Centennial Yards’ Rise Heralds A New Downtown Atlanta
On a recent chilly Thursday, a pair of cranes swung girders over a place soon to become a bustling plaza at the doorstep of State Farm Arena.
Above, sunlight glinted off the façade of the new Hotel Phoenix, with a name evocative of myth but also reality in the center of Atlanta’s downtown. The $5 billion Centennial Yards project is rising within the 50-acre hole long known as the Gulch, an area once thought to be too complex to ever be developed.