Metro Atlanta

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…

  In several ways, B.J. Mathis is a pioneer of the modern age, arriving in Henry County with her husband in the early 1980s when the county’s population was just 36,309 and at a time when few women had broken…

  Although it is situated companionably be-tween Atlanta and Athens, Walton County has an autonomous streak that would have made its namesake proud. More than 200 years after George Walton signed the Declaration of Independence, the county’s new branding, “Stretch…

Perhaps no region of Georgia presents more diversity than Atlanta’s South Metro. The region encompasses the southern part of Fulton County, plus Spalding, Coweta, Henry, Fayette and Clayton. Within this broad area is virtually everything a business or economic developer…

  As the Great Recession refuses to relax its grip on the national economy, the distance between winners and losers has grown. Nowhere is that gap more apparent than in Cobb County. Long a bastion of economic stability, this diverse…

  It’s a rough time for elected officials everywhere these days. Faced with a battered economy and plummeting tax revenues, officials in sprawling DeKalb County are engaged in the unpleasant task of cutting budgets and raising taxes to cover a…