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171 17th Street is a skyscraper located in the Midtown district of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, within the Atlantic Station mixed-use development.It has 22 stories of office space and was completed in 2004, when it was called the Southtrust Tower. 171 17th Street was the first skyscraper in Atlanta west of the Downtown Connector and north of 14th Street.
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]
On December 12, 1986, Wachovia purchased First Atlanta. Founded as Atlanta National Bank on September 14, 1865, and later renamed to First National Bank of Atlanta, this institution was the oldest national bank in Atlanta. This purchase made Wachovia one of the few companies with dual headquarters: one in Winston-Salem and one in Atlanta.
Throughout the 1990s 191 Peachtree was considered Atlanta's premier business address. However, when two of its largest tenants, law firm King & Spalding, and Wachovia moved to Midtown's new 1180 Peachtree and Atlantic Station respectively in 2006, most of the building was left vacant. That same year, Cousins Properties purchased the building ...
Wachovia Building (Mobile), Alabama; Wachovia Tower, now One Enterprise Center, in Jacksonville, Florida; Wachovia Financial Center, previous name of a skyscraper in Miami, Florida; Wachovia Bank of Georgia, a skyscraper in Atlanta, Georgia; Wells Fargo Tower (Baltimore), Maryland, formerly known as the Wachovia Tower
The biggest loss to Birmingham came from SouthTrust moving its commercial banking division to Atlanta a year before the merger was announced, and that Atlanta, not Birmingham, would end up with Wachovia's Southern Banking Group headquarters. [8] Around 1,700 of the 4,000 local SouthTrust jobs were lost in Birmingham due to the merger.
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It was known as the Empire Building from 1901 to 1920, the Atlanta Trust Company Building from 1920 to 1929, and as the Citizens and Southern National Bank Building from 1929 to 1992. [23] This building was given as a gift to GSU in 1992 following the acquisition of C&S by NCNB. J.