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It consisted of shanties, together with a blacksmith shop and several small wooden stores, beside a 30-foot-deep ravine, still visible to the east of Peachtree north of 10th Street. During the desperate times after the Civil War, the hungry, homeless, wounded, and hopeless filled Atlanta's streets.
The Equitable Building, completed in 1892, is generally regarded as the first high-rise in the city. [3] Atlanta went through a major building boom from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, during which the city saw the completion of 13 of its 40 tallest buildings, including the Bank of America Plaza, Truist Plaza, One Atlantic Center, and 191 Peachtree Tower.
Peachtree Center is an underground subway station on the Red and Gold lines of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail system. It is the deepest station in the MARTA rail system, at 120 feet (37 m) below Peachtree Street. [3]
The developer plans to turn Underground Atlanta into a mixed-use development with more retail options and above ground apartments, with total investments of $150–$200 million. [29] [30] The sale was completed in March 2017, [31] and the lower level closed to the public on August 13, 2017. [32]
Souls Grown Deep Foundation was founded in 2010, but traces its roots to the mid-1980s, when William S. Arnett, an art historian and collector, began to collect the artworks of largely undiscovered African American artists across nine southeastern states. Developed outside of the structure of schools, galleries, and museums, these rich yet ...
Just ask Helen from Atlanta. Loaded down with $311,000 in student debt from three different degrees, Helen recently turned to financial pundit Dave Ramsey’s radio show, The Ramsey Show , to get ...
Atlanta and its surrounding suburbs, from Sentinel-2A satellite, 2022. Atlanta encompasses 134.0 square miles (347.1 km 2), of which 133.2 square miles (344.9 km 2) is land and 0.85 square miles (2.2 km 2) is water. [84] The city is situated in the Deep South of the southeastern United States among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
Atlanta then pushed its lead to two after an approach from Thomas left them with about six feet on the sixth hole. Atlanta took a 2-0 lead through the triples section of the night.