Features

Business Industry, Education, Features

Art By Design

Ben Young,

  A giant lantern more than 80 feet tall sits on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Turner Street in Savannah. It is a beautiful sight at night, especially from Sidney Lanier Bridge as you are coming…
Business Industry, Features

A Boost For Bioscience

Mary Anne Dunkin,

  In August, Baxter International Inc. broke ground on a much-anticipated manufacturing facility east of Atlanta near Covington. The $1-billion facility, which will make plasma-based therapies that treat chronic and life-threatening illnesses, is expected to employ 1,500 when it begins…
Education, Features

Gateways To Higher Education

Jerry Grillo,

  Bobby Hammond recognized the boy from a distance, the gangly walk that was hard to miss. “Good kid, smart kid, and all he wanted to do was go to college at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts,” says Hammond,…
Business Industry, Features, People

Honoring Ethical Leadership

Patty Rasmussen,

  In 1998, Synovus Financial Services Corporation, the Columbus-based company where William “Bill” Turner served as Chairman of the Executive Committee, was named the “Best Place to Work in America” by Forbes. A reporter from the magazine interviewed him, wanting…
Business Industry, Features

Georgia Gold

Mary Anne Dunkin, Patty Rasmussen,

  This month we introduce readers to three more Georgia businesses that have been around for 50 years or more: Stevens & Wilkinson, an architectural, engineering and interior design firm in downtown Atlanta; Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis, & Rothschild, LLP,…
Business Industry, Features

Banking On Better Times

Jerry Grillo,

  Maybe there’s a way out of this mess. Maybe the worst is behind us. Maybe Georgia will eventually overcome its reputation as a poster child for banking failure. In the meantime, there’s enough anxiety over new and developing regulations,…