Sad to say the Forsyth County, GA commissioners voted to allow warehouses to be built on the site of Paintball Atlanta. Open since 1987, I'll miss it. Certainly pained at the thought of more ugly warehouses. Hopefully they can find a new location similarly distant from Atlanta proper or it'll suck even more...
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Was just there yesterday and found out they have until September. They said moving but suggested I not renew my membership which doesn't bode well.
I'm glad they made it this long, thought they were done a few years back when they lost some of the land to the new road.
Sad it's being replaced with warehouses which can't be great for the neighborhoods there. Already enough Amazon trucks sitting on side of road while driving in. -
"warehouses" I bet.
We have these tall large grey buildings that are trucked in one wall segment at a time and assembled like Legos on sight all over long island. Found out the other day that if a person owns commercial land with a vacant building on the property they are not obligated to pay any property taxes.
So naturally hundreds of these warehouses have popped up in lots but are rarely rented or occupied.
My commute is 20 miles I pass 7 such locationsComment
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I can actually respond to some of this. I'm a civil engineer that exclusively works in commercial/industrial development some of which includes freight (those big trucks).
Commercial and industrial property is getting harder and harder to get especially sites with less baggage (big easements, wetlands, endangered species, etc). Often times paintball fields are located in those places old industrial property that people didn't really have a need for that has been progressively becoming more and more valuable for development especially to companies needing to be in particular areas. While it is a bummer that the field is closing, it will certainly bring much more tax dollars to the area.
Hopefully they can find another site to move to. I know we dealt with the same thing when paintball charleston had to move and the land sold.BeardedWorks.com (Your Inception Designs and Shocktech Dealer)
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That does make sense, but Paintball Atlanta is situated on old farm land with old growth oaks and is directly adjacent to two wetlands. The county does pride itself as a business friendly place in the greater Atlanta area, but it still hurts to see nice land, land used for recreational activities that does not disturb the historic and natural character of an area turn into another graded, sterile commercial lot with basically nothing going on other than revenue generation for a few people. Just as my oldest boy turned 10 too...
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Not sad to see it go. It’s not ran all that well, fields leave something to be desired, paint was shit. I guess Arkenstone will be the move locally. That or Insane up near Chattanooga.Comment
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They catered to new players which I liked. Paint wasn't great some.of the time but it was decent most of the time. The refs always did try to do a good job. I liked that if there was critical mass, they'd pull all the self equipped out and let us just play on our own.
If people were looking to practice for tournaments, this wasn't the place.
This was field that got me back in after a 20 year hiatus so i appreciated that.Comment
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