New Fly-Throughs of Ponce City Market Interior
Decatur Metro | May 27, 2014 | 10:16 amCheck. It. Out.
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Of the three types of people–simulated, real, and Bob-the-builder–I think I like the simulated the best. Their choice of clothing fascinates me. And I love the way they move–they stride rather than walk.
All of the walking animated characters have their hands held out from their sides as though they’re ready to draw for a duel. I guess that’s the Guns Everywhere law….
The parking deck shot includes a simulated Maserati.
More unlikely was the blue Renault Megane parked behind it.
Seems so sterile and predictable somehow. Bare and hard and ‘modern’ so it’s worn out already. Maybe that’s just the otherworldly look of the occupants and their strange gait. Pretty sure I saw JarJar Binks.
I worked in that building for about five years back when it was owned and actually used by The City. The place was run down but wonderful in part due to its sheer size and the random remnants from its Sears days glory. It will be interesting to see how much of the original interior – floor plans, staircases, mammoth freight elevators, etc.. — will be recognizable in the finished product.
i heard there were plans to put a bar in one of the big freight elevators.
I was motion sick within 14 seconds. Didn’t even get inside. I feel so old.
The parking deck is the best lit underground parking I’ve ever seen. Not to mention bustling with people. Sure hope the lighting is that good in real life. The reason I rarely use the downtown Decatur Courthouse or the Edgewood Retail District parking is that they are too dark and deserted. I feel too vulnerable.
Slow day on Decatur Metro, so let me get something started. You can choose from the following topics:
1. I hit 10,000 miles on my car yesterday.
2. Our house is a mess, but I just don’t feel like cleaning it.
3. Nice moving on ceremony (NOT graduation) at Winnona Park Elementary this morning.
4. I wish I had a leftover chocolate bunny from Easter. I would eat it all. Right now.
I’ll trade you for a marshmallow chick.
We had a family clean-up this weekend and we located the 2014 milk chocolate Easter bunny still in the original wrapping. Now resting comfortably in the fridge. I will deliver it to you if you will make Mellow Mushroom come back. (Comfort food for comfort food!)
We have some chocolate bunnies here. If you would clean MY house, I’ll give them to you.
I’ve got a box of dark chocolate sea salt caramels and dark chocolate covered pretzels from the Chocolate Tree in Beaufort, SC. And you can’t have any, no matter what kind of ammunition you threaten me with.
Thanks for the non-offer.
I just don’t get the whole chocolate and sea salt thing. Too weird for me.
A lot of noise was made about the traffic mess the new Braves stadium will cause (perhaps rightfully so), but I haven’t heard much about the traffic problems this might create. This place, unlike the Braves stadium, will be close to a 365 day a year attraction. Isn’t this going to make driving on Ponce a disaster? Do they have plans to address the traffic?
This place, unlike the new Braves stadium, will not have 40,000 people trying to enter and exit at exactly the same time either. It is also within the center of the city so people can walk and take transit. It is right on the Beltline.
Yes, it may make Ponce and North Ave more difficult to travel by car, but I think the economic and social impact is worth it.
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The complete and total lack of mass transit to the new Braves site and the simultaneous arrival and exit times are what make that project a looming disaster. Sure wish my office wasn’t right next door…
I think North Ave has plenty of capacity. It always move faster than Ponce. But then becomes a narrow neighborhood street between murder Kroger and Manuel’s.
“It is also within the center of the city so people can walk and take transit. It is right on the Beltline.”
True. Let’s hope that transit on the Beltline gets done soon.
Looks like a less claustrophobic version of the Chelsea Market.
I think they based the design of the retail part on Chelsea Market.
they’re the same developers who developed Chelsea Market
WAY cool!! Loving the design, the layout, the whole thing, really…huge kudos to them for doing this place justice. Can’t wait to see the finished product!
Many fewer digital vagrants and ne’er-do-wells than I would have expected for that part of town. Couldn’t they have got some code from GTA characters to make it more realistic? 😉
Also didn’t notice any beards or tattoos. What, no indie restaurants in PCM?
I hope they put some trees in there. I am half joking. It does need a sense of place that some more greenry could give it. You actually can put trees in cement infrastructure but it costs $$$ and takes some serious intention. Think 9/11 memoria where they brought in 400 Swamp white oaks and planted them dead center in the plaza. The trees water and soil needs are all handled below the plaza with some serious engineering.
You know, there are places for trees and there a places where trees don’t really make any sense. Inside a million square foot brick building? That might be a place where we don’t necessarily need trees. If we allow our city centers to intensify and become a place for people to interact, the way we’ve built cities for thousands of years, then we don’t need to sprawl out over all the trees on outskirts of our cities, which is good. If you try to bring the trees into the city center to the detriment of development intensity, then you are begging people to sprawl out at medium intensities, which is not good (see post-WWII American development patterns).
“A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it.” — Henry David Thoreau transect (dot) org The reverse is true as well. Trees are saved around our towns by allowing the town to serve it’s intended functions. If we can work in trees into those towns, then that is super. I’m for trees lining our sidewalks, etc. Trees and cities are not necessarily and always mutually exclusive. But there are real consequences to trying to force trees everywhere in urban centers.
+100
Walk about the back of PCM and cross North Avenue and there you will find O4W Park in all it’s natural (sorta) splendor.
Yes. Good point. And that is green space that makes sense in every way, as it also serves as water retention/flood mitigation.