Not to mention Centennial Olympic park is a venue for concerts and events.
Are you going to Shaky Knees? I'm always eager to meet other Atlanta-area engineers, especially if they have similar music tastes.
Apologies, I'm no longer in the Atlanta area. Maybe a local Meetup group perhaps?
Re:Post-Olympic Abandonment
by hotgoldminer on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:19AM
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The Velodrome is not still in use. There is an outdoor concrete Velodrome in East Point which is heavily used, but it was not an Olympic venue.
I lived for a couple years in housing that was built for the Olympics when I went to GT. It was a nice building.
I also used the aquatic center a couple times to practice kayaking. The coolest part about that pool was you could lower the floor.
The aquatic center is still in use at GA Tech. And Tech also got a lot of new housing from the Olympic Village, and a nice new student center.
The Olympic Stadium turned into Turner Field, which will now be a stadium for GA State University.
I believe the velodrome is still in use, although not totally sure about that.
Basically, Atlanta planned very well for the post-Olympic legacy. And I think we threw a pretty good Olympics, all in all. Yeah, there was lots of advertising, but because of it, the city didn't go into tremendous debt.
Plus our opening ceremonies were the world debut of wacky waving inflatable arms guy, so that's gotta count for something.