Downtown Atlanta was so empty. Why??
For this edition of dashboard tours, I took I-85 north from Alabama into the heart of it all - Atlanta Georgia. The plan was to record the downtown Atlanta area, a metro area that I had only seen from the window of a car. I was lucky - Atlanta traffic ranks as the fourth worst in the country. But because of a global pandemic, i was able to scoot into downtown with hardly a backup at all. It was Thursday, January 7, 2021 at about 2:39 pm.
The Atlanta metro area has been booming, population wise. It’s the fourth fastest growing metro area in the country. In the last decade alone, this region has added more than 730,000 people if you can believe it. Atlanta proper has more than 500,000 people now, making it the 35th biggest city in the country. It’s grown by more than 20% in the last ten years.
Atlanta became a city in 1847, but during the Civil War, this whole place was nearly burned to the ground. Today, it has become an economic behemoth - its airport is the busiest in the world, and it ranks in the top 20 for GDP in the world. There’s a ton of tech jobs here, and just about every Fortune 1,000 company has a presence in Atlanta.
The city has really cleaned itself up. The gentrification began when Atlanta hosted the summer olympics in 1996. We’ll drive past the Olympic Village soon, and then at the end, we’ll drive up into midtown Atlanta, an area on the city’s northeast side, with lots of new shopping and dining, hotels, condos and apartments.
Here’s the rest of downtown Atlanta
While exploring downtown Atlanta, I visited the Metro Cafe Diner, a really unique place where you can get breakfast and or drinks. I sat at the corner table which had a really cool vantage point of Peachtree Center Avenue.
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