Ponce City Market: Reborn in Glass and Steel

Lyrics

[Intro]
I’m talking to you, old friend. 
You, the brick and the glass on Ponce de Leon.

[Verse 1]
Before you were you, I remember the sound.
Screams from the roller coaster, splashing from the spring.
Asa Candler’s land, just a place for a summer day. 
They called it Ponce de Leon Springs Amusement Park.
A memory of laughter before the first brick was laid.
Before the ambition of Leon Dessez drew your lines.

[Verse 2]
Then came 1926.
The largest brick house in the Southeast.
Bellwood Quarry granite for your bones.
You smelled of new catalogs and floor polish.
The Norfolk Southern line was your pulse, feeding you packages and dreams.
You were Sears, Roebuck and Company.
You were the promise of everything, delivered.

[Chorus]
And oh, how you’ve changed your skin.
From catalog king to hollowed-out ghost.
Now you breathe again, with a different lung.
A city inside a city, where the new story is sung.
Reborn in glass and steel.

[Verse 3]
The nineties came and the pulse went quiet.
The trains stopped coming.
The dust settled deep in your empty rooms.
They called you City Hall East, a name that never fit.
A forgotten giant, sleeping through the decades.
I remember the boarded windows, the silence where the crowds used to be.
The damp smell of time just passing.

[Chorus]
And oh, how you’ve changed your skin.
From catalog king to hollowed-out ghost.
Now you breathe again, with a different lung.
A city inside a city, where the new story is sung.
Reborn in glass and steel.

[Bridge]
Then Jamestown came in 2011.
They saw the bones beneath the decay.
They opened you up to the sky, to the BeltLine's new green path.
They traded the scent of dust for coffee and fresh bread.
They turned the rail yard into a promenade.
They let the people back inside your heart.

[Outro]
Now the laughter is back.
Different from the amusement park, but it’s here.
You’re not just a building.
You’re a story. 
Still standing on Ponce de Leon.