Liberty Plaza work begins

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Liberty Plaza work begins

Liberty Plaza work begins

JUNE 5, 2014 ATLANTA Crews start demolition work on a 60-year-old parking deck across from the statehouse Thursday, June 5, 2014, beginning what could be a years long project to give Capitol Hill it's first major facelift since the Jimmy Carter was president. The parking area will be transformed into Liberty Plaza, a protest-rally-park area that could become home to a planned new monument to Martin Luther King Jr. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

JUNE 5, 2014 ATLANTA Crews start demolition work on a 60-year-old parking deck across from the statehouse Thursday, June 5, 2014, beginning what could be a years long project to give Capitol Hill it's first major facelift since the Jimmy Carter was president. The parking area will be transformed into Liberty Plaza, a protest-rally-park area that could become home to a planned new monument to Martin Luther King Jr. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

JUNE 5, 2014 ATLANTA Crews start demolition work on a 60-year-old parking deck across from the statehouse Thursday, June 5, 2014, beginning what could be a years long project to give Capitol Hill it's first major facelift since the Jimmy Carter was president. The parking area will be transformed into Liberty Plaza, a protest-rally-park area that could become home to a planned new monument to Martin Luther King Jr. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

JUNE 5, 2014 ATLANTA Crews start demolition work on a 60-year-old parking deck across from the statehouse Thursday, June 5, 2014, beginning what could be a years long project to give Capitol Hill it's first major facelift since the Jimmy Carter was president. The parking area will be transformed into Liberty Plaza, a protest-rally-park area that could become home to a planned new monument to Martin Luther King Jr. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

JUNE 5, 2014 ATLANTA Crews start demolition work on a 60-year-old parking deck across from the statehouse Thursday, June 5, 2014, beginning what could be a years long project to give Capitol Hill it's first major facelift since the Jimmy Carter was president. The parking area will be transformed into Liberty Plaza, a protest-rally-park area that could become home to a planned new monument to Martin Luther King Jr. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

JUNE 5, 2014 ATLANTA Crews start demolition work on a 60-year-old parking deck across from the statehouse Thursday, June 5, 2014, beginning what could be a years long project to give Capitol Hill it's first major facelift since the Jimmy Carter was president. The parking area will be transformed into Liberty Plaza, a protest-rally-park area that could become home to a planned new monument to Martin Luther King Jr. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

JUNE 5, 2014 ATLANTA Crews start demolition work on a 60-year-old parking deck across from the statehouse Thursday, June 5, 2014, beginning what could be a years long project to give Capitol Hill it's first major facelift since the Jimmy Carter was president. The parking area will be transformed into Liberty Plaza, a protest-rally-park area that could become home to a planned new monument to Martin Luther King Jr. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

JUNE 5, 2014 ATLANTA Crews start demolition work on a 60-year-old parking deck across from the statehouse Thursday, June 5, 2014, beginning what could be a years long project to give Capitol Hill it's first major facelift since the Jimmy Carter was president. The parking area will be transformed into Liberty Plaza, a protest-rally-park area that could become home to a planned new monument to Martin Luther King Jr. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

JUNE 5, 2014 ATLANTA Crews start demolition work on a 60-year-old parking deck across from the statehouse Thursday, June 5, 2014, beginning what could be a years long project to give Capitol Hill it's first major facelift since the Jimmy Carter was president. The parking area will be transformed into Liberty Plaza, a protest-rally-park area that could become home to a planned new monument to Martin Luther King Jr. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

JUNE 5, 2014 ATLANTA Pedstrians walk by the site as crews start demolition work on a 60-year-old parking deck across from the statehouse Thursday, June 5, 2014, beginning what could be a years long project to give Capitol Hill it's first major facelift since the Jimmy Carter was president. The parking area will be transformed into Liberty Plaza, a protest-rally-park area that could become home to a planned new monument to Martin Luther King Jr. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

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JUNE 5, 2014 ATLANTA Crews start demolition work on a 60-year-old parking deck across from the statehouse Thursday, June 5, 2014, beginning what could be a years long project to give Capitol Hill it's first major facelift since the Jimmy Carter was president. The parking area will be transformed into Liberty Plaza, a protest-rally-park area that could become home to a planned new monument to Martin Luther King Jr. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

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