Ask folks in Georgia’s west central region what the biggest driver of the regional economy is, and you’ll to get two answers – Kia and Fort Benning. The Korean car maker in West Point and the mammoth military installation near…
Last year was one of economic growth throughout much of Northeast Georgia, but perhaps the most dramatic positive momentum occurred in Rabun County. The addition of two new manufacturing companies, Gap Partners Inc. and Parkdale Mills, to the Rabun Business…
They aren’t where they want to be, but at least they are not where they used to be, say economic development officials in Northwest Georgia. The region, largely dependent on the flooring industry, was slammed when the housing boom went…
Everywhere you turn in Georgia, stories abound of new industries bubbling up, new jobs heading to the state and a newfound sense of optimism about the coming years. It seems the Great Recession is finally in our rearview mirror, and…
When Davidson College senior David Johnston was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a virulent form of the blood cancer, at age 3, statistically speaking he was not expected to live. Today, David’s story of survival is one his…
Veteran banker Kessel Stelling joined Columbus-based Synovus in 2006, when the financial services corporation acquired his Riverside Bank and merged with the Bank of North Georgia (BNG), just in time to present Stelling with the toughest challenge of his 37-year…
Each day, Paul Van Wicklen shows up for work in an underground vault at the Richard B. Russell Library on the campus of the University of Georgia (UGA), where he stands guard over a cavernous collection of items so rare…
As 2013 was winding down, Atlanta was emerging from the Great Recession, bringing with it the city’s long-slumbering commercial real estate sector. At the end of 2013’s second quarter, Atlanta’s nearly 144 million square feet of office space was showing…
Erin Grasso beams at the edge of a frigid muddy pitch, a baby in one arm, another on the way, while her husband Mike whoops it up in a big, yellow John Deere excavator, its single hydraulic insect arm ripping…
All of that traffic in, through, around and above Atlanta – it was meant to be. The big rigs circling the city on I-285, the car conga line shuffling down Georgia 400, the airliners circling over Hartsfield-Jackson waiting for permission…
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