Coca-Cola Olympic City live shows for the Coca-Cola Olympic City Kids. The area was left vacant after the plaza's closure. In 2002, The Coca-Cola Company donated 9 of its of property at the site to The Marcus Foundation for use as the site of the new Georgia Aquarium, which opened in November 2005. The company also made plans to construct its new World of Coca-Cola on the remainder of the property; the attraction opened in May 2007. The area was christened Pemberton Place after John Pemberton, inventor of Coca-Cola and dedicated to the people of Atlanta. Coca-Cola Olympic City Coca-Cola Olympic City was
Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant second level. The building was built in 1891, and was from 1900-01 home to the Dixi Coca-Cola Bottling Company, established by Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead in 1899 as the exclusive bottler of Coca-Cola for a large part of the United States. Of ten sites definitively established with the early history of Coca-Cola (which was first distributed as a fountain drink from facilities in the city in 1887), it is the only one still standing. Since 1966, it has served as Georgia State University's Baptist Student Center. It had deteriorated in condition by the 1970s, including some loss