re: Any Dawgs & Tide fans actually going to the SECCG in Atlanta?

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I had an APD officer tell me they are actually fine with the current arraignments all the homeless vagrants who used to congregate and cluster in and around the Ponce Corridor and in Midtown have almost all moved to Downtown around Woodruff Park. He said it has greatly benefited midtown and made it much safer and cleaner and with them all mostly confined in that one area it makes it easier to 'manage' them but boy have they trashed the hell out of that area. Its disgusting.

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Yea it's really bad. And because they've built up the old Turner Field area so much with Georgia State housing, Publix, the basketball arena, etc........there isn't really anywhere for those folks to go to the South. So they are just stuck in that zone and Woodruff is ground zero for it all.

I remember having a client 10 years ago or so on Ponce about 2 blocks east of what is now Ponce City Market. It was a non-profit in an older house next to a sketchy motel. The Executive Director pulled me into his office one day and pointed out all these regular occurrences of people coming and going from certain rooms.......because it was a crack house. And the APD knew about it, but because they were all in one place they were fine with it, because busting it up was just like "turning on a light and letting the cockroaches scatter". Now all of that is just in Woodruff.