The BeltLine has been an overwhelming good for Atlanta and sure, maybe the city should have bought more adjacent land for affordable housing development before speculators could swoop in, but we’re still going to build a lot of it and folks should stop complaining.

I can’t imagine Atlanta without Beltline & Midtown development the last 10-15 years. We would’ve been stuck with just stagnant 1990s/Olympic-related assets.

making a city nicer is a good thing, and if making one particular part of it nicer is a problem, then they should spread out the improvements over a wider area. They can’t gentrify the entire city!

“Gentrification” is a response to scarcity. This is exactly right.