DowntownATL Directory
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South Downtown's half-acre gathering lawn at 110 Broad — a former parking lot reborn as the neighborhood's front yard, with a stage, seating, and flexible green space for concerts, movie nights, watch parties, and free community yoga. Named for Atlanta's founders, on the blocks where the city's original commercial district began. Steps from El Tesoro and the Broad Street storefronts.
The world's largest interactive fountain featuring the Olympic Ring symbol, with 251 computer-controlled water jets shooting 12 to 35 feet high, synchronized to music and LED lighting in four daily shows year-round.
This 6-acre park above a parking deck features multiple decorative towers & a gymnast sculpture.
Longtime manicured lawn on the grounds of the University of Georgia with lighted paths.
Cascading waterfall feature dedicated to the civil rights movement in a redeveloped city park.
Quarter-acre pocket park at Piedmont and Auburn avenues named for civil rights leader and NAACP president John H. Calhoun, featuring the 1993 stainless steel sculpture "Ancestral Totem" by Ayokunle Odeleye.
Cool, colorful eatery with paintings of Bob Marley & island life serves curry, jerk, oxtail & more.
An 8.5-acre linear park currently in design that will transform a half-mile stretch of underutilized land into a people-centered greenspace connecting historic Oakland Cemetery to the edge of downtown, featuring native plantings and an elevated walkway.
An 11-foot-tall, 5,000-pound interactive sculpture of the five Olympic rings near Centennial Olympic Park's east entrance, installed in 2018 as a selfie-ready tribute to Atlanta's 1996 Olympic legacy.
This small downtown plaza features shade trees & a circular seating area around an obelisk.
City park with 2 fountains, playgrounds, sculptures, chess court & pavilion, plus events.
Historic public green space in the heart of downtown featuring a large interactive fountain, open lawns, public art, and frequent community programming surrounded by the city skyline.
