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3344 Peachtree is a 50-story high-rise building of 635 feet (194 m) [2] height located in Atlanta's uptown business district of Buckhead on Peachtree Road, the northern extension of Peachtree Street. The building is a mixed-use tower that incorporates upscale dining , office space, and 82 condominia at 3344 Peachtree Road . [ 2 ]
Mary MacKenzie opened the restaurant in 1945. Just after World War II, enterprising women in search of a living, many of them widowed by the war, were establishing restaurants throughout Atlanta.
In the mid-1980s, it was called Buckhead Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse, [4] until it was converted into the Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre. [ 6 ] A significant Atlanta concert venue in the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the Roxy finally closed after Live Nation and Clear Channel ended their lease in 2008.
The first 400-foot (121 m) office tower, Tower Place, opened in 1974. Park Place , built in 1986, was the first 400+ foot (121+ m) condominium building. 1986 also saw the completion of the 425-foot (129 m), 34-story Atlanta Plaza , then Buckhead's tallest and largest building.
The 25-story BB&T Tower at 271 17th Street was completed in 2009, becoming Atlantic Station's tallest office tower. [16] 271 was designed by tvsdesign and built by Brasfield & Gorrie. The Commons is home to many low-rise condominiums, apartments, townhomes, and a large man-made stormwater retention pond that is located within the median of 17th ...
After 2000, new dinner theaters began opening. Chicago's original Drury Lane Water Tower Place was founded in 1976, but closed in 1983. A new $7 million version opened in 2004. [9] The Desert Star Theater in Murray, Utah opened a dinner theater in 2004 [34] and the Gathering Dinner Theatre in Jacksonville opened in early 2009. [1]
From the fall of 2006 through the spring of 2007, Buckhead Church opened a second temporary campus in a movie theater at Atlantic Station. This was known as the "Midtown Gathering." [citation needed] The church held its first services at its current location at Tower Place on May 6, 2007.
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.