Metro Atlanta

  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…

  Wealth in North Fulton is represented by more than rows of palatial executive homes and luxury cars that ply the roadways. The region brings assets to the table that are proving increasingly attractive to companies and new businesses –…

A motorist leaving I-85 North at exit 99 in Gwinnett County and driving east on Jimmy Carter Boulevard will pass strip malls and commercial properties before reaching Rockbridge Road, where neighborhoods of ranch style and split-level homes appear, the remnants…

Rocked by exurban Metro Atlanta growth, Rockdale County has maintained its remarkable assets and unique brand that has borne it through recent challenges and should propel it forward into new opportunities, say local leaders. Awareness of a staggering problem is…

About 12 years ago, a concerned group of community leaders in Carroll County decided that rather than just sit back and let the economic winds blow wherever they might, it was time to be proactive about economic development in the…

Realizing that you need a whole new approach to the way you do things can be a difficult idea to grasp at first. It can be even harder to implement. That’s the situation Paulding County finds itself in these days.…

If you haven’t been “down south” lately – as in the South Metro region of Atlanta – you might be surprised. Things are hopping in the six-county area that comprises Atlanta’s southern arc: Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Henry, Spalding and South…

Cherokee County, near the top of the Metro Atlanta region, has been as hard hit by the recession as other once-rapidly growing exurban counties, but it has prepared itself with an array of investments meant to enhance its employment picture…

Cobb County is a powerful force in Metro Atlanta, and its leadership shifts make regional waves. In the past year voters elected local businessman Tim Lee chairman of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners, after longtime commission chair Sam Olens…