There's not been much news about Georgia State from a football angle. I thought I'd provide some non football thoughts as an over 20 year Atlanta resident. When I moved here in early 90's downtown Atlanta was like a lot of other large cities. The seat of government surrounded by aging buildings sketchy and abandoned or under commercialized. Visiting the large public Trama Center Grady Hospital was usually discussed in terms like visiting Beruit, often admonished to secure my car and my person from theft.
By the late 90's investment and construction started changing the Atlanta Skyline. After the 1996 Olympics Luckie/Centennial Park/Marietta st. developed live/work/museums/Resturant/aqauriums with CNN Center and Atlanta sports arenas. Midtown Atlanta exploded with new high rises, intown shopping, Georgia Tech expansion joined by the Atlantic Station Multiple billion dollar development.
During much the boom in North downtown the lower downtown, Underground, Auburn/Edgewood ave languished. Geogia State had been a small downtown college in scattered older office buildings. GSU and the city committed to a billion master plan in the early 2000's that radically changed downtown. Where onced abandoned building stood whole blocks have been renovated and new construction has sprung. A sprawing campus now winds it's way from CNN center, near the Undergound, surrounds Grady hospital and runs down Edgewood/Auburn Avenue and Piedmont. Where for so long the streets and intown parks were either empty or places for the homeless, now it's filled with over 30 thousand students. While GSU is a commuter school there are large student dormitories and downtown living grown substantially.
GSU with their absorbtion of the two year college system now has over 50K students. Recently GSU agreed to purchase Turner stadium to renovate for football. It provides the anchor for new development in East Atlanta. When added to the Beltline and Ponce City Market projects the influx of high density living and young people has changed what many would describe as underdeveloped poverty areas into vibrant and diverse intown living.
I'm going to Grady for a meeting today. My biggest concern.... is finding a parking space.
By the late 90's investment and construction started changing the Atlanta Skyline. After the 1996 Olympics Luckie/Centennial Park/Marietta st. developed live/work/museums/Resturant/aqauriums with CNN Center and Atlanta sports arenas. Midtown Atlanta exploded with new high rises, intown shopping, Georgia Tech expansion joined by the Atlantic Station Multiple billion dollar development.
During much the boom in North downtown the lower downtown, Underground, Auburn/Edgewood ave languished. Geogia State had been a small downtown college in scattered older office buildings. GSU and the city committed to a billion master plan in the early 2000's that radically changed downtown. Where onced abandoned building stood whole blocks have been renovated and new construction has sprung. A sprawing campus now winds it's way from CNN center, near the Undergound, surrounds Grady hospital and runs down Edgewood/Auburn Avenue and Piedmont. Where for so long the streets and intown parks were either empty or places for the homeless, now it's filled with over 30 thousand students. While GSU is a commuter school there are large student dormitories and downtown living grown substantially.
GSU with their absorbtion of the two year college system now has over 50K students. Recently GSU agreed to purchase Turner stadium to renovate for football. It provides the anchor for new development in East Atlanta. When added to the Beltline and Ponce City Market projects the influx of high density living and young people has changed what many would describe as underdeveloped poverty areas into vibrant and diverse intown living.
I'm going to Grady for a meeting today. My biggest concern.... is finding a parking space.
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