This tower is so close to Freedom Parkway that one of its three sets of guy-wires goes over the road.
Following the announcement, Atlanta undertook several major construction projects to improve the city's parks, sports facilities, and transportation, including the completion of long-contested Freedom Parkway.
The development was successfully stopped by the surrounding neighborhoods, leaving Freedom Parkway in the area where GDOT had already demolished over 500 homes.
The western end of SR 10 travels along Freedom Parkway, which bypasses the Carter Center to the west.
The area north of Freedom Parkway and east of Boulevard is one of the city's most up-and-coming areas.
Streets, houses and businesses that sat upon the land that is now Freedom Parkway were also razed to make way for a freeway that was never built.
What was once a consistent and dense grid pattern of streets is now difficult to recognize, with Freedom Parkway occupying what had once been multiple city blocks.
A compromise was reached last year and the $13.3 million road, finally called the Freedom Parkway, is scheduled to be finished in the fall of 1994.
Freedom Parkway (Georgia 10)
Freedom Parkway - the last vestige of the planned downtown link of the Stone Mountain Freeway - opened in 1994.