rebuilding midtown

starbucks on p'tree at seventh closed today while they relocate a couple of hundred feet away in the spire while a new building is built on that corner --- they'll probably start demolition next week ---- it'll be kinda cool to have the narrow sidewalk widened and to know that the rich people buying the over-priced condos going up there will have to look at that bill board for a while --- but, otherwise, there goes the neighborhood

the krystal cum starbucks should be eligible for the national register of historic places but probably isn't due to what many would deem unsympathetic alterations and additions --- in any case, it's a goner --- this image from 1964 (lane bros.coll. at gsu) also shows the relatively new federal office building that is now the peachtree lofts

in 1949, the neighborhood was on the cusp of great changes --- in this image, eighth street is at top, and peachtree and juniper down the center of the image --- the same year this image was made, the feds were commissioning design of a building on the northwest corner of peachtree and seventh --- completed in 1952 and occupied by the department of agriculture and early cdc offices --- it is one of three federal office buildings that were built on peachtree between fifth and eighth streets around 1950 --- the krystal, the stein club, and many other old favorites from the 60s and 70s followed