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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 .
Butler Aviation was founded in 1947 by Paul Butler in Chicago, Illinois, a businessman who also served as a lieutenant for the US Army Air Corps during World War I. [3] [4] The company expanded throughout the 1960s, including to New York's LaGuardia Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia; [3] by 1966 it had nine divisions, located in Baltimore, Maryland ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 380 square miles (980 km 2), of which 377 square miles (980 km 2) is land and 3.0 square miles (7.8 km 2) (0.8%) is water.
The only bidder, 100 Peachtree Street Atlanta LLC, an affiliate of Capmark Bank, bought the building for $29.5 million. [2] In late January 2010 there were reports that Georgia State University was interested in buying the building and its parking deck [ 3 ] and in May 2011 the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that GSU was in negotiations ...
Formed in 1971, Research Atlanta was a non-profit organization established to study public policy issues affecting the Atlanta metropolitan area. [1] [2] Research Atlanta served as Atlanta's think tank for urban problems and published policy studies [3] from 1971 to 2006 on major urban issues confronted by metropolitan Atlanta and placed Atlanta's urban problems within a national context.
The Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation (GTARC) is a wholly controlled nonprofit subsidiary of the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) that was established to serve as the contracting agency for work performed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute. GTARC is a 501(c)(3) corporation.
The Electronics Research Building, established in 1966, [5] was demolished, and construction began in Fall 2006/Spring 2007. The construction was funded by several donations, including $7 million from the State of Georgia, [ 6 ] $15 million from the Marcus Foundation, [ 7 ] and $36 million from an anonymous source.
Emory also had its own pediatric psychiatric outpatient programs based at the facility. The university also had 10 faculty scientists conducting 18 research studies at GMHI, focused on mental health, brain and central nervous system diseases. At its closing it had 141 beds and a $24.5 million budget.