Economic Development Features

  If there’s a word that best describes economic development in Southeast Georgia, it would have to be “diversity.” The region is perhaps best known for the major ports in Savannah and Brunswick, but the economy incorporates a wide range…

  “We’re sure not booming, but we’re getting there.” Lee County’s Winston Oxford is talking about his coun-ty, but he could be speaking for the entire South-west Georgia region. After several years of struggling with an ailing economy, the region’s…

  With several biofuel projects kicking into gear this year in East Central Georgia, pine is starting to smell like money. “The European continent is under mandate to decrease the amount of fossil fuels – i.e., coal – they use…

  As the bad economy continues to recede in Georgia’s rearview mirror, a new word is cropping up on the lips of economic developers around the state: Regionalism. People are banding together, forming coalitions and organizations that are encouraging neighboring…

  The first thing people like to talk about in Georgia’s west central region is the “Kia juggernaut.” In a down economy, the Korean automaker has become a central focus of economic activity with a bustling plant near West Point…