Gotcha, so pay less for more quality food, $20 is too much for parking IN THE CITY and keep west midtown sketchy by opposing local business growth...
Food: it's stadium food, not amazing, pricy for what it is... If you're going to complain about it, eating at the game is a choice not a requirement
Parking: remember those 3 years that they offered a free ATL Station shuttle on game days... Oh yea no one ever used it. $20 is not much for parking, we don't live in the sticks or are surrounded by fields and empty lots. Marta round trip for 2 people is $10, I've paid $15 to go to a HS football game.
I get that there are extra costs for going to football games, I get that you want to support Georgia Tech monetarily, but you're asking GT to redefine the stadium eating experience and charge a less than competitive parking fee and you want all this for less than $30 ($20 Parking + $5 coke +$4 hotdog)
Get over it dude.
Good points. I love GT football and enjoy the games. I was just trying to throw in my two cents. I guess the flaw in your logic is that your solution combines (1) not eating at games and (2) paying private lots whatever they charge w/o GT trying to use its bargaining power on behalf of all of its fan to drive the private parking lot price down. SO, no, I'm not asking GT to charge less than competitive parking fees, since I didn't address the fees GT is charging. And no, I'm not asking for a cheaper hot dog. I won't buy a $2 or $4 hotdog. Like everyone here said, I just don't purchase food at the game. So, GT is throwing away concession revenues. To not throw away money is not the same as spending money. You guys defend the argument by saying, hey, that's just how much stuff costs. I pay that much all the time to do this or do that. Okay great. So why wouldn't we add more attractive concessions in the stadium so you excellent consumers can spend more money at the GT game?
And actually, until maybe 12 months ago, GT was surrounded by fields and empty lots. Off the top of my head, there's 2 empty lots @ Spring and 14th, an empty lot where they are building the new student housing on spring, the empty lot by Cenergy, plus lots of empty parking lots on saturdays at three of the largest office towers in atlanta (14th & peachtree, BOA, AT&T). Add in atlantic station, Marta, free parking just south of campus, and all the other places people have mentioned & I'd say parking is pretty abundant. I'm not complaining about parking. I can transport myself to the game for free. That doesn't mean that I can't recognize a general problem with our gameday experience. if you want to bring in new fans and create a better game day experience, are you really willing to just throw away any idea to improve the parking or ingame eating? I mean, that's the first impression a non-die hard gt football fan will have on gameday, parking & traffic around the stadium. I don't think it would cost much for GT to offer the atlantic station shuttle. but hey, if they tried it and i'm wrong, then let's move on. i'll admit i was wrong on this. i just had this general intuition that private lots are making a huge surplus on parking because of fan's bad information.
In my mind, I thought GT could distribute better information, perhaps through marketing or a partnership, about parking to fans. I didn't realize that this general philosophy makes me an anti-business commi. by all means, slumlords, do as you please. for it is you, slumlord, who makes GT great - who really drives value in midtown atlanta. Any collective action taken by Georgia Tech would harm the private property rights of those wonderful Home Park owners, whose passion and commitment to the neighborhood is clearly reflected in their upkeep of the property. If only Georgia Tech had not purchased the area east of the interstate on 5th street to build tech square, and the small, capitalist business owner could have continued to flourish! Instead, we're stuck with a Management school. And a high performance computing center. and all these dumb business incubators that are pumping millions and millions of dollars into innovation on such wasteful endeavours. Not to mention the greatest evil - a partnership with those private, liberal arts doctors at Emory. Associating with that crowd isn't worth the opportunity of transforming Atlanta into one of the premier global healthcare centers, IMO.
Also, to the other poster's comment, I agree I was wrong about GT trying to buy up the land west of campus. West Midtown's private business owners are definitely the future driver of enterprise in that area. Look at how much other development its brought to the area so far! I mean, we have their restaurants. and their over-priced apartments... still no infrastructure improvements though. or any auxiliary developments. or any sort of plan for the area. Terminal west is actually awesome, i'll grant you that. If GT were to buy up all those abandoned building and lots or small businesses west of campus and transform the area into say a health and biosciences innovation district that compliments the GT-Emory research partnership that's taking place on 5th street, then the area will clearly suffer. I mean, the community wouldn't suffer. But investing in a sustainable, long-term value, job-creating, industry-boosting development would certainly harm the current business owner heroes who are doing their best to gentrify the area & maximize the rent they can charge for their "luxury apartments". . . let's just pray the student loan bubble doesn't pop, so they can keep charging those "market" rates!!!
