Around Lenox
Lenox Square is connected via parkway to the 27-story JW Marriott Buckhead hotel, classified as a 4-Diamond hotel by the AAA. Many other luxury hotels are within walking distance from Lenox. These include St. Regis, W Hotel, Ritz-Carlton, Grand Hyatt, InterContinental, Mandarin Oriental, and Westin.
The area around Lenox has grown immensely in the past few decades following its opening, and now includes many high-rise condominiums and office buildings. A two-story Target store sits across from Lenox at Lenox Maketplace, connected inside via escalators and elevators designed for shopping carts as well as shoppers, and having checkouts on both levels at the exits to a parking deck. Other stores at Lenox Marketplace include Dick's Sporting Goods and Nordstrom Rack. The Sembler Company was the developer. In addition, Phipps Plaza is located to the northeast of Lenox Square across Peachtree Road. A few thousand feet from Lenox Square Mall is an enormous Rooms To Go store. Across Peachtree Road from the large store is a large shopping center named Buckhead Square which is anchored by The Container Store with neighbors like Tuesday Morning, Men's Wearhouse, and Clear. Recently, Icebox Custom Jewelry, a family-owned jewelry store since 1976, has recently moved to the Buckhead Square. Traffic levels around Lenox are high and the streets are confusing for those unfamiliar with the area. Georgia 400 (a tollway to the north, and freeway south to nearby Interstate 85) opened in 1993, restricting traffic to and from the west after it cut many existing roads. However, the BUC (Buckhead Uptown Connection), the free shuttle bus service around Buckhead, is available, supported voluntarily by a self-taxing district (Buckhead CID) which includes Lenox, and by GRTA and other agencies. The Peachtree Streetcar initiative would also extend free or low-fare streetcars to Lenox in the north, through midtown and downtown, to a proposed mixed-use redevelopment around historic Fort McPherson, 14 miles (23 km) south. MARTA, the city's main mass transit system, provides one station near the mall.
Several companies, such as AT&T Mobility, have their headquarters near the shopping center.
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