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Buckhead Coalition Offers Mega Millions Winner a Limo to Shop

Stone Mountain resident Ira Curry can start spending her jackpot prize in Buckhead with the help of a free day's chauffeured ride.

If Stone Mountain's Ira Curry needs help figuring out where to shop after winning $173 million in the Mega Millions lottery game and how to get there, the Buckhead Coalition has the answer.

Former Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell, who heads the Buckhead Coalition, said the nonprofit civic group has arranged to have her chauffeured to as many Buckhead retailers as she can fit in a full day.

“We’re obviously pleased with the national publicity Ira Curry’s relationship to our Buckhead Community is generating as a result of her historic lottery ticket, purchased here," Massell said in his message today, Dec. 20.  "Although she will certainly receive many offers to partner with investors, we just want to thank her by increasing the benefit of her win."

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Curry bought her winning Mega Millions ticket at Gateway Newstand in the Alliance Center on Lenox Road in Buckhead a week ago.

“For the national notoriety flowing to this odd-sounding name of Buckhead, and to recognize at this holiday season this northern quadrant of Atlanta, GA as the shopping mecca of the Southeast that it is, with its 1,400 retail stores, we have arranged with Lenox Limo a full day’s limousine service to and from Ms Curry’s Stone Mountain residence with visits to as many of the retailers in Buckhead’s 28 square miles she chooses to select.  A day for her to ‘shop til she drops’, so to speak.”  

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