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Known for. Founder of the Coca-Cola Company and philanthropist. Asa Griggs Candler Sr. (December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929) was an American business tycoon and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $238.98 [1] from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. Candler founded The Coca-Cola Company in 1892 and developed ...
Ten Peachtree Place. / 33.781028; -84.387142. Ten Peachtree Place is a high-rise class A office building in midtown Atlanta, Georgia. The building was designed by Michael Graves and completed in 1989. It currently serves as the headquarters for Southern Company Gas.
The Candler Hotel. / 33.75689; -84.38788. The Candler Building is a 17-story high-rise at 127 Peachtree Street, NE, in Atlanta, Georgia. When completed in 1906 by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Griggs Candler, it was the tallest building in the city. This location where Houston (now John Wesley Dobbs Ave) joins Peachtree Street was the location of one ...
In May 1961 Austin was elected executive vice president of The Coca-Cola Company. Bust of J. Paul Austin at Coca-Cola's headquarters in Atlanta President, CEO and Chairman of Coca-Cola. In May 1962 Paul Austin was elected president of Coca-Cola, succeeding Lee Talley. He became chief executive officer in 1966, and chairman in 1970. Austin ...
Truist Plaza is a 265 m (869 ft) 60 story skyscraper in downtown Atlanta.It was designed by John C. Portman Jr. of John Portman & Associates and built from 1989 to 1992. In the mid-1990s, Portman sold half of his interest in the building to SunTrust Banks, which then moved its headquarters to the building and prompted a name change from One Peachtree Center to SunTrust Plaza.
The Coca-Cola Roxy is a concert venue located in The Battery Atlanta in Cumberland, Georgia. Named after the old Roxy Theatre, the venue opened in April 2017. History. On July 16, 2015, the Atlanta Braves and concert promoter Live Nation Entertainment announced a deal to develop and manage the long-planned entertainment venue adjacent to Truist ...
In the mid-1980s, it was called Buckhead Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse, until it was converted into the Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre. [6] A significant Atlanta concert venue in the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the Roxy finally closed after Live Nation and Clear Channel ended their lease in 2008.
Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company, provided a land grant for Emory College to relocate to metropolitan Atlanta and be rechartered as Emory University. On August 16, 1906, the Wesley Memorial Hospital and Training School for Nurses, later renamed the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, was established.