City on the Verge by Mark Pendergrast

Author:Mark Pendergrast
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2017-05-06T04:00:00+00:00

The popular, crowded Eastside Trail, with Ponce City Market, the former Sears warehouse

One critic, apparently from the suburbs, wrote a letter to the editor calling the BeltLine a “boondoggle” and claiming that etiquette courses would be useless because one day “a pack of wild ‘urban youth’ thugs will sweep a section of the BeltLine mugging, raping, and beating senseless any who can’t escape them.” But such racist comments were unusual.

Another growing pain involved neighborhood protests over a proposed development by Fuqua Corporation along an unbuilt eastern portion of the BeltLine, across the street from Glenwood Park, a successful mixed-use community. Early BeltLine proponent Cathy Woolard lived there; I had conducted interviews with her and others at Drip, their community coffeehouse. Fuqua was buying the old LaFarge concrete plant to redevelop it. Woolard and other community activists were incensed that the developer planned an old-fashioned mall, built around an anchor Walmart, featuring acres of parking lots. It violated the spirit of the BeltLine, they claimed. In the end, Fuqua backed away from a Walmart, instead attracting a large Kroger grocery store as the anchor, but the mall concept and parking lots went forward.

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