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Urbanize Atlanta<\/a>: legendary gentleman\u2019s club\/piece of iconic real estate aka The Cheetah to become lame student housing for Georgia Tech<\/span><\/p>\n A long time ago, when I moved back out to the \u2018burbs, I had a moment of feeling that I would miss living and\/or working within the city.\u00a0 There was a piece of me that felt some sort of importance to have proximity to the city in order to have a feel for the pulse of it, and that residing outside of it would make me lose touch with all the news and happenings within Atlanta city proper.<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, it is accurate to say that I\u2019ve lost touch with the general, boots-on-the-ground minutiae of the city, but it\u2019s still entirely possible to keep up with the general main happenings in and around the city by virtue of, the internet.\u00a0 There are plenty of sites and outlets that do a good job of keeping me abreast to stuff like restaurants and events, not that I have a tenth of the extroverted desires to go out in the world anymore for the most part.<\/span><\/p>\n But when the day is over, I just don\u2019t really give a shit anymore about needing to know much about what\u2019s going on in the city like I used to.\u00a0 I don\u2019t miss going into the city, and I feel no real need to have a finger on the pulse of it anymore.\u00a0 The pandemic only accelerated this detachment from things, but it\u2019s like every time I do go into the city, I\u2019m always surprised to see new things, and alterations to the general city skyline, primarily within a 2-mile radius around Georgia Tech; encapsulating Midtown, and the at some point-christened West<\/em> Midtown neighborhoods.<\/span><\/p>\n In the past, I used to work pretty much right next to The Cheetah<\/a>, right in Tech Square.\u00a0 There was a break room that I used to sit in to eat my lunch that had a window that looked right out onto Spring Street, and The Cheetah, and not much else, because at the time there was only a giant-ass dead lot that was used for pay parking.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve never really been one for strip clubs<\/a>, since there\u2019s little more of a turn off knowing that the broads prancing around trying to separate you from your cash, resent your existence by being there, and a headcase like me needs to have some degree of emotional connection in order for my wires to heat up.\u00a0 But all the same, I always respected the existence of The Cheetah, as it was kind of an icon of the city, often in the same breath as other notorious locations in the city like The Clermont Lounge, Murder Kroger, Center Stage, Little Five Points, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n Plus, I really enjoyed it when I found a random $20 bill on the sidewalk<\/a> while I was passing by, and it helped contribute to my very first iPad acquisition way back in the day.<\/span><\/p>\n But in spite of my general ambivalence for strip clubs, it did give me a case of meh-face when I learned that The Cheetah was next on the city\u2019s chopping block in order to make room for more lame student housing.\u00a0 Like, there are so many other dilapidated and\/or useless plots of land remotely close to Georgia Tech that could make for land for student housing as opposed to sacrificing The Cheetah.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not like over the span of the last decade there aren\u2019t like 5-6 other new student housing buildings that have popped up to house all these Georgia Tech nerds.<\/span><\/p>\n I dunno, it just leaves me feeling sour, knowing that Atlanta seems to slowly be sacrificing all of the little quirks and idiosyncrasies that made Atlanta, Atlanta, the way they keep cannibalizing shit with character for boring ass shit like moar student housing, egregiously priced condominiums, or corporate headquarters.\u00a0 It\u2019s like they\u2019re going to run out of insufferably elevated words and names to use for all these soulless towers at the rate they\u2019re going, and the last time I was in the city, for a wrestling show at Center Stage, there were literally two new apartment towers that had sprouted up that weren\u2019t there just months prior.<\/span><\/p>\n When the day is over, I\u2019m not going to lose any sleep over the demise of The Cheetah.\u00a0 But it\u2019s stuff like this that makes it easier to reinforce the notion that I don\u2019t miss being in the city or needing to be close to the city, at all.\u00a0 Almost all of the restaurants I used to like to go to are all gone, and little landmarks that I could always give people ten-cent tours over are all being razed for boring shit.\u00a0 It makes me sad knowing that the city that I do rep is voluntarily forfeiting their character and charm, over the need for a bunch of useless and aesthetically soulless real estate that contributes very little to the long-term life of Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Urbanize Atlanta: legendary gentleman\u2019s club\/piece of iconic real estate aka The Cheetah to become lame student housing for Georgia Tech A long time ago, when I moved back out to the \u2018burbs, I had a moment of feeling that I would miss living and\/or working within the city.\u00a0 There was a piece of me that … Continue reading Oh, Atlanta 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