Crum & Forster Building

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Crum & Forster Building is a three-story Renaissance-style building at 771 Spring Street NW in Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square. It opened in 1928 as a regional office for the Crum & Forster insurance firm and was designed in 1926 by Ed Ivey and Lewis Crook, two Georgia Tech graduates who helped start Tech’s Architecture program.

In 2007, the Georgia Tech Foundation bought the building and proposed demolishing it to expand Technology Square. Preservationists fought the plan, and in August 2009 the Atlanta City Council and Mayor granted the building historic landmark status. The Foundation appealed and instead purchased an adjoining SunTrust branch site.

In September 2013, the Foundation demolished about two-thirds of the Crum & Forster Building, leaving only part of the façade to make space for a High Performance Computing Center mid-rise.

By late 2017, plans emerged to add an 8,000-square-foot restaurant in the remaining portion of the building, next to a new 20,000-square-foot food hall planned for the nearby CODA mixed-use development.