Name Of The Game: When Atlanta’s JVC America Inc. an-nounced earlier this year it would be adding 540,000 square feet to its existing 360,000 square feet of warehouse space, the move was further tribute to Georgia’s solid reputation as logistics…
Georgia’s prolonged and severe housing downturn has nearly run its course. Sales of new homes will bottom out in the final quarter of 2008, and sales of existing homes will bottom in the first quarter of 2009. New home sales…
It is mid-afternoon and Yvonne Williams steers her SUV in and out of light traffic, crisscrossing the Perimeter area on the northern side of Atlanta pointing out to her passenger office towers, restaurants, roads, residential high rises, municipal buildings, pedestrians,…
Supply and demand will create a roller-coaster ride of sorts for Georgia’s hospitality industry. Although the percentage of rooms rented will decrease in 2009, room rates are likely to be steady or slightly higher during peak periods. Peak room rates…
Putting the Cart Before the Horsepower: A flood of new developments and products has electrified Georgia’s transportation industry. Last summer when Augusta golf cart manufacturer Club Car rolled out its first street-legal electric vehicle, the event seemed to symbolize the…
Last year, 14 million Americans, or 4.6 percent of the country’s population, claimed Asian ancestry, making the group a powerful force in our consumer market. This group’s shares of the population were 3 percent and 4 percent in 1990 and…
In the gap between opportunity and sealing the deal they paced the halls, wearing intersecting paths in the carpet, these polished, well-dressed men and women with hands-free communication technology, holding conversations with telephone phantoms half a hemisphere away. Spanish and…
By the numbers: The newest stars in corporate America are the number-crunchers and bean counters that form the chief financial officer ranks, says an Atlanta headhunter specializing in tracking down CFOs who keep the books and sign the checks. “More…
How much does a community that hosts a University System of Georgia institution benefit from university- or college-related spending? Georgia’s Intellectual Capital Partnership Program (ICAPP) sponsors a study I conduct annually that estimates the economic impact of college- or university-related…
When Catherine Ross looks at a map of the Southeastern United States, city limits and state lines start to blur and something else comes into focus. She sees the rough draft of economic salvation, a web of seamless connectivity, metropolitan…
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