“We’re sure not booming, but we’re getting there.” Lee County’s Winston Oxford is talking about his coun-ty, but he could be speaking for the entire South-west Georgia region. After several years of struggling with an ailing economy, the region’s…
With several biofuel projects kicking into gear this year in East Central Georgia, pine is starting to smell like money. “The European continent is under mandate to decrease the amount of fossil fuels – i.e., coal – they use…
As the bad economy continues to recede in Georgia’s rearview mirror, a new word is cropping up on the lips of economic developers around the state: Regionalism. People are banding together, forming coalitions and organizations that are encouraging neighboring…
The first thing people like to talk about in Georgia’s west central region is the “Kia juggernaut.” In a down economy, the Korean automaker has become a central focus of economic activity with a bustling plant near West Point…
The new $200-million Caterpillar manufacturing facility near Athens has set in motion economic development opportunities that could spread like the wings of a butterfly throughout Northeast Georgia. The 265-acre property in Bogart straddles Clarke and Oconee counties, and nearby…
New technology and a housing thaw have accelerated a comeback in the hard-hit northwest Georgia region, which depends mostly on a cluster of big flooring companies, resulting in better-paying positions and more opportunity for advancement for industry employees. Green…
The Metro Atlanta region is Georgia’s economic and cultural nucleus, a dense urban center within a demographically diverse suburban and exurban patchwork, stitched together by an asphalt web crawling with commuters in a slow hurry to get to work…
Georgia Trend’s annual region-by-region look at Georgia’s economy finds positive signs from all corners of the state – finally. Stories by Jerry Grillo, Ben Young, Karen Rosen, Randy Southerland, Christy Simo, Bobby Nesbitt and Don Sadler.
Gwinnett-based RockTenn, a packaging manufacturer, grew substantially in size and visibility with its 2011 acquisition of Smurfit-Stone, a larger Midwestern company. As a result, RockTenn is a $9-billion corporation with more than 26,000 employees; and, after several years of…
On Tybee Island, an offshore suburb of Sav-annah, tourism entrepreneur Diane Kaufman manages 50 rental properties, historic cottages and houses built between the early 1900s and the 1950s. When she finished counting the 2012 receipts from her company, Mermaid…
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