yeah thats true...

scpatl4now · #**336** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 1:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by sevensixtwo

Are they fools or thieves (or both)? And is it possible that DeKalb's corruption problems have something to do with them receiving so little money?

The corruption stems from the "former" county CEO Vernon Jones who is gone now. Then there is the jail/sheriff stuff, but one only needs to look at the last couple of years of FULTON Co. and they pale in comparison in as much as cronyism, absurd property tax assessments, and county commissioners pet projects (Queen Emma Darnell...as she has been called is one of them who caused the Library fiasco that ended up costing MILLIONS). Dekalb cant even touch Fulton on the corruption side of things

scpatl4now · #**337** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 1:17 PM**

I was told today by the one tenant left in that strip mall that the plans to demolish and rebuild a mixed use development have been shelved possibly canceled. It was a firm out of MSP that was doing this (I dont know the name), but they stupidly forced all the tenants to move (the economy was already tanking at that point). So, now they have an almost empty strip mall producing almost no income with one tenant (the pot and pan)...not too sharp

delarosa · #**338** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 1:36 PM**

re: previous ? about that construction funding, it's a bond package included in 2010 budget. i've not seen details on the terms of these bonds (funny, you'd think 'quality' reporting or good gov't comms would at least provide at least a reference to specifics on the issuance)

by county (though i noticed a $ disconnect w/ the project list)
http://gov.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,78006749_129886711_130636053,00.html

more detailed construction project list:
http://gaeducation.blogspot.com/2009/01/governor-perdue-announces-bond-package.html

the budget itself can of course be found:
http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2009_10/house/budget/budgetDocs.htm

scpatl4now · #**339** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 1:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by STrek777

In case ya'll wanted a cool website full of video renderings check out the link below.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D20%26um%3D1

That was WAY cool...it looked like the ocean on both sides of you...kinda Miami Beach like

Snakebit · #**340** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 8:33 PM**

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2009/04/13/story1.html?b=1239595200^1809010

More money coming to Atlanta, Emory name national cancer center. Expansion at Emory to come?