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Originally Posted by shivtim
How is downtown a single-use district? It's the opposite - office, residential, hotels, museums, sports, conference center, entertainment, University, retail, government/municipal, etc all within blocks of Centennial park. Downtown is the most mixed-use neighborhood in the state of Georgia, and I don't see how putting in another museum would be an issue.
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The COP area is heavily weighted towards local, regional, and area tourism. If you can't see that, I don't believe we see cities the same way. I lived next to the park 15 years and have seen powers-that-be move away from the vision of Downtown being a true mixed-use urban neighborhood to Downtown being just a series of attractions/destinations. If you go there now that everything is closed or in very limited capacity, it's a ghost town, much worse than I've seen in since the early 90s. The few thousand residents living there are feeling it.
Bottom line, housing and quality of life for locals is the key first and foremost. This said, I'd be cool with putting it in the Gulch - that's going to be a true urban district, but we really need 24/7 365 active uses around Centennial Park.