Southwest

Renewable energy, retail and new industry.

The terminal building that recently opened to the flying public at Southwest Georgia Regional Airport is an apt symbol of the way the economy of Albany and Dougherty County is poised to take flight. “Having a brand-new terminal as your…

You can grow just about anything in Southwest Georgia. Peanuts, pecans, cotton, vegetables – you name it and someone is probably growing it here. Jobs, though, that’s different. Just like the rest of the state and nation, Southwest Georgia got…

  Southwest Georgia has long been a favorite of hunters and outdoorsmen. The quail shooting is among the best you’ll find anywhere, and once you visit you often want to stay, say locals. It was on the annual Georgia Quail…

  In Southwest Georgia, a vast expanse of 25 counties stretching from Interstate 75 to the Alabama line, signs of economic recovery are starting to take hold. Some traditional jobs centers like Albany and Valdosta are seeing an upsurge in…

  When Mark Grimaldi announced in December that his Albany-based Equinox Chemicals had acquired a 104-year-old Missouri company, Adco Cleaning Products, and was bringing it home, the move marked what seems to be just another step in a continuing growth…

  Tommy Hurst doesn’t at all seem frazzled, despite the fact that on this workday he has to get seven of his huge industrial-grade boilers off to Russia, there is an Alaskan Native American tribe seeking to forge a partnership…

  Southwest Georgia is poised for seismic economic developments to roll across the landscape from Interstate 75 to the Alabama state line, with rumbles of promise already under way in Crisp County where an inland port has begun shipping cargo…

Tift County economic developers have noticed a grow-ing number of distribution facilities arriving in the community due, they believe, to the crossroads of Interstate 75 north and south and the east-west route of U.S. Highway 82. But this community is…