Mayor Roundtable
Georgia Trend convened three groups of mayors at the Georgia…
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Economic Development Around the State: From Hall County to Georgia Tech's Science Square
LaFayette Food: Pilgrim’s is investing $400 million to build a prepared foods facility in Walker County in several phases. The company, which already operates seven food production facilities in the state employing some 7,500 people, will begin hiring in 2027…
Revived Theaters Boost Downtowns
Georgia’s arts community is in many respects the secret sauce that keeps this state so cool. Fine art has taken a beating through digitalization of everything, and people are starting to notice. There’s a reason why directors are abandoning CGI…
Economy: Columbus Advantage
Recent economic development successes have Columbus poised to outperform the state and the nation in 2024. Earlier this year, Pratt & Whitney announced the expansion of its operations in Columbus, which will create about 400 jobs. In mid-2022, AFB International…
Columbus Muscogee County: A Variety of Attractions
Located on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, Georgia’s second-largest city – encompassing 224 square miles – has long depended on the river to drive commerce. Once a port city, Columbus was a center of textile manufacturing in the early…
2023 Industry Outlook
Thanks to several state-specific factors, Georgia continues to outpace the nation in economic growth. Our annual outlook for the Peach State’s primary industries is based on research from the Selig Center for Economic Growth at University of Georgia’s Terry College…
West Central: Urban and Rural Gamechangers
So many great things are happening in Columbus, the city is sharing them with the world. Uptown Columbus is partnering with 20 business leaders who are expressing their passion for Georgia’s second-largest city on YouTube. Even before all videos were…
From the Publisher: Transforming Trails and Transit
It’s exciting to read about the transformative projects taking place throughout Georgia in this month’s issue. The BeltLine section on page 90 was particularly interesting because of the impact it’s had on Atlanta and the potential to replicate it in…
Lake Oconee Region: Lakeside Quality of Life
There is a spot on I-20 East where a sometimes harrowing, white-knuckle drive out of Atlanta becomes palpably serene. From the untamed woodlands and the bucolic pastures on either side of the interstate to the bridges crossing over Lake Oconee…
Ripple Effect
Some construction and redevelopment projects are much larger than themselves, as their impact expands in ripples around their original footprint. These transformational projects, typically mixed-use developments, rewrite the built environment around them entirely. Around the state, a number of such…
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