Comments on: Robb Pitts: No nightlife – whadya call Magic City?

By: Cashew

Cashew — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:40:10 +0000

Phoenix has addressed a lot of these concerns and more by moving a campus of Arizona State University downtown, then serving it and many other sports/entertainment locals with a gleaming, new light rail system. I would encourage your city fathers to gain equal vision before “ghost town” enters your residential lexicon…..

By: RW

RW — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:15:35 +0000

Well put Darin. I agree 100%. Are we just interested in collecting money or do we want a great city.

Real transit would not only provide much needed traffic and air quality relief for the city but would help solve this problem too. If you could hop on a street car to ride from the downtown hotels to midtown or castleberry hill then we wouldn’t have this struggle to attract businesses downtown.

By: Darin

Darin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:34:56 +0000

I’m an adult Atlantan. I have adult friends — and we all like to be entertained. None of us are jonesing for more strip clubs intown and/or the addition of legalized gambling on the Atlanta nightlife landscape. Am I missing something? Am I an abby-normal adult?

This city went through a long period during the 70s and 80s when adults from out of town and the suburbs would tear up the town for an evening or a weekend for sexy adult entertainment — or else a wild romp through bars — then go back to their clean suburban neighborhoods. I feel like that scenario didn’t do any favors for Atlanta, especially downtown.

I really don’t think that turning downtown into a stomping ground for seekers of short-term thrills is a good recipe for long-term urban success. I’m no expert. It’s just a hunch.