Havas Annex Bookstore

In the summer of 2016, when word spread that a circa-1930s bookstore near the Georgia Institute of Technology was to be razed and replaced with a gas station, historic preservationists organized to save it. Prior to becoming the “Engineer’s Bookstore,” the unassuming retail building was originally a five- and 10-cent store. A landmark designation by the Atlanta Urban Design Commission protected the building.

Choate transforms the facility to become Havas Worldwide, an award-wining global advertising company. Headquartered in Puteaux, France, the marketing and PR firm’s two-level office space includes a client pantry, open office space, and collaboration areas for employees on the upper floor plus additional offices on the lower level.