We Design Fast Food Restaurants for locations around the country. We have also developed Prototype Drawings for several Fast Food Chains, including Zaxby's, Popeye's, and Wendy's.

- DESIGN/BUILDJoined Lusk Construction in 2001 to fulfill their desire to have an Architect on Staffand move from Contractor Only Services to Design-Build Services. We shifted from dressed-up metal buildings to specialty construction that lends itself to the Team approach,designing and building structures that were too intricate to be common practice for smallcontractors. We also carved a niche in the banking business, performing Design-Build onSix Banks, including two Regional Headquarters Buildings for two different institutions. These were both three-story facilities in the 30,00 S.F. range that included local bankingand regional offices. These two banking establishments had very different image goals andoperation strategies which made them unique challenges. Lusk also specialized in Churches and Private Schools over the last few years, with aconcentration on Master Planning for future growth in stages. Both of these buildingtypes tend to need to start their campus wisely but small, so that the first buildingadds enrollment or members, that boosts income, and in turns allows for more buildingadditions.During the last 10 Years Lusk has done much more than these types of institutions andhas used a wide range of building types, including structural steel studs, convention red-iron, pre-engineered steel, wood, and pre-cast. We won several Awards for creative yetefficient design, from Agricultural Retail to High-End Industrial, and another for the

Mounted the charge at the Hausman Group to Bid for and eventually secure the position of Standby Design Services for Fulton County. This allowed Hausman to thrive in the Municipal Market while their staple of designing large office buildings waned in the over-built office market.We expanded this Municipal Opportunity into an involvement in Senior Centers, Senior Day Care, Assisted Living, Extended Suite Living, and Schools. We also ventured into the Cell Phone Tower Business and Tenant fit-Up for National Food Chains such as Planet Smoothie, during some rather lean years in the Architecture Business. Flexibility was the way to stay alive then as it is today.

Helped transform Sholodge from a hotel management company that was building one to two exterior corridor Shoney's Inns a year with a staff of three, into a company with a new Interior Corridor Shoney's Inn and Suites, a new Sumner Suites that was franchised to others and built in-house at the rate of 10 to 12 a year with a budget of approximately $ 60 million and a staff of nine. We built 40 hotels for ourselves and others. Renovated 14 Company Owned Shoneys Inns,new finishesBuilt 6 Amerisuites Hotels for Prime Motor Inns and completed 6 others that had been started by Prime before they had to abandon them during Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection. When they came out of Bankruptcy we sold them back the finished hotels and made $ 20 million profit

Was the first employee of a one person architectural firm that became a 30 person firm specializing in hotels, restaurants, extended stay facilities, schools and libraries. After college worked in Production, then Construction Administration, and then was the Director of Design and also the Director of Human Resources. Designed approximately 50 hotels and extended stay facilities and site planned over 100 sites. Designed Daycares, Churches, Schools, and an Award Winning YMCA. Was hired away by a Hotel Developer Client in Tennessee.