Georgia Trend - October 2012

A Boost For Bioscience

  In August, Baxter International Inc. broke ground on a much-anticipated manufacturing facility east of Atlanta near Covington. The $1-billion facility, which will make plasma-based therapies that treat chronic and life-threatening illnesses, is expected to employ 1,500 when it begins…

Gateways To Higher Education

  Bobby Hammond recognized the boy from a distance, the gangly walk that was hard to miss. “Good kid, smart kid, and all he wanted to do was go to college at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts,” says Hammond,…

Gainesville/Hall County: Still Growing

  It is late morning at the King’s Hawaiian football field-size bakery in the Hall County community of Oakwood, and the aroma of baking bread has tastebuds blooming and tummies rumbling. The minute-by-minute march to the lunch hour seems agonizingly…