The road from recession to prosperity is proving to be a long and sometimes bumpy one for Southwest Georgia. However, the region’s economic developers say they are seeing enough positive signs to make them optimistic that better days are ahead. …
The new year has barely started, and Curtis Foltz is already sure “2016 will be an incredible year.” The level-headed executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) is not a man given to exaggeration, so you know he has…
Reports of increasing economic activity, new jobs and businesses – even improvements in the housing industry – show that Georgia is continuing to make the most of the growing recovery and its status as the No. 1 state in the…
As the bad economy slowly becomes a bad memory, the folks who live and breathe economic development in Southwest Georgia are finally able to talk about the local economy with words not often used in recent years. Good words, like…
This is looking like the year Southwest Georgia economic development leaders make the big jump from optimism to excitement. The 25-county region’s longtime economic mainstay, agriculture, is breaking records, existing industry is healthy and showing signs of growth and the…
You can grow just about anything in Southwest Georgia. Peanuts, pecans, cotton, vegetables – you name it and someone is probably growing it here. Jobs, though, that’s different. Just like the rest of the state and nation, Southwest Georgia got…
“We’re sure not booming, but we’re getting there.” Lee County’s Winston Oxford is talking about his coun-ty, but he could be speaking for the entire South-west Georgia region. After several years of struggling with an ailing economy, the region’s…
In the fertile fields of Southwest Georgia, there’s more growing than just crops. Optimism has taken root as signs are starting to signal a good year – or at least a better year – for economic growth. After several…
After several years of just trying To “hold on,” Southwest Georgia’s economic development executives are seeing hope on the horizon. They don’t expect the economy to get better in a hurry, but their confidence is growing as they see projects…
Just about every town has them. Old commercial or industrial areas that were once bustling now have buildings sitting empty. Most of them are not beyond hope – they’ve just seen better days and are in need of a boost…
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