Mayor Roundtable
Georgia Trend convened three groups of mayors at the Georgia…
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Growing With Intention
North Fulton is a region that thrives from the uniqueness of its cities. Municipal and business leaders are proud of recent progress, but they recognize…
Perimeter Area: Revitalized Region
It was nearly a decade in the making, but the massive reconfiguration of the interchange at Interstate 285 and…
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…
Perimeter Area: Strong Rebound
Creating city centers, connecting trails and green spaces and courting corporate headquarters – these are a few of the Perimeter area’s favorite things. Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and Brookhaven are all undergoing a major shift in how suburban areas like those…
Improving Livability
Peachtree Road, Atlanta’s signature street running through the heart of Buckhead, desperately needed a makeover. “Peachtree had become a ‘traffic sewer’ and was not attractive, and people did not want to walk along it,” says Jim Durrett, the Buckhead Community…
Economic Development Around the State
Bioplastics Manufacturing: Bioplastics company NANTRenewables is investing $29 million to build a manufacturing facility in Savannah at SeaPoint Industrial Terminal Complex and will create 134 jobs. Atlanta E-commerce: 1-800-Flowers.com is opening a distribution center in Atlanta. The 260,000-square-foot facility will…
2021 TravelBlazers
Georgia is home to a seemingly endless list of top tourism attractions, from well-known destinations like the Georgia Aquarium and College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta to Savannah’s River Street, the Okefenokee Swamp in South Georgia and Anna Ruby…
Perimeter Area: Belief and Betterment
Competition drives the economy, but collaboration builds – and sustains – community. One side effect of the difficult pandemic year in the Atlanta metro is people coming together, in a mostly socially distant but still meaningful way. This is especially…
Metro Atlanta | Perimeter: Big Transformations
"Dunwoody is hot,” City Manager Eric Linton said just before COVID-19 struck. It’s not a word that you would have associated with the area a few years ago, when the city’s name often served as shorthand for any of Atlanta’s…
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