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unusual facts about downtown Atlanta


Downtown Atlanta

The Hawks arrived in 1968, even though Omni Coliseum, the city's basketball arena, did not open until 1972.


Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway

The Mangum Street embankment which ran north-south along Mangum Street (parallel to today's Northside Drive, but two blocks to the east), upon which trains reached the Atlanta terminus west of Downtown Atlanta, was built in 1905 and razed circa 1990 for construction of the Georgia Dome.

Edge city

Garreau's classic example of an edge city is the information technology center, Tysons Corner, Virginia, west of Washington, D.C. As recently as the end of World War II, it was a country crossroads, but it now has more office space than downtown Atlanta.

Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children

In 1928, Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children opened in the Old Fourth Ward east of downtown Atlanta at 640 Forrest Road (now Ralph McGill Blvd.).

Phillip E. Hill, Sr.

One of the three fraud schemes involved sales of more than 50 luxury estates in several of metro Atlanta’s “country club” subdivisions and more than 250 condominiums in eight complexes in Dunwoody, Buckhead, Midtown and downtown Atlanta.


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Atlanta CV Drum and Bugle Corps

That summer, the corps boasted a membership of 44 performers, and performed exhibitions at a local DCI competition as well as marched in the WSB-TV Salute 2 America Parade in downtown Atlanta.

Bluffton, Ohio

On March 2, 2007, five Bluffton University baseball players, as well as their bus driver and his wife, were killed in a chartered motorcoach crash on Interstate 75 near downtown Atlanta, Georgia while en route to a tournament in Sarasota, Florida.

Shermantown

Shermantown (Atlanta), a late 19th-century African-American shantytown east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia

Southern Belting Company Building

Located on Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the Garnett Station Building was designed by the firm of Lockwood Greene and Company and completed in 1915.