this is indigenous to Atlanta--a variation of The Onion/Atlantabanana
written in 2012--I don't think much progress has been made. Buckhead/where the governor lives--this is about high end LA style restaurants and shops. Hope someone will be able to visit them if/when the project is finished. Tourists, celebrities, a few locals?
City Considers Transformation of Buckhead into Giant Abandoned Hole a Success
<What major metropolitan area’s nicest zip code has one of those?”
Once the city had decided upon its visionary plan for the future, developers sprung into action. The formerly Bourbon-Street-esque Buckhead Avenue and Bolling Way were closed to the public so that the haphazard silt fences and head-high weeds could be installed. In a dazzling display of efficiency,construction equipment quickly excavated the cavernous chasm where fuzzy good-time memories had once been made, then immediately vanished. Monstrous cranes were installed onsite, presumably to survey the enormous pit from above, as opposed to actually building anything new.
The list of bars that were closed down was extensive: Buckhead Saloon, Robert’s, CJ’s Landing, The Living Room, BAR Atlanta, and Tongue and Groove, among others. Gone forever was Uranus and its associated puns that its owners had never heard before; gone was Mako’s and its “I’m not QUITE a stripper yet” swing, gone were Lulu’s Bait Shack and its fishbowl-fueled rooftop patio with amazing summertime views. In their places, to the horror of fun-seekers and the city’s lasting delight, are now acres of exposed red clay, a pile of bricks, a hardhat, and seven rusted-out steel drums that harbor a frightening population of mosquito larvae.>
written in 2012--I don't think much progress has been made. Buckhead/where the governor lives--this is about high end LA style restaurants and shops. Hope someone will be able to visit them if/when the project is finished. Tourists, celebrities, a few locals?
City Considers Transformation of Buckhead into Giant Abandoned Hole a Success
<What major metropolitan area’s nicest zip code has one of those?”
Once the city had decided upon its visionary plan for the future, developers sprung into action. The formerly Bourbon-Street-esque Buckhead Avenue and Bolling Way were closed to the public so that the haphazard silt fences and head-high weeds could be installed. In a dazzling display of efficiency,construction equipment quickly excavated the cavernous chasm where fuzzy good-time memories had once been made, then immediately vanished. Monstrous cranes were installed onsite, presumably to survey the enormous pit from above, as opposed to actually building anything new.
The list of bars that were closed down was extensive: Buckhead Saloon, Robert’s, CJ’s Landing, The Living Room, BAR Atlanta, and Tongue and Groove, among others. Gone forever was Uranus and its associated puns that its owners had never heard before; gone was Mako’s and its “I’m not QUITE a stripper yet” swing, gone were Lulu’s Bait Shack and its fishbowl-fueled rooftop patio with amazing summertime views. In their places, to the horror of fun-seekers and the city’s lasting delight, are now acres of exposed red clay, a pile of bricks, a hardhat, and seven rusted-out steel drums that harbor a frightening population of mosquito larvae.>
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