Georgia, My How You've Changed!
Thirty years ago, a lot of Georgians might have told you the state had already changed about as much as it could. Not so, as it turns out.
Economic Development Features
Economic Development: September 2014
Christy Simo writes about economic development, including Atlanta ranking high in job growth and a new inland port for Murray County.
Mission Possible
When a military base closes, there are plenty of unknowns. What will the economic impact be? How will the community respond? What will happen to the land? In Georgia, a Navy school and two Army bases shuttered by the 2005…
Economic Development: August 2015
Christy Simo writes about economic development, including National Beef Packing Co. in Colquitt County and more Georgia jobs for Mars Inc.
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…
Economic Development: July 2015
Christy Simo writes about economic development, including an expansion in Jenkins County, new Porsche headquarters in Atlanta and a mixed-use development in Columbus.
A Hard Rock Life
Mining is the only work that Tommie Wilson, 79, and Hoyt Sanders, 76, have known. Wilson began loading kaolin in 1956 and Sanders began working in the mines in east Georgia in 1957. They started out at $1.28 and $1.34…
2015 Legislative Recap
Transportation was the 500-pound gorilla in this year’s legislative session – a friendly gorilla for the most part, who claimed a ton of attention but got lots of money for roads and bridges and even a little for transit. There…
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…
Showtime!
By the time Ray Tanner came out of retirement to repair the retro-cool sign for the Ritz Theatre in Brunswick, it had become eye-catching for all the wrong reasons, harboring the nests for several generations of sparrows. “Over the years,…
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