What are the study area’s strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities? Use the comment bubble above to share your thoughts.
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A strength to the area is that it contains major thorough fares in the area, especially those going to downtown Marietta. Weakness – it’s a thorough fare. There needs to be more destinations created with visibility. This plays into the “threats.” Visibility due to some of the terrain. Some areas are hidden, especially around the Southern Poly and Life University. There needs to be more pedestrian scale lighting for safety and perhaps call boxes along Cobb Parkway. Opportunities are endless…I’m sure everyone would love the area to be improved aesthetically. You improve the appearance (lighting, sidewalks!, trees) then people and businesses will come.
Long term I’d like to see Banberry Road connected to Lockheed Avenue/Bell Street. It would buy us a walkable route to the other side of 75 and would potentially eliminate the need for the White Ave/Frey’s Gin road segment. This may spur redevelopment and open the door for bicycle or pedestrian traffic to the retail locations currently anchored by Whole Foods and Burlington Coat Factory.
Better connections from the campuses to the restaurant (El Rancheo, Baby Tommy’s, Piccadiy, etc) and entertainment (Bowling alley: Amf Marietta Lanes) as well as between the SPSU and Life Communities and the City of Marietta in General. I like the proposed trails that will run through/by the campuses. A lot could be done with the creek trails as well for recreation. Life University does have some great nature walks and perhaps they could be leverage for more passive recreation for students and the general community.
I live within the study area and would like to continue living in my house. “Redeveloping the area” would essentially force hundreds of people to move.
Create an identity for the district. Possibly refer to the district as a “village” and develop and install markers similar to those found around Marietta with a slightly different theme to define the area. The Artisan Resource Center (ARC) is 43,000 sq ft warehouse building at 585 Cobb Parkway S. (inside the study area) and has been home to professional artists for over 20 years – yet not many people know this. There may be an opportunity to involve the students from SPSU/Life and the artists to create sculpture or monuments that could be used along Cobb Parkway and/or placed within the district.
Cobb Parkway and South Marietta Parkway seem to have very large setbacks from the street and this does not provide a good sense of place. Maybe this study could recommend incentives for any new development to build closer to the street and/or taller building,when possible.
Create great public spaces – use the natural features of the area and develop large useable open spaces such as parks. Provide connections with trails for pedestrians and bicycles to be used for recreation and to serve multiple purposes – connected to destinations such as residences, school, and commercial areas.
Provide a shuttle for campus and to specific other locations -i.e. residences, parking, restaurants, Marietta Square?
Continue to promote community involvement for the development of the project.
Weakness of diversity with compassion and open mind to all people. Limited awareness to events that would create and improvement in social gatherings of all ethnicity, weakness that the city delights more on the history of an ugly war (Civil) and all the negatives that goes with the history versus the change and growth of a nation that has evolved into Freedom and Liberties of all mankind. You know more about gun shows versus MLKJR Holiday events, expansion of venues for Juneteenth Holidays and such. Marvel at greatness of all mankind and not the self serving of destruction of a people. Weakness in the political arena incumbents with no opponents where is the democracy in this city. UnConstitutional acts in the Judicial System is extreme and horrific.
I disagree with Robin in that we should not keep emphasizing our history, good and bad. We must never forget where we have come from and how the events of the past have shaped our culture. To do this would require us to incorporate subsequent events as well. Therefore any redevelopment would be inclusive of business, families, singles, young and retired. A variety of home styles would allow more opportunities for all income levels – not everyone wants a 2-story house or a high-rise condo. How about affordable cluster ranch style homes with basements? Wider sidewalks that allow bicycles, especially along the loop and 41, with added trees for shade would be great. Nature/walking/running trails that are already available need signage for access. Many people don’t know they are there.
What are the study area’s strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities? Use the comment bubble above to share your thoughts.
A strength to the area is that it contains major thorough fares in the area, especially those going to downtown Marietta. Weakness – it’s a thorough fare. There needs to be more destinations created with visibility. This plays into the “threats.” Visibility due to some of the terrain. Some areas are hidden, especially around the Southern Poly and Life University. There needs to be more pedestrian scale lighting for safety and perhaps call boxes along Cobb Parkway. Opportunities are endless…I’m sure everyone would love the area to be improved aesthetically. You improve the appearance (lighting, sidewalks!, trees) then people and businesses will come.
Long term I’d like to see Banberry Road connected to Lockheed Avenue/Bell Street. It would buy us a walkable route to the other side of 75 and would potentially eliminate the need for the White Ave/Frey’s Gin road segment. This may spur redevelopment and open the door for bicycle or pedestrian traffic to the retail locations currently anchored by Whole Foods and Burlington Coat Factory.
Better connections from the campuses to the restaurant (El Rancheo, Baby Tommy’s, Piccadiy, etc) and entertainment (Bowling alley: Amf Marietta Lanes) as well as between the SPSU and Life Communities and the City of Marietta in General. I like the proposed trails that will run through/by the campuses. A lot could be done with the creek trails as well for recreation. Life University does have some great nature walks and perhaps they could be leverage for more passive recreation for students and the general community.
I live within the study area and would like to continue living in my house. “Redeveloping the area” would essentially force hundreds of people to move.
Create an identity for the district. Possibly refer to the district as a “village” and develop and install markers similar to those found around Marietta with a slightly different theme to define the area. The Artisan Resource Center (ARC) is 43,000 sq ft warehouse building at 585 Cobb Parkway S. (inside the study area) and has been home to professional artists for over 20 years – yet not many people know this. There may be an opportunity to involve the students from SPSU/Life and the artists to create sculpture or monuments that could be used along Cobb Parkway and/or placed within the district.
Cobb Parkway and South Marietta Parkway seem to have very large setbacks from the street and this does not provide a good sense of place. Maybe this study could recommend incentives for any new development to build closer to the street and/or taller building,when possible.
Create great public spaces – use the natural features of the area and develop large useable open spaces such as parks. Provide connections with trails for pedestrians and bicycles to be used for recreation and to serve multiple purposes – connected to destinations such as residences, school, and commercial areas.
Provide a shuttle for campus and to specific other locations -i.e. residences, parking, restaurants, Marietta Square?
Continue to promote community involvement for the development of the project.
Weakness of diversity with compassion and open mind to all people. Limited awareness to events that would create and improvement in social gatherings of all ethnicity, weakness that the city delights more on the history of an ugly war (Civil) and all the negatives that goes with the history versus the change and growth of a nation that has evolved into Freedom and Liberties of all mankind. You know more about gun shows versus MLKJR Holiday events, expansion of venues for Juneteenth Holidays and such. Marvel at greatness of all mankind and not the self serving of destruction of a people. Weakness in the political arena incumbents with no opponents where is the democracy in this city. UnConstitutional acts in the Judicial System is extreme and horrific.
I disagree with Robin in that we should not keep emphasizing our history, good and bad. We must never forget where we have come from and how the events of the past have shaped our culture. To do this would require us to incorporate subsequent events as well. Therefore any redevelopment would be inclusive of business, families, singles, young and retired. A variety of home styles would allow more opportunities for all income levels – not everyone wants a 2-story house or a high-rise condo. How about affordable cluster ranch style homes with basements? Wider sidewalks that allow bicycles, especially along the loop and 41, with added trees for shade would be great. Nature/walking/running trails that are already available need signage for access. Many people don’t know they are there.