Coca-Cola Olympic City

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Coca-Cola Olympic City was an 8-acre plaza in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, adjacent to the city's Centennial Olympic Park. It was built in concurrence with the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta. It featured various displays, including many virtual reality attractions.

[edit] Post-Olympics Developments

The area was left vacant after the plaza's closure. In 2002, The Coca-Cola Company donated 9 of its 20 acres of property at the site to The Marcus Foundation for use as the site of the new Georgia Aquarium, which opened in November 2005. The company also made plans to construct its new World of Coca-Cola on the remainder of the property; the attraction opened in May 2007. The area was christened Pemberton Place after John Pemberton, inventor of Coca-Cola and dedicated to the people of Atlanta.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pemberton Place to be home to aquarium, World of Coke. Atlanta Business Chronicle. Retrieved on 2007-08-19.

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