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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 102863" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">July 28, 2006 -- (Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Alma E. Hill) --</span><strong> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">What can Brown do for you? The UPS slogan has got to make Calvin Darden smile. After a 34-year career with the shipping company, where he began unloading trucks for $3 an hour and worked his way up to senior vice president of U.S. operations</span> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">—</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> making him the highest-ranking minority executive at UPS</span> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">—</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Darden knows all too well what Brown did for him.</span></strong> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Just look at his house. He and his wife, Gail, finished constructing their dream home last spring with every amenity they had ever imagined. After moving seven times in 22 years for UPS, Darden, who retired in 2005, spared no expense on the Roswell estate that took 2 1/2 years to build. Interior designer Lydia Felix, owner of Cameon Design Group, worked with the couple and their builders from the onset to create a home with jaw-dropping aesthetics. The 22,000-square-foot mansion has six bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, a six-car garage, a gourmet kitchen, a dining room with two water walls and 14-karat-gold-leaf paint, a collection room, a master suite with a morning bar equipped with an espresso machine, coffee maker and warming drawer to keep mugs toasty, a home theater, mother-in-law wing and a game room with 10 flat-screen TVs. The Dardens also have their own chapel, hair salon and exercise room in the lower level of their home, which property records show is valued at $1.4 million<span style="color: red">(This has to be a typo....must be $14 million)</span>. An elevator can take them to any of the mansion's three levels. Outside, the couple, who have three adult children, unwind with two outdoor kitchens and a 20-by-40-foot swimming pool and spa. If they want to enjoy the tranquility of water inside the house, they can gaze at the 10-foot-tall, 1,300-gallon aquarium in their living room that's stocked with more than 100 saltwater fish.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 102863, member: 1246"] [FONT=Arial]July 28, 2006 -- (Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Alma E. Hill) --[/FONT][B][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]What can Brown do for you? The UPS slogan has got to make Calvin Darden smile. After a 34-year career with the shipping company, where he began unloading trucks for $3 an hour and worked his way up to senior vice president of U.S. operations[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]—[/FONT][FONT=Arial] making him the highest-ranking minority executive at UPS[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]—[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Darden knows all too well what Brown did for him.[/FONT][/B][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Just look at his house. He and his wife, Gail, finished constructing their dream home last spring with every amenity they had ever imagined. After moving seven times in 22 years for UPS, Darden, who retired in 2005, spared no expense on the Roswell estate that took 2 1/2 years to build. Interior designer Lydia Felix, owner of Cameon Design Group, worked with the couple and their builders from the onset to create a home with jaw-dropping aesthetics. The 22,000-square-foot mansion has six bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, a six-car garage, a gourmet kitchen, a dining room with two water walls and 14-karat-gold-leaf paint, a collection room, a master suite with a morning bar equipped with an espresso machine, coffee maker and warming drawer to keep mugs toasty, a home theater, mother-in-law wing and a game room with 10 flat-screen TVs. The Dardens also have their own chapel, hair salon and exercise room in the lower level of their home, which property records show is valued at $1.4 million[COLOR=red](This has to be a typo....must be $14 million)[/COLOR]. An elevator can take them to any of the mansion's three levels. Outside, the couple, who have three adult children, unwind with two outdoor kitchens and a 20-by-40-foot swimming pool and spa. If they want to enjoy the tranquility of water inside the house, they can gaze at the 10-foot-tall, 1,300-gallon aquarium in their living room that's stocked with more than 100 saltwater fish.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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