Technology Square | |
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 A view of Technology Square | |
  Technology Square | |
| Coordinates:33°46′37″N84°23′20″W / 33.777°N 84.389°W /33.777; -84.389 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Georgia |
| County | Fulton County |
| City | City of Atlanta |
| Council District | 2 |
| NPU | E |
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| Area | |
• Total | 0.5 sq mi (1.3 km2) |
| Estimate | |
| Population (2020 est.) | |
• Total | 5,000 |
| • Density | 10,000/sq mi (3,900/km2) |
| ZIP Codes | 30308 |
| Area codes | 404, 470, 678, 770 |
Technology Square, commonly calledTech Square, is a multi-block neighborhood located inMidtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Tech Square is bounded by 8th Street on the north, 3rd Street on the south, West Peachtree Street to the east, and Williams Street to the west. Tech Square includes several academic buildings affiliated withGeorgia Tech and provides access to the campus via the Fifth Street Pedestrian Plaza Bridge, reconstructed in 2007.[1][2] It also contains restaurants, retail shops, condominiums, office buildings, and a hotel.
Announced in 2000[3] and opened in 2003,[4] the district designed bytvsdesign[5] was built over previously vacant surface parking lots and has contributed to an ongoing revitalization of the Midtown neighborhood. In October 2013, Georgia Tech and local businesses celebrated Tech Square's 10th anniversary.[6]
In 2007, theGeorgia Tech Foundation purchased theCrum & Forster Building, located in Tech Square, and sought permits to demolish the building as part of a plan to expand Technology Square.[7] The building was designed in the 1920s by the architectural firm ofIvey and Crook, whose founders Ernest Ivey and Lewis Crook helped establish theArchitecture program at Georgia Tech in 1908.[7] Preservationists fought the demolition and in August 2009, the Atlanta City Council and MayorShirley Franklin granted the building protective status as a historic landmark.[8] The Georgia Tech Foundation appealed this decision. It instead purchased an adjoining property where aSunTrust Banks branch was previously located. In September 2013, the Georgia Tech Foundation demolished two-thirds of the Crum & Forster Building, leaving only part of its facade, to clear space for theCODA Building.[9]
Further expansion occurred in 2008, when Georgia Tech acquired theAcademy of Medicine, and in 2016 when Tech bought theAtlanta Biltmore.[10][11] Both of these buildings are designated aslandmark buildings by the city of Atlanta.
In 2015, construction began on the CODA Building, what was initially referred to as the High Performance Computing Center.[12] The 21-story building is one of the largest buildings in Tech Square, with Georgia Tech serving as the anchor tenant of the building and leasing out additional offices to other companies.[13] Construction was completed on the CODA Building in 2019, with the building being used as office space forGTRI.[14] The food court of CODA hosts such restaurants as Aviva by Kameel, El Burro Pollo, Poke Burri, and Humble Mumble.[15]
It is home to theScheller College of Business,[16][17]Barnes & Noble @ Georgia Tech,[18] (the official school bookstore), the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center,[19] as well as offices for a number of faculty and graduate students.
On November 24, 2006, theScheller College of Business dedicated the state of the art, 2,000-square-foot (190 m2) Ferris-Goldsmith Trading Floor. The trading floor opened in 2007 and includes fifty-four dual-display computers as well as electronic stock information on the walls, training all levels of management students to use financial analysis and electronic trading tools. Management faculty use the facility to research improved human performance in trading environments as well as the creation of new financial service models.[20] The trading floor houses Tech's new Quantitative and Computational Finance program.
TheGVU Center, the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, theAdvanced Technology Development Center (ATDC),VentureLab, Flashpoint, and theGeorgia Electronics Design Center research group (GEDC), as well as the DiMoS lab (conducts research in the areas of parallel and distributed algorithms for Geographic Information System (GIS), and distributed and mobile computing) are all housed around Tech Square. The buildings in Technology Square also host a variety of small businesses as well as business ventures spawned by Georgia Tech research.
Companies at Technology Square with Innovation Centers include,Chick-fil-A,Delta Air Lines,Coca-Cola,UPS,AT&T Mobility,Boeing,NCR,Panasonic,Georgia Power,Siemens,The Home Depot,Emerson Climate Technologies,Anthem Inc.,Stanley Black & Decker,Thyssenkrupp Materials Services,Worldpay Inc.,UCB, and KeySight Technologies.
Tech Square also contains several restaurants, includingMoe's Southwest Grill, Tin Drum Asian Kitchen, Gyro Brothers,Subway,Starbucks, Ray's New York Pizza, and aWaffle House. Within Tech Square are also found non-food retail establishments, such asT-Mobile.[21][22]
CODA, a 770,000 square feet (72,000 m2)mixed-use development, was completed in May 2019.[23]
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