Business Industry

When Porsche announced in 2011 it was moving its headquarters south to a parcel of land near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, it was an unusual move. Most of Atlanta’s big corporations are located along a business corridor running from downtown…

Walk into any restaurant in the state, and most likely you can find a beer on the menu that was made right here in Georgia. But that hasn’t always been the case, and with current legislation on the books, some…

Don’t get the wrong idea.  It’s not like there were tumbleweeds rolling  on a whistling wind down 3rd Avenue, the main drag  in downtown West Point, a little Georgia town in the southwest corner of Troup County just this side…

Each day, Paul Van Wicklen shows up for work in an underground vault at the Richard B. Russell Library on the campus of the University of Georgia (UGA), where he stands guard over a cavernous collection of items so rare…

As 2013 was winding down, Atlanta was emerging from the Great Recession, bringing with it the city’s long-slumbering commercial real estate sector. At the end of 2013’s second quarter, Atlanta’s nearly 144 million square feet of office space was showing…

Erin Grasso beams at the edge of a frigid muddy pitch, a baby in one arm, another on the way, while her husband Mike whoops it up in a big, yellow John Deere excavator, its single hydraulic insect arm ripping…

In a year that saw World War I break out, the Panama Canal open and the first Tarzan of the Apes book published, 135 commissioners of roads and revenues in Georgia laid the groundwork for an organization that is indispensable…

Every citizen knows the conventional wisdom that has defined our state since Reconstruction: There is Atlanta, and then there is the rest of Georgia. Increasingly, though, the other, smaller cities are thrumming with innovation and a renewed sense of camaraderie,…