Box 5, Folder 7, Document 20

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Box 5, Folder 7, Document 20

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RICHARD L. FULLERTON
AND ASSOCIATES

Consultants for Multi-family Housing

April 25, 1968

TELEPHONE 872-6089 TELEPHONE 422-4479
1222 PEACHTREE ROAD, N. E. 145 NORTH MAGNOLIA AVENUE
P.O. BOX 7164 P.O. BOX 2068
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30309 ORLANDO, FLORIDA 32802

The Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr., Mayor
The City of Atlanta

City Hall

Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Mayor Allen;

For several weeks I have been in conferences with the very excel-
lent staff of your Housing Resources Committee and of the Housing
Authority with reference to a major innovation we are undertaking
for the provision of low cost housing in urban areas. Please accept
my sincere expression of gratitude for their courtesies and their
very astute attention to the matters brought before them.

I am working in behalf of a well capitalized group which controls

the patents by which a major breakthrough in construction costs can
be achieved. To oversimplify, it is our intention to not merely ‘pre-
fabricate" but to actually manufacture housing units and deliver them
to the site almost intact. The patents have to do with a method of
preforming fibreglass so that the necessary structural characteris-
tice can be bulit into the building components on a mass production
basis. The automobile industry ie turning out a much more compli-
cated product than the housing industry at enormously lower costs.
Machine work and mass production techniques are the obvious answer.
Our thinking is not unique im this regard, but the group I] represent
does control rigid patents and unusual abilities in the necessary fields
so that we are sure that we can move forward.

Iam writing now with reference to the "Honor Farm" land that is
currently under consideration by your offices. Obviously there is an
overwhelming need for low cost housing to be built in Atlanta. You
all have faced this issue squarely and I am confident that adequate
solutions to the many problems will quickly be found.

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