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Encyclopedia > BellSouth Building (Atlanta)

The BellSouth Building is a 206_meter (676-foot), 47-story skyscraper in Midtown Atlanta. It was completed in 1982. It is the corporate headquarters of telephone giant BellSouth whose employees refer to it simply as 'The Tower'. It is also the last building in Atlanta over 200 meters (660 feet) tall.


The company, then called Southern Bell, originally planned to build it just down the street. However, the historic Fox Theatre would have been destroyed, an especially great loss to the city after the Lowe's Grand was torn down. Tremendous opposition, protests, fundraising, and petition drives within the community prevented its demolition. Even Liberace spoke out on behalf of the "Fabulous Fox".


The architects who built it were Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP and Rosser International, Inc.


 

Atlanta skyscrapers
 Downtown: Westin Peachtree Plaza | Georgia-Pacific Tower | Georgia Power Building | Marriott Marquis | One Peachtree Center | BellSouth Building | Centennial Tower | Peachtree Summit | Rhodes-Haverty Building | Flatiron Building | SunTrust Plaza | 191 Peachtree Tower | Wachovia Bank of Georgia | Hyatt Regency Atlanta 

 Midtown: One Atlantic Center | 1100 Peachtree | Bank of America Plaza | Promenade II | GLG Grand | Campanile 
 Buckhead: Atlanta Financial Center | Concourse Landmark 



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BellSouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (319 words)
BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone and Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984.
BellSouth is realigning itself in two important areas, wireless and broadband.
The BellSouth Corporation is the holding company (it is NOT headquartered in the BellSouth building in Atlanta).
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