[ale] OT: $400 Laptop

[Jim Popovitch]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
>> Soon us ITP folks will have a Super Walmart, just east of 75N btwn 
>> N'Side and Howell Mill, in which to roam aimlessly. ;-)
> 
> I wonder who's property they stole to build it there...

Stole?  They are bringing value by buying decades old land left idle and 
wasting.  Property that was taking value *away* from the area.  Within 1 
mile there are million dollar homes, but this spot of land wasn't doing 
anything except being home to a few vagrants and a play area for some 
skateboarders.  The hotel that once sat on that site pre-dated the 
Peachtree Plaza Hotel, and most of what Atlanta looks like today.  Back 
in the early 80s, I was at that hotel for Joe Frank Harris' 
gubernatorial post-election party, even in that day in time the hotel 
was a bit 'established'.  It will be a big improvement if all Walmart 
does is level the place and pave a parking lot.  Stole?  hardly.  Saved 
is more like it.

-Jim P.