Atlanta has officially opened the Millennium Gate at the city's Atlantic Station, a project the designers conceded came eight years late.

The opening of the Millennium Gate was met by a parade and patriotic music while fireworks were planned for Friday evening, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday.

The gate, which resembles Paris's Arc de Triomphe and contains a museum inside, celebrates the turning of the millennium a few years after the actual event.

It's only eight years late, said Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, a British interior designer who helped create the period rooms in the museum. But it's a nice piece of architecture. I think people will love it in 200 years.

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