Comments on: Tossed Has New Tenant

By: Informant

Informant — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:18:46 +0000

The site next to Watershed is Ponce Preventive Care. I wasn’t aware that it was a walk up clinic. They do have an excellent weight loss program called Healthy Weight.

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:39:35 +0000

I’m sure they’ll validate.

By: cranky old timer

cranky old timer — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:52:18 +0000

Here ist he rub: pricey rents equal less than exciting (retail) tenants, who must justify the rent somehow. (Maybe pricey rents would equal more exciting residents, as if Ted would move upstairs from Teds …)
Hope the Kaiser patients get to park free–oh wait, will they have to pay the Artisan hourly rate? yikes!

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:46:05 +0000

Carl,

The buses that are currently in that “island” used to stop right in front of the MARTA station on Church St. clogging up traffic in that area. They built the bus terminal over on the other side in the mid ’90’s to get that traffic off Church and I think it has resulted in much improvement.

You may not like the buses being there, but the point of buses is to lead traffic to the nearest rail station. Unfortunately for your point of view, the major road arteries leading to Decatur come through downtown and not East Lake or Avondale.

Furthermore, even if the buses were elminated, I don’t see why you would shut off an entrance on the west side in any event. What would be the point?

By: W. Gibbets

W. Gibbets — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:51:54 +0000

Maybe everyone has grown up with different types of people. People sometimes are VERY rude when expressing strongly-held opinions–blog posting or not. However, the opinions posted here about Watershed (and other Decatur institutions) do not seem to be all that rude–let alone offensive. If a reader feels certain establishments should be off-limits to criticism then maybe the readers ARE being a little over-sensitive.
No one here is hiding behind any rationale–it’s a discussion board, at times you just have to let it go.

(A complete stoner-surfer dude once told me, after a car accident, to “acknowledge, move on…)