KUT FROM A DIFFERENT CLOTH: Runway Fashion Show

November 21st @ the Historic Vibiana in Los Angeles, 8PM-2AM. Brought to you by Scion, Hypebeast and 3 Steps Ahead Media so if you’re in the SoCal area this may be worth checking out. Get on the list by sending an e-mail to rsvp@3sam.net.

Yep.

dominickbrady:

I’ve been saying this for years. If you live Downtown the facts are alive, jarring.  They jump out at you.  Walking around, there is more blight than there is growth and it’s been like that for half a decade as far as I can tell.  Atlanta was listed as #3 in Forbes’ list of America’s most empty cities earlier in 2009.

Wrongly, far too many consider the CITY of Atlanta’s  fortunes to be directly linked to the Atlanta Metro area.  It’s not.  Atlanta is sequestered, Atlanta is singled out, Atlanta is set aside.

I don’t expect one penny of Metro Atlanta Regional and Georgia State tax dollars in any significant portion to directly help Atlanta (which isn’t to say that North Fulton doesn’t begrudgingly help South Fulton county. South Fulton county is much larger than the City of Atlanta, though).

Watch as North Fulton continues it’s secession movement to re-constitue Milton county.  If and when that happens, this city is DONE.  Real, progressive, forward thinking solutions need to be brought to bear.  Atlanta needs to reinvent her self, AGAIN.

note: the below blog entry on Atlanta Creative Loafing’s blog was copied and pasted and the links therein work on THEIR blog, but not here on my tumblr for some reason

Add It Up: Ghost town

October 31, 2009 at 11:18 am by Thomas Wheatley in Add it up

Estimated number of metro Atlanta office jobs lost in the last three years: 50,000

Number of square feet of vacant commercial office space in metro Atlanta: 24 million

Number of years real-estate experts estimate it might take to fill the region’s empty office space: 12

Estimated cost of two full-page Wall Street Journal ads purchased by the Buckhead Coalition to market vacant condos and commercial spaces: $554,000

Number of years since Atlanta’s annual population growth was as small as it was over the past year: 19

Number of single-family building permits issued in 2009 in Atlanta, as of September: 114

Number of single-family building permits issued in Atlanta in October 2006 alone: 178

Number of years real-estate experts estimate it could take to fill vacant condos in such intown areas as Midtown and Atlantic Station: 4

Number of floors proposed for a new Midtown office tower that law firm Alston & Bird may build: 30

Sources: Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

This would be why I moved. Atlanta is all a façade.

via dominickbrady