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John Portman’s son, Jeffrey Portman served as the President of AMC, Inc. from 1994 to 2018. In 1996 Jeffrey Portman renamed the trading center AmericasMart, as before it was known as the Atlanta Market Center. AmericasMart merged with ANDMORE (formerly International Market Centers) in 2018.
The name of the historic district comes from a previous name for Peachtree Street, one of the main roads in Atlanta. [2] Since early in the city's history, this corridor of Whitehall Street was considered a major retail center, [3] with the Atlanta Preservation Center calling it "Atlanta's commercial and retail core."
Krog Street Market is a 9-acre (3.6 ha) mixed-use development in Atlanta, located along the BeltLine trail at Edgewood Avenue in Inman Park [1] which opened in Summer 2014. [2] The complex is centered on a 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m 2 ), west coast-style market and restaurants, and also includes up to 300 apartments (of which 225 in Phase I).
Wishing to give the market a more permanent home, the Atlanta Woman's Club raised almost $300,000 for a fireproof brick and concrete building which opened on May 1, 1924, [1] named the Municipal Market of Atlanta. At the time, it was located in the exact geographic center of Atlanta and quickly became "the place to shop" for every Atlantan. [2]
The new market would open on January 19, 1958, which marked the closing of the Murphy Avenue Market. The Forest Park location remains an active market which is open to the public. [10] Picture of Brand New opening of the Atlanta State Farmers' Market located in Forest Park, GA in Clayton County. Photo Courtesy of Hubert H. Nall Co., Inc.
Atlanta's premier tourist attraction is the world's largest aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium, located a 20-acre (81,000 m 2) site at Pemberton Place that is also home to the World of Coca-Cola and within walking distance of Centennial Olympic Park, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, State Farm Arena, the CNN Center and other downtown Atlanta tourist attractions.
Atlanta History Center marker. The old Crescent Apartments continued to deteriorate, especially after a fire set in the southwest corner of the building did minor damage in the late 1980s. In 1989, Mayor Andrew Young helped secure Margaret Mitchell House's future by designating it a city landmark on the rolls of what is now the city's Office of ...
North DeKalb Mall was an enclosed shopping mall located in unincorporated DeKalb County, near Decatur, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Opened in 1965, the center currently comprises more than eighty-five stores on one level. The sole remaining anchor store is Marshalls. That store and an AMC multiplex theater will remain. The rest ...