Georgia’s Got Game: Since 2005, an emerging sector of the Georgia economy has tiptoed its way to importance, barely getting a glance from trend watchers. “It’s very, very low under the radar,” says Georgia Department of Economic Development Deputy Commissioner…
Two years ago, insurers posted their best underwriting performance in 57 years. They did that by emphasizing premium growth over market share. Last year, the industry’s re-focus on fundamental underwriting standards was sorely tested. Insurers flinched and premiums declined, but…
Talk about sports families: Who in the world can top the Rhinos of Atlanta, formerly of Charlotte, NC? In the professional ranks, there were prizefighters, Max and Buddy Baer; in baseball, Joe, Vince and Don DiMaggio, Dizzy Dean and Daffy…
“I feel like I’ve been in the construction business these last six years,” says Bill Jones III of the near-finished, $500 million restoration and expansion of his Sea Island Resorts. “I’m looking forward to getting back to the hospitality business.”…
Georgia Commissioner of Labor Michael Thurmond, sitting in the conference room of his Atlanta office discussing the job market for 2008, zeroes in on a key development. “The first baby boomer [has] qualified for Social Security,” he says. Thurmond is…
Georgia Power Company, a subsidiary of the Southern Company, provides electrical power to some 2.25 million customers in 155 counties in the state. The firm, which earned $787 million in 2006, formally requested a $406 million rate increase from the…
Like an American flag planted into the lunar surface, the shiny slab of black granite seems oddly out of place amid the hardwoods and rolling hills in a pristine patch of Canton in Cherokee County. It bears the inscription “The…
Click on the following link for extra information http://home.earthlink.net/~oldagolda/georgiatrendextra/ It all began with a single tree, a black cherry tree that became Spence Rosenfeld’s giving tree. One that gave him great joy as a boy, a refuge and way-cool hangout…
The coast with the most: After decades of spotty growth, the southern third of Georgia is alive with planned projects that forecast an Atlanta-like economic boom. Out-of-state developers, it seems, are finding proximities to Florida, especially those along an interstate,…
The 2008 forecast calls for Georgia’s inflation-adjusted GSP to increase by 2.4 percent, only slightly lower than the 2.6 percent advance estimated for 2007. Although the percentage gain will be down from last year, it will be higher than the…
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