Aug 26, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 10 segments
This week on Where The Party At?, Eldredge is out in Los Angeles with the We Are CommUNITY Choir, so King Williams pulls up to guest host. King is a writer, historian, and Atlanta-area native with…
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So it kind of gets me to this next conversation about like, who is this? Who's this for? Whose job is it? Right.
Like whose job is it to say we're going to create a new black Wall Street in this black part of town or we're going to create, you know, insert area that has been long disinvested and we're going to rebuild and reinvest? We know this is happening across DeKalb and across particularly South DeKalb.
So one of the things that you had mentioned to me in our text was this Belvedere Plaza in South DeKalb.
No, so Belvedere Plaza is the plaza I went to oftentimes when I was a kid, especially when I wanted to go see my cousin Chris and my aunt Sandra.
On that side, closer to Columbia, so if you guys know Columbia High School or the old Avondale High School, and now which is an Avondale Mall, which is now just a Walmart, across from that is the Belvedere Plaza.
So that was one of those things I also wrote for the indicators, but that place was a plaza that, like a lot of things, it was meant to be a...
With late 90s, early 2000s logic of this is going to be a place where people go to, which is anchored by a large grocery store.
And then it didn't for the most part, it didn't work for Walmart, but they kind of tweaked it a little bit.
most older Walmarts that were built between, like, 1990 and 2005, right? Yeah.
Kroger was like, okay, Everybody, like suburban planners, even in the early 90s, like we need to kind of recreate that small town urbanism, the thing, foot traffic, the thing that New Black Wall Street is trying to do.
And most of them didn't do it well because the idea is like, I think they did it kind of fun.
Walmart understood this quickly, like your customer for the most part is going to you.
And so Walmart, I will to their credit, for like 20 years has kind of figured out how to tweak that model.
So it kind of gets me to this next conversation about like, who is this? Who's this for? Whose job is it? Right.
Like whose job is it to say we're going to create a new black Wall Street in this black part of town or we're going to create, you know, insert area that has been long disinvested and we're going to rebuild and reinvest? We know this is happening across DeKalb and across particularly South DeKalb.
So one of the things that you had mentioned to me in our text was this Belvedere Plaza in South DeKalb.
No, so Belvedere Plaza is the plaza I went to oftentimes when I was a kid, especially when I wanted to go see my cousin Chris and my aunt Sandra.
On that side, closer to Columbia, so if you guys know Columbia High School or the old Avondale High School, and now which is an Avondale Mall, which is now just a Walmart, across from that is the Belvedere Plaza.
So that was one of those things I also wrote for the indicators, but that place was a plaza that, like a lot of things, it was meant to be a...
With late 90s, early 2000s logic of this is going to be a place where people go to, which is anchored by a large grocery store.
And then it didn't for the most part, it didn't work for Walmart, but they kind of tweaked it a little bit.
most older Walmarts that were built between, like, 1990 and 2005, right? Yeah.
Kroger was like, okay, Everybody, like suburban planners, even in the early 90s, like we need to kind of recreate that small town urbanism, the thing, foot traffic, the thing that New Black Wall Street is trying to do.
And most of them didn't do it well because the idea is like, I think they did it kind of fun.
Walmart understood this quickly, like your customer for the most part is going to you.
And so Walmart, I will to their credit, for like 20 years has kind of figured out how to tweak that model.
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