Atlanta - Emory University

mpspqr · #1 Posted **Dec 4, 2006, 9:02 PM**

I took some pics around campus last month. I thought I'd go ahead and post them for your enjoyment.

ATLBlaxican · #2 Posted **Dec 4, 2006, 9:53 PM**

Emory is amazing.... I wish G-State had the money took hook-up our campus like that. Although, you should check out what thet have planned for Decatuar St. and around Underground...impressive to say the least!

Oh yeah, Mercer(Atlanta Campus) very nice too.

joey · #3 Posted **Dec 4, 2006, 9:55 PM**

Over the years, Emory has grown on me. At first, I found the Italianate-by-way-of-1962 mix kind of jarring, but it's coming together, and time has worked well for the campus.

mpspqr · #4 Posted **Dec 4, 2006, 11:54 PM**

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Over the years, Emory has grown on me. At first, I found the Italianate-by-way-of-1962 mix kind of jarring, but it's coming together, and time has worked well for the campus.

I agree completely. I first came to Emory last year to start law school and I found the Italian style marble buildings to be beautiful but kinda dispersed in the midst of too many concrete brutalist 70's buildings and not enough open walking space. They're really renovating and revising a lot of the campus plan in order to bring together the architecture in a much better way. It really is a beautiful campus with even more potential.

They have a very ambitious campus plan of the next 10 years or so. Good news, they have the $ to do it.

austin356 · #5 Posted **Dec 5, 2006, 12:46 AM**

I might decide to get my MBA there in the future, a top 25 university in the world, imo.

cmixon001 · #6 Posted **Dec 7, 2006, 4:57 PM**

I was at Emory for law school in the 90s. What they've done with the campus since then is great -- building the Goizueta school and the performing arts center and closing off the street in front of Cox Hall. I also love the idea of moving the hospital across Clifton and keeping only the old hospital building as one side of a new quad area. Emory's got a great vision now, which it sure didn't have in the 60s and 70s, imo. Thanks for the pics -- bring back lots of memories.

Sedaded · #7 Posted **Dec 7, 2006, 7:55 PM**

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I might decide to get my MBA there in the future, a top 25 university in the world, imo.

I'm a first-year MBA student there now. It's absolutely amazing!

john3eblover · #8 Posted **Dec 7, 2006, 9:25 PM**

love the fall colors. nice pics

Chris Creech · #9 Posted **Dec 8, 2006, 12:30 AM**

I know Emory is trying to work up a transportation plan. They were originally supposed to get a line on the original MARTA plans, but I guess that just never happened.

I read though where Emory is going to try something new and innovative. They've decided to quit subsidizing parking on compus, which will about double the price. They said in the paper they just need to start getting people out of their cars. I guess it is a bit of a conflict to talk of a progressive transit plan while you're subsidizing parking on campus.

I wonder if that money will be earmarked for their transit plans? I wouldn't be surprised to see them do a trolley or street car system. I know they want to tie in all the Clifton Rd. stuff as well, CDC and all.

Speaking of brutalist architecture, the little Cannon chapel there is actually one of my favorite buildings in the city. The austerity of brutalism actually works pretty well for churchs.

cabasse · #10 Posted **Dec 8, 2006, 1:13 AM**

my "rich uncle" graduated from emory's school of law in the '60s. he now owns his own firm in tampa.

i wonder what it would take for marta to bring back the tucker-north dekalb proposal. does anyone know when this extention was being studied?

http://world.nycsubway.org/us/atlant...rovisions.html

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...020084&iwloc=A

atlanta_transit · #11 Posted **Dec 8, 2006, 3:06 AM**

The Tucker North DeKalb line was last studied in the late 1990s as a light rail line from Lindbergh. Neighborhood opposition killed it.

Newnan_Eric · #12 Posted **Dec 8, 2006, 4:49 PM**

There are some other possibilities that have been talked about that could affect Emory's transit plans.

1. The Athens Commuter Ral line (The "Brian Train") proposal would have a stop at Emory on its way into downtown. This would allow workers at Emory, the CDC, and other area business to commute in from Gwinnett and North Dekalb counties.

2. Also using those same tracks and stations, there is a poposal to utilize a DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit) for more freguent service between Downtown and Emory. This proposal would include stops the the future Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal (MMPT) downtown, a station on the West side of Georgia Tech, Atlantic Station, the Brookwood AMTRAK station, a proposed connecting station near the MARTA Armour yard that would connect to MARTA and the Beltlline, and Emory. This DMU service would use conventional rails, but would provide more-frequent service on par with MARTA rail service.

3. There is some planning activity for the Clifton Road Corridor. This includes roadway improvements and anhanced transit service.

4. There are also some "pie-in-the-sky" streetcar proposals, but I don't think there serious enough to consider at this point.

But, Emory is on the right track with removing the parking subsidies. Now if we could get more institutions and businesses to follow suit in Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead you'd see further support for transit.

ATLmangum · #13 Posted **Dec 8, 2006, 5:32 PM**

I love Emory's campus. I think including it on the Athens' Commuter rail line would be a no brainer. That part of Decatur where Emory and Fernbank are located is probably my favorite part of Atlanta.

mpspqr · #14 Posted **Dec 9, 2006, 8:21 PM**

If parking is subsidized right now, it either has no effect on what I pay, or things are about to get ridiculous. A parking pass as of right now is somewhere around $360 if I remember correctly. I've spoken with other friends of mine at different law schools and this tends to be at least 3x what they pay. Oh well. At least tuition is cheap...doh!

joey · #15 Posted **Dec 10, 2006, 6:53 AM**

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If parking is subsidized right now, it either has no effect on what I pay, or things are about to get ridiculous. A parking pass as of right now is somewhere around $360 if I remember correctly. I've spoken with other friends of mine at different law schools and this tends to be at least 3x what they pay. Oh well. At least tuition is cheap...doh!

I think it's over $500 at GaTech, and that's cheaper than the decks in Midtown ($500/year =~ $41/month, whereas the decks are in excess of $50/month). Here at UVa Law, in a rural/suburban area with lower land prices, we pay about $200.

Andrea · #16 Posted **Dec 10, 2006, 7:25 AM**

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I think it's over $500 at GaTech, and that's cheaper than the decks in Midtown ($500/year =~ $41/month, whereas the decks are in excess of $50/month). Here at UVa Law, in a rural/suburban area with lower land prices, we pay about $200.

I love Emory. I could never afford to go to school there but I love to just go there and walk around. It's beautiful.

MarketsWork · #17 Posted **Dec 10, 2006, 7:27 PM**

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Emory is on the right track with removing the parking subsidies. Now if we could get more institutions and businesses to follow suit in Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead you'd see further support for transit.

That would be insane in today's job market! Do you have any idea how hard it is to find and keep good workers right now? We are presently at full employment, which means that everyone who wants to work right now is working. Businesses are having to bend over backward to hire and retain good workers in Atlanta, so I would expect more non-taxable benefits (like parking subsidies), not less. And as long as the great majority of workers travel by car, businesses will have to compete for their services.

Tombstoner · #18 Posted **Dec 10, 2006, 7:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by mpspqr

If parking is subsidized right now, it either has no effect on what I pay, or things are about to get ridiculous. A parking pass as of right now is somewhere around $360 if I remember correctly. I've spoken with other friends of mine at different law schools and this tends to be at least 3x what they pay. Oh well. At least tuition is cheap...doh!

It's going up to $625 next year.

joey · #19 Posted **Dec 10, 2006, 9:13 PM**

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That would be insane in today's job market! Do you have any idea how hard it is to find and keep good workers right now? We are presently at full employment, which means that everyone who wants to work right now is working. Businesses are having to bend over backward to hire and retain good workers in Atlanta, so I would expect more non-taxable benefits (like parking subsidies), not less. And as long as the great majority of workers travel by car, businesses will have to compete for their services.

I seriously doubt that a shift of the private-employer funds from tax-free parking subsidies into taxable income (or into other tax-free uses such as 401k matches) would cause a mass exodus. Even along the margins, and even if it were shifted from tax-free to taxable, you're talking about a maximum difference of something like $350/year ($1000/year parking switched to taxable income, costing a maximum of 35% more in the highest tax bracket). I highly doubt people will race to leave jobs or not choose a job based on a maximum difference of $350/year.

MarketsWork · #20 Posted **Dec 10, 2006, 11:00 PM**

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I highly doubt people will race to leave jobs or not choose a job based on a maximum difference of $350/year.

My point has nothing to do with the amount of any subsidy, but with Newnan_Eric's insinuation that businesses should discontinue parking subsidies as a means to encourage their employees' use of public transit. Such attempted social engineering by a private business would be pointless and self-defeating unless attractive alternatives exist for its targeted employees. For the majority of those scarce workers, it does not.