Economic Development Features

As Georgia's convention businesses fight to recover from the recession, it's a buyer's market. Here's what the industry is doing — and what's in it for you.

All Cities of Excellence share at least a few common traits: fiscal stability, strong leadership, citizen participation, cultural and recreational opportunities. These are the pluses that allow upscale, ritzy Alpharetta and rural, laid-back Baxley to appear on the same list. But it also helps if a city has that one intangible quality, an all-important sixth sense.