Big Chicken condos & retail village

From someone half a day away, it's more of your metro Atlanta development news. Today, we observe a developing god-awful mixed use retail village at a new bus transit stop in the effing center of Interstate 75 just behind the Big Chicken:



The intersection at the lower left is Hwy 41 and Roswell Rd. The circular arrangement at the corner is the fabled Big Chicken, which will provide for a dramatic and sweeping panorama of damned near 20 lanes of traffic behind it.

The yellow structure in the median of the interstate is a "bus rapid transit" station -- buses that run exclusively in HOV lanes. As you may make out, the interstate is widened (to twice its size) to include 2 HOV lanes and 2 new truck only lanes on the outside. Several homes and some static vacant lots will be demolished to make room for that monolith next to the highway, which is linked directly to the bus station by a walkway over the chasm of I-75.

I kind of want to live next to 20 lanes of highway with a view of the Big Chicken out my window. That would be a comforting sight.