The rumors are true – since 2000, more young people with college degrees are moving into large cities than into their suburbs, both here in Georgia and across the country. What’s driving this trend, according to an influential study of…
In order to reach Collective Soul frontman Ed Roland’s Metro Atlanta home studio, you have to step past Duane Allman’s blue denim boots just inside the front door, walk by the baby grand piano – a gift from friend Sir…
They’re cropping up in unexpected places across the state: along Georgia Power easements, on former sites of bus depots and in raised beds scattered throughout neighborhood yards. Urban farms – whether for commercial or mostly personal use – are bringing…
In a city like Atlanta where business is basic to its DNA, having a way for commercial property owners to voluntarily tax themselves to improve the infrastructure and public safety of their community just makes sense. That’s what community improvement…
When the group of Young Gamechangers comes to your town, you can bet that good things are going to happen. A leadership program of the statewide nonprofit GeorgiaForward, it’s not just about networking and recharging participants’ professional batteries – it…
It used to be when you talked about economic development in Georgia, the focus was primarily on courting and landing large industries that could bring dozens, even hundreds of jobs to the state in one fell swoop. But today, communities…
While the leaders of most counties are dedicated to improving the lives of residents, it takes visionaries with an unwavering commitment to create programs that make a huge and lasting impact. This year the ACCG, a nonprofit organization established to…
Fifteen years into her medical career, Dana Neacsu, M.D., had become frustrated with the way she and colleagues were treating patients. “I started noticing how certain patients kept coming back,” she says. “You give them medications and the medications work…
Walk into the Marietta branch of Delta Community Credit Union and you could be in any bank in America – from the sleekly modern, freestanding teller stations to decorative glass-walled offices. Credit unions are working hard to offer not just…
They call it “the LakePoint effect.” Since the first pitch at the 1,300-acre sporting community in 2014, Bartow County is enjoying a renaissance of sorts. “In 2013, there was one flashing light in Emerson,” says Ellen Archer, executive director of…
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