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boger2337

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ND, Clemson, Ole Miss, and many other rural schools (maybe not the cesspool though) have PLENTY of fields and open areas in and around campus for organized tailgating. Tech has never had that luxury and obviously never will.

I wish they would buy an area and provide it for their fans. Make it an awesome area. Not trying make it GT ran, just provide a simple area/field, charge 30 dollars to park. Make it the tailgating hive. I'm sure it would cost around a million or so, but man would it be embraced. I'd be there every game. Just may have to tear down some old buildings
 
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I wish they would buy an area and provide it for their fans. Make it an awesome area. Not trying make it GT ran, just provide a simple area/field, charge 30 dollars to park. Make it the tailgating hive. I'm sure it would cost around a million or so, but man would it be embraced. I'd be there every game. Just may have to tear down some old buildings
Not sure there's any land like that available in the midtown now.
 

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Isn’t the lot straight across the street from the stadium on North Ave open? Caddy corner from Brown Hall. There used to be a tall apartment home there maybe for the elderly.
I just looked at it in google earth. There’s a big green space with cars parked there. Not sure who owns it.
 

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The only thing I am familiar with across North Ave is the old Y. And even if there is a lot there, it would cost millions of dollars, unless Tech already owns it.
Like I said it would be an investment in the fans. Not looking to make a decent return if any on it. But would be a legacy place for all tailgating to be.
 

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While looking at google earth(which has 3D now which is bad ***!), I saw couch park aka “burger bowl”. Why not set up something there and run shuttles? Allow parking right on the field. Pay 40 bucks and it includes a shuttle. Use stingerettes to shuttle back and forth.
 

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While looking at google earth(which has 3D now which is bad ***!), I saw couch park aka “burger bowl”. Why not set up something there and run shuttles? Allow parking right on the field. Pay 40 bucks and it includes a shuttle. Use stingerettes to shuttle back and forth.
THISSSSS. I saw it, but wasn't sure what its use is for.
 

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I just looked at it in google earth. There’s a big green space with cars parked there. Not sure who owns it.

There are fences around two areas there. Georgia Tech Facilities owns the smaller section at the corner (1.4 Acres). The company that built the townhomes there owns the larger lot to the South and West of the smaller lot.

EDIT: I just saw your post about "burger bowl". The townhome company owns that part.
 

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There are fences around two areas there. Georgia Tech Facilities owns the smaller section at the corner (1.4 Acres). The company that built the townhomes there owns the larger lot to the South and West of the smaller lot.

EDIT: I just saw your post about "burger bowl". The townhome company owns that part.
EDIT2: The smaller fenced in lot with the cars is owned by GT. The larger "bowl" area is owned by the townhome company.

https://qpublic.schneidercorp.com/A...eID=8153&Q=927256230&KeyValue=14+007900020096
 

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ND, Clemson, Ole Miss, and many other rural schools (maybe not the cesspool though) have PLENTY of fields and open areas in and around campus for organized tailgating. Tech has never had that luxury and obviously never will.
Once upon a time, there was lots of green space west of the student center.....as well as big flat parking lots on both sides of the architecture building. I think the biggest mistake Tech has made is infilling instead of expanding more across 10th Street. Several decades ago, that land was relatively cheap.
 

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Haha. Yeah. The burger bowl is over on west campus. Down the hill from the athletic fields. I think it’s used for intramural and maybe some club teams. It would work but how many people would utilize it if they did set it up?
 

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The following map shows some highlighted large green spaces where you can regularly find tons of people tailgating for hours before the game. The one closest to the stadium is where the commercial tailgating guys are set up. I would be shocked if there was a better urban campus tailgating environment than Tech. All you Yankees can stay east of the highway in your parking lots! lol ; )

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The following map shows some highlighted large green spaces where you can regularly find tons of people tailgating for hours before the game. The one closest to the stadium is where the commercial tailgating guys are set up. I would be shocked if there was a better urban campus tailgating environment than Tech. All you Yankees can stay east of the highway in your parking lots! lol ; )

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I am definitely not a Yankee. I just prefer the east side, because I sit on the east side of the stadium.
 

boger2337

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The following map shows some highlighted large green spaces where you can regularly find tons of people tailgating for hours before the game. The one closest to the stadium is where the commercial tailgating guys are set up. I would be shocked if there was a better urban campus tailgating environment than Tech. All you Yankees can stay east of the highway in your parking lots! lol ; )

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But how far of a trek is it to the lawns from parking? I have roughly 200+lbs of equipment including a generator I'd bring....
 

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The following map shows some highlighted large green spaces where you can regularly find tons of people tailgating for hours before the game. The one closest to the stadium is where the commercial tailgating guys are set up. I would be shocked if there was a better urban campus tailgating environment than Tech. All you Yankees can stay east of the highway in your parking lots! lol ; )

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Sorry to disappoint you.....

https://www.news.gatech.edu/2019/03/12/prep-work-coming-campus-center-project
 

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I LOVE GEORGIA TECH. But as for "tailgating experience" on the Flats... it has to way down in the rankings in all CFB. It's too bad but just a function of location (urban environment). I have no good recommendations to improve it either.

I tailgated at Ole Miss once and the Grove is without peer in terms of tailgating. Tech could easily do this by returning Peters Park to a green space and closing Fowler Street and making it a pedestrian walk.

I’m teaching at Auburn this year and they did something similar. Closed all the streets to motor vehicles and created zones for food trucks, tents, etc. It’s pretty awesome.
 
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