Southeast

John Riddle returned home to Wayne County in 2008, the year that begat the Great Recession. He had enjoyed a rewarding tenure in Gwinnett County as director of the Gwinnett Hospital Foundation, but he wanted his three sons to know…

The Golden Isles are living up to their name. Set amidst the shores of Glynn County on Georgia’s Atlantic coast, this region of temperate climates and sandy beaches has long been a destination for travelers. Bisected with one of the…

Savannah was once described by a travel writer as “the intersection of gentility and avant garde, with back alleys of the just plain weird.” Of course, that was written after Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the bestselling…

Nobody in Cordele seems to be in much of a hurry, unless it’s the tourists who zip by on I-75 on their way to Disney World or the sandy beaches of Florida. That’s probably a good thing because some of…

Camden County is where Georgia ends  and Florida begins. It forms the intersection of the two states and the Atlantic Ocean. There is a popular notion that St. Marys is a quirky little village filled with eccentrics dressed in Hawaiian…

  Ron Tolley and his staff are not the swaggering kind, but they did seem to have extra bounce in their steps as summer was winding down. “We’ve had good growth in our industrial sector and in our distribution centers,”…

  A rising tide of optimism has turned into a tsunami along the shores of Glynn County, where construction activity remains constant, retail sales are growing and tourism is flourishing. Brunswick’s island suburbia is sprouting hotel rooms like tropical flowers,…

  Back in April 2008, Savannah’s Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation began taking orders for its new – and highly touted – G650 jet, a 16-passenger marvel of modern engineering that had buyers elbowing each other out of the way in the…

  It’s a well-worn theme in real estate that location is really what matters. It can also be the deciding factor for the success of a county or region as well. That’s one way economic developers explain the ability of…

  Normally a soft-spoken man, Bill Forbes finds himself having to raise his voice a few decibels to be heard over the sounds of construction coming at him from all sides as he stands at the entrance to Valdosta’s South…