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Thomas Grady Cousins (born December 1931) is a real estate developer, sports supporter and philanthropist, primarily based in Atlanta, Georgia. ==Commercial career== Cousins graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in 1952 from the Terry College of Business at The University of Georgia in Athens. He and his father started their real-estate company in 1958. During the 1960s, Tom Cousins moved from real-estate to property development and sports franchising.〔(''Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South'' Steven P. Miller, 2009, p. 169 )〕 He developed buildings such as the CNN Center, the Omni Coliseum, 191 Peachtree Tower, the Pinnacle Building in Buckhead and the first phase of the Georgia World Congress Center.〔(''History Makers - The 45 greatest Atlantans of the last 45 years'' Rebeccca Burns and Bill Warhop, ''Atlanta Magazine'' May 2006, p. 111 )〕 He and competitor John Portman completely remade downtown Atlanta in the 1970s and 1980s. He also helped revive and redesign the home course of golfing great Bobby Jones, East Lake Golf Club, which had fallen into disrepair. He hired Rees Jones (no relation to Bobby) to redesign the golf course, which has since hosted the PGA Tour's season ending Tour Championship several times, and become one of the leading golf courses in Atlanta. Cousins and his family financed the project to the tune of about $25 million.〔(''Economic Revitalization of Atlanta's East Lake Community'', Selig Center for Economic Growth, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia )〕〔(''City Park NOLA )〕 This was part of a greater revitalization of the East Lake Meadows housing project in the East Lake neighborhood around the golf course. He retains air rights over the CNN Center parking deck in Atlanta's massive railroad gulch. He stepped down as head of Cousins Properties in January 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Cousins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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