A few minutes on Google Maps shows what officials in Banks County are grappling with. The differences between the satellite images of the county’s two exits on Interstate 85 in northeast Georgia couldn’t be more stark. Exit 149, the interstate’s…
The shifting fortunes of North Georgia’s Fannin County are reflected in the narrow main street that cuts through the thriving town of Blue Ridge. Cars line both sides of the thoroughfare, with many bearing out of county and out-of-state license…
When banker Bruce Knighton looks south from Lavonia, he sees change coming up Interstate 85. In counties to the south, subdivisions and big box stores are spreading, changing what was once rural and isolated into something entirely new and different.…
The rest of Georgia may be struggling through an epic, headline-making drought, but visionary planning and engineering some 25 years ago has produced an enviable oasis in one northeast Georgia community. Elberton, a town of 4,700, is awash in water…
Long centered on the University of Georgia, Athens-Clarke County’s economy may be tilting seismically toward life sciences in the near future. None of the announcements are firm but they are close enough to set tongues wagging: Medical College of Georgia…
“If you build it, they will come,” may be the signature line from the movie Field of Dreams, but the idea behind the phrase can be as aptly applied to the way developers, businesses and government agencies are trying to…
Economic development figures for Blairsville/Union County.
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