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Peachtree Street, downtown Atlanta, 1974. In 2007, Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin unveiled a $1 billion, 20-year plan to transform Peachtree Street with streetscape upgrades, public parks, buried utilities, and the addition of a streetcar, based on a sixteen-month study by the Peachtree Corridor Partnership task force. [7] [8]
The State of Georgia Building (also known as 2 Peachtree Street and previously known as the First National Bank Building [6]) is a 44-story, 566 feet (173 m) skyscraper located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Built in 1966, the building was the tallest building in the Southeast at the time. [2]
Thus, as intown Atlanta began its post-1990 resurgence, Peachtree Center was increasingly criticized as an area that epitomized contemporary Atlanta's generic urbanity and sense of placelessness. [4] Other critics claim that Peachtree Center is disorienting, killed downtown street-life, and disregarded the existing urban context. [5]
The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States.Located in Atlanta, Georgia (on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district), the High is 312,000 square feet (28,985 m 2) and a division of the Woodruff Arts Center.
Loew's Grand Theater, originally DeGive's Grand Opera House, was a movie theater at the corner of Peachtree and Forsyth Streets in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It was most famous as the site of the 1939 premiere of Gone with the Wind, which was attended by most of the stars of the film.
Immediately across Peachtree is the historic Rhodes-Haverty Building, on the north corner with Williams Street. FlatironCity is now home to a Microsoft Innovation Center, Women's Entrepreneurship Institute and 20+ entrepreneurs and startups. In 2017, it was announced that a statue of Evander Holyfield would be installed in front of the building ...
Truist Plaza is a 265.48 m (871.0 ft) 60 story skyscraper in downtown Atlanta.It was designed by John C. Portman Jr. of John Portman & Associates and built from 1989 to 1992.
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]