The brick and concrete that make up the Atlanta City Detention Center’s facade spans 17-stories and contains 471,000 sq. ft. of space — twice as much as the nearby state capitol.
Its architect in 1993 described the building‘s four-and-a-half inch slits of windows as being “pleasing as seen from the adjacent highway system, surface roads, as well as from the pedestrian street level and not readily recognizable as used.”
The City of Atlanta sent its last mortgage payment for the detention center in 2017. Principle and interest combine, it totaled nearly $125-million.
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