The Golden Opportunity
The Golden Opportunity
Thirty years after Atlanta hosted the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, Georgia State looks back in a two-part series at how that moment reshaped both the city and the university for generations to come.


Thirty years after Atlanta hosted the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, Georgia State looks back in a two-part series at how that moment reshaped both the city and the university for generations to come.

As Georgia State’s Atlanta Campus undergoes a historic transformation — creating a "College Town Downtown” — it’s cementing its status among the most consequential and enduring parts of the city's fabric.

As part of a transformational campus upgrade, the new Fraternity and Sorority Life Plaza will honor history, build community and link key spaces.

Thanks to an $80 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Georgia State University will soon begin what is perhaps its largest transformation project ever.

With a historic $80 million gift, Georgia State will embark on an ambitious campus transformation to integrate its downtown footprint and create vibrant, people-centered spaces for students and the city.

The GSU Blue Line, a new 3.7-mile marked walking path, will connect the campus, create distinctive quads, build a better sense of place and, ultimately, become a destination in itself at Georgia State.