Mills Lane (banker)

Mills Bee Lane Jr.[1] (January 12, 1912 – May 7, 1989) was an American banker in Atlanta, Georgia.

As president of C&S, Mills Lane funded the design and construction of Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.'s dream of a new baseball stadium for the city of Atlanta.

The site was a recently cleared slum, then known as Washington-Rawson, and Atlanta Stadium was completed a mere twelve months after a handshake deal between Lane and the Milwaukee Braves' owners.

The rush was to ensure that the 1965 season could be played in the new stadium, but a lawsuit brought by Milwaukee, Wisconsin, delayed the start of baseball in Atlanta until April, 1966.

Lane's other famous building project was his new bank headquarters, the cylindrical C&S tower at West Peachtree and North Avenue, which was eventually demolished to make room for the western expansion of the Bank of America Plaza.

Lane's childhood home, 26 East Gaston Street in Savannah, overlooking Forsyth Park . It was completed three years before his birth