Briarcliff Plaza

Plaza Theatre at Briarcliff Plaza

Majestic Diner at Briarcliff Plaza

Briarcliff Plaza, also known as Ponce de Leon Plaza, is a strip mall-type shopping center designed by architect George Harwell Bond and opened in 1939 at the southwest corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Highland Avenue in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta. Braircliff Plaza was developed by Relnac Inc., and was proposed to cost $300,000. Construction began after the last home on the block was purchased by Relnac Inc., the Dr. Robin Adair estate, and Briarcliff Plaza opened throughout 1939 with businesses such as Dupree Dry Cleaners, Blick’s Bowling Alley, Holcomb Flowers, the Georgia Fruit & Vegetable Company and Nick Caruso’s Big Place which offered shoe repair, hat cleaning, pressing, repairing and hat cleaning.^[1] It was Atlanta's first shopping center with off-street parking. It is anchored by the historic Plaza Theatre and Urban Outfitters (former home of the iconic Plaza Drugs). Adjacent to Briarcliff Plaza is the equally iconic Majestic Diner, open since 1929.^[2]

Druid Apartments

Druid Apartments (1917), which originally occupied the site

1917 advertisement promoting the Druid Apartments

The Druid Apartments originally occupied the site. The $75,000 building was built in 1917 as a project of patent medicine magnate and real estate developer George Francis Willis. ^[3] In 1920, Forrest and George Adair brokered a deal whereby Willis sold the apartments for $125,000 to Alex F. Marcus and Charles F. Ursenbach^[4] - both brothers-in-law of Leo Frank,^[5] who had famously been lynched in 1915.

External links

References

↑ History Atlanta, "Plaza Theatre and Briarcliff Plaza"
↑ New Georgia Encyclopedia, "Shopping Center Architecture"
↑ Advertisement in Atlanta Constitution, June 24, 1917, p.14A
↑ "$296,000 in realty sales made Tuesday", Atlanta Constitution, March 24, 1920
↑ "And the Dead Shall Rise", Steve Oney

Atlanta landmarks

Current

Commercial

Governmental

Monuments

Museums

Parks and
wildlife

Performing
arts

Residential
(former)

Skyscrapers

Historic (pre-WWII)	Candler (1906) Flatiron (1897) Healey (1914) Hurt (1926) J. Mack Robinson (Empire) (1901) The Metropolitan (1911) Rhodes-Haverty (1929) Southern Bell (1929) William-Oliver (1930) Winecoff Hotel (1913)

Downtown	25 Park Place (Trust Company of Georgia) 55 Marietta Street (Fulton National Bank) 191 Peachtree Tower Centennial Tower Equitable Five Points Plaza Fourth National Bank building Georgia Power Georgia-Pacific Tower Hyatt Regency Atlanta Marriott Marquis One Park Tower (IBM Tower) Peachtree Center Peachtree Summit State of Georgia Building SunTrust Plaza TWELVE Centennial Park Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel

Midtown	12th & Midtown (1010 Midtown 10 Sixty Five Midtown 1075 Peachtree) 1100 Peachtree 1180 Peachtree 1280 West AT&T Midtown Center Atlantic Center Plaza Atlantic Station (171 17th Street The Atlantic) Bank of America Plaza The Campanile Coca-Cola Colony Square CNN Center Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta/GLG Grand Georgian Terrace Hotel Mayfair Condominiums One Atlantic Center Promenade II Spire ViewPoint

Buckhead	2828 Peachtree 3344 Peachtree 3630 Peachtree Atlanta Plaza Buckhead Grand Mandarin Oriental Paramount at Buckhead Park Avenue Condominiums Park Place The Pinnacle Realm Resurgens Plaza Terminus Tower Place

Perimeter Center	Concourse Corporate Center V & VI (King & Queen towers) Park Towers I & II Three Ravinia Drive

Sports venues

Former

Planned

Atlanta Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal Atlanta Symphony Center Mercedes-Benz Stadium SunTrust Park

Poncey-Highland neighborhood, Atlanta

Briarcliff Plaza The Bridge (sculpture) Carter Center Clermont Lounge Copenhill Druid Hills Baptist Church Ford Assembly Plant Freedom Park Freedom Parkway Freeway revolt (1970's) George Harwell Bond I-485 Moreland Avenue Murder Kroger Nine-Mile Circle Streetcar Line North Highland Avenue Plaza Theatre Ponce de Leon Avenue Telephone Factory Lofts (Western Electric Co. Bldg.)

Druid Hills Inman Park Morningside-Lenox Park Old Fourth Ward Virginia-Highland All neighborhoods of Atlanta

Atlanta-area shopping malls

Enclosed regional centers	Arbor Place Mall Cumberland Mall Lenox Square Mall at Stonecrest Mall of Georgia North Point Mall Perimeter Mall Phipps Plaza Sugarloaf Mills (Discover Mills) Town Center at Cobb

Enclosed local centers	Gallery at South DeKalb Greenbriar Mall Gwinnett Place Mall Mall at Peachtree Center North DeKalb Mall Northlake Mall Ponce City Market Underground Atlanta Southlake Mall

Outdoor centers	Amsterdam Walk Ansley Mall Atlantic Station The Avenue East Cobb Briarcliff Plaza Buckhead Atlanta Crossroads (Stewart-Lakewood) Center Emory Point The Forum on Peachtree Parkway Forum at Ashley Park Krog Street Market Merchant's Walk Northeast Plaza Plaza Fiesta South Point Town Brookhaven Avalon Alpharetta

Defunct	Avondale Mall Broadview Shopping Center Cobb Center Mall Peachtree Arcade Rhodes Center Rio Shopping Center Union Station (Shannon Mall)

Coordinates: 33°46′24″N 84°21′11″W / 33.7733°N 84.3530°W / 33.7733; -84.3530

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