Metro Atlanta

A few years ago the folks in Barrow County were seeing nothing but growth coming at them, as the next stop on Metro Atlanta’s fast-moving expansion. Homebuilders were working overtime and companies were following their employees in search of better…

The great recession of 2009 may have laid low communities across Georgia, but not Cobb County. While this north metro county has seen job losses and business closures, it also has companies that are still expanding and public works projects…

Athens has seen its share of ups and downs lately. Leaders lobbied hard to land the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) to enhance its growth in the life sciences sector last year; but a combination of community opposition and…

The road fronting Perimeter Mall is filled with traffic as throngs of pedestrians make the trek across the multilane street to dining and shopping. This intersection is a good indication of the change that has come to the busy Perimeter…

Even as county leaders are wrestling with a tax situation that’s standing in the way of a balanced budget, economic developers are celebrating the relocation of not one but two Fortune 500 companies – NCR and Asbury Automotive – to…

It was time for a change in sprawling DeKalb County – and the man who’s now at its helm, newly elected county CEO Burrell Ellis, is under no illusions that restructuring county government, closing a $60 million budget gap and…

Business stories these days all seem to lead with bailout, economic downturn, layoffs or stimulus package. But the story in South Metro Atlanta is not about any of those things. While people in the six counties – Clayton, Coweta, Henry,…

Around Georgia and around the world, economic concerns are growing almost by the hour. But in Cherokee County, despite state budget cuts, falling tax revenues, and the housing bust, people are surprisingly upbeat. Located north of Atlanta up Interstate 575,…

In Cobb County, local leaders and developers are talking about what might have been, if not for the economic crisis that produced a nationwide collapse in the housing market. From the Cumberland Galleria in the south, to Marietta and even…

In this Olympic year, many people in Georgia were waxing nostalgic about the 1996 Atlanta games. Folks in Rockdale County, however, don’t have to reminisce. A trip to the Georgia International Horse Park, built for the 1996 Olympics and still…