Edgewood Retail District — Attraction in Atlanta

I’ve lived a half mile from ERD since it opened. The developers seem to have taken lessons on the worst possible way to drop a shopping center in the middle of a busy semi-urban area with narrow roads. I honestly dread going there because the city recently changed out the left turn lights from SB Moreland into the parking lot to those infuriating blinking yellow arrow types - and the green arrow lasts (seriously) 3 seconds - just long enough for one car if the intersection isn’t blocked by cars going north. Sometimes you can sit on SB Moreland for 10+ minutes waiting to turn in, and the turn lanes will back up into the left lane of SB traffic which will not make you popular with people flying down Moreland at 60mph.. NB drivers seem determined to hit anyone who doesn’t go 0-50 the moment you start to turn.

Getting out is just as bad because for the south exist they’ve “helpfully” made both exit lanes left turn lanes that block everyone going north behind that one guy (who always seems to drive a Tesla for some reason) that decides to turn left from the right lane. You can easily sit 3-5 light cycles trying to get out of the lot, with other frustrated drivers coming at you from all directions thanks to the poor parking lot design. The north exit is a single lane and often backs way back on Caroline, past the bank.. since again you’re trapped by left (south) turning drivers despite most people wanting to turn right (north).

There’s an underground deck that hardly anyone uses - and they fixed the terribly bad lighting down there about six years ago (it used to be so dark they even in the middle of the day you wondered if something was wrong with the electricity). I’ve never felt unsafe in the underground deck and have never been harassed by the folks begging for change (they tend to hang out in front of the stores, but aren’t aggressive).

Make sure the elevators are working if you park down there and plan on buying more than a few things - trying to haul a shopping cart of stuff from target down the stairs in multiple trips by yourself is not a particularly fun experience (although the guys begging for change will offer to help and will watch your stuff, if you’re willing to trust them - and offer them $10).

Still… it’s better than nothing, since the next closest shopping center is across from Ponce City Market, which seems to have also been designed by someone who hates cars and takes it out on the rest of us.

The Edgewood developers tried to make a “pedestrian friendly and walkable” experience, but didn’t spend the time or development money to do it right and it sucks...

This is an area highly integrated with some mixture of consulting, law enforcement, retail and direct marketing. I have visited Edgewood since it opened because it included a technology store and a gaming store. Over the last decade, I have noticed an increase in harassment and some of the parties involved have attempted to hit me in crosswalks on multiple occasions. It is obvious the area was once a transitional area and is now attempting to hold onto higher property values. One of the "turnkey," solutions, is the use of a network protocol, one which is open, and one which exists both inside and outside the stores. I have attempted to point out the system to the management in various retail settings and I have been laughed at due to its use by consultants who are working directly on theft and other related concerns. The protocol is destructive for civil and constitutional rights and is a direct violation of privacy laws for consumers who are potentially shopping and purchasing products that relate not only to their health care but to life-saving medicines. I have been astounded and distressed in grocery and big box stores as my shopping and browsing was shouted out on one of these systems along with the medication I was having filled and the status of my health according to someone in a high school. I believe the area has involved itself in what it considers a response to recruitment by gangs or it, the shopping center, is actually involved in a dynamic related to operating gangs. The process seems to include one or more mentally ill people screaming or using a device which projects their voice for hours in an area. There are also signs that one or more parts of law enforcement are involved in using subsonic suppression sounds and other forms of surveillance which include but are not limited to lidar and other flashing or laser models all of which have been associated with neurological outcomes. Buyer beware, shopping here may mean your private information is shared with one or more court systems without your consent as a model for testing or registering information from...

The Edgewood shopping mall has changed up a little I do like to go there from time to time to just enjoy the atmosphere of looking to see what’s on sale do a little window shopping or something like that other than that sometimes I might get a bite at one of the eateries there but I definitely would have to look at the food first sometimes maybe asked for a little tiny sample to see if I really want to actually eat it because sometimes the mall food is not always you know edible and it’s not the freshness of the food isn’t as cooking it Now shopping has not changed there it’s not changed at all so I hadn’t seen anything that has fascinating me on I just must have to buy that it just seems like it has such a cookie cutting atmosphere of a lot of the chains that are there that goes across the nation you know that one seems to have that same all same all cookie-cutter type of atmosphere once you’ve been around to a few boutiques or something like that you would definitely see the difference when you go look at the same type of price tag that they would demand for certain items yet and I was like I would not even pay for that with that price I go to a boutique In other words there’s better places to shop especially with those casino boutiques down there a lot of times you can find a lot of unique things there if you’re not looking for like cookie cutting type of things and then also up and down the beach they are also some really nice other shops that have likes their line of swimsuits and different things like that that you might want to enjoy at the beach as well so there’s a lot of variety down in a...