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Crowds wander along 10th Street during Music Midtown in 2011. AJC Special
Crowds wander along 10th Street during Music Midtown in 2011. AJC Special
By Tom Sabulis
Sept 18, 2014

I’ve covered and attended Music Midtown since it started at a site where the Federal Reserve Bank now sits on 10th Street. Midtown was a different place in 1994, with more open space and fewer residents for big rock concerts to disturb. Now a denser, more attractive residential neighborhood surrounds the festival’s new home, Piedmont Park, and some wonder whether such an event is even suitable here. As the festival kicks off today, a neighborhood group details its complaints. A city official responds.

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