MM: Oakhurst Construction, Stone Mountain Train Depot and Regulating the Smell of BBQ

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  • Drainage pipe being installed across Mead Road in Oakhurst [Decatur Minute]
  • New VA outpatient center opens at former DeVry property in Decatur [Decaturish]
  • Stone Mountain celebrates restored train depot [AJC]
  • Emory to establish John Lewis Chair in Civil Rights, Social Justice [Emory]
  • Atlanta a “Best City for Sweet Tooths…Teeth? [Travel + Leisure]
  • Would you want to smell BBQ all the time? [NYT]

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6 thoughts on “MM: Oakhurst Construction, Stone Mountain Train Depot and Regulating the Smell of BBQ”


  4. I have often driven (or parked) by Fox Bros. and wondered how in the world people in the adjacent homes stand the smell 24/7. I love BBQ as much as the next guy, but that smoke tends to get in your hair, your clothes — hell, the walls — and if it’s all you smell all the time, I could easily see it becoming sickening (and ruining one’s love of BBQ is the saddest result of all).

    OTOH, we live in close proximity to Taqueria del Sol and smell it constantly and the only negative is the constant desire to scarf tacos…

    1. Re Fox Bros., much worse than the smell, I would think, is all the cars that park on the streets nearby.

  6. But they aren’t talking about BBQ. They are talking about brisket. Nobody wants to smell cow cooking all the time. Might as well be down wind from McDonald’s.

  8. I can’t help wondering what Eddie’s Attic will smell like during shows once the Waffle House is percolating 24/7.

  10. “A lot of it has to do with tolerance level in neighborhoods that are getting gentrified,” said Mr. Siller in Denver. “People at lower socioeconomic levels may tolerate something much better than someone who moves into the same area and buys a house, sinks a fortune into remodeling and then goes out in the backyard and smells a pot grower, charbroiler, pet food manufacturer or something stinky like that.”

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    I can imagine how this would go down. “Hello, I am the rich gentleman who just renovated the house up the street, at great cost. Wolf range, marble counters, Sub-zero, the works. Well, anyway, these smells of roasting flesh coming from your restaurant may have been tolerated by the Poors, but they offend my delicate, upper-class sensibilities.”

    Next on the list, that jerk next door and his gas grill!

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