Economic Development Features

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…

Economic wins for Georgia come from all corners of the state.

“What happens when you invest with vision?” ask banners slung across chain-link fences beside Cobb Parkway in northwest Atlanta. While the banners mask the construction along the busy roadway, the question serves to highlight an estimated half-billion dollars’ worth of…

In the winter of 2014, commuters in Cherokee and Cobb counties began seeing a few changes. Cranes took up residence in the medians along the southern end of I-575. Support beams began popping up along I-75. And then bridges began…