Southwest

  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…

You don’t hear much complaining about the economy in Albany and Dougherty County these days. Sure, the area has seen some tough times over the years. Two separate floods in the last decade have severely damaged Albany. Some of the…

It is midmorning in the air traffic control tower at the San Antonio International Airport, and it seems that everything that could go wrong has. Planes are straying from their designated take-off and landing patterns; one recently departed plane is…

Mark Glass has the twice-daily task of feeding 100,000 head of stock on his Mitchell County farm, with the leading fashion houses of the world taking a keen interest in his final products. Glass grows alligators, whose hides are turned…

It seemed a curious exercise last spring when Greg Coop and a dozen other parents took their kids for a morning walk to school on Moultrie’s first “Walking School Bus” trip. “You could tell at first the kids didn’t like…

You have to hand it to folks in Albany and Dougherty County – they’re never short on optimism, and perhaps that helps account for the new companies and jobs that keep emerging from some grim economic reality. It hasn’t always…

By the time unemployment figures for Southwest Georgia counties were announced last August the region’s optimism index was already at a two-year high, thanks to a number of announcements that promised more jobs, the better-paying kind, and more capital investments,…