Metro Atlanta

Running north from Buckhead into the northern reaches of Fulton County, the Georgia 400 corridor bisects a region that has become one of the most prosperous and fastest-growing areas in the nation. There are gleaming office towers and busy shopping…

  In Gwinnett County, they have looked into the future and found that it’s already here. “Gwinnett is the prototype of America 2040,” says new Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Dr. Daniel Kaufman. “We already look like America 2040,…

  These days it seems that just about everyone wants to be in Buckhead. From trendy retailers to high-flying tech start-ups, business is once again booming in this urban enclave of north Atlanta. While the visions of economic prosperity are…

  Momentum is a beautiful thing, especially when the topic is economic development, and right now Cherokee County’s got it. Since climbing out of the recession, the Cherokee Office of Economic Development has recorded a steady, four-year increase in prospect…

  Robert Belisle’s town is overrun with cannibalistic zombies, but he doesn’t typically go in for such nonsense. It’s what The Walking Dead leaves in its grisly wake that mostly interests him. While most of us see only peckish monsters…

Cobb County’s motto these days could be a variation on “you can’t keep a good man down.” This suburban region just north of Atlanta went through some rough times during the still lingering great recession, but the news is getting…

  Downtown is not only the oldest part of Atlanta, but around the world it has become the brand that defines the city, the region and even the state. “What drives our growth is visibility – whether it’s a real…

  A mere 20 years ago, Georgia 400 was referred to by some people on the north side of Atlanta as the “Alpharetta Autobahn” due to the lack of traffic and the fact you could drive as fast as you…

  It is late morning at the King’s Hawaiian football field-size bakery in the Hall County community of Oakwood, and the aroma of baking bread has tastebuds blooming and tummies rumbling. The minute-by-minute march to the lunch hour seems agonizingly…

  When the iconic water towers proclaiming “Gwinnett is Great” and “Success Lives Here” were taken down in 2010 due to water system upgrades in Gwinnett County, some viewed it as symbolic of what they saw as a gradual decline…