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Colony Square
City within a city wave of the future?
By KAY BROWN
ATLANTA (UPI) - From the
balcony of her 4th floor
apartment, Mrs. Ruth Duck
worth rocks and watches people
scurrying across the well
landscaped plaza of “the
world’s first micropolis.”
The memories of the 78 year
old woman are of the past, but
her view is of what developer
James E. Cushman believes
may become the salvation of
the cities —a model inner city
community where life is enjoy
able and personal.
“I am of the conviction that
the more a person is known,
the less likely he is to commit
crimes and the more likely he
is to make a contribution to his
community,” says Cushman,
developer of the multi-million
dollar Colony Square and the
driving force in its eight-year
development.
Mrs. Duckworth was one of
the first residents to move into
Colony Square, a sleek develop
ment of offices, apartments and
shops that will be worth more
than SIOO million when com
pleted. She said she found her
large, three-bedroom home too
much to take care of after her
husband died and decided to
move to Colony Square at the
urging of her daughter.
“I just won’t let myself sit
here and be lonesome,” she
says. “I’m going to make the
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Colony Square, situated on a
12-acre site just north of
downtown Atlanta, includes two
office towers with 750,000
square feet of office space, an
underground parking garage
for 2,000 cars, a large indoor
ice skating rink and a 200,000
square-foot shopping mall that
will open this fall.
It also includes 97 high rise
apartments with monthly rents
starting at $340, and 167 high
rise condominiums with prices
ranging from $37,750 to $212,000.
A 31-story Fairmont Colony
Square Hotel, the first Fair
mont Hotel to be built on the
East Coast, will open this
month.
This is one answer for the
future of cities,” Cushman
says. “It is approaching an
answer. The real answer is the
smaller community within the
city, and Colony Square could
very well one day be studied as
a model. It can be the salvation
of cities.”
Miss Sheppard Patterson,
director of residential proper
ties, says people who live in the
complex want more out of life
than just a place to live.
“They want to look out the
window and think, ‘l’m in an
exciting place.’
“Atlanta doesn’t have a
tradition of high-rise living, and
many people think the high-rise
doesn’t offer much privacy. But
they find that’s just not true.
This is a very civilized, and
sophisticated, way of living,”
she says.
Colony Square’s residents
include the Japanese and
Canadian consuls general, Coca
Cola executives, a concert
pianist, a beauty shop owner, a
retired school teacher, insur
ance executives, several wi
dows, 14 children and a justice
of the Georgia Supreme Court.
Miss Patterson says 65 per cent
of the residents are under 35.
Colony Square offers numer
ous social activities for its
residents, including covered
dish dinners, seminars, spea
kers, dessert parties on the
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mall and football brunches with
a bus ride to the stadium.
The service is outstanding.
For a fee, Miss Patterson says,
Colony Square’s staff of maids
will serve breakfast, water
plants, feed cats, do the
laundry and help plan and
serve parties.
Cushman, 43, president of the
Cushman Corp, which owns
Colony Square, has been firm,
some say stubborn, in his
determination to keep the living
environment high.
He has refused to let
corporations rent or buy
property in the residential
section, believing “every apart-
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ment is a home and people just
don’t want strangers parading
in and out.”
The architects for Colony
Square, Jove-Daniels-Busby of
Atlanta, see the mini-city
complex as a place where
human needs can be dealt with
efficiently.
“We wanted a place with 24
hour vitality, an almost self
sufficient community,” says
Stanley Daniels, an architect
who helped with the original
planning in 1966.
Cushman says he is now
studying the possibility of
another similar development, a
“sister-city” for Colony Square.
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