Metro Atlanta

There was a time when Atlanta’s South Metro region was considered an afterthought. It was a place you drove through or flew over on the way to somewhere else – like downtown or the top end of the city. No…

Blinking construction signs around SunTrust Park, the next home for the Atlanta Braves, warn: “Proceed with caution.” But Malaika Rivers, executive director of the Cumberland Community Improvement District (CID), suggests that the message for people living, working and visiting Cobb…

For years Johns Creek has enjoyed a reputation as an attractive residential community in the shadow of larger cities along the Georgia 400 corridor such as Alpharetta, Roswell and Sandy Springs. “I consider us a ‘tweener community’ because we’re gently…

Some of Gwinnett’s newest businesses have a quirky flavor that perfectly illustrates the diversity of the county itself. There’s the beer distributor that bought a 690,000-square-foot warehouse formerly used by Kraft to not only distribute beer, but to also house…

Central Perimeter on the northern arc of Atlanta’s I-285 ring has long been the epicenter of the region’s office market. It was here, across both Fulton and DeKalb counties, that big corporations migrated to be close to the northern suburbs…

The motto for South Metro Atlanta in recent years could very well be “Lights! Camera! Action!” With the emphasis on action. It’s true the Southside has attracted more than its share of film crews and film studios, but the action…

Cherokee County businesses can find their location is sometimes a hard sell when seeking young college grads to fill out their workforce. It seems too far outside Atlanta’s perimeter – until the 20-somethings get here and begin to see all…

In baseball, power alleys are the areas of the field just to the left and right of center field, so named because it’s where balls launched by power hitters go when hit the hardest. In the Metro Atlanta area, many…

It seems you can hardly look at the news these days without seeing another DeKalb County government official in trouble. At press time, former county commissioner Elaine Boyer had just pleaded guilty to federal charges of lining her pocketbook with…

Ten years from now, business leaders, city and county officials, and residents in Alpharetta and throughout the Georgia 400 corridor might be able to identify October 2014 as the exact month in which the city and region’s business and economic…