Tom Cousins, a legendary Atlanta real estate tycoon, philanthropist and political influencer whose fingerprints can be found from the city’s tallest building to the compassionate redevelopment of one of its toughest intown neighborhoods, has died.

Cousins, who was 93, started his real estate career selling $11,000 houses with his father in the late 1950s and became one of the most influential business leaders in metro Atlanta for decades. He brought professional basketball and hockey franchises to the city, donated land the Georgia World Congress Center sits on and dramatically changed — and raised — the metro skyline. His company expanded to Sunbelt cities spread between Atlanta and Phoenix, Arizona, controlling more than 21 million square feet of high-end space by mid-2025.

His most

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