Atlanta Civic Center, former theater in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Atlanta Civic Center is a 4,600-seat theater built in 1967 at Ripley Street and part of Currier Street in the former Buttermilk Bottom community. Its tan brick facade carries rows of recessed brickwork and dark metal lettering reading "The Boisfeuillet Jones" above "Atlanta Civic Center", topped by a sloping roof of pale green panels. It closed in 2014.
Built in 1967 on the site of Ripley Street and part of Currier Street in the Buttermilk Bottom community, the Atlanta Civic Center was partly intended as the city's convention center, a role taken over in 1976 by the Georgia World Congress Center. It hosted the Metropolitan Opera's annual Spring Tour, the Theatre of the Stars summer musicals and the 1996 Summer Olympics cultural program. A $2 million renovation in 2001 added the name Boisfeuillet Jones; the theater closed in 2014 and the property was sold to the Atlanta Housing Authority in 2017.
The theater closed in 2014, so there are no performances to attend; the 19-acre site at Ripley Street and part of Currier Street in the former Buttermilk Bottom community was sold to the Atlanta Housing Authority in 2017. In March 2022 the authority was still seeking a developer to repurpose the property, and progress has been slowed by companies engaging and withdrawing.
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