ATLANTA | Construction Thread V - Page 3

BlueSangha · #41 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 12:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by BettyBowers

Yes. Last month. A doctor with the American Cancer Society showed her penthouse condo, which was for sale, to a charming gentleman who had wandered across the street from Checker's Burgers. He killed her and stole her credit cards. In the most galling touch: He used her security card to return to the building, bringing friends to visit the lovely penthouse.

The person who jumped from a balcony to his death was next door at Plaza Midtown, where a gentleman was splattered amongst diners eating on the sidewalk at the Italian restaurant below.

Ahhh...Life in Atlanta...it just doesn't get any better.

On a scarrier note: a source tells me that SOB is in trouble; the source tells me that two of his lawfirms clients are suppliers and they are not being paid. Anyone else have anything to substantiate this.

Atlwest281 · #42 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 1:37 AM**

Ashame about that crime in Aqua, but unfortunately its the times we live in and it can happen from Alpharetta to the city. Hopefully most realize this fact. We all have to be extra vigilant particularly in these harder financial times.

Free · #43 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 2:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by BettyBowers

Well, in fairness, it's hard to keep your occupancy numbers up when the people who have moved in get murdered.

In fairness, this statement is not fair at all.

sevensixtwo · #44 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 4:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by BettyBowers

Well, in fairness, it's hard to keep your occupancy numbers up when the people who have moved in get murdered.

LMAO!

delarosa · #45 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 6:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by briantech

Based on the number of lights i see on in the evenings, I think Aqua is only about 20% filled up either.

as a non-professional, i wonder what the situation would have been like had those projects been developed on the lower end of mid-rises like the buildings closer to the park, Dakota, etc. besides the impact on prices, infrastructure, and so on, it would have made for an interesting aesthetic and likely have resulted in more rapid infill extending outwards along streets like Ponce, North, and 14th. seems as though it still would have been sufficiently dense to justify transit plans and sufficiently occupied to be attracting more retail.

patrick84 · #46 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 1:08 PM**

I am not sure if this has been mentioned:

I noticed in my informative in-flight Delta magazine last week an ad for the Hard Rock brand. Under hotels, it had Atlanta (2011)... while that's exciting, I hardly imagine it is going to happen so quickly.

Has anyone heard anything else?

scania · #47 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 1:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by BettyBowers

Yes. Last month. A doctor with the American Cancer Society showed her penthouse condo, which was for sale, to a charming gentleman who had wandered across the street from Checker's Burgers. He killed her and stole her credit cards. In the most galling touch: He used her security card to return to the building, bringing friends to visit the lovely penthouse.

The person who jumped from a balcony to his death was next door at Plaza Midtown, where a gentleman was splattered amongst diners eating on the sidewalk at the Italian restaurant below.

Her unit was not a penthouse condo, and the guy didn't wander across the street from Checker's. He had an appointment with a real estate agent, that showed him two other condos in the building, and the lady asked him if she could show her unit to the him. Also, at Plaza Midtown, the Italian restaurant closed. It is a shame, because the complaint was from the residences that the restaurant had too many party-like functions. And you have people saying that midtown is suppose to be a hip happening part of town.

Muskavon · #48 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 3:48 PM**

"It’s a shame" is the appropriate term.

As far as hip, I've been trying to tell you idealistic urbanists that you don't really want what you say you want. Conservatives (masses) coming downtown/midtown to live might ease the sprawl plight, but you and I know your whole life is built around being different than those sorry people you find worth less than the ovens you'd like to put them in. To have them all invade your space will cause our best "urbaninsts" to go country. I'll guarantee that'll be the new trend among metero or homosexual socialist groups as others move into the cities with more conservative views. Tight Flite? You name it.

popewiz · #49 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 3:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by Muskavon

"It’s a shame" is the appropriate term.

As far as hip, I've been trying to tell you idealistic urbanists that you don't really want what you say you want. Conservatives (masses) coming downtown/midtown to live might ease the sprawl plight, but you and I know your whole life is built around being different than those sorry people you find worth less than the ovens you'd like to put them in. To have them all invade your space will cause our best "urbaninsts" to go country. I'll guarantee that'll be the new trend among metero or homosexual socialist groups as others move into the cities with more conservative views. Tight Flite? You name it.

I believe the idea of living, and being able to do whatever you want on your little plot of land is too ingrained in the conservative way of life for there to be a huge movement of conservatives to the cities. For a long time, and perhaps forever, the most dense areas in the country will be home to those who understand that for a society to function people must be considerate and learn to work together.

BettyBowers · #50 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 4:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Muskavon

"It’s a shame" is the appropriate term.

As far as hip, I've been trying to tell you idealistic urbanists that you don't really want what you say you want. Conservatives (masses) coming downtown/midtown to live might ease the sprawl plight, but you and I know your whole life is built around being different than those sorry people you find worth less than the ovens you'd like to put them in. To have them all invade your space will cause our best "urbaninsts" to go country. I'll guarantee that'll be the new trend among metero or homosexual socialist groups as others move into the cities with more conservative views. Tight Flite? You name it.

Ovens? Really? You know, sometimes a fact-adverse, crazy persecution complex is entertaining; sometimes, like this time, it is simply unnerving. Meanwhile, back in the real world . . .

kamden99 · #51 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 6:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by sevensixtwo

LMAO!

Seriously? How is that funny???

patrick84 · #52 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 6:23 PM**

It's funny cause it's true... sadly my only reaction is laughter rather than sheer terror that safety doesn't exist even in the most exclusive of Midtown's high-rises.

cybele · #53 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 7:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Muskavon

As far as hip, I've been trying to tell you idealistic urbanists that you don't really want what you say you want.

Give these youngsters a few years and they'll be living out here in the burbs with the other 95% of us.

kamden99 · #54 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 8:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by patrick84

It's funny cause it's true... sadly my only reaction is laughter rather than sheer terror that safety doesn't exist even in the most exclusive of Midtown's high-rises.

You people are sick.

BettyBowers · #55 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 8:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by scania

Her unit was not a penthouse condo, and the guy didn't wander across the street from Checker's.

Take the fact-check up with the AJC because that is what they reported.

Muskavon · #56 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 9:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by BettyBowers

Ovens? Really? You know, sometimes a fact-adverse, crazy persecution complex is entertaining; sometimes, like this time, it is simply unnerving. Meanwhile, back in the real world . . .

Yeah, I'll admit that was overdone. I apologize. I still stand behind the gist of the statement. We laugh about the suburbs being an insular and intolerant group. I really see no difference in the big picture of a city center. Just a different ideology that functions just as insular and possibly even more intolerant of differing ideals. Let's face it, we aren't just begging people to take up our urbanist concepts for any one reason like the environment. We are demanding they conform to a list of views we hold dear and shunning them if they don't. And if they don't...sucky downtown...time to leave. That whole dynamic is very interesting to me.

joecool · #57 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 9:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by cybele

Give these youngsters a few years and they'll be living out here in the burbs with the other 95% of us.

uhh............ no!

Atlwest281 · #58 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 9:56 PM**

I find people in the city generally tend to have more of a broader view of there community and of the world in general. Contrast that to suburbanites who typically are the most insular and close minded. The suburbs themselves are not above forcing people into conformity. Move into some neighborhoods and if you even think about painting a home a slightly different blue then a neighborhood standard, the entire wrath of the community comes down on you. Or how if you happen to have different political views then the perceived standard of a neighborhood, how you tend to be made to feel like an island in a sea. Does this happen in the city? Sure but i think there is more of a chance of this happening in the suburbs. Suburbs are great places and do offer a good life but I think there is something to be said for city life as well.

ATL_J · #59 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 10:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by BettyBowers

Take the fact-check up with the AJC because that is what they reported.

He did eat at the Checkers prior, but its not as if he just came off the street from the Checkers, took the elevator to a random condo, and killed someone to steal their stuff.

The lady told him, while he was being led on a tour of other condos under the pretense of wanting to buy one, to not forget about her's because she was trying to sell. After the tour he made arrangements through the front desk and the woman to come see her apartments and the lady declined someone to escort him up.

There's crime everywhere. I remember plenty of murders in the suburbs of the city now John's Creek when I was growing up.

http://www.ajc.com/services/content/...%3Dinform_artr

Muskavon · #60 Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 10:46 PM**

:-) I once tried to be ideal. Then came the news yesterday that Bob Dylan was pissing off his neighbors with his porta-potty smell. A permanent structure for his slave labor servants. Good enough for them. Hopefully keeps them from using the real bathrooms. Now come on. We all know Bob Dylan, the voice of the masses of idealists, the voice of us all giving up our individual identities and living in mass huts together chanting African hymns together while holding hands. He certainly wouldn't live in some suburban gated neighborhood where someone could possibly smell such. Turns out he does live there. Could be inferred he likes the Malibu subs better than downtown LA, among other things.