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The American Cancer Society Center (ACS Center) is a large convention center and office building in downtown Atlanta, adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park.The building contains about 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m 2), including a partially underground parking garage and loading area.
Southern Railway's 1918 facility, named Peachtree Station but known locally as Brookwood Station, has been Atlanta's only long-distance passenger rail stop since 1970. Amtrak took over Southern's Crescent route in the '70s, which (as of 2015) continues to operate between New Orleans and N.Y. City .
The name was changed to Piedmont Hospital and eventually the hospital took up an entire square block. The Washington-Rawson neighborhood was razed in the early 1960s to make way for Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium and its parking lots; now the site is part of the large Center Parc Stadium parking lot.
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]
Spink sold the first lots, which are now occupied by the residence and carriage house at the intersection of Spink Street and Hollywood Road, for the start of this new community in 1892. An article in the Atlanta Constitution dated June 9, 1892 was titled “Atlanta on the Chattahoochee – The City Has Gone Clear To the River – The Sale at ...
Peachtree Athletic Club 227 Courtland Street NE 9 floors 1985 [23] Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel 210 Peachtree Street NW 220.5 m (723 ft) 73 floors 1976 Atlanta Marriott Marquis 265 Peachtree Center Avenue NE 169 m (554 ft) 52 floors 1985 AmericasMart Various Addresses Various Heights 1961, 1979, 1992, 2008 Truist Plaza 303 Peachtree Street NE
The Atlanta Biltmore Hotel and Biltmore Apartments is a historic building located in Atlanta, Georgia. The complex, originally consisting of a hotel and apartments, was developed by William Candler, son of Coca-Cola executive Asa Candler, with Holland Ball Judkins and John McEntee Bowman. The original hotel building was converted to an office ...
Street level view of the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel. The first building on the site was the first official Georgia Governor's Mansion in Atlanta, a Victorian-style home purchased by the state in 1870 at the southwest corner of Peachtree Street and Cain Street (later International Boulevard, now Andrew Young International Boulevard).