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Having recently written a Rampway article on the latest developments on the Belt Line and Carl Patton’s new involvement with it I spoke highly of Dr. Patton’s vision.

Another demonstration of this vision can also be illustrated by two articles written for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Downtown’s streets are suddenly paved with students. Students who are not spending their gold.

Some 3,000 attend class each day at a new Georgia State University building in a prominent block off Peachtree Street. They have yet — despite expectations — to make a dent in the struggling retail community surrounding the structure.

Boosters of the once controversial building predicted the volume of students coursing through Atlanta’s central business district would spur a resurgence in area restaurants and retail shops. That hasn’t happened in the month the Helen M. Aderhold Learning Center has been open.

– David Pendered for the AJC, October 7, 2002

Today, Pendered ate his words:

Downtown has proved in the past year that it can rebound. A bustling restaurant row has emerged on once-blighted Broad Street, a block west of Peachtree. The catalyst was a classroom building that Georgia State University opened in the historic Fairlie-Poplar District.

– David Pendered for the AJC, May 31, 2004

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