Posted Jun 24, 2024, 2:31 PM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2018
Posts: 256
|
|
Unless development plans start looking better, I think it’s likely that the hopes of downtown becoming a neighborhood where people want to live fade away and at some point at least some of these developments falter just like the old Underground did. Downtown has more than enough massive venues, stadia, and “museums” imo, and I’d like to see some of these entertainment options spread around.
(I know some people want to live there but it’s not somewhere that most Atlantans would recommend to live in or even visit, aside from attending an event, if we’re being honest)
When I started reading this sub in 2012, the MMPT was supposed to start construction in 2014 and finish in 2017. Then we had such high hopes for the planned developments at Underground, South Downtown, and the Gulch. There are still some developments happening, but the quality has changed dramatically and although at one point I thought I’d love to live downtown someday, I don’t even visit the neighborhood as much as I used to.
TLDR: i don’t think downtown can add all this entertainment space without hurting the neighborhoods future. I don’t believe it will hurt places like pcm because pcm is actually in an area that people want to visit. Downtown might continue to improve compared to its old self but I had higher hopes for the neighborhood a decade ago, its trajectory is not looking as good as it was.
|
Threaded Mode