The World COMES TO PLAY: Atlanta & Georgia Host the FIFA World Cup
Thirty years ago, Atlanta was a newbie among major international cities that host global sporting events.…
Metro Atlanta Chamber
Remaking Downtown: From SoDo to GSU
Former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neal famously said “all politics is local” – and while that may not be true today, it still holds for development. Literally, of course, at ground level, all development is local – though…
Legalizing Sports Betting
College football fans recently packed Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta for both the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl and the national championship game. Fans across the nation placed bets on the final score, total points and star players’ individual stats. Sports enthusiasts in…
Q&A with Ángel Cabrera
When Ángel Cabrera arrived in Atlanta in 2019 as Georgia Tech’s 12th president, it was something of a homecoming for him. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Tech in the 1990s, earning an M.S. and a Ph.D. in psychology and…
From the Publisher: Welcoming the World – Again
How exciting to learn that Atlanta will be a host city for the 2026 men’s FIFA World Cup! It reestablishes the state capital as a world-class venue, much like the 1996 Olympics and three Super Bowls did. It also enhances…
2021 Economic Yearbook: Metro Atlanta
On the one hand, The Battery Atlanta was getting battered by COVID-19. With no baseball fans boosting the bottom line, the Cobb County mixed-use development saw revenue plunge 40% in the second quarter of 2020. But the restaurants dotting the…
How Georgia’s Small Businesses are Surviving COVID-19
When the COVID-19 pandemic slammed into Georgia’s economy last March, few sectors felt the repercussions as hard as small businesses. These firms with fewer than 500 employees made up 99.6% (or 1.1 million enterprises) of total Georgia businesses in 2020.…
Political Notes: The Ups, Downs, and In-betweens
Counting, Recounting: A hand count of Georgia votes cast in the November election confirmed what the initial machine count showed: President-elect Joe Biden beat President Donald Trump by about 12,000 votes. The totals were certified by Secretary of State Brad…
2020 Economic Yearbook: Metro Atlanta
Numbers don’t tell the whole story about a region’s economic health, but it’s a place to start when it comes to global trade. For example, the Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC) lists 2,600 internationally owned establishments and 78 consulates and trade…
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