These are the clear signs of economic momentum in Metro Atlanta: consecutive years of solid job growth driven by a mix of growing industries, especially those clustered around technology. Well, it’s that and also a stubborn reluctance to accept “no”…
Cities thrive when galleries flourish in multiple communities. In Atlanta, several galleries and museums have helped revive surrounding neighborhoods and businesses.
Chef Keira Moritz has returned home to open Steel Magnolias, where crowds are eating up her version of “urban Southern” food.
Chris Carr takes an integrated approach to his role as the new Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development.
Some 40 miles north of Atlanta, Bartow County once promoted itself as being not the big city, but a bucolic retreat from the hustle and bustle. These days the county’s proximity has proven to be the catalyst for some transformative…
Lumber and Wood Production of lumber and wood products is poised to grow much faster than GDP. Surging production will be due to the nation’s housing market recovery, supply constraints related to the mountain pine beetle in Canada and higher…
There’s this thing in Hollywood called staying power. You’ll hear it applied to movie stars, like Michael Douglas, for example. He’s been around awhile, has a couple of Academy Awards, and at almost 70, he still gets his share of…
Everyone knows that there’s no “‘I” in team. Working together, especially when it comes to building a community, involves countless partnerships and interaction between all sorts of people. Still, finding the resources and the wherewithal to turn a project from…
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…
There was a time 50 years ago when today’s 24-school Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) was only a smattering of vocational schools and courses were just about limited to auto repair for the boys and cosmetology in a hair…
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