our representative (we share with grant park, peoples town and summer hill) said she had no idea there was even talk about it until it was announced, so i'm not sure how much blame we can put on the city, unless you mean just kasim
It’s the city’s fault, because downtown proper is the biggest pile of shit on earth, and nobody is doing anything to fix that. Ask someone from Chicago, NYC, LA, Seattle, even Houston, what they think of our downtown. It’s garbage. Sure, we’ve got great neighborhoods that surround downtown, but downtown itself is nothing more than a giant conference room for business people to get in and get out of. It’s garbage, and it always has been. There is nothing to do there to attract tourism. It just pisses me off, because I love Atlanta so freaking much, but we have easily the most boring downtown in all of the major cities in the US.
The move to Cobb County was a good business decision for the Braves. They moved to where the season ticket holders are, will pay less taxes and will sell more tickets and make more money (that’s not even debatable). They’re already talking about all of the bars, hotels and mixed use spaces they’re going to put around the stadium. It’s going to be awesome (minus the whole being in the god damn suburbs part), but it grinds my fucking gears because if our city government was worth a shit, they would have done this around Turner field years ago. They knew damn well that every white suburban asshole from Cobb County doesn’t want to come down to a game because of the area and the lack of cool shit to do around the area. Had they done something about that years ago, this would not be happening.
Again, it makes perfect business sense for the Braves, but it’s now taking even more away from our already struggling downtown. So, now, when people come in from out of town to see a Braves game, they get to visit, stay in and spend their money in the glorious suburb of Cobb Fucking County. It’s horse shit. This city is lazy. Professional sports don’t belong in the suburbs. Congrats Atlanta, this is your fault. Oh, and speaking of Kasim, he’s already said they’re going to turn the Turner Field area into a super awesome middle income neighborhood. Because that will really help our already fucked tourism market. Ugh, suck my dick Atlanta. I’m so disappointed in the city I love, yet again.