Midtown Atlanta is a commercial district in its own right containing 22,000,000 square feet (2,000,000 m2) of office space with 8,200,000 square feet (760,000 m2) of office space added to the area since 1997 with up to 3,800,000 square feet (350,000 m2) more planned Furthermore Midtown is home to many corporate headquarters such as Equifax EarthLink Invesco and the Coca-Cola Company as well as other corporations with a sizeable presence such as Norfolk Southern Wells Fargo PriceWaterhouseCoopers and AT&T Inc Carter's Inc had its headquarters in Midtown but moved to Buckhead in 2013 Regional offices for companies such as Google Arcapita and Jason's Deli are located in Midtown Major law firms such as King & Spalding and Kilpatrick & Stockton are also located in Midtown in April 2019 the largest Whole Foods Market in the southeastern United States opened in Midtown. Industry 4 Government The city is served by the Atlanta Police Department which numbers 2,000 officers and oversaw a 40% decrease in the city's crime rate between 2001 and 2009 Specifically homicide decreased by 57% rape by 72% and violent crime overall by 55% Crime is down across the country but Atlanta's improvement has occurred at more than twice the national rate Nevertheless Forbes ranked Atlanta as the sixth most dangerous city in the United States in 2012, 112 188 Dacula pop 4,442 Fifty-five thousand students are enrolled in 106 schools in Atlanta Public Schools some of which are operated as charter schools Atlanta is served by many private schools including without limitation Atlanta Jewish Academy Atlanta International School the Westminster Schools Pace Academy the Lovett School the Paideia School Holy Innocents' Episcopal School and Roman Catholic parochial schools operated by the Archdiocese of Atlanta! . South Fulton Parkway In 1916 98% of all commercial intercity travelers in the United States moved by rail and the remaining 2% moved by inland waterways Nearly 42 million passengers used railways as primary transportation Passenger trains were owned and operated by the same privately owned companies that operated freight trains As the 20th century progressed patronage declined in the face of competition from buses air travel and the automobile New streamlined diesel-powered trains such as the Pioneer Zephyr were popular with the traveling public but could not reverse the trend by 1940 railroads held just 67 percent of commercial passenger-miles in the United States in real terms passenger-miles had fallen by 40% since 1916 from 42 billion to 25 billion. The Province of Carolina was the second attempted English settlement south of Virginia the first being the failed attempt at Roanoke it was a private venture financed by a group of English Lords Proprietors who obtained a Royal Charter to the Carolinas in 1663 hoping that a new colony in the south would become profitable like Jamestown Carolina was not settled until 1670 and even then the first attempt failed because there was no incentive for emigration to that area Eventually however the Lords combined their remaining capital and financed a settlement mission to the area led by Sir John Colleton the expedition located fertile and defensible ground at what became Charleston originally Charles Town for Charles II of England, The 1995 World Series Commissioner's Trophy on display in the Ivan Allen Jr Braves Museum and Hall of Fame at Turner Field, ? ? ? However no member can be expelled without a vote of two-thirds of the members of the house the member belongs to. . .
Peter Minuit served as the governor of New Netherland and helped establish New Sweden, Film As planned all commuter trains would arrive at the Atlanta Multimodal Passenger Terminal (MMPT) the long-delayed facility just across Peachtree Street from the Five Points MARTA station where all of its lines meet Planning for the system and its extension as intercity rail across the state are the responsibility of the Georgia Rail Passenger Authority. Main articles: History of Atlanta and Timeline of Atlanta. Main article: Atlanta Braves award winners and league leaders, Hartsfield-Jackson area Alumni J 3.2 Cities and suburbs In 1980 construction was completed on an expansion of what is now named Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport the busiest and most efficient airport in the world it accommodates over 100 million passengers annually Employing more than 60,000 people the airport became a major engine for economic growth With the advantages of cheap real estate low taxes right-to-work laws and a regulatory environment limiting government interference the Atlanta metropolitan area became a national center of finance insurance technology manufacturing real estate logistics and transportation companies as well as the film convention and trade show businesses As a testament to the city's growing international profile in 1990 the International Olympic Committee selected Atlanta as the site of the 1996 Summer Olympics Taking advantage of Atlanta's status as a transportation hub in 1991 UPS established its headquarters in a suburb in 1992 construction finished on Bank of America Plaza the tallest building in the U.S outside New York or Chicago. Forbes 65 The area sprawls across the low foothills of the Appalachian Mountains to the north and the Piedmont to the south the northern and some western suburbs tend to be higher and significantly more hilly than the southern and eastern suburbs the average elevation is around 1,000 feet (300 m), 1830 516,823 51.6% 2 Geography Nuvola apps ksysv square.svg Transport portal John. . .
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