GSU to build new football stadium over Turner Field

SolJacket said:
Will GSU actually foot the bill for the moving expenses of the residents? Or will they have to move their own stuff to Clayton, Henry and Rockdale counties?
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Look at the renderings and the satellite view. There's virtually no residential displacement.
 
MACHETE said:
Yet another effort by the state legislators to gradually make GSU the city sports school while deemphasizing sports at Tech. Writing is on the wall....
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MACHETE said:
Yet another effort by the state legislators to gradually make GSU the city sports school while deemphasizing sports at Tech. Writing is on the wall....
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The hell you talkin bout? State how sports are deemphasized at Tech? Check out the growth of revenue and spending at GTAA over any period you'd like. We haven't cut sports (haven't added any) and facilities across the board are really good, tons of recent investment.

Also how state legislators are involved? The CITY got 3 bids, and 2 of them sucked. GSU wants to pony up for this land and they have the money to do so. So what? Good for them.

Any of this bad for Tech?? GSU can only hurt us IF they gain admittance to Power 5. Anyone see that happening any time soon? Like, 100 years?
 
GT flunkout said:
From my understanding the space will also have dormitories and academic buildings. It really will represent an expansion in the GSU campus, not just a detatched athletic complex. This is a positive development for Atlanta and I would fully expect Summerhill gentrification to intensify. Vacant parking lots were never going to do that.
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Equal opportunity butt trucking and strange peters. So
Georgia Tech has become the most gay school. Sad, sad day. Nevermind us Christians that know this is perverted and wrong.
 
gnats67 said:
Equal opportunity butt trucking and strange peters. So
Georgia Tech has become the most gay school. Sad, sad day. Nevermind us Christians that know this is perverted and wrong.
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trying too hard
 
Georgia State expanding to the South is good for GT. That means GT can also push to the South if/when it wants. (Centennial Place for example)
 
gnats67 said:
Equal opportunity butt trucking and strange peters. So
Georgia Tech has become the most gay school. Sad, sad day. Nevermind us Christians that know this is perverted and wrong.
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OMG your comments are so funny!
 
clapper said:
Look at the renderings and the satellite view. There's virtually no residential displacement.
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You dont think there is going to be a push to gentrify everything around that area?

Who in their right minds will allow their school to be surrounded by crappy and dangerous neighborhoods? Oh, wait......
 
I suppose they are using the proceeds from their bowl game to purchase the property and will either rename it or call it "Cure Bowl Field."
 
Helluva Entrepreneur said:
And they have averaged probably 2,000 of those students showing up to games over the past 5 years, while playing in the premier sports arena in the state...with Marta access. If the excitement of starting a football program and jumping straight up to FBS could not create momentum, I just dont see what ever will.

As laughable as I think the idea of GaState's football program is, this is ultimately probably the best thing for the area. Shopping would probably never work down there...people with money just arent going to go downtown. The GaState students are already used to the dead zone that is downtown, so im sure they can fill those dorms easily.
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You've got to start somewhere. I think it's great for the state and Atlanta. I rooted like heck for those guys in their first bowl game.
The Georgia State/Georgia Southern rivalry should help State grow substantially.
 
SolJacket said:
You dont think there is going to be a push to gentrify everything around that area?
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This is already happening in the area without this project. If anything this will accelerate what's been happening in Grant Park, O4W, Cabbagetown, etc.
 
GT1992 said:
UCF has an on campus stadium and drew 30,000 in a pitiful year and have averaged as high as 42,000. That's nothing like GSU.
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Learned something new today. I honestly thought they fell under the city of Orlando mandate that any and all football games in Mickeytown be played at the Citrus Bowl.

One thing I just read about it is that part of the reason they left the Citrus Bowl was because they could pull the same crowds into a stadium that would be 90% full instead of a stadium that would be 70% full. The reasoning is probably sound for GSU as well.

We'll see where they are after 20 years of FBS football like the Knights are about to celebrate.
 
JacketDan said:
Learned something new today. I honestly thought they fell under the city of Orlando mandate that any and all football games in Mickeytown be played at the Citrus Bowl.

One thing I just read about it is that part of the reason they left the Citrus Bowl was because they could pull the same crowds into a stadium that would be 90% full instead of a stadium that would be 70% full. The reasoning is probably sound for GSU as well.

We'll see where they are after 20 years of FBS football like the Knights are about to celebrate.
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Went to a game there a few years ago. Off campus stadiums are stupid. They had tailgaiting on campus and strong student support. UCF is 50,000 students.
 
I think we should be concerned about GSU.
In basketball, they went to the NCAA, won an incredible upset seen all over the country, got a player drafted in the first round to the NBA.
In football, they went to a bowl for the first time in only the 6th year of the program. They went to Statesboro and obliterated Southern. They have a gunslinger QB. They are updating their facilities with this Turner field acquisition.

I think turning a blind eye to this is a mistake and could hurt us in the future.
 
I hope we do like the Fla schools and have GSU, GaSo, & Mercer in the schedule rotation
 
gtphd said:
I'm going to be the lone dissenter. What Atlanta needs economic development for that part of the city. A GSU athletic facility that will be little used and generate little foot traffic is a waste of space. A large mall, a tourist attraction that generates foot traffic, or a commercial space that provides business for lunch / dinner is going to do more good for the city.
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No, it's perfect. What you're proposing was tried, and failed, before with Turner Field and the Olympics

What was REALLY wrong was whoever decided to build the Olympic stadium/Turner field by Fulton County stadium instead of closer to a MARTA line, where there was already an infrastructure to support all the new jobs and shops Turner field was supposed to bring. Even in the "good" days for the Turner field area, it was just a residential area. Commercial areas tend naturally to be where commercial activity already is. Legislating a residential space to become commercial is dumb.

Of course, the failings of Atlanta in the 80's and 90's have been well-documented.
 
Jorge said:
I think we should be concerned about GSU.
In basketball, they went to the NCAA, won an incredible upset seen all over the country, got a player drafted in the first round to the NBA.
In football, they went to a bowl for the first time in only the 6th year of the program. They went to Statesboro and obliterated Southern. They have a gunslinger QB. They are updating their facilities with this Turner field acquisition.

I think turning a blind eye to this is a mistake and could hurt us in the future.
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I don't think GSU will either get into a major conference or have more than even Tech's modest fan support. Neither of those things matter as much for basketball.
 
That area is a total öööö show. Never seen more homeless people in my life.
 
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