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The Vortex Bar and Grill is a restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, with two locations, in Midtown on Peachtree Street, originally opened in 1992, and Little Five Points, opened in 1996 and distinguished by the large "Laughing Skull" entrance. The restaurant is famous for its burgers [1] and has been featured on Season 1 of the Travel Channel's Man ...
The Whitehall Street Retail Historic District is a historic district in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The district is centered on Peachtree Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and includes Broad, Forsyth, and Mitchell Streets. [1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
Colony Square is a mixed-use development and sub-district in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, located on Peachtree Street in between 14th and 15th Streets. The oldest high-rise development in Midtown, the sub-district was built between 1969 and 1975, with Henri Jova of Jova/Daniels/Busby serving as principal architect. [1]
Commercial Row is a single-story brick building originally constructed in 1923. It consists of seven retail units or spaces historically occupied by individual tenants. The building is located at the corner of Peachtree Street, Peachtree Place and Crescent Avenue in the Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
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
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]
Prior to the arrival of white settlers, Five Points was the intersection of two Creek Indian trails, the Peachtree Trail and the Sandtown Trail. In 1845, George Washington Collier opened a grocery store at what is now Five Points, and the store later served as Atlanta's first post office in 1846.
Ponce de Leon Avenue begins at Spring Street at the south edge of Midtown Atlanta, though prior to the construction of the Downtown Connector, it started a block further west at Williams Street (across from Georgia Tech, one block east of Bobby Dodd Stadium) [5] It passes West Peachtree Street and then Peachtree Street, the city block which has the BellSouth Building (now Tower Square) and the ...