Georgia 400 Corridor: Corridor Connections
Transportation, fiber networks and healthcare.
Author: Karen Kirkpatrick
How May We Serve You?
Check out the view as you drive around Georgia. Cranes dot the Atlanta skyline. Houses are going up across the state. Commercial construction can be seen from the mountains to the coast. There’s one sector of the economy that doesn’t…
Georgia's Top 100 Public Companies
This year’s ranking, which collectively generated $452.2 billion in total revenue last year, reflects evidence of a growing economy here in Georgia. Plus a look at six CEOs who are running some of the top companies in the state.
The Amazing, Tragic, Iconic and Surprising Legacy of the 1996 Olympic Games
Twenty years ago this month, Atlanta pulled off an amazing feat of hospitality, economic development, infrastructure improvements, civic pride and just plain fun that some folks weren’t actually sure would happen right up until the start of the Opening Ceremony.…
2016 Best Places to Work
Building on the success of our Best Places to Work in Georgia program last year, this year Georgia Trend teamed up with Best Companies Group (BCG) and SHRM Georgia State Council to expand the program that is dedicated to finding…
Reaching for the Stars
When the book is written about the phenomenal rise of the film and television industry in Georgia, writers and researchers will look back to find the beginnings of that growth.They’ll discover a few deep roots – Gone with the Wind…
Into the Woods
Georgia’s State Parks and Historic Sites celebrate 85 years of family-friendly outdoor recreation and a significant economic impact
Growing with Enthusiasm
There’s a spot in North Georgia where some 1,600 people – students, faculty and staff – get to learn, work, play and serve others in what they refer to as University in the Park because of its beauty and tranquility.…
Four for the Future
Across the state, communities both large and small often need resources and expertise that aren’t available locally to create and implement positive change that citizens are eager to support. Many times those communities call on the University of Georgia’s Public…
Patience Pays Off
When you dive into the pharmaceutical industry in Georgia, it doesn’t take long to realize that the many moving parts in this successful sector – from elementary school education to university research into animal and human therapeutics to venture funding…
2016 Georgia Trustees
At first glance, Jim Blanchard and Muhtar Kent might not appear to have much in common, but dig just a little deeper and the reason the pair were selected as 2016 Georgia Trustees becomes obvious. Servant leadership, says Todd Groce,…
Hall of Fame: Lasting Influences
Arthur Blank Co-founder, The Home Depot Owner, Atlanta Falcons Atlanta When Arthur Blank founded The Home Depot with Bernie Marcus in 1978, no one knew how significantly their home-improvement superstore would change not only their own lives, but the lives…
Operation Workforce
Every month the new unemployment rate in Georgia is announced, and we learn how, despite the number creeping down, it continues to be higher than the U.S. rate. What we don’t hear as often is that in Georgia, there are…
100 Most Influential Georgians
Here in Georgia, we have a lot to be proud of: a strong economy, top-rated universities, nationally recognized restaurants – the list goes on. And while it can be easy to take all this for granted, it’s because of many…
2015 Family Business Awards
Successfully blending family and business is no small feat, but this year’s crop of Family Business Award winners show that not only can it be done, but that it can create a solid business foundation for generations to come. Now…
Literary Reflections
“How Georgian do you have to be?” It’s a question the judges at the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, housed at the University of Georgia, ask themselves many times each year as they contemplate the nominees. It’s one for which…
2015 40 Under 40
For the 19th year, Georgia Trend presents a group of 40 outstanding Georgians under the age of 40 – the state’s best and brightest. This year’s honorees represent business, government, politics, nonprofits, science, healthcare and education. And at the age…
Diggin' Up Bones
Longtime Georgia Trend political columnist Bill Shipp knows where all of the bodies are buried in the state’s political past. Shipp covered Georgia politics for more than 50 years, from the early days of the Civil Rights Movement to 2009,…
Playing To Your Strengths
On a warm, sunny day, people pour off a bus in downtown Woodstock. Conversations continue as they walk up the sidewalk to the Chambers at City Center, a beautifully renovated 1913 church sanctuary that’s now used as meeting and event…
Leading The Change
Consider for a moment what it might be like to adopt 600 young people over an eight-year span. You have to have enough room to feed and house them. You have to be sure they have books and activities. You…
Home Again, Home Again
We’ve read the stories and lived the housing crisis in Georgia for the last few years. We’ve heard again and again that our over-reliance on construction and the industries that support it meant the state was hit even harder than…
Firing On All Cylinders
Next time you’re on the road, take a look at the cars around you. It may seem that you’re surrounded by foreign autos – Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Kia – they’re everywhere. Despite the foreign names, it’s likely they were made…
Flight Commander
Stop just a minute and picture a major U.S. defense contractor. Bombers, fighter jets, wing assemblies, all constructed and tested in a huge facility in the South. Now, imagine the general manager of that plant – maybe a retired Air…
Creating Opportunities
Re-shoring isn’t a word that has been bandied about much in the United States over the past 20 years. In fact, as manufacturers moved production overseas, the word heard most often was off-shoring. All that is changing, however, as labor…
It Takes A Village
From Carrollton and Cordele to Athens, Americus and Atlanta, business incubators are helping entrepreneurs transform ideas into companies, while at the same time growing the economy of Georgia, introducing cool technology and improving lives. Incubators vary, from those that support…
Where Science and Commerce Intersect
As you look around Georgia today at the growing number of technology-related companies springing up, it’s easy to think that they landed here through some kind of cosmic coincidence. Nothing could be further from the truth. It took the failure…
Renaissance Woman
Take a look at a campus map of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and you know right away that this is an unusual institution. SCAD’s more than 80 buildings in Savannah, many of them renovated pieces of…
Georgia's New Trustees
The Shepherd Center’s Alana Shepherd and SCAD President Paula Wallace are the 2015 recipients of the state’s highest honor.
Cobb County: The Power Alley
In baseball, power alleys are the areas of the field just to the left and right of center field, so named because it’s where balls launched by power hitters go when hit the hardest. In the Metro Atlanta area, many…
Up In The Air
From Phoenix Air, a Cartersville company with flying emergency rooms that deliver Ebola patients to life-saving treatment in the United States, to a variety of companies working on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS – also known as UAV, unmanned aerial vehicles,…
Creative State
Georgia’s literary heritage includes the likes of Margaret Mitchell, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O’Connor and even those who may not be thought of primarily as writers, but whose words have touched millions, like Martin Luther King Jr. These authors have inspired…
Thinking Ahead
The United States, once a shining example of higher education attainment, now trails behind 15 other countries in the percentage of college graduates. And within that dismal figure, Georgia remains in the bottom five among the states. Increasing access to…
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