Retail Beginnings and Land Use at Lenox Square (1956–1970)
Before Buckhead became one of Atlanta’s busiest retail zones, a Kansas City developer named Ed Noble saw room for a shopping center on what was then open, largely undeveloped land.
His company, J. Noble Properties, bought the site in 1956. Construction started the following summer, in July 1957, and continued through mid-1958.
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