Atlanta mayor James G. Woodward created a Plaza Planning Commission to review the proposal. On May 3, the commission asked the Atlanta City Council to conduct an engineering study of the plan. On July 8, the architectural firm Barclay, Parsons, and Klapp presented their findings on the cost of the project and the creation of a new Union Station. The study was endorsed by the city council and the chamber of commerce, and was submitted to the Western and Atlantic Railroad Commission for their consideration. However, on June 27, 1917, the railroad commission recommended to the Georgia General Assembly that they not approve the plaza plan. Following this, the plaza plan was considered dead. Future projects Following the rejection of the plaza plan, Atlanta mayor Asa Griggs Candler created a commission to study the creation of viaducts in Atlanta. This led to the creation of numerous viaducts of Atlanta throughout the 1920s. The chamber of commerce would revive the idea for a public plaza covering the railroad gulch several times in the following decades, including in 1923, 1927, and 1930, though none of these plans lead to the creation of the plaza. Between 1928 and 1936, the city continued to expand its viaduct system, and in 1949, Plaza Park, a small public park, was opened near the proposed site of the plaza. Furthermore, a new Union Station was constructed in 1930 near the location Bleckley had proposed, though much smaller in scale. The idea for a plaza near the capitol building was later revived as Liberty Plaza, which was completed in 2016. References Bibliography 1900s architecture Buildings and structures in Atlanta History of Atlanta Landscape architecture Proposed buildings and structures in Georgia (U.S. state) Proposed parks in the United States Unbuilt buildings and structures in the United States Urban planning in Georgia (U.S. state)