Georgia Trend Daily – May 20, 2024
May 20, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Garden City panel slams brakes on project backed by Federal Highway Administration
John Deem reports, days after the head of the Federal Highway Administration visited the Port of Savannah to tout plans for what would have been the largest electric-truck charging facility of its kind in the nation, a non-elected local board pulled the plug on the project this past week. The move came as a shock to the developer, California-based energy company Voltera.
May 20, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
At the TOUR Championship, there’s a hospitality product to fit every business need
Julia Roberts reports, staged in a city that is nothing short of championship caliber, the TOUR Championship has evolved its experience to stand in the upper echelon of sporting events while staying true to its roots as “Atlanta’s Own.” Alongside a full-scale renovation of East Lake Golf Club in its return to its ‘Golden Age’ when the likes of Bobby Jones and Alexa Stirling walked the fairways, the TOUR Championship unveiled a reimagined and expanded hosting experience set to raise the bar for the tournament in the world of sports.
May 20, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
UPS, Coke and Home Depot shareholders try to force DEI changes
Mirtha Donastorg reports that diversity programs in corporate America face increasing legal challenges, shareholders of three publicly traded Atlanta corporations have demanded changes around diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The moves come after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June 2023 effectively ended race-conscious college admissions programs.
May 20, 2024 Saporta Report
‘Atlanta Veterans Village’ breaks ground in Mableton
Delaney Tarr reports that the Tunnel to Towers Foundation broke ground on a residential facility for homeless veterans in Mableton, Ga., at a former hotel that will soon be home to nearly 100 veterans during a May 17 ceremony. Just yards away from the looming Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia theme park sits the shuttered Wingate by Wyndham hotel, but in a few months the empty building will become a 103-unit “Atlanta Veterans Village” with affordable long-term apartments, transitional housing, a gym, a business center, a cafeteria and a commercial kitchen.
May 20, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Proposed subdivision would add more than 28,000 daily traffic trips in Pembroke
Latrice Williams reports, a hotel, a drive-in bank, fast food joints and a whopping 2,000 homes are part of a massive, proposed development that could one day become reality in the historic railroad town of Pembroke in Bryan County. Located on Highway 67 and Sims Road, the Warnell Tract would see 2,000 homes in a mix of single-family detached houses, townhomes and apartments.
May 20, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
Student Housing Developer Eyes Opportunity in U.K., Ireland
Trevor Williams reports that Landmark Properties, an Athens-based developer of student housing, is making a foray into the U.K. and Ireland. The transatlantic move comes as the company celebrates its 20th anniversary, coming off a year in which it says it developed a quarter of all off-campus student housing in the United States.
May 20, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
‘Never Give Up’: Nonprofit Graduates Empowered Parents
Kaye Cagle reports that the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation, which works to build a brighter future for children in the U.S., is investing in a new Cobb County nonprofit called Together with Families. The program empowers parents who are experiencing poverty, homelessness and other extraordinary challenges by helping them address housing, transportation, food, access to healthcare and other building blocks for stability.
May 20, 2024 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
U.S. Secretary of Ag highlights progress and threats to farming during Columbus trip
Kala Hunter reports that the farming population is shrinking in the U.S. from compounding forces like extreme weather events that hinder growing conditions and financial hardship to sustain farming income. There were fewer farmers in 2022 than in 2017, and in those five years, Georgia lost 3,175 of them, the majority under 50 acres, according to the Department of Agriculture’s 2022 Census.
May 20, 2024 Georgia.gov
Gov. Kemp Announces Appointments in the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit
Staff reports, Gov. Kemp on Friday announced two appointments in the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit. The Governor will appoint Carolyn “Tippi” Cain Burch to serve as a judge on the Superior Court of the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit and Don Kelly to serve as the District Attorney of the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit.
May 20, 2024 The Current
Georgia Senate District 1: Watson, Majeroni battle over brand
Craig Nelson reports that few paths to electoral success have been smoother than Ben Watson’s. In his career in the Georgia General Assembly, Watson has faced primary opposition only once, in 2010, when he won a Savannah-area seat in the state House of Representatives.
May 20, 2024 State Affairs
Turnout battle: More Republicans casting ballots in early voting for general primary
Nava Rawls and Tammy Joyner report that whether they’re concerned with a Georgia Supreme Court race or women’s reproductive rights, voters showed up to cast early ballots this week in the Georgia primary election. And Republicans embraced the opportunity more than Democrats, continuing a trend in recent years.
May 20, 2024 GPB
At Morehouse, Biden says dissent should be heard because democracy is ‘still the way’
Stephen Fowler and Jeongyoon Han report, President Joe Biden told Morehouse College’s graduating class of 2024 that he’s committed to serving Black voters while defending freedom and democracy in the face of “extremist forces” that he says threaten the soul of the nation.
May 20, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PG A.M.: Jan. 6 organizer voted to RNC violated federal election regulations
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Van Brimmer report that two days before ultraconservative activist Amy Kremer won a surprise victory for a coveted party post, Georgia GOP leaders received an email from a veteran Republican consultant. The letter from Patrick Krason of FEC Compliance Services warned that Kremer had been fined several times by the Federal Election Commission for not submitting reports.
