Technology Square, commonly called Tech Square, is a multi-block neighborhood located in Midtown 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 with Georgia Tech and provides access to the campus via the Fifth Street Pedestrian Plaza Bridge, reconstructed in 2007. It also contains restaurants, retail shops, condominiums, office buildings, and a hotel.
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History
Announced in 2000 and opened in 2003, the district designed by tvsdesign 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.
In 2007, the Georgia Tech Foundation purchased the Crum & Forster Building, located in Tech Square, and sought permits to demolish the building as part of a plan to expand Technology Square. The building was designed in the 1920s by the architectural firm of Ivey and Crook, whose founders Ernest Ivey and Lewis Crook helped establish the Architecture program at Georgia Tech in 1908. Preservationists fought the demolition and in August 2009, the Atlanta City Council and Mayor Shirley Franklin granted the building protective status as a historic landmark. The Georgia Tech Foundation appealed this decision. It instead purchased an adjoining property where a SunTrust 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 a High Performance Computing Center mid-rise.
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Georgia Tech facilities
It is home to the Scheller College of Business, Barnes & Noble @ Georgia Tech, (the official school bookstore), the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, as well as offices for a number of faculty and graduate students.
On November 24, 2006, the Scheller 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. The trading floor houses Tech's new Quantitative and Computational Finance program.
Research laboratories
The GVU Center, the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), VentureLab, Flashpoint, and the Georgia 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 Airlines, 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 (company),KeySight Technologies.
Commercial shops
Tech Square also contains several restaurants, including Moe's Southwest Grill, Tin Drum, Yogli Mogli, Gyro King, Chuck's Famous, Barrel House, Subway, Starbucks, Ray's Pizza, and Waffle House as well as other non-food retail establishments, such as T-Mobile.
CODA mixed-use development
CODA, a 770,000 square feet (72,000 m2) mixed-use development, is under construction at Tech Square.
See also
- Georgia Tech main campus
References
External links
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Technology Square Research Building
- Tech Square Atl
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Technology Square Corporate Innovation, sourced by Georgia Tech
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