Economic Development Features

The Atlanta office market’s expansion phase should continue in 2008, but at a much more subdued pace. An abundance of recently announced projects – as well as those already in the development pipeline – will ensure that overall spending for…

The typical Atlanta commuter spends a couple of hours each weekday tediously crawling the brittle asphalt gauntlet between home and livelihood, alone in his car, which becomes a gas chamber on wheels in the creeping sludge of traffic that is…

Thinking Big: Residents of the Atlanta area are giving birth to new communities at gold-rush speed and local officials are scrambling to make sure the new arrivals come into the world healthy and ready for positive growth. For these leaders,…

Downtown developers going pro, unjamming commuter traffic, educating young Georgia drivers and greener grass.

Few if any of Georgia’s single-family housing markets are dodging the recession, but the turnaround in new home construction should begin in the second quarter of 2008.

It’s been more than 30 years since Deliverance jump-started Georgia’s film industry, and now movies, TV, commercials and videos have a $450-million impact on the state’s economy. But the competition is fierce, especially from other Southern states ready for their close-ups.

Georgia is the nation’s 10th largest consumer market, thanks to advances in buying power among African-American, Asian and Hispanic populations in the state.

What is the short-term economic impact of college- or university-related spending on the communities that host Georgia’s institutions of higher education? In college towns across our state, the question is a perennial one. I recently quantified the economic benefits that…

Measured in the simplest and broadest terms, the total economic impact of the ports on Georgia’s economy is $55.8 billion.

June 2007:Radar