The InterContinental Buckhead Hotel and the Buckhead Area

The InterContinental

The InterContinental Hotel
3315 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30326
(404) 946-9000

Check-in:    3:00PM
Check-out:   12:00PM

The InterContinental Buckhead Hotel is an exceptional Atlanta hotel and a standard by which Buckhead Atlanta hotels are measured. Located on Peachtree Road, close to Atlanta’s Buckhead business or shopping, this new Atlanta luxury hotel provides easy access to trendy restaurants, nightlife and shopping at the famous Lenox Mall and Phipps Plaza. The 422 elegant guest rooms with pillow top bedding, floor to ceiling windows and marble baths make the hotel a leader among Buckhead hotels and Atlanta, GA luxury hotels. Exclusive services include 24-hour business center and room service, full service concierge staff and the Jurlique Wellness Spa & Fitness Center. Enjoy international cuisine and Atlanta’s best seafood bar at Au Pied de Cochon, a 24-hour full-service restaurant. “XO,” the hotel bar, offers 60 different extra Old cognacs. Both restaurant and bar have open air terraces on Peachtree Road.

Conference funds will provide up to 3 nights hotel accommodation at the InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta Hotel until conference capacity is full for invited practitioner-investigators. Additional hotel nights at the group rate may be requested at your own expense based on availability for three days preceding and three days post meeting.

The conference coordinators at Meetings Plus will make and confirm hotel reservations on your behalf.

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Buckhead

Buckhead (on some signs Buckhead Community) is a community, comprising several neighborhoods, forming approximately the northern one-fifth of Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Buckhead acquired its unusual name from a long-gone local tavern that prominently displayed a large stuffed buck's head. The community was annexed by Atlanta in 1952, following an earlier attempt by Mayor William B. Hartsfield in 1946 that was voted down by residents.

 The main east-west street is West Paces Ferry Road, named for a former ferry across the Chattahoochee River. Hardy Pace, one of Atlanta's founders, operated the ferry and owned much of what is now Buckhead, and as far west as Vinings. The main north-south street is Peachtree Road, which extends south into the heart of the city as Peachtree Street. This name change is significant in that it defines a border between Buckhead and midtown. The area north of Buckhead, beyond the Atlanta city limit, is Sandy Springs. Buckhead appears to be a city in itself. It has a central core of high-rise office and residential condo buildings (mainly along the Peachtree corridor) surrounded by richly wooded single-family neighborhoods. The central core comprises two main areas; Buckhead Village or simple "The Village" to the South and the Financial/Retail District to the North. The Village is home to several high-rise residential buildings as well as the majority of Buckhead's nightlife. In the Financial/Retail District, you will find many high-rise office and condo towers and dense retail, including Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza.

 

Buckhead is one of Atlanta's most important business districts, and includes Atlanta's wealthiest neighborhoods, with the Georgia Governor's Mansion, a part-time residence of Elton John, and the Atlanta History Center with its museum and library. Buckhead was also the home of golf legend Bobby Jones until his death in 1971. Although there are some moderately priced homes in the area, the price of most homes and condos starts at around $500,000 and extends well beyond $10,000,000. Buckhead also helps to cement Atlanta's reputation as the "Shopping Mecca of the Southeast" with more than 1,400 retail units where shoppers spend in excess of $1 billion a year. The primary shopping district comprises Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza. Located diagonally across the street, these sister malls together feature more than 350 boutiques and also offer the highest concentration of high end stores in the United States.

 

The area has numerous luxury hotels, including the InterContinental, the Grand Hyatt, the JW Marriott, and the Ritz-Carlton. The area also includes more modest lodgings, as well as many restaurants, bars, and nightclubs. Buckhead is home to two of the nation's only fourteen Mobil five-star restaurants, Seeger's and The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead. Local residents and many publications often refer to Buckhead as the "Beverly Hills of the South", and Robb Report magazine has consistently ranked it one of the USA's "10 Top Affluent Communities" for "some of the most beautiful mansions, best shopping and finest restaurants in the southeastern United States".

 

To reverse a downturn in the village area during the 1980s, minimum parking spot requirements for bars were lifted which quickly led to it becoming the densest concentration of bars and clubs in the city. During the late 1990s Buckhead experienced an increased crime rate around the area's nightclubs and shopping districts, culminating in several gang-style shoot-outs and homicides including one involving NFL star Ray Lewis. Beginning in 2004, residents sought to ameliorate this situation by taking measures to reduce the community's nightlife and re-establish a more residential character. The Buckhead Coalition was instrumental in persuading Atlanta City Council to pass an ordinance to close bars at 2:30 a.m. rather than 4 a.m., and liquor licenses were made more difficult to obtain. The combination of these two factors left the village with a third of its storefronts vacant by late 2005. A number of projects, under proposal or under construction, have been initiated to replace these vacant properties, most being oriented towards upscale patrons.

 

Buckhead's heritage as an entertainment district has continued but in a much safer manner. Today, over 50 bars and restaurants thrive in Buckhead.

 

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