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Midtown Atlanta

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Midtown Atlanta is the second largest financial district in the city of Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the state of Georgia, as well as the urban core of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States....

, situated between the commercial and financial district of Downtown
Downtown Atlanta
Downtown Atlanta is the first and largest of the three financial districts in the city of Atlanta. Downtown Atlanta is the location of many corporate or regional headquarters, city, county, state and federal government facilities, sporting facilities, and is the central tourist attraction of the city...

 to the south and the affluent residential and commercial district of Buckhead
Buckhead (Atlanta)
Buckhead is the uptown district within the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Comprising over 100,000 residents and approximately the northern one-fifth of the city, Buckhead is legally defined as that portion of the city of Atlanta northwest of Interstate 85 and northeast of Interstate 75.It...

 to the north. Midtown contains about one-third of the city's high-rises and some of Atlanta's most iconic buildings, such as the Bank of America Plaza
Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta)
The Bank of America Plaza is a skyscraper located in Downtown Atlanta. Standing 1,023 ft , it ranks as the 35th tallest building in the world. It is also the tallest building in North America outside of Chicago and New York City, Georgia's tallest building, and the tallest building in any U.S....

, (situated between Midtown and Downtown), AT&T Midtown Center, Atlantic Center
One Atlantic Center
One Atlantic Center, also known as the IBM Tower, is a skyscraper located in Midtown Atlanta. It is the third-tallest in Atlanta, reaching a height of 820 feet with 50 stories of office space. It was completed in 1987 and remained the tallest building in Atlanta until 1992, when it was surpassed...

, 1180 Peachtree, and Promenade II
Promenade II
Promenade II is a tall skyscraper in Midtown Atlanta. It has 40 stories of office space and its construction was completed in 1990. It is currently the seventh-tallest skyscraper in Atlanta....

.
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Midtown Atlanta is the second largest financial district in the city of Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the state of Georgia, as well as the urban core of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States....

, situated between the commercial and financial district of Downtown
Downtown Atlanta
Downtown Atlanta is the first and largest of the three financial districts in the city of Atlanta. Downtown Atlanta is the location of many corporate or regional headquarters, city, county, state and federal government facilities, sporting facilities, and is the central tourist attraction of the city...

 to the south and the affluent residential and commercial district of Buckhead
Buckhead (Atlanta)
Buckhead is the uptown district within the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Comprising over 100,000 residents and approximately the northern one-fifth of the city, Buckhead is legally defined as that portion of the city of Atlanta northwest of Interstate 85 and northeast of Interstate 75.It...

 to the north. Midtown contains about one-third of the city's high-rises and some of Atlanta's most iconic buildings, such as the Bank of America Plaza
Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta)
The Bank of America Plaza is a skyscraper located in Downtown Atlanta. Standing 1,023 ft , it ranks as the 35th tallest building in the world. It is also the tallest building in North America outside of Chicago and New York City, Georgia's tallest building, and the tallest building in any U.S....

, (situated between Midtown and Downtown), AT&T Midtown Center, Atlantic Center
One Atlantic Center
One Atlantic Center, also known as the IBM Tower, is a skyscraper located in Midtown Atlanta. It is the third-tallest in Atlanta, reaching a height of 820 feet with 50 stories of office space. It was completed in 1987 and remained the tallest building in Atlanta until 1992, when it was surpassed...

, 1180 Peachtree, and Promenade II
Promenade II
Promenade II is a tall skyscraper in Midtown Atlanta. It has 40 stories of office space and its construction was completed in 1990. It is currently the seventh-tallest skyscraper in Atlanta....

. The district is the epicenter of the city's music and artistic scene that includes the Fox Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center
Woodruff Arts Center
Woodruff Arts Center is the largest arts center in the Southeast as well as one of the largest in the United States. The Woodruff is unique in that it combines four visual and performing arts divisions on one campus as one not-for-profit organization...

, the High Museum of Art
High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art is a leading art museum in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia on Peachtree Street Northeast, the High is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center, which also includes the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Young Audiences and the 14th Street...

, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Robert Spano has been its music director since 2001....

, and the 14th Street Playhouse.

As defined by the Midtown Alliance organization, the area measures approximately four square miles and has a resident population of 30,000. The area also has a workplace population of 68,000, along with 20,000 students and approximately 6 million visitors annually. The official boundaries of the district are the Beltline just east of Monroe Drive on the east, I-85 and I-75 to the north, Howell Mill Road on the west and Ralph McGill Boulevard on the south. This definition of Midtown Atlanta includes upscale neighborhoods such as Ansley Park
Ansley Park
Ansley Park is an affluent residential neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, located just east of Midtown and west of Piedmont Park. One of the first suburban neighborhoods in the city designed for automobiles, it features wide, winding roads rather than the grid pattern typical of older streetcar...

 and Atlantic Station
Atlantic Station
Atlantic Station is a large brownfield redevelopment project at the northwestern edge of Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. Atlantic Station is being master developed by AIG Global Real Estate and local development partner Jacoby Development, Inc...

, as well as the neighborhoods of Home Park and Sherwood Forest.

The Midtown district has been a primary area of growth in the city with new condominium units being built, new stores opening up, and businesses and people moving into the area.

Midtown Atlanta is also home to two well known institutions of higher education: Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly called Georgia Tech, Tech, and GT, is a public, coeducational research university in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States...

 and the Atlanta division of the Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah College of Art and Design
The Savannah College of Art and Design is a private university with campuses located in Savannah and Atlanta and Lacoste ,-Academics:...

 (SCAD.)

Geography



Midtown is composed of busy thoroughfares, including Atlanta's famous Peachtree Street
Peachtree Street
Peachtree Street is the main north-south street of Atlanta, Georgia. The city grew up around this one street, and many of its historical and municipal buildings are or were located along it. Beginning at Five Points in Downtown Atlanta, it runs north through Midtown and into south Buckhead before...

, lined by high-rise condos and four-star hotels alongside skyscrapers housing Class A office space and busy shopping areas. It is also home to quiet residential neighborhoods populated by Victorian
Victorian architecture
The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly employed during the Victorian era. As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria after whom it is...

, American Four-Square and American Craftsman
American Craftsman
The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, and decorative arts style popular from the last years of the 19th century through the early years of the 20th century...

 homes, as well as bed-and-breakfast inns. Midtown's focal point is the expansive green space of Piedmont Park
Piedmont Park
Piedmont Park is the "Central Park" of Atlanta, Georgia, located in Midtown, north of the city center. Originally the land was owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who used it as his out-of-town gentleman's farm and residence...

. The Atlanta Botanical Garden
Atlanta Botanical Garden
The Atlanta Botanical Garden is a 30 acre botanical garden located adjacent to Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Incorporated in 1976, the garden's mission is to "develop and maintain plant collections for the purposes of display, education, conservation, research and enjoyment"...

 adjoins the Park.

Midtown is also home to the largest concentration of LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism referring collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. In use since the 1990s, the term “LGBT” is an adaptation of the initialism “LGB” which itself started replacing the phrase “gay community” which many within LGBT communities felt did not represent...

 residents in the city, and (with Ansley Park
Ansley Park
Ansley Park is an affluent residential neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, located just east of Midtown and west of Piedmont Park. One of the first suburban neighborhoods in the city designed for automobiles, it features wide, winding roads rather than the grid pattern typical of older streetcar...

 and Kirkwood
Kirkwood (Atlanta)
Kirkwood is a neighborhood in eastern Atlanta, Georgia that was designed by architect, Will Saunders. It is situated entirely in DeKalb County and near Lake Claire, East Lake, and Oakhurst. Kirkwood is bound on the north by DeKalb Avenue and on the south by Memorial Drive...

) one of the largest in the country. Many residents refer to Midtown as Atlanta's number one gay village
Gay village
A gay village is an urban geographic location with generally recognized boundaries where a large number of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual people live or frequent...

.

Atlanta has its own multicultural flavor in its variety of restaurants, most of which are situated on Peachtree Street and spread out in a fashion characteristic of the rest of the city. On Juniper Street north of Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta boasts its own signature "restaurant row" district, with upscale gathering places and bustling nightclubs.

History



The southern half of midtown between 8th Street and North Ave was originally purchased by Richard Peters
Richard Peters (Atlanta)
Richard Peters was an American railroad man and a founder of Atlanta.Grandson of Judge Richard Peters, Jr...

 in 1848 to use the pine forest there for fuel for his downtown flour mill. Over the next 40 years Peters slowly subdivided sections of these land lots off for a gridded residential area and built his own home there on Peachtree at 4th Street. His son, Edward, built his home on the block bounded by North Avenue, Piedmont Avenue, Ponce de Leon Avenue and Myrtle Street. The home, now called Ivy Hall, was restored by the Savannah College of Art & Design in 2008 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Today





Midtown Atlanta has in the past decade been a fast-growing community with appreciating land and property values, as land is a precious commodity in this urban area. As residents begin to return to the city following decades of suburban retreat from the city center, Midtown Atlanta offers an attractive mix of amenities and attractions, as well as proximity to downtown offices and destinations. The recent construction and opening of the Seventeenth Street Bridge over the Downtown Connector
Downtown Connector
In Atlanta, Georgia, the Downtown Connector or 75/85 is the overlapped connector of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through the core of the city. Beginning at the I-85/Langford Parkway interchange, the Downtown Connector runs generally due north, meeting the east-west Interstate 20 in the middle...

 has reconnected Midtown with the west-side of the city. It connects Midtown to a new multi-billion dollar mixed-use development, called Atlantic Station
Atlantic Station
Atlantic Station is a large brownfield redevelopment project at the northwestern edge of Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. Atlantic Station is being master developed by AIG Global Real Estate and local development partner Jacoby Development, Inc...

, on the former site of the Atlantic Steel company, which is the site of new housing, office, and retail space. In early 2006, Mayor Shirley Franklin
Shirley Franklin
The Honorable Shirley Clarke Franklin is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and, since January 7 2002, the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. The 58th mayor of Atlanta, she was the first female to hold the post and became the first black woman to be elected mayor of any major...

 set in motion a plan to make the 14-block stretch of Peachtree Street
Peachtree Street
Peachtree Street is the main north-south street of Atlanta, Georgia. The city grew up around this one street, and many of its historical and municipal buildings are or were located along it. Beginning at Five Points in Downtown Atlanta, it runs north through Midtown and into south Buckhead before...

 in Midtown Atlanta (nicknamed "Midtown Mile") a street-level shopping destination envisioned to rival Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive
Rodeo Drive
Rodeo Drive of Beverly Hills, California is a shopping district famous for designer label and haute couture fashion...

 or Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and with more than 2.8 million people, the 3rd largest city in the United States...

's Magnificent Mile
Magnificent Mile
The Magnificent Mile is the portion of Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois extending from the Chicago River to Oak Street in the Near North Side community area. The district is located adjacent to downtown; it is also one block east of Rush Street, which is known for its nightlife...

. It has brought a number of stores along the stretch, such as the upscale Kartell
Kartell
Kartell is an Italian company that makes and sells plastic contemporary furniture.The company, headquartered in Milan, began manufacturing automobile accessories in 1949. It expanded into home furnishings in 1963....

. Restaurants such as Yogen Früz
Yogen Früz
Yogen Früz is an international chain of frozen yogurt and smoothie stores that also serves healthy alternative food products. Through company-owned, franchised, and non traditional partnerships, Yogen Früz is the largest franchisor and licensor of stores and other locations that serve primarily...

, Piola, Ri Ra Irish Pub, RA Sushi, and Pinkberry
Pinkberry
Pinkberry is a franchise of upscale frozen dessert restaurants headquartered in Los Angeles, California. There are currently 73 stores, mostly located in Southern California with thirteen in New York City....

 all have plans to have locations in Midtown.
Apple has also expressed interest in building a flagship store along the Midtown Mile development.

In addition to the Midtown Mile, Midtown Atlanta has recently seen a hotel boom. With the influx of wealth moving to the area, many luxury hotels had proposed and/or started construction of the hotel. Some of the hotels that are building or have plans to do so in Midtown Atlanta include the Mandarin Oriental
Mandarin Oriental
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group , a member of the Jardine Matheson Group, is an international hotel investment and management group with luxury hotels, resorts and residences in Asia, Europe and the Americas...

, Ritz-Carlton
Ritz-Carlton
The Ritz-Carlton is a brand of luxury hotel and resort with 70 properties located in major cities and resorts in 23 countries worldwide.It is also has major service training operations in its Ritz-Carlton Learning Institute and Ritz-Carlton Leadership Center, created by Ritz-Carlton executive ...

, InterContinental
InterContinental
InterContinental is a brand of upscale luxury hotels, founded by Pan Am, under Juan Trippe, and now owned by InterContinental Hotels Group. The chain operates over 200 hotels and resorts in approximately 75 nations....

, Hotel Monaco, and Loews Hotels
Loews Hotels
Headquartered in New York City, Loews Hotels owns and/or operates 17 hotels and resorts in the U.S. and Canada. Located in major city centers and resort destinations from coast to coast, the Loews portfolio features one-of-a-kind properties that go beyond Four Diamond standards to delight guests...

. The Four Seasons Hotel, the W Hotel, and Hotel Palomar
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurant Group
Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group Inc. is a hotel and restaurant company founded in 1981 by Bill Kimpton and led by CEO Michael Depatie. It is the largest chain of boutique hotels in the United States. The Company's Headquarters are in San Francisco, California. The company's properties are in the...

 already have Midtown locations.

Midtown Alliance


Formed in 1978, the Midtown Alliance is a group of volunteers, employees, and business and community members, that work towards improving the overall quality of life in Midtown, transforming it into an ideal place for people to actively live, work, and play. Activities of the Alliance include improving the neighborhood safety, developing area arts and education programs, and building community leaders. The master plan from the Alliance, called Blueprint Midtown, is credited with fueling the economic resurgence that has helped the once downtrodden Midtown area transform over the past number of years into a popular neighborhood.

Economy



Midtown Atlanta is a commercial district in its own right, containing 22 million square feet of office space, with 8.2 million square feet of office space added to the area since 1997, with up to 3.8 million square feet more planned. Furthermore, Midtown is the home to the corporate headquarters such as Equifax
Equifax
Equifax Inc. is a consumer credit reporting agency in the United States, considered one of the three largest American credit agencies along with Experian and TransUnion. Founded in 1899, Equifax is the oldest of the three agencies and gathers and maintains information on over 400 million credit...

, EarthLink
EarthLink
EarthLink , is an Internet service provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It claims 5.4 million members .- Business :...

, Invesco, and The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company, largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world and is one of the largest corporations in the United States. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola,...

, as well as other corporations with a sizeable presence such as Norfolk Southern, Wachovia
Wachovia
Wachovia, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a diversified, wholly owned financial services subsidiary of Wells Fargo. As an independent company, it was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States based on total assets. Wachovia, being one of the oldest banks we know about...

, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers is one of the world's largest professional services firms. It was formed in 1998 from a merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand, both formed in London....

, and AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is the largest provider of local, long distance telephone services in the United States, and also serves digital subscriber line Internet access. AT&T is the second largest provider of wireless service in the United States, with over 77 million wireless customers, and more than 150...

, as a result of its purchase of BellSouth. Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google has also...

's Atlanta area office is in Midtown.

Major law firms such as King & Spalding
King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP is an American law firm, founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1885 by Alexander C. King and Jack Spalding. It has a London-based international arm, King & Spalding International LLP, which opened in 2003.It is Atlanta's oldest law firm...

 and Kilpatrick & Stockton are also located in this district.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is responsible for the sixth district which covers the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia; 74 counties in the eastern two-thirds of...

, once located at 104 Marietta Street NW prior to 2001, is located at 1000 Peachtree Street NE.

Diplomatic missions


The Consulate-General of Canada
Diplomatic missions of Canada
This is a list of diplomatic missions of Canada. Canada has an extensive diplomatic network, maintained by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. As a Commonwealth nation, Canada's diplomatic missions in the capitals of other commonwealth nations are referred to as High Commissions...

 is located in the 100 Colony Square Building as is the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency . The Consulate-General of Israel to the Southeast is located in Uptown. The Consulate-General of Switzerland in Atlanta
Diplomatic missions of Switzerland
This is a list of diplomatic missions of Switzerland, excluding honorary consulates. Switzerland is well known as a protecting power, having used its embassies abroad to represent the interests of states hostile to each other since the Franco-Prussian War...

 is located in the Two Midtown Plaza building. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, representing the Republic of China
Diplomatic missions of the Republic of China
This is a list of diplomatic missions of the Republic of China. Due to the fierce competition between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China for diplomatic recognition, the ROC only maintains a handful of full-fledged diplomatic missions abroad...

, is located in the Atlantic Center Plaza
Atlantic Center Plaza
Atlantic Center Plaza is a 24-floor office highrise located at 1180 West Peachtree Street in Atlanta Georgia, across the street from the One Atlantic Center...

.

Arts



Midtown is known by many residents as the "Heart of the Arts". It is the home of the Fox Theatre
Fox Theatre (Atlanta)
The Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia is one of the grand movie palaces built in the United States in the 1920s. It is located at the corner of Peachtree Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue in Midtown Atlanta...

, the Woodruff Arts Center
Woodruff Arts Center
Woodruff Arts Center is the largest arts center in the Southeast as well as one of the largest in the United States. The Woodruff is unique in that it combines four visual and performing arts divisions on one campus as one not-for-profit organization...

, the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Atlanta Botanical Garden
The Atlanta Botanical Garden is a 30 acre botanical garden located adjacent to Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Incorporated in 1976, the garden's mission is to "develop and maintain plant collections for the purposes of display, education, conservation, research and enjoyment"...

, the Richard Meier
Richard Meier
Richard Meier is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white.- Biography :Meier was born in Newark, New Jersey...

  and Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano is a world renowned Italian architect and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize. One admirer said the "serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that we live in a civilized world"...

 -designed High Museum of Art
High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art is a leading art museum in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia on Peachtree Street Northeast, the High is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center, which also includes the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Young Audiences and the 14th Street...

, as well as the Atlanta Ballet
Atlanta Ballet
Atlanta Ballet is a ballet company, located in Atlanta, Georgia. It is the nation’s longest continuously performing ballet company and the State Ballet of Georgia....

, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Robert Spano has been its music director since 2001....

, and other arts and entertainment venues. Recently, the Woodruff Arts Center
Woodruff Arts Center
Woodruff Arts Center is the largest arts center in the Southeast as well as one of the largest in the United States. The Woodruff is unique in that it combines four visual and performing arts divisions on one campus as one not-for-profit organization...

 and its campus have been expanded. Future additions will include a new Atlanta Symphony Center
Atlanta Symphony Center
Symphony Center is a proposed concert hall in Atlanta, Georgia that would be the new home of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The site for the new structure is in Midtown on 14th Street just south of the current Symphony Hall in the Woodruff Arts Center....

 designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava Valls is an internationally recognized and award-winning Valencian Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland...

. The High is currently collaborating with the Louvre
Louvre
The Musée du Louvre or officially the Grand Louvre — in English, the Louvre Museum or Great Louvre, or simply the Louvre — is the largest national museum of France, the most visited museum in the world, and a historic monument. It is a central landmark of Paris, located on the Right Bank of the...

 to house a temporary collection of masterpieces from the Paris museum. As well as being a major arts and entertainment enclave, Midtown Atlanta is home to a vibrant cultural community, bringing together people from every walk of life. The district hosts the Atlanta Dogwood Festival
Atlanta Dogwood Festival
The Atlanta Dogwood Festival is an arts and crafts festival held each spring at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally held for nine days across two weekends and the weekdays between, it is now held only one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.- External links :*...

 in the spring along with the Atlanta Pride
Atlanta Pride
Atlanta Pride, also colloquially called the Atlanta Gay Pride Festival, is a week-long annual lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender pride parade held in Atlanta, Georgia . Established in 1971, it is one of the oldest pride parades in the United States...

 and the finish line of the Peachtree Road Race
Peachtree Road Race
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race 10K, or more commonly called the Peachtree Road Race, is a 10 kilometer road race held annually in Atlanta, Georgia on July 4, Independence Day. The Peachtree Road Race was until recently the world's largest 10 kilometer race , a title it has...

 in the summer. History enthusiasts can tour the Margaret Mitchell House and Rhodes Hall
Rhodes Hall
Rhodes Memorial Hall, commonly known as Rhodes Hall, was built as the home of furniture magnate Amos Giles Rhodes, proprietor of Atlanta-based Rhodes Furniture. The Romanesque Revival house occupies a prominent location on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia, and is listed on the National Register...

, both of which can be rented for corporate or social events, as well.

Nightlife


Midtown is known throughout Atlanta as an extremely popular, cosmopolitan, and vibrant area for nightlife
Nightlife
Nightlife is the collective term for any entertainment that is available and more popular from the late evening into the early hours of the morning. It includes the pubs, nightclubs, discothèques, bars, live music, concert, cabaret, small theatres, small cinemas, shows, and sometimes restaurants a...

. Many of the city's trendy restaurants and bars are located in Midtown. An estimated 52% of all of the city's nightclubs are located in Midtown. Some of the prominent bars and clubs include CosmoLava (Cosmopolitan Lounge and Lava), Opera, Primal, Leopard Lounge, Door 44, Verve Lounge, Twisted Taco, The Phoenix, Halo, Fox and Hound, Highland & Co. and many others.

Education



Residents are zoned to schools in the Atlanta Public Schools
Atlanta Public Schools
Atlanta Public Schools is a school district based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. APS is run by the Atlanta Board of Education with superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall...

.
  • Morningside Elementary School
  • Inman Middle School
    Inman Middle School
    Samuel Martin Inman Middle School is a public, co-educational middle school located in Atlanta, Georgia.Inman is located in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood, and also serves Morningside-Lenox Park, Midtown Atlanta, Inman Park, Lake Claire, Candler Park, Ansley Park, and the Atlanta portion of...

  • Henry W. Grady High School
    Henry W. Grady High School
    Henry W. Grady High School is located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in Midtown. It serves as the Communication Magnet school for the Atlanta Public Schools...


In addition, the main campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly called Georgia Tech, Tech, and GT, is a public, coeducational research university in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States...

 is located in the southwest corner of the district.

Transportation


Midtown Atlanta is served by Atlanta's rail rapid transit system, MARTA
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority or MARTA is the principal rapid-transit system in the Atlanta metropolitan area and the ninth-largest in the United States. Formed in 1971 as strictly a bus system, MARTA operates a network of bus routes linked to a rapid transit system consisting of ...

, at the Civic Center
Civic Center (MARTA station)
Civic Center is a subway station on the North-South and Northeast-South Lines of the MARTA subway system. As of April 2006 2,293 daily fares were collected at the gates...

, North Avenue
North Avenue (MARTA station)
North Avenue is an underground station with two side platforms, named after the nearby North Avenue. The walls are made of white tile and painted with a mural of green hills, a blue sky, and clouds. It is the seventh busiest station in the system with an average of 15,000 boardings per weekday...

, Midtown
Midtown (MARTA station)
Midtown is an underground MARTA rail station with two side platforms located in Midtown Atlanta. As of April 2006, 4,085 daily fares were collected at the gates.-Parking:...

, and Arts Center MARTA Stations
Arts Center (MARTA station)
Arts Center is an underground MARTA rail station with a central island. The station consists of four levels: the platform level, the mezzanine level with faregates facing onto West Peachtree Street, the bus level with a bus terminal, and the upper level which is located across the street from the...

. MARTA operates significant bus service in the district, as well. There is also a free shuttle between the Arts Center MARTA Station and Atlantic Station, as well as a free-to-the-public daytime shuttle between the Midtown MARTA station and Georgia Tech
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly called Georgia Tech, Tech, and GT, is a public, coeducational research university in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States...

 called the "Tech Trolley."

See also

  • Midtown Mile
    Midtown Mile
    The Midtown Mile is a section of Peachtree Street NE in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, between North Avenue NE and 15th Street NE. Located across the Downtown Connector from Downtown Atlanta, the Midtown Mile is one of the major thoroughfares of central Atlanta in terms of retail and rapid residential...

  • 1010 Midtown
    1010 Midtown
    1010 Midtown is a 35 story Atlanta high-rise. It is a mixed-use building that features 443 condominiums sitting atop some of retail and dining space. The entire structure takes up about on the block between 11th and 12th streets in Midtown Atlanta, the front of which follows the curve of...

  • The Varsity
    The Varsity
    The Varsity is a restaurant chain, iconic in the modern culture of Atlanta, Georgia. The main branch of the chain is the largest drive-in fast food restaurant in the world...

  • Junior's Grill
    Junior's Grill
    Junior's Grill is a restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is located on the Georgia Tech campus in the Bradley Building near Tech Tower.- History :...

  • First Presbyterian Church Of Atlanta
    First Presbyterian Church Of Atlanta
    First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta is a parish of the Presbyterian Church located in the Midtown section of Atlanta, Georgia. First Presbyterian Church The church was founded in 1848, and it was Atlanta’s first Presbyterian house of worship. The original church building was vacated in April 1916...


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