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Atlanta Art College and SCAD Savannah College of Art
and Design. • Former iXL building at 1600 Peachtree
St. becomes new home to SCAD, which also acquired
historic Ivy Hall on Ponce de Leon. • Architect Renzo
Piano’s expansion of High Museum opened to the
public in November. • Henry W. Grady High School in
Midtown showed off its two-year, $24 million renovation
of the Charles Allen Building and the old gym. • In the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, panicked motorists,
fearing a gasoline shortage, caused chaos at local pumps.
2006
Coretta Scott King, wife of
Martin Luther King, Jr. died on
Jan. 30. • Construction began
on Buckhead’s tallest building,
the 48-story Sovereign. • Ford
Motor Co.'s 60-year history of
auto making in Atlanta ended
after the Hapeville plant is
closed. • The FCC approves
the buyout of Atlanta-based
BellSouth by AT&T.
2007
Coretta Scott King
World of Coca-Cola
Georgia Department of Transportation contractor
crews reconstructing the 14th Street Bridge received
the go-ahead to close to traffic in May for the next two
years. • The new World of Coca-Cola opened beside the
Georgia Aquarium at Pemberton Place in Downtown. •
Atlanta Falcon Michael Vick is convicted for dog fighting
at his home in Richmond, VA, and is suspended from the
NFL. • Roberto C. Goizueta, the Coca-Cola Chairman
noted for the company’s turnaround, dies on Oct. 18.
2008
A tornado plows
through parts of
Downtown on March
14, damaging the
Westin Peachtree
Plaza, Equitable
Building, Georgia
Dome, Georgia
World Congress
Center, collapsing
parts of the Fulton
Cotton Mill Lofts,
rips roofs off homes
in Cabbagetown and
heavily damaging
monuments and
trees at Oakland
Cemetery. • Druid Hill Presbyterian Church celebrated
its 125th birthday. • G. Wayne Clough resigned as
Georgia Tech’s 10th president to accept the position as
12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute. • A bronze
statue of Andrew Young, former Congressman and
14th Ambassador to the United Nations, was unveiled
in Downtown’s Walton Park. • The under-construction
Canopy Skywalk at the Atlanta Botanical Garden
collapsed, killing one and injuring 18 others on Dec. 19.
2009
The
Starlight Six
Drive-In
Theater on
Moreland
Avenue
celebrated its
60th birthday.
• The city of
Atlanta is
awarded $47.6
million in
federal dollars
for the Atlanta
Streetcar
project. •
As part of
the global
recession and
real estate market meltdown, Georgian Bank, Buckhead
Community Bank, RockBridge Commercial Bank and
others around the state are closed. • The Atlanta Journal-
Constitution breaks the Atlanta Public Schools cheating
scandal.
2010
Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall
appointed a commission to investigate the cheating
scandal, which she will later be indicted in. • A zebra
escaped from the Ringling Bros. Circus performing
at Philips Arena, causing chaos on the Downtown
Connector before he was caught on Feb. 19. • Part-time
Atlantan Justin Bieber released his hit song “Baby.” • In
September, Georgia State University’s opening football
game was against the Shorter Hawks, winning the game
41-7.
The Starlight Six Drive-In.
2011
The Jan. 9
snowstorm and
freezing rain brought
Atlanta to a halt,
closing schools and
businesses for days.
• The U.S. Federal
Court of Appeals
in Atlanta heard
arguments against
the Constitutionality
of the Affordable
Care Act, known
as Obamacare. •
Georgian Terrace
Hotel celebrated its
100th anniversary
in October. • Downtown’s Harris Street is renamed
John Portman Boulevard to honor the architect. •
Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel, a one-hour original
documentary written and directed by Executive
Producer Pamela Roberts, premiered June 30 on GPB
Television.
MITCHELL
AMERICAN REBEL
Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
2012
The Atlanta Falcons proposed a bigger stadium
to replace the Georgia Dome. • The $1.4 billion
international terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson
International Airport opened on May 16. • The National
Trust for Historic Preservation added the “Sweet”
Auburn Avenue corridor, which was once the center of
African-American civic, social and business life, to its
2012 list of America's Most Endangered Historic Places.
• The Eastside Trail of the Atlanta BeltLine opened to the
public on Oct. 15.
2013
Bobby Jones Golf Course, located in Buckhead’s
Atlanta Memorial Park, received a $30,000 city grant
SkyView Farris Wheel
to develop a new master plan. • Skyview, a giant Ferris
Wheel once located in Paris, opened July 14 next to
The Tabernacle in Downtown. • Atlanta Streetcar
construction began. • Atlantans were stunned when
the Braves announced on Nov. 11 that they would leave
Turner Field and build a new stadium in Cobb County.
Decatur after the snow storm.
2014
On Jan. 28, a snowstorm cripples the city with
thousands of motorists trapped on the interstates
and children forced to spend the night in schools. •
The 152-year-old Friendship Baptist Church holds its
final service before being demolished to make way for
the new Falcons stadium on May 26. • Atlanta-based
director Kenny Leon nabbs his first Tony Award for
best director of the revival of "A Raisin in the Sun." •
Decatur's Glennwood Elementary, the city's oldest public
school, celebrated its 100th year • The National Center
for Civil and Human Rights, and College Football Hall of
Fame opened Downtown. • The Atlanta History Center
announced it would build a new home for the Battle of
Atlanta painting housed in Grant Park’s Cyclorama. •
The Atlanta Streetcar began testing with plans to roll out
to the public in November. 03
Historian & Margaret
Mitchell House docent Ann
Boutwell can be reached
at annboutwell@bellsouth.
net. Ann is pictured here
at the Sweet Auburn Curb
Market in 2003.
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