| | Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Atlanta: Fallout: News: L5P retailers wary of homeless population (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | What's more, store owners in Little Five claim their situation has been exacerbated by downtown's new panhandling ban, which outlaws begging in a specific "tourism triangle" and supposedly has resulted in panhandlers migrating west. |
 | | Like DeFrancis, Don Bender, a Little Five Points retail landlord and developer, says a panhandling ordinance in the neighborhood's retail district actually could help some of the homeless inhabitants, many of whom have alcohol and drug problems and need to enter a recovery program. |
 | | But Bender, who leases 35 spaces in Little Five Points (and currently has only one vacant property), also says he thinks it's the neighboring big-box retailers at the Edgewood Retail District -- and not the homeless population -- that should force L5P retailers to rethink their appeal. |
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