| Tower Square | |
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 Tower Square, when it was AT&T Midtown Center (2016) | |
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| Former names | BellSouth Building Southern Bell Telephone Building AT&T Midtown Center I |
| General information | |
| Location | 675 W Peachtree St NW Atlanta,GA 30308 |
| Coordinates | 33°46′22″N84°23′13″W / 33.77268°N 84.38692°W /33.77268; -84.38692 |
| Completed | 1980 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 206.4 m (677 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 47 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architects | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill FABRAP |
| Engineer | Weidlinger Associates |
| Website | |
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| References | |
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Tower Square (formerly known asBellSouth Center,Southern Bell Center, andAT&T Midtown Center I) is a 206.4 m (677 ft), 47-storyskyscraper located inMidtownAtlantaGeorgia. Completed in 1982, it served as the regional headquarters ofBellSouth Telecommunications, which does business asAT&T Southeast, and was acquired as part of AT&T's acquisition ofBellSouth. BellSouth Corporate headquarters was located in theCampanile building, also in Midtown. By 2020, AT&T had vacated its offices.[5]
The company, then calledSouthern Bell, originally planned to build the parking deck for the tower one block further east at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Peachtree Street. This would have required the razing of thehistoricFox Theatre which would have been an especially great loss to the city after the downtownLoew's Grand Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1978. Tremendousopposition,protests,fundraising, andpetition drives within thecommunity prevented the Fox'sdemolition. EvenLiberace spoke out on behalf of the "Fabulous Fox". In the end, a complicated deal was struck to build the parking deck on an alternate site north of the main tower on West Peachtree Street.
The building has a direct entrance to theNorth AvenueMARTA Station, which is located at the southern end of the complex and was built concurrently with the building. In 2002, BellSouth completed construction of two additional mid-rise buildings adjacent to the tower to form its BellSouth Midtown Center campus as part of its effort to consolidate office space aroundmass transit stations.
Thearchitects who designed the tower wereSkidmore, Owings & Merrill andRosser International, Inc. The general contractor for its construction was Beers Skanska, Inc. The building also served as a filming location for the 1993 science fiction action filmRoboCop 3, in which it was used as the setting for the headquarters of the evil megacorporation O.C.P, the main antagonist organization in the RoboCop trilogy.
In 2019, a major renovation and re-branding to "Tower Square" was announced.[6] It was subsequently renamed in October 2020.[7][8]
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