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On the article Midtown Residents Upset Over Occupants at Nearby Transitional House
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On the article Shuttered Midtown Gas Station Prepares For Reopening
Steve Gower
6:08 pm on Sunday, February 24, 2013
ReplyThis will be a good start for this corner. Hopefully sooner than later we will see a transformation of that part of Ponce to something pedestrian-oriented rather than vehicular-oriented - like at the link below. But at least putting some life into vacant properties is better than a boarded-up and fenced-off property.
http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/community/transformations/downtown.asp
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On the article Arrests Made In Valentine's Midtown Armed Robberies
Steve Gower
2:24 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013
ReplyPolice Report narratives: http://www.midtownponce.org/p4336.html
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On the article High Winds Fell Tree in Midtown
Steve Gower
1:10 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
ReplyUpdate: City of Atlanta removal crews are still working on the scene at 10:30am. Contrary to how it appeared at 4am, the tree actually fell across the neighbors’ yard. Power remains out for a handful of residents in the immediate vicinity, and will likely take a while to restore. As you can see in the last picture, it also pulled a little bit of the siding from yet another house two doors down from the base of the tree. That portion of 9th Street remains closed to traffic, and residents at the middle property will be stranded until the trunk of the tree is removed.
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On the article High Winds Fell Tree in Midtown
Steve Gower
1:06 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
ReplyUpdate: City of Atlanta removal crews are still working on the scene at 10:30am. Contrary to how it appeared at 4am, the tree actually fell across the neighbors' yard. Power remains out for a handful of residents in the immediate vicinity, and will likely take a while to restore. As you can see in the last picture, it also pulled a little bit of the siding from yet another house two doors down from the base of the tree. That portion of 9th Street remains closed to traffic, and residents at the middle property will be stranded until the trunk of the tree is removed.
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On the article Midtown Neighborhood Carjacking at High Noon in Highly Visible Driveway
Steve Gower
12:31 am on Thursday, January 31, 2013
ReplyI have heard unofficial and unconfirmed information (attributed to beat officers) that the perps in this incident were apprehended out of state somewhere.
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On the article Taxi driver attacked by several men outside Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter
Steve Gower
4:48 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
Reply@Dookie Doo - The problem is not the police although APD needs alot more officers around. A major part of the problem lies in the Fulton County courts. We have judges turning criminals back into the community despite having been arrested and convicted 20, 30, or even 40 times. Too many criminals are given probation to run concurrently with existing probation. You should see some of the criminals we write about at the MPSA website, for example this one: http://www.midtownponce.org/p2282.html
In many jurisdictions it is not even possible to get arrested more than three or four times on felony charges - they would finish you off very early on as needed. And in this example the offender has since then been arrested for breaking into cars. As an update to this example Coleman was locked up again last year for breaking into cars. He was sentenced to "drug court", with probation sentence running concurrently with probation for previous burglary in same neighborhood. He's back out on the streets somewhere, and at some point this throw-away will be recycled through the Fulton County court again for the umpteenth time. He's been in prison before but Fulton judges keep sentencing criminals like this with increasing leniency with each new felony...
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On the article Fidelity to move into vacated Midtown bank
Steve Gower
4:16 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
And another example of what Ponce could become: http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/community/transformations/14thst.asp
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On the article Fidelity to move into vacated Midtown bank
Steve Gower
3:30 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
ReplyI guess it's the next best thing to a full-scale redevelopment like the streetscape transformation shown at http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/community/transformations/downtown.asp (be sure to click on "next photo" to see the transformation)
Seriously, that will be an improvement for that prominent corner.
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On the article Fidelity to move into vacated Midtown bank
Steve Gower
3:30 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
ReplyI guess it's the next best thing to a full-scale redevelopment like the streetscape transformation shown at http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/community/transformations/downtown.asp
Seriously, that will be an improvement for that prominent corner.
Steve Gower
6:22 pm on Saturday, May 4, 2013
We posted a report on this issue at the Midtown Ponce Security Alliance website: http://www.midtownponce.org/p4580.html