As the magazine celebrates 40 years this month, it’s the perfect time to look back on some of the moments that have shaped us over the past four decades. Some of Georgia Trend’s previous managing editors have shared their memories:…
Brunswick’s economy tilts towards hospitality, leisure, logistics, retail and government. The economy depends heavily on international trade. The risk of local recession therefore is high, and job growth will slow even if the trade war and the federal government restructuring…
Until recently, Murray County seemed like Georgia’s best-kept secret. It was just four years ago that local officials and the chamber of commerce began mobilizing efforts outside county limits to fill the many empty storefronts in downtown Chatsworth and Eton.…
Savannah is on a mission to RISE up. RISE stands for Regional Industry Support Enterprise, a Savannah-based, multicounty organization that was formed to help coastal Georgia and its environs meet the labor demands of a growing industrial sector. [caption id="attachment_75930"…
The adage, “If you build it, they will come,” certainly applies to the logistics industry in Georgia. For years, the state’s leaders have…
The Port of Savannah is making plans to expand – by putting a terminal on a 2,000-acre island in the middle of the Savannah River. Hutchinson Island already houses the Savannah Convention Center, a Westin Hotel and a golf…
The Port of Savannah stands ready to absorb its share of the massive impact from the $5.5 billion Hyundai electric vehicle plant taking shape in neighboring Bryan County. A policy of advance planning and a dose of experience with the…
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…
Another month, another (near) record. That’s becoming a familiar story at the Georgia Ports Authority, which reported its second-busiest month in October, when the Port of Savannah handled 552,800 twenty-foot equivalent container units. That’s an increase of 9.6% compared to…
It’s been more than five years since Savannah first welcomed the biggest container ship to dock at an East Coast port. It carried about 14,000 twenty-foot-equivalent container units (TEUs) of cargo. Thanks to the tireless effort and vision of the…
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