Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta is a hotel in

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, United States. It is part of

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-based

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. The hotel is located in the

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, and occupies the lower third of the

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building.

History

Completed in 1992, the

building is Atlanta's eleventh-tallest skyscraper and originally housed the GLG Grand Hotel, later the Occidental Grand. Developed by G Lars Gullstedt, a Swedish developer, the building is constructed in the Neoclassical style and has a façade of rose and marble granite. The hotel and restaurant interiors were designed by the Atlanta office of Hirsch Bedner Associates. Opened in March 1997, Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta occupies the lower 19 floors of the GLG Grand building. The hotel had been owned by

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since 1998, but it was sold to Bill Gates'

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in 2013. The hotel is operated by Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. The spa was opened in 2007. Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta has been receiving the

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since 1999. It also received a

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Five-star rating for several years, however, in 2020, it received a Four-star rating.

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