Utilities: Infrastructure of Tomorrow
Georgia utility companies are increasingly getting into the business of infrastructure with the expansion of broadband and electric vehicle…
Author: Brian A. Lee
Georgia Trend 2024 40 Under 40
Each year, Georgia Trend recognizes 40 of the most successful and civic-minded people in the state under the age of 40. These young leaders are your neighbors who might work or volunteer in your community. They live in various regions…
2024 Most Respected Leader: Mike Plant, From Blades to Bricks
What do you call the combination of tenacious commitment and infectious energy in the present and a vision of the future that turns the…
Visionary Cities
The Oxford dictionary defines the word visionary as “thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom.” So it…
Gainesville | Hall County: Crowd Favorite
Hall County is striking and liking a special balance, from big business and development to personal advancement and family fun. It’s as impactful as the burgeoning manufacturing sector and a multi-billion-dollar health system and as refreshing as the breeze coming…
Newton County: People, Partnership, Progress
A boom town needs more than room to grow. A partnership-driven support system coupled with responsive infrastructure improvements are key to maintaining the gains and limiting the growing pains. That combo effort is setting the stage for big things in…
Central Georgia: Substantial and Sustainable Impact
Central Georgia is a center of gravity for Peach State progress. By historical standards, global reach and elevated quality of life, the region’s advancement has been transformational. Gov. Brian Kemp announced in December 2021 what was then the single-largest economic…
2023 Economic Yearbook: Transforming the Terrain
If Fiscal Year 2023, which began last July, were a feature-length movie, it would certainly be a blockbuster: “The best year ever,” according to the Georgia Department of Economic Development. The impact of this banner year is transforming the state’s…
Connection, Capacity and Collaboration
It’s been more than five years since Savannah first welcomed the biggest container ship to dock at an East Coast port. It carried about 14,000 twenty-foot-equivalent container units (TEUs) of cargo. Thanks to the tireless effort and vision of the…
Georgia Trend 2022 40 Under 40
For the 26th year, Georgia Trend is celebrating 40 of the state’s brightest stars under the age of 40. As always, the individuals recognized here awe and inspire us. These outstanding young leaders make their homes throughout Georgia and represent…
Connecting Style and Substance
The Atlanta metro has long leveraged its advantages to prosperous effect: an attractive climate, a business- friendly and growth-oriented approach and a large, young and highly educated workforce. It’s a winning combo, like sweet tea and barbeque. Yet growth often…
Augusta | Richmond County: Adding Tech to the Total
It can be said with certainty that the Masters Tournament in Augusta captured the sporting world’s attention in early April. Yet, every other week of the year – and historically – the Garden City of Georgia is driven by three…
Banking on the Future
Banks in Georgia and throughout the nation are facing a challenging environment as the government’s central banking system, the Federal Reserve, raises interest rates and technology continues to transform the industry. Mortgage rate increases are the latest kick in the…
2022 Economic Yearbook: Sustainable Communities
We tend to think of sustainability in connection with the environment – eco-friendly practices that preserve and protect natural resources. However, sustainability is much broader; it includes economic viability and growth for the long term through smart planning and development.…
Northeast: Multifaceted Sustainability
Sustainability means not only preservation of natural resources, but also smart economic growth and planning that promotes equity, affordability and community balance. In Northeast Georgia, green comes in all different shades. For example, the largest recycler of aluminum in the…
West Central: Enduring Action, Economic Edge
Look to the west and you’ll find lots of movement, from headquarters moving in to products moving out. And sustainability projects and initiatives, with all of their economic, environmental and equitable benefits, are propelling the West Central region of the…
Macon-Bibb County: Stability and Vibrancy
Southern hospitality and economic vitality go well together. In the heart of Macon, in the heart of Georgia, that pairing shows fresh promise with the opening of the first new downtown hotel in more than half a century. The $39…
Visionary Cities
In spite of the lingering pandemic, foresighted folks throughout Georgia rolled up their sleeves to make their communities better places to live, work and play – often by fostering healthy working relationships. To honor those efforts, the Georgia Municipal Association…
Georgia Trend 2021 40 Under 40
This year Georgia Trend is celebrating 25 years of honoring the state’s best and brightest with our 40 Under 40. And this year, like the others, the winners leave us awed and inspired. As we continue to battle COVID-19 in…
Perimeter Area: Belief and Betterment
Competition drives the economy, but collaboration builds – and sustains – community. One side effect of the difficult pandemic year in the Atlanta metro is people coming together, in a mostly socially distant but still meaningful way. This is especially…
2021 Economic Yearbook: Businesses Bounce Back
What a difference a year makes. Last April, the state was under lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With employees and customers staying home, compounded by the difficulty of moving raw materials and finished products throughout a world reeling from…
2021 Economic Yearbook: Central
The heart of Georgia will play a major role in the recovery of the Peach State, which will exceed the national average in employment growth and inflation-adjusted Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2021, according to the Georgia Economic Outlook. The…
100 Most Influential Georgians
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy,” said Martin Luther King Jr. His words are as applicable today as they…
2020 Economic Yearbook: Southeast Georgia
There’s big business, and then there’s the big business of global trade. Combine the longest economic expansion in U.S. history with Georgia’s major port in Savannah, and it’s no surprise things have been looking positively peachy in the southeastern part…
2020 Economic Yearbook
Georgia Goes GLOBAL. As the home of a powerful transportation and logistics network that includes the busiest airport in the world, booming deepwater ports and an interstate system to connect them to each other and the rest of the country,…
100 Most Influential Georgians: Visionary Forces
“There are no secrets to success,” said former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. “It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” His description could apply to the individuals included in Georgia Trend’s 22nd annual listing…
Local Control
The term local control means keeping government close to home. For folks in six Georgia counties, local control is overseen by someone who goes above and beyond the call to improve the lives of his or her constituents. The ACCG,…
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