Georgia Trend Daily – April 19, 2024
April 19, 2024 Rome News-Tribune
Sunmax Tech Bringing $193M Investment and 242 Jobs to Adairsville
John Druckenmiller reports that Sunmax Tech is opening the first of three phases in Adairsville next month, a project that — when all phases are completed — is scheduled to add 242 jobs with a total economic investment of $193 million. The first phase of the new energy components company is at 500 Soho Drive.
Filling Jobs: Hugh “Trip” Tollison, president and CEO of the Savannah Economic Development Authority. | Photo credit Frank Fortune
April 19, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Savannah | Chatham County: Running on All Cylinders
Betty Darby reports, when a massive development like the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America comes to town, it lands with such force that the impact blurs city and county lines. The electric vehicle assembly plant is in Bryan County, not Chatham, and closer to Statesboro than Savannah.
April 19, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia added 16,200 jobs in March; jobless rate remains at record low
Michael E. Kanell reports, with a blast of change-of-seasons hiring, the Georgia economy added more than twice the growth of an average March as the unemployment rate continued to linger at an all-time low, the Department of Labor said Thursday. The jobless rate, which was 3.1% in the year’s first two months, remained there, while payrolls expanded by 16,200 jobs.
April 19, 2024 WSB-Radio
Grady to open new emergency department, fill gap left in wake of AMC closure in south Fulton County
Staff reports that the November 2022 closure of the Atlanta Medical Center made a large part of the metro Atlanta area into a healthcare desert. A new emergency department is coming to what is considered a healthcare desert in South Fulton County.
April 19, 2024 The Brunswick News
Studio officials outline plans
Gordon Jackson reports that Pigmental Studios is actively recruiting military veterans, the handicapped, and high school students for job training to support a planned $200 million studio in St. Marys once productions begin. During a Southeast Georgia Development Authority meeting Wednesday, Jennifer Elders, head of production services for the studio, explained the company’s preparations.
April 19, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
Scientific Games Completes $65M Investment in Lottery Scratch Ticket Manufacturing Innovation
Trevor Williams reports that Atlanta-based Scientific Games, by far the market leader in making instant scratch games for lotteries worldwide, has completed a $65 million investment in its production capacity globally. The company held a ribbon-cutting for new printing equipment at its Alpharetta headquarters Thursday, wrapping up a process that has seen investments flow to at least some of its five plants on four continents.
April 19, 2024 Fox 5 Atlanta
Gilmer County residents clash over proposed cryptocurrency farm
Mary Smith reports that it was a passionate meeting in Gilmer County on Thursday night, all surrounding the possible development of a cryptocurrency server farm site. These server farms house computers that run day and night, mining for cryptocurrency.
April 19, 2024 Athens Banner-Herald
Athens-Clarke lawyers reject allegations that commission violated open meeting law
Jim Thompson reports that legal counsel for Athens-Clarke County is rejecting a contention that the recent amendment of county code provisions governing short-term rental (STR) operations should not be binding because county commissioners reached their decision behind closed doors. The allegation that commissioners violated provisions of state open meetings laws is contained in a lawsuit filed last month by a group of nine STR owners, four of whom do not live in Athens-Clarke County, and some of whom have more than one STR property in the county.
April 19, 2024 Georgia Recorder
‘Panicked rush to gas’ could hike energy costs, report warns regulators
Robert Zullo reports, a a new report by an energy and climate policy think tank warns that some utilities, particularly in the South, are making a “panicked rush to gas” and calls on state officials to explore cheaper options and carefully vet plans that could saddle electric customers with billions in costs.
April 19, 2024 State Affairs
Democratic incumbents vie for redrawn House district seat
Jill Jordan Sieder reports that Democratic incumbents running in south DeKalb County’s newly drawn District 90 are in a political predicament: Longtime comrades, they now find themselves pitted against each other. Reps. Saira Draper and Becky Evans met Wednesday on the debate stage at St. John’s Lutheran Church to make the case for why voters should choose them for the newly drawn district in the upcoming May primary.
April 19, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PG A.M.: Kemp renews support for Trump, GOP ticket ‘from the bottom up’
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Van Brimmer report, weeks after Gov. Brian Kemp cast his ballot in the presidential primary, the Republican still won’t say who he supported. But he knows who he is backing in November, despite his personal misgivings.
