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The redevelopment of Underground Atlanta received an award for Excellence in Urban Design from the American Institute of Architects in 1990. [17] The renovation also removed Plaza Park, which had been built in the late 1940s, and replaced it with Peachtree Fountains Plaza.
South Downtown, Atlanta. South Downtown is a historic neighborhood of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States. [1] South Downtown is primarily home to city, county, state, and federal governmental offices, which prompted the city to adopt signage declaring the area "Government Walk." Although much of South Downtown is dominated by surface ...
The streetlamp was originally located at the corner of Alabama and Whitehall (now Peachtree) Streets, and was moved several times prior to its installation in Underground Atlanta. Redevelopment of that area led the city to want to remove it. Since it was valued at less than $500, the Georgia law controlling historic monuments did not apply. [4]
Underground Atlanta. Atlanta boasts its own “city beneath the streets” in the Five Points neighborhood. Stretching over the equivalent of six city blocks, the area encompasses three ...
16000769 [1] Added to NRHP. Nov 15, 2016. Ponce City Market is a mixed-use development located in a former Sears catalogue facility in Atlanta, with national and local retail anchors, restaurants, a food hall, boutiques and offices, and residential units. It is located adjacent to the intersection of the BeltLine with Ponce de Leon Avenue in ...
Green Line (Atlanta development corridor) The Green Line is a development corridor in Downtown Atlanta stretching from Georgia International Plaza in the west, including The Gulch, and following the rail corridor east alongside Underground Atlanta and terminating at Jesse Hill, Jr. Drive SE (one block southeast of Piedmont Ave.)
The Gulch (Atlanta) The Gulch is an area of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia, which is unbuilt but envisioned as the site of major development. The Gulch area is at ground level, while the streets that surround it are elevated — they were originally elevated in the early 20th century so that traffic could more easily flow above the railroad lines ...
The Carver Community housing project (aka "Carver Homes") in southeast Atlanta was finished on February 17, 1953, [2] costing $8.6 million and consisting of 990 units for African-Americans. [4] Named for George Washington Carver, the project was located near Joyland, an amusement park for black Atlantans. The project was demolished in 2000 and ...