Georgia Trend Daily – July 10, 2025
July 10, 2025 Georgia.gov
Gov. Kemp: Ti Cold and Karis Cold Building $60 Million Facility in McIntosh County
Staff reports that Gov. Kemp on Wednesday announced that Ti Cold and Karis Cold have officially broken ground on a new $60 million cold storage facility for PermaCold Logistics in Darien, McIntosh County. The industrial cold storage construction company’s latest project will support 50 jobs upon completion of phase one.
July 10, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Smorgasburg, Atlanta
Susana Hills reports that Smorgasburg launched in Brooklyn in 2011. Now America’s top weekly open-air food festival, the event will expand to the South with the highly anticipated launch of Smorgasburg Atlanta this fall.
July 10, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fulton County considers pulling out of Westside development fund
Matt Reynolds reports, Fulton County is considering a resolution to exit the Westside Tax Allocation District, which would sever a historically underserved corner of Atlanta from a reliable and long-term source of county funding for economic development. If passed by the seven-member Board of Commissioners, the resolution would bring the county’s commitment to the Westside to an abrupt end.
July 10, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Access Cobb Debuts as Cobb County’s Only Headquartered Community Bank
Megan Jackson reports that Access Cobb, a Craft Bank, is open and ready to serve the community at 145 Church Street off Marietta Square. The new community bank, the only one headquartered in Cobb, is all about building personal relationships with clients and the community, according to President Terri Bunten Guthrie.
July 10, 2025 Athens Banner-Herald
Most Beautiful Colleges in America: This Georgia campus ranks No. 2 by Travel + Leisure
Miguel Legoas reports, last month, Travel + Leisure released its 2025 list of the ‘Most Beautiful College Campuses in the U.S.’ At number 2, Berry College’s campus is not only the prettiest; at 27,000 acres, it’s reportedly the world’s largest.
July 10, 2025 Oglethorpe Echo
Steps being taken to protect South Fork of Broad River
Alex Perri reports that clean water proponents moved one step closer to a big win recently when the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) announced a local section of the South Fork of the Broad River will be reclassified for recreational use. This section of river, which runs through Watson Mill Bridge State Park, is designated for fishing use, which has higher allowable levels of things like dissolved oxygen, E. coli, and water acidity, which are indicators of lower water quality.
July 10, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Folkston immigration detention center to become nation’s largest
Dave Williams reports that South Georgia soon will become home to the largest illegal immigrant detention center in the country. The D. Ray James Correctional Facility in Charlton County will become part of the Folkston Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Centre under a $47 million contract county and federal government officials reached in June.
July 10, 2025 WABE
Black business owners reflect on how tariffs have impacted them
Marlon Hyde reports, according to The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Black business owners in Atlanta already face a wide range of barriers to economic success, including disparities in access to capital for small businesses. The Georgia Chamber of Commerce said in its latest tariff briefing that the global import taxes will drive up material and input costs for businesses.
July 10, 2025 Macon Telegraph
‘Stunning betrayal.’ Nearly $1M at risk for after-school programs in central GA
Myracle Lewis reports that a delay in the release of more than $201 million in federal funds for Georgia could jeopardize after-school and summer programs serving tens of thousands of children and families across Central Georgia, according to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Georgia. Despite already being approved by Congress, fiscal year 2025 U.S. Department of Education money — including the money allocated to 21st Century Community Learning Centers — was not released by the expected July 1 deadline, affecting school programs in Georgia and other states just weeks before the upcoming school year begins.
July 10, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Lawmakers with Georgia’s Africa caucus urge Trump administration to rethink expanded travel ban
Maya Homan reports that the Trump administration is preparing to expand travel restrictions to 36 additional countries — primarily those in Africa and the Caribbean — in a move purportedly aimed at boosting national security. According to a memo issued to U.S. diplomats and obtained by the Washington Post, the countries selected have a 60-day deadline to conform with certain requirements set by the State Department.
July 10, 2025 State Affairs
2026 election watch: $19M in early fundraising for statewide seats
Beau Evans reports that races for higher office in Georgia are off to a hot start with candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general raising millions of dollars early for the 2026 elections. More than $19 million in campaign contributions were collected by nearly two dozen candidates for statewide seats between January and June, according to data from the Georgia Ethics Commission.
July 10, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Campaigns for statewide offices take shape after first major financial filings
Ty Tagami reports, people who want to influence Georgia’s next elections have already poured millions of dollars into the 2026 governor’s race and other statewide campaigns. Campaign finance reports filed by the midnight deadline Tuesday show Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and Attorney General Chris Carr had each attracted about $3 million from donors for their respective gubernatorial campaigns for the first half of the year.
July 10, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Donors highlight divisions in Georgia’s Democratic race for governor
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, political fundraising reports offer a snapshot of a candidate’s momentum. But the names behind the checks often speak just as loud. A closer look at recent disclosures shows how the two leading Democrats for governor — former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and state Sen. Jason Esteves — are tapping into markedly different circles of support, revealing key fault lines in the race.
