I was at a music/live lit event last night at Red Light Cafe, an awesome little indie/punk venue in Amsterdam Walk on the east side of Piedmont Park, and found out that it will be torn down because that area has been bough by developers. I assume the new development there is because the Beltline section north of Piedmont park has just been completed. It got me thinking a lot about how the B-line has been both good and bad for Atlanta (my home for the past 6 years). I'm sad for what it will do to the areas around the Westside Beltline, which still has the feel of a walking/bike path, a community, and isn't crowded and overrun with big expensive retail spaces. I'm grateful for the Beltline and the off-street accessibility and gathering spaces it brings (and *hopefully, please* the public transit it will bring), but I mourn the loss of places like Red Light Cafe and Paris on Ponce, and the many other local treasures I didn't even get to know before they were sold to developers. Thanks for the video of the beginning, the hope and excitement of what could be! And cheers to Angel, one of our community's great organizers :)
Greetings from Atlanta: City of Peace. Hello Ryan. You've been an inspiration for years. I wish you good providence with the launch and beginning of SixPitch. Best regards, John PS I'd like to share with you these three pertinent 'beginning' quotes: Coretta Scott King stated: "There is a spirit, a need, and a servant at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens." Mahatma Gandhi stated: "For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever." Plato (427BC-347BC) stated: "You know also that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken."
