{"id":46298,"date":"2018-11-06T12:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46298"},"modified":"2020-08-09T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T16:50:38","slug":"atlantans-would-rather-have-a-ghetto-hole-than-a-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46298","title":{"rendered":"Atlantans would rather have a ghetto hole than a city?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TL;DR<\/a>: protestors try to convince the City of Atlanta to not go forward with a $2 billion dollar proposal to develop the Gulch<\/span><\/p>\n

For those of you who don\u2019t live in Atlanta, or live in the metro area and are clueless anyway, the Gulch is this giant parcel of land that currently exists as a big empty parking lot that sits two stories lower than the rest of Downtown Atlanta, because long ago the city decided for some reason to build above everything, or maybe they just wanted to keep the streets nice and level.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bottom line is that the Gulch is a gigantic eyesore of space that exists really, really close to some major Atlanta landmarks, like Centennial Olympic Park, Mercedes Benz Arena, the CNN Center and Philips<\/span> State Farm Arena.\u00a0 It\u2019s basically where cars park to get broken into, or where the drivers get harassed, buy drugs, assaulted, murdered or all of the above.\u00a0 It\u2019s undesirable, looks like shit, and is in desperate need to be taken over by developers and actually developed.<\/span><\/p>\n

So when some smarmy hot-shot California developers come into town and propose some $2 billion dollar idea to develop the Gulch, you\u2019d think there would be people that might actually be excited by the promise of the City of Atlanta gentrifying yet another shitty area and trying to make it look nice, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuck no, of course not.\u00a0 Much like the Beltline, Mercedes-Benz Arena, ScumTrust Park, there are a ton of people who show up, all up in arms, about how it\u2019s a bad idea, and how it\u2019s going to price people out and how some rich developers are going to get richer at the expense of the poor.\u00a0 Now in their defense, the city most certainly didn\u2019t need Mercedes-Benz Arena or ScumTrust Park, but the Beltline most definitely succeeded in both beautifying the areas it\u2019s been developed in AND pricing out the poors while the rich got richer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the harsh reality though: every single proposed plan in the history of proposed plans always ends up with rich people getting richer, while the lower on the totem pole you, the more people get screwed.\u00a0 That\u2019s just the way of the world, unfortunately.\u00a0 The real victories of development exist in how little people get screwed, because people are always going to get screwed, but may as well get some pretty shiny new toys out it, if it\u2019s inevitably going to happen anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, I don\u2019t really know what people are even protesting for, and why.\u00a0 At least projects like the Beltline and Mercedes-Benz were actively displacing people who lived in those areas, but the Gulch is a giant hole of ghetto.\u00a0 The only people going to be displaced are homeless people who frankly shouldn\u2019t be there in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

These progress cockblockers are citing their concerns over affordable housing, despite the fact that the Gulch has no housing in the first place.\u00a0 And even if there were, look no further than the Beltline, as an example of how developers can cite all the affordable housing they want, when it comes time to develop and make money, there is going to be none.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, I don\u2019t really know where I\u2019m going with this post, other than the fact that it looks like people are protesting the idea of an ugly ghetto hole in the ground actually getting developed, because they\u2019re butthurt about some investors getting rich.\u00a0 Of course the rich knows this, this is how they get rich in the first place, but at least they\u2019d be accomplishing something in beautifying a hideous part of Atlanta, and improving the city\u2019s overall appeal and value, versus a bunch of white guilters preferring a giant sink hole of blight existing instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s the fact that I don\u2019t actually live in city proper anymore that makes it easy to NIMBY stories like this, because I can easily go back to my nice sensible home outside of the actual city limits, and judge the shit out of things that aren\u2019t really my problem and won\u2019t be, because I\u2019m actually dissatisfied over my own county\u2019s bullshit and need some company for our own misery.<\/span><\/p>\n

But c\u2019mon, protesting for<\/em> the Gulch?\u00a0 What the fuck is wrong with these idiots?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TL;DR: protestors try to convince the City of Atlanta to not go forward with a $2 billion dollar proposal to develop the Gulch For those of you who don\u2019t live in Atlanta, or live in the metro area and are clueless anyway, the Gulch is this giant parcel of land that currently exists as a … Continue reading Atlantans would rather have a ghetto hole than a city?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,143,49],"class_list":["post-46298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-ohatlanta","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46300,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46298\/revisions\/46300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}