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I was just in Savannah a week ago to tour SCAD and saw lots of construction activity. Very nice.
Does anybody have any info or comments about Drayton Tower? Sounds like its being converted to condos, which I'm interested in. If I go to school there, I'd probably rent an apartment, but ideally I wouldn't mind investing in a condo. And something about Drayton Tower piques my interest. Love mid-century modern stuff.
I lived there for 3 years actually. I moved last June.
Its being converted to luxury condos. You can get in contact with Mopper Stapen for more info.
Since they are pretty much gutting the building, whatever I have to say won't really matter but I can say that its the best location in town and has amazing views. I was on the 8th floor facing south and saw miles of tree tops and church steeples. I really miss it!
I also am a SCAD alumni in interior design.
http://www.mopper-stapen.com/residential.shtml
Rebirth of the Tower
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I was back in town for a wedding this past weekend and made a trip to the aquarium and CP. I took some really cool pics, but I don't know how to post them. Can someone help me out?
You need to upload the pictures to a hosting site. Try www.photobucket.com
It's free. Once you upload the photos you will see three options for addresses for the photos.
URL: http://
Tag: <img
IMG:
http://Choose the IMG option and just paste that address in the reply box on this forum. That should post the photo.
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It looked like it was in the middle of the city. It was on a link of Savannah Pictures under City Profile: Savannah; when you get there, look under urban savannah or skyline shots
Oh ok. That's a hotel that recently opened on Bay Street.
www.gardenhotelsavannah.com
The other crane shot at the bottom of that urban Savannah gallery is of the parking garage that I mentioned before.
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Does anyone know about the impact of Savannah College of Art and Design in revitalizing Savannah? It seems like they really have remodeled many buildings for their facilities.... I saw an earlier posting referring to Savannah as a place of serious crime, etc. where most other postings are describing it as idealic. just wondering if the college's efforts have made a serious improvement... etc.
SCAD has made a huge impact on the revitilization of downtown. Many of the city's old grade schools were
unused. SCAD puchased these buildings and restored them and use them to hold classes. There are also several warehouses that were empty and abandoned and the college has restored those as well. I think one of the benefits of SCAD is that these buildings no longer had a use and would most likely sit empty for decades if SCAD didn't purchase and restore them. Their preservation efforts alone are outstanding -especially for buildings that only a college could make use out of.
In addition to the preservation, the influx of students in downtown has allowed for more businesses to flourish. All of this activity of course makes it safer and cleans up the city.
But - Savannah does still have a serious crime problem. A tourist would most likely not notice this at first glance. The most serious crimes are generally confined to the people involved in drug activity but muggings and car theft happen regularly. Since Savannah is such a walkable city with scattered "bad parts of town" and bordered on the east and west by housing projects, crime is prevalent.
But I can say in the 4 years that I lived there (Sept. 2001-June 2005) I saw a drastic improvement of downtown; especially Broughton Street. Much of it was boarded up when I first came to Savannah and now it is flourishing.
**I am a SCAD alumni
I was looking at some photo galleries of Savannah and in one skyline shot, I saw a large area of construction with a crane; what was that?Could you be more specific of what photo you saw?
It could have been the parking garage that was recently built on Liberty and MLK. It was completed this spring.
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They are crazy if they think that is going to happen. I personally don't think people are really going to shop there if there is bad weather and if they don't get more stores that you can't find in the malls. I am sure they are going to get a lot of traffic when it first opens. As far as "Atlanta's Downtown Mall", I would hope we could get significant retail downtown. They're are people okay with everything in retail being in Buckhead or Midtown. We don't need to make either a replacement for downtown. Though, most retail is in Buckhead, if you are going to revitalize the city, let's make sure downtown gets the same attention as Buckhead and Midtown. Some people have created an attitude against Buckhead, because of what is has that Downtown can't offer, I don't think its okay to now try to make Midtown the new Downtown.
Some people don't like malls. I just moved from Savannah and miss being able to walk around everywhere like I could there. Atlantic station will give people like me a little piece of that and encourage other retailers to follow suit.
Other people do like the malls. I think there is a place for each of them.
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Indeed. He is also a member here
Ha I just noticed that. I was a little embarassed.. but he does have some beautiful photos of my favorite city.
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Ah...my former city of residence. I do miss Savannah. Almost kick myself in the butt every day for moving back to Michigan.
Great city, I wish I had more pictures. I was too busy in school to take a lot of pictures. Oh well, maybe someone will post some so I can reminisce a bit.
Nitro
This photographer has some great pictures of savannah.
http://
Savannah Developments
in Savannah
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Keep me updated. I'm curious too.
I was really upset when they first announced they would be turned into condos. I was living there at the time. Drayton Tower was really the last affordable place to live in downtown and many of the residents had been there for many years - some as many as 20+! Those people I'm sure will end up in nursing homes as their rent was locked in long ago and they were downtown so they had better mobility.
I'm happy that the building is being restored but a piece of important affordable housing is lost. The building was actually built under an act after WWII to provide affordable housing to bachelors after the war or childless couples. It remined that way for over 50 years!