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Construction, manufacturing and a downtown renaissance

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Tourism, business and industry

Inland port, community cooperation and award-winning education

A shuttle bus winds around the corner, quietly crunching the gravel driveway at The Cottage Vineyard and Winery in Cleveland. It’s nearly 1 p.m. on a Friday, and the six-person group with VIP Southern Wine Tours marks the informal start…

The center of the economic, if not geographic universe in Northeast Georgia can be found in Gainesville and Hall County. This fast-growing region is where you come to do all your serious shopping, banking and receive medical care. Increasingly, it…

A stream of melted chocolate flows from a spigot into a stainless steel container at Chef Peter Dale’s chocolate shop in Athens’ Five Points neighborhood, near the University of Georgia campus. The sweet, rich smell is intense in the cafe…

Construction, innovative education and employment

For as long as anyone can remember, granite has been the foundation of Elbert County’s economic success. Drive around this rural northeast Georgia region and you’ll soon come upon deep pits cut into the earth. At one such quarry just…

In Athens-Clarke County, local officials will sometimes say they have an insulated economy thanks to the presence of the University of Georgia and its nearly 35,000 students. While that’s not exactly true, there is much to be said for having…