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South Beltline Estates, 1707 South Beltline Boulevard: Spring 2023   2 comments

Posted at 11:53 pm in closing

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The closing date here is just a guess, although I'm pretty sure I have driven this stretch of road early this year and did not notice anything odd here.

I actually spent a fair bit of time at these apartments back in the 1970s as my piano teacher lived on the ground floor. We had started out with her in a "modern" class at Havens on Devine before they went all-in on picture framing and still sold pianos. It was a group class where everyone wore headphones and played an electric piano which was (supposedly) audible only to you and the teacher as she switched between feeds. It's not an idea that every really caught on, possibly because it wasn't a great one. After that, we followed her to apartments out on Leesburg Road, and Forest Drive, and finally these. I was an awful and passive-agressive student since I *really* didn't want to be taking piano lessons, and I regret the hard time I must have given her.

Anyway, at the time the place was fine, though it appears to have gone downhill in more recent years. I didn't see any homeless activity, but it really didn't look like a place I wanted to get out of the car and poke around in, so these are all drive-by, drive-through, pictures. With the state of the area now, I don't rally see anyone putting a lot of money into these to refurbish and re-open, but we'll see what happens.

Here's a State story involving the place that ended better than it well could have.

(Hat tip to commenter Arthur P.)

Palmetto Baptist Temple / Palmetto Baptist Academy, 1510 South Beltline Boulevard: 2013   8 comments

Posted at 11:20 pm in Uncategorized

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I noticed this little church on Beltline the other day, which seems be have been about half re-painted at some point. As far as I can tell from google, there is no new location for Palmetto Baptist Temple, and their web site is down, so I guess they are gone. The attached school apparently closed several years earlier.

The gym facility behind the church seems to be of a much more recent vintage than the church itself, and there is an old, long, out-building, probably the school building, that seems to be older than either.

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