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Tom relatives, a magnate of greater real estate and philanthrop, which gave a lasting impact on the area of Atlanta, died on Tuesday after hospitalization in Florida. He was 93 years old.
In addition to their expansive business efforts, which included housing and then commercial real estate, as well as purchases of the NBA and NHL franchise in Atlanta, relatives have probably left its greatest assessment, which included the purchase and renewal of the Golf Club East Lake and surrounding settlements.
The relatives were born in Atlanta and attended the University of Georgia, graduating with the financial degree in 1952. years. After serving in the American aircraft, then worked for household real estate, which developed in relatives who originally worked as a distributor for general engines, to reshape the Atlante Skyline while it stretches for Phoenix.
First in the city center in the city center, the Piedmont-Cain building, was opened in the center of Atlanta in 1965. years; Since then, she has been renovated and renamed Marcus Tower in the hospital in the Atlanta Piedmont. His original Omni complex was eventually sold by Ted Turner, who turned him into the CNN center, which the news called home from 1986. Until last year. But the most prominent layout of the cousin, the 55-story high 55 floors, was the highest skyscraper outside New York or Chicago, when it was completed in 1992. years.
According to the Constitution of the Atlanta MagazineThe activities of the relative now “controls more than 21 million square meters of top space.”
Cousins were the executive director of the relative until 2002. year and chairman of the Board of the company until 2006. years.
In 1968. years, relatives bought Sveta Louis Hawks for over $ 2 million, and four years later he bought NHL to the expansion franchise, which would become a flame of Atlante. He later sold Atlanta Hawks, and Turner, 1977, followed by sales of flames in 1980. years; The team then moved to Calgary.
Sports sports relatives, however, wouldn’t end there. After the cousins with his wife already began, in 1996. in 1995. They founded East Lake Foundation in 1995. years, and although his initial goal was to save a collapse of the Eastern Lake, to auction in auction to a much larger project. Relatives invested in the investment of federal money in the amount of $ 33.5 million and other donations in the nearby community of East Lake Meadows, which is flooded with poverty and violence. The project just passed by the construction of accommodation for building mixed revenues, but included a new drawing charter and eastern lake of the YMCA family. Relatives also asked for help from local churches to turn the neighborhood, which had a decrease in the murder rate to Zero until 2002. year, according to AJC. Working with the East Lake Meadows has since inspired numerous others like effort throughout the country, including the formation of the purpose of built communities, which are among others from Warren Buffet and Julian Robertson.
“You do not change the community with just the construction of beautiful houses,” the cousins of the story with the magazine of happiness in 2001 were said. Years. “You have to give people a new life.”
The East Lake was provided by the first tour of the tour in 1998. years, and in 2004. It became a permanent home of FedExCUP finals. Since then, the tournament helped increase more than $ 63 million for atlanta-based nephitic earnings, including the East Lake Foundation.
The Tom Roadins Award was served every year on the Cup East Lake, the event for playing at the faculty held every fall. The award is given to one man and one female competitor who “best pronounce civic, community and philanthropic quality.”
“It’s hard for me to find words adequately pay a tribute to a man who, in the course of his 93 years, seemed to make the difference and improve the life of those around him,” said the PGA Commissioner around him Jay Monahan. “Mr. Rousins was a visionary and a man who had a unique ability to imagine what something could become and to happen. We are further on this year’s tournament. We will miss you in the process and nurture memories.
Cousins survive his wife, their two children, Grady and Lillian, and what Ajc wrote as “a few grandchildren.” The third child precedes his death, Caroline, who died in 1999. years.
