Thyssenkrupp Elevator Americas, a German elevator and escalator company announced Thursday it will build a new North American headquarters at SunTrust Park in Cobb County.
The company laid out a big vision for the development next to the Braves stadium, northwest of Atlanta. It’ll feature three buildings for about 1,000 employees. One of the structures? The highest elevator test tower in the United States and the tallest building in Cobb County, at 420 feet.
Mike Plant is president of the Atlanta Braves development arm, which will lease the land to the company: “This new complex, across from Circle 75 [Parkway], is going to, we believe, be the crown jewel of Cobb County.”
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