What happened to Atlanta's Buckhead??

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Well various violent incidents have occurred in the Buckhead area and as a result the law changed to where Fulton County stop serving liquor at 2am. (But even with the cameras on the corners in the 'club district" the time changed totally killed the scene). I want to say this happened at the end 2004ish -2005.
But know the plan is to turn Buckhead into a plethora of luxury condos, shops and businesses all in walking distance. ..Like Beverly Hills meets NYC.
Yes, approximately 4 months ago they knocked down all the old abandoned clubs. (I used to have a lot of fun there)
I do know that the club scene is not entirely dead check out Lotus Lounge, Opera, Velvet Room, MJQ's, The Underground (lots of clubs there), Royal , The Mark & Halo to name a few. Virginia Highlands of course and The Vinings area for bars.
Most clubs that stay open very late now are in Dekalb county because they stop serving liquor at almost 4am during the week....Show more

A lot of people point to the last Super Bowl weekend here as the catalyst for the drastic change in Buckhead.

Ray Lewis, a player for the Baltimore Ravens, was involved in a murder in Buckhead that weekend. Since that time, there seemed to be a tidal wave of murders, muggings, smash-and-grabs, etc., in the Buckhead district. An unwelcome element began frequenting the area that never had before, and with it came crime.

The people who had normally patronized the Buckhead bars and clubs stopped going, because they were afraid of becoming statistics themselves. There was also the fact that clubs and bars were forced to stop pouring alcohol at 2a, versus the traditional 4a, as an effort to curb the criminal activity. Customers took their party dollars elsewhere, including Midtown, Virginia Highlands, and even the booming Vinings/Smyrna area. Because of the exodus, many Buckhead clubs had to close, because their source of income had been driven to other areas of the city.

Some of that unwelcome element followed to Midtown, but it hasn't seemed to infest the establishments as it did in Buckhead. Currently, the city is looking to transform Buckhead into a Parisian-style shopping district, due to open sometime next year. Some have labeled the project as a "gentrification" effort. To that, I say, it is what it is....Show more

Around 1999-2000 one of the bars promoted a HipHop night. This brought in people with no money in their pockets and trouble on their minds. White college kids and young adults who supported the businesses fled the thugs and the rest is another chapter in Atlantas sad history. Anyone who denies this has their head in the sand. I was there to witness....Show more

The landlords thought they could get more money from the insurance and sale of the land, than they could get from those bums in the club business, y'know the guys who just go bankrupt instead of paying their rent, Those buildings were struck by Jewish lightning and burned. There are stores or McMansions there now....Show more