Well okay the economy is in the crapper. Anyone who has paid attention for the last 30 years knew this was coming. While I may feel sympathy for a lot of folks, for Atlanta real estate developers who are feeling the economy I have nothing but millions of LMAO’s.
You people have TRASHED this city. You have taken neighborhoods with character and turned them into eyesores. You have removed too many valuable trees that make this city worth living in. All because you want you some money. Well when you go financially bankrupt (you’re already morally bankrupt), just remember this – you deserve it.
And lets be clear – there are SOME, yes a handful of, developers who give a shit about their impact, and about how their “product” affects the character of the neighborhood. I am not referring to those developers. This rant is about you greedy ones with no class who construct uncharismatic product from inferior materials without regard to your neighbor.
Here’s an example of what I am talking about. Case study #1:
“My 1-story brick duplex is not fulfilling my greedy desire for ridiculous amounts of money, so I’ll tear it down and put up a 4-story, 2-unit structure that covers 90% of the surface area of the lot, so I can get me MO CASH.”
Fuck the neighbors - I want money
Look at this thing. 4-stories next to a 1-story house. Unacceptable. Now, look at what is on the other side of the 4-story monstrosity – why, it’s another 1-story house!
Striking
You are looking to the east in the photos.
And here’s what really gets me about this kind of thing. The 1-story house on the north side is now going to pay higher heating bills in the winter because his neighbor has completely blocked out his southfacing sun. Why is this considered acceptable? And who issued a permit for such a thing?
Southfacing sun completely cut off
Progress?
Who can claim with a straight face that this is progress? What kind of progress demands that people, through no behavior of their own, use more energy and resources? If I was the neighbor on the north side of this ugly monstrosity I would be sending my heating bill to this developer.
