Regarding Atlas: Perry, it’s still on. I live a block from it, and it continues to go up, albeit at a snail’s pace.

They seem to be on the final top floor for the housing portion, and they’ve dug out the parking, poured the cement, put up the steel structures and put cement into those for the retail portion. Remember, this is the structure that was supposed to be ready last summer! I know there’s been some major water problems on the street – pipes breaking etc. The billboards showing the ‘lifestyle of the future inhabitants’ are getting more and more defaced, with the pretty indian woman now doning a mustache and blacked out teeth. Don’t know if it’s the passers by or the construction workers doing it.

Atlas will bomb. It will be a better value than some of the other condos planned for Hillcrest/Bankers Hill, but I just don’t see how anyone will pay good money for screaming ambulences down 4th and back up 5th, plus the 2a.m. bar crowd. Like I said, I live about a block from it, and I had sound-proof windows installed in my rental apartment to quell the noise.