Artifact #1: Ponce City Market Food Court

Central Food Hall, located on the first floor of Ponce City Market, offers a variety of cuisines ranging from oriental specialties to classic american comfort food, from french bakeries to Latin american offerings. With over fifteen different restaurants within the court, every individual, regardless of…

Ponce City Market: Cultural Built Environment Description

      Ponce City Market, a mixed-use development, located on Ponce de Leon Avenue, embodies Atlanta’s revitalization. With over a million square feet of retail and residential space, this community is rapidly becoming Atlanta’s most prominent hub for economic consumption. Impressively, this structure is…

Artifact #5: Sound Bite from Ponce City Market

This sound bite was recorded while on Ponce City Market’s plaza, on the outskirts of the market, which adjoins to the Eastside trail of the Atlanta Beltline. While resting on the pleasant wooden benches, I took the opportunity to record several sounds around my vicinity….

Artifact #4: Collier Candy Company

Ponce City Market has various restaurants alongside the neighborhood that establishes its notable food scene. This singularity remains present at Collier Candy Company. Immediately, the store has a vintage candy store aura with a retro storefront that reminisces on candy stores from the 20th century. Walking…

Artifact #3: Ponce City Market Map

Above is a personalized, interactive map of my experience at Ponce City Market. Every pin symbolizes the various locations that my sister, Marie, and I visited. If you click on the multiple pins, explanations of all sites are provided. In regards to location, Ponce City Market is located on…

Artifact #2: Eastside Trail

  The photo above displays an extensive fence that features local artwork alongside the Beltline’s Eastside Trail. The Eastside trail of the Atlanta Beltline, located on 10th Street and Monroe Drive, runs alongside Ponce City Market, Old Fourth Ward, and Piedmont Park. This pathway incorporates green-space…

Artifact #1: Retail (Goorin Bros. Hat Shop and Anthropologie)

Ponce City Market embodies the combination of high-end retail with alternative stores. Goorin Brothers Hat Shop, located within 675 Ponce de Leon Avenue, represents the hipster sector of the market’s businesses. This hat store has a wide array of hats, ranging from styles that include baseball…

Built Environment Description 1: Ponce City Market

Ponce City Market, a mixed-use development, located on Ponce de Leon Avenue, embodies Atlanta’s revitalization. With over a million square feet of retail and residential space, this community is rapidly becoming Atlanta’s most prominent hub for economic consumption. As I perused through the eclectic boutiques and…

Civic Center Walk

  Above is the route that my GSU Honors Mapping class took on our walk to the civic center today! We learned about Atlanta’s mixed-use properties, Buttermilk Bottom, a “poor, black” neighborhood, in the 1950’s, the transition to “grandiose” almost suburban-like structures in the 1970’s, and the transition…

Atlanta Image and Information

This here is an image of a building located on Luckie Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Luckie Street has immense significance to me, specifically during my adolescence, because I had spent my best memories at the Tabernacle, a local concert venue that hosted a multitude of…