Luca Pietro on Gulch Construction Downtown Atlanta
Luca Pietro
Gulch Construction Downtown Atlanta
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 I think an interesting topic if you're from Atlanta or you're from the area is the new construction that's going on next to Mercedes Benz and State Farm Arena in what was called the Gulch.
- 0:10 So that was used to be a large parking spot that was used for tailgates for Falcons games, Hawks games, uh concerts in the area, as well as lots of event parking.
- 0:22 Now what they're doing before the World Cup comes to Atlanta is they're building out almost uh a battery-like venue.
- 0:29 So it's gonna have restaurants, bars, uh hotels, all that kind of stuff, uh, to try to enhance the the social aspect and the community aspect, uh, giving it a little bit more of appeal in that area in downtown Atlanta by Mercedes-Benz Stadium and State Farm Arena.
- 0:45 And the original plan was there was gonna be government subsidized housing in the gulch.
- 0:50 However, being so close to two major sports venues, uh State Farm and Mercedes-Benz, typically crime rates are higher in government subsidized areas.
- 1:00 So they decided they didn't want to put a govern government subsidized housing there because the crime rates would be higher and there's a lot of events that go on around there that could potentially deter visitors and tourists.
- 1:10 So I think that's pretty interesting.
- 1:12 I don't know if that's the right decision or not, um, because housing is also a huge problem, but yeah, that's what they're doing with the Gulch in downtown Atlanta.