Cousins Properties Second Quarter Earnings Release and Conference Call Notice.

ATLANTA -- Cousins Properties Incorporated (NYSE:CUZ) today announced that it will release second quarter earnings after the market closes on Wednesday, August 3, 2005. Cousins Properties Incorporated (CUZ) also invites you to attend the Second Quarter 2005 Conference Call Thursday, August 4, 2005, at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). The number to call for this teleconference is: [phone]. A 14-day playback will begin at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, August 4, 2005. To access the playback, please dial: [phone] and enter the passcode: 1488746. In addition, the replay can be accessed on the Company's Web site through the "Q2 2005 Cousins Properties Incorporated Earnings Conference Call" link on the Investor Relations page of the Web site, www.cousinsproperties.com, as well as at www.streetevents.com and www.earnings.com.

Financial and statistical information for the teleconference and earnings presentation will be placed on the Company's Web site promptly after the earnings release. This information can be accessed through the "Quarterly Disclosures" and "Supplemental SEC Information" links on the Investor Relations page of the Web site, www.cousinsproperties.com.

Cousins Properties Incorporated, headquartered in Atlanta, has extensive experience in the real estate industry including the development, acquisition, financing, management and leasing of properties. The property types that Cousins actively invests in include office, multi-family, retail, medical office, industrial and land development projects. The Company's portfolio consists of interests in 7.8 million square feet of office and medical office space, 3.4 million square feet of retail space, 0.4 million square feet of industrial space, over 3,000 acres of strategically located land tracts for sale or future development, and significant land holdings for development of single-family residential communities. Cousins also provides leasing and management services to third-party investors; its client-services portfolio comprises 11.2 million square feet of office space. Cousins is a fully integrated equity real estate investment trust (REIT) that has been public since 1962 and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CUZ." For more information on the Company, please visit Cousins' Web site at www.cousinsproperties.com.