Sears, Roebuck and Co. building/Ponce City Market

Ponce City Market now stands as one of the leading adaptive reuse examples in the United States. Placed on the grounds that once held the Ponce de Leon Springs and amusement park, Ponce City Market is housed in the circa 1925 Sears, Roebuck and Co. retail store, warehouse and regional office.

Ponce City Market is the largest brick building in the Southeastern United States. Sears operated in this historic ten story, 2.1 million square foot structure until 1986. The site provided easy access to the Southern Railroad on the east side of the building. If you lived in the Southeast, anything you ordered from the Sears catalog likely came from this facility. From 1990-2010, the City of Atlanta owned the property, using the building as a staging area for the 1996 Olympics.