Pemberton Place Pemberton Place Pemberton Place, located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, just north of Centennial Olympic Park in the Luckie Marietta district, is a complex that is home to the Georgia Aquarium, the World of Coca-Cola, and the Center for Civil and Human Rights. It is named after John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola. The area was originally ten city blocks of businesses, residences, etc.; it started to decline in the mid-20th century and by the early 1990s was considered a "long forgotten district of downtown". The Coca-Cola Company acquired property in the area and built Coca-Cola Olympic City there, for the
John Pemberton Heywood John Pemberton Heywood John Pemberton Heywood (1803–1877) was a banker from Liverpool, England, who was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1855. He was the second son of John Pemberton Heywood the elder of Wakefield, and his wife Margaret Drinkwater, and grandson of Arthur Heywood (1715–1795). He became a banker in Liverpool. Initially a Unitarian and a member of the congregation at Renshaw Street Chapel, Heywood was the largest financial donor to the construction of Hope Street Unitarian Chapel before changing his religious affiliation to the Church of England. Thereafter, he and his wife paid for the crossing tower designed by