8-506: Tower Square may refer to: Tower Square (Atlanta) Tower Square (Springfield, Massachusetts) Others [ edit ] Clock Tower Square , in Thimphu, Bhutan Martyrs' Square, Beirut , formerly Sahat al-Burj (Tower Square) Travelers Tower , formerly One Tower Square Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
16-682: Is a 206.4 m (677 ft), 47-story skyscraper located in Midtown Atlanta , Georgia . Completed in 1982, it served as the regional headquarters of BellSouth Telecommunications , which does business as AT&T Southeast , and was acquired as part of AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth . BellSouth Corporate headquarters was located in the Campanile building, also in Midtown. By 2020, AT&T had vacated its offices. The company, then called Southern Bell , originally planned to build
24-614: The Fox's demolition . Even Liberace 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 the North Avenue MARTA 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
32-788: The acquisition of FABRAP by the Atlanta engineering firm Rosser White Hobbs Davidson McClellan Kelly. The firm ceased operations around June 2019, amid a civil lawsuit for failing to complete a $ 111-million jail project. Buildings [ edit ] Memphis Pyramid AT&T Midtown Center Turner Field Arena at Gwinnett Center Petersen Events Center Verizon Arena United Spirit Arena Rhoads Stadium Joan C. Edwards Stadium Bud Walton Arena Colonial Life Arena References [ edit ] ^ Craig, Robert M. (2007-12-14). "FABRAP: Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild, and Pascal" . The New Georgia Encyclopedia . Georgia Humanities Council and
40-420: 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 the historic Fox Theatre which would have been an especially great loss to the city after the downtown Loew's Grand Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1978. Tremendous opposition , protests , fundraising , and petition drives within the community prevented
48-576: The title Tower Square . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tower_Square&oldid=1135741644 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tower Square (Atlanta) Tower Square (formerly known as BellSouth Center , Southern Bell Center , and AT&T Midtown Center I )
56-429: The tower to form its BellSouth Midtown Center campus as part of its effort to consolidate office space around mass transit stations. The architects who designed the tower were Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Rosser 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 film RoboCop 3 , in which it
64-521: 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. It was subsequently renamed in October 2020. Rosser International Rosser International was an architectural and engineering firm formed from
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