Y ou know what’s difficult? Penning a love letter to the most unapproachable, asphalt-dominated, and generally soul-sucking strip mall on Atlanta’s eastside. Midtown Place is to smart urban planning what Boston is to Southern hospitality—there is no correlation. But Midtown Place is not without its attributes. In this challenging era for retail, when Peachtree Street is pockmarked with vacancies, Midtown Place on Ponce de Leon Avenue bustles: Its storefronts are brimming with options you’ll find virtually anywhere else. Love it, hate it—endure it when necessary—you can’t say Midtown Place doesn’t work to some extent.

Midtown Place, if you’re lucky enough to not be familiar, is that big-box shopping center across the street from Ponce City Market’s front entrance, anchored by a Whole Foo

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