From Rabun County in the mountains to Cairo at the Florida line, Georgia has be-come the Land of OZ, the acronym for Opportunity Zone, the hottest thing going in economic development right now. There’s every indication the movement to OZ…
The first informal meetings of the Georgia Economic Developers Association (GEDA) in 1963 at downtown Atlanta’s Top of the Mart cost $3.50 a head. That included tip, tax, dessert and dues. Today the lunch tab at the meetings is 10…
Georgia Trend’s 2013 hospital rankings divide 138 of the state’s hospitals into five separate categories: Teaching Hospitals, Large Hospitals (more than 400 beds), Medium-sized Hospitals (151-399 beds), Small Hospitals (fewer than 150 beds) and Critical Access Hospitals (rural community hospitals).…
Whatever your needs when it comes to healthcare, Georgia is a good place to be. From Rome to Albany, from Douglasville to Savannah, Georgia claims a number of hospitals that are widely regarded as among the nation’s best in their…
I’ve never seen the man before, don’t know his name, but he’s definitely local, or he wouldn’t be embedded at a North Georgia sports shop, where he presents an air of native permanence. I’ve only lived in this rural community…
The results came in for Sammye E. Coan Middle School, and they were very good, which is why school principal Betsy Bockman was so worried. “I thought, ‘Oh, great, now they’re going to investigate us,’ because our positive growth was…
SunTrust – known as The Trust Company of Georgia for much of its life – is one of the top 50 regional banks in the country and the last “big bank” actually headquartered in Atlanta. Thanks to a series of…
Meet the winners of this year’s competition, selected by Kennesaw State University’s Cox Family Enterprise Center.
In Savannah, a 60-year-old man goes to his laptop instead of the phone to schedule his annual physical. While online, he double-checks last year’s lab results and requests a refill of one of his prescriptions. In Rome, a breast cancer…
Earlier this year when athenahealth Inc. was seeking a headquarters for a major expansion of its sales, implementation and customer service operation, the Watertown, Mass.-based company bypassed many traditional tech centers for Ponce City Market in Atlanta. The $4-billion company,…
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