The Power Years
Cathy Gaddis spent her career under the hoods of other people’s cars, a single mom raising two sons around a rotating menagerie of pets and in the pits of Oklahoma dirt tracks where she drove her own Fords – “Fords!…
Economic Development Features
The African-American Market
You don’t have to look overseas to find fast-paced growth; it’s right here in America’s multicultural economy. In 1990, the nation’s African-American buying power was $318 billion. Today, blacks have $845 billion in spending power, and by 2012, the number…
Celebrating Revitalization
Taking place, as it does each year, in early spring, the annual Heart and Soul Bus Tour, sponsored by the Georgia Cities Foundation – a subsidiary of the Georgia Municipal Association – offers an unparalleled opportunity to see the seeds…
June 2008: Trend Radar
The game’s afoot: It isn’t often that high school-age business developers flock to Atlanta for a conference designed to open the doors to entrepreneurship, but that’s just what happened last spring when the Game Development eXchange (GDX) opened its doors…
Growth In Columbus
The economic outlook for Columbus is good, but not great. The U.S. economy already is in recession and Georgia’s economy can accurately be described as “near recessionary.” The better news for Columbus is that the pace of growth will rise…
Reviving Jekyll
When the Jekyll Island Authority (JIA) announced last year that it had formed a partnership with Linger Longer Commun-ities, a Georgia resort developer, to revitalize the island’s aging infrastructure and tourist attractions, a cacophony of protests arose. From public meetings…
The Albany Outlook
Assuming that the U.S. economic recession is mild and that Georgia’s economy manages to keep its head above water, the Albany MSA will add about 400 new jobs in 2008. As always, there are headwinds and tailwinds. Albany’s economy will…
Trend Radar: May 2008
Bee Malady: Some 165 billion members of Georgia’s most critical workforce are without badly needed healthcare and their numbers are diminishing. This is the estimated number of bees in Georgia’s 100 or so commercial colonies who, every year, work their…
Hallowed Grounds
There’s only one place in the state where you can have a wedding ceremony conducted in the presence of Georgia golfing legend Bobby Jones and Gone With The Wind author Margaret Mitchell – Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery. A cemetery wedding may…
Trend Radar: April 2008
Empowerment In Crisp: At first, it seemed the hotels, fast food restaurants and travel centers springing up along Exit 99 on Interstate 75 in rural Crisp County were just another step in the evolution of highway development. But the 400…
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