Resurgens: The unexpected rebuild of Atlanta United has mostly forged uncertainty

For better or worse, a theme in the history of Atlanta is rising again. The history of that idea isn’t always pretty, but in recent years it’s been reclaimed as a sort of identity of the city. Most everything in Atlanta is new. Spiller Park became Murder Kroger which became fancy apartments, the Governor’s Mansion was knocked down to make way for the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, even the Masquerade is being turned into some kind of gaudy monstrosity, and the Lightning neighborhood made way for the original Georgia Dome and then Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Clearly, not all of these changes can be seen as progress in the city’s history.