Georgia Tech’s Leap Over the Connector Paying Off
Monday, September 14th, 2015
Wayne Clough steered his car past buildings with for-sale signs and across the dreary Fifth Street bridge onto Georgia Tech’s campus.
It was the summer of 1996, and tight security for the Summer Olympic Games had cut off his usual route to work. His new daily drive past the lonely buildings and empty parking lots made the Tech president wonder if there was a way to reconnect a campus separated from Midtown by the Downtown Connector built many years earlier.
