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• University System Saves Students More Than $18M a Year in Free Textbooks

  February 19, 2018

  The University System of Georgia is saving students more than $18 million a year with its free online textbook initiative called Affordable Learning Georgia.

• Blockbuster 18/19 Broadway in Atlanta Season Announced at The Fox Theatre

  February 16, 2018

  Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Atlanta is proud to announce that Broadway musical six-time Tony Award winning Best Musical and 2018 Grammy winner DEAR EVAN HANSEN and Disney’s ALADDIN will anchor the 2018/2019 season at the Fox Theatre.

• Atlanta BeltLine Partnership Board of Directors Adds New Members for 2018

  February 16, 2018

  The Atlanta BeltLine Partnership has named five new members to its Board of Directors.

• Chairman Jason Shaw Introduces Legislation to Create the Center for Rural Prosperity and Innovation

  February 16, 2018

  State Representative Jason Shaw (R-Lakeland) introduced legislation that would create the Center for Rural Prosperity and Innovation.

• Delta Pays Employees More Than $1B in Profit Sharing for Fourth Consecutive Year

  February 15, 2018

  Delta Air Lines will pay out more than $1 billion in profit sharing for the fourth year in a row and celebrate the outstanding accomplishments made possible by its more than 80,000 employees around the world.

• Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Invest Atlanta Announce $60M in New Markets Tax Credits

  February 15, 2018

  Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that Invest Atlanta has received $60 million in New Markets Tax Credit allocation from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to provide gap financing for economic development projects that help create jobs and revitalize neighborhoods in Atlanta.

• The Flying Biscuit Café Details 25 Years of Growth, Plans for Future

  February 14, 2018

  According to the National Restaurant Association's end-of-year survey of 700 American Culinary Federation members, all-day breakfast is the 15th-largest trend in the culinary arena. Embracing this trend is Atlanta-based The Flying Biscuit Café, which celebrates and looks forward to continual franchise growth inside and outside of the Southeast as it hits the milestone of 25 years in business.

• Equifax Appoints New Chief Information Security Officer

  February 13, 2018

  Equifax Inc. announced that it has named Jamil Farshchi to serve as its Chief Information Security Officer. Farshchi, who previously served as CISO at The Home Depot, will assume company-wide leadership of work already underway to transform the company's information security program, and collaborate with the industry to share best practices on information security.

• UGA Extension, Mercer University Partner to Recruit Future Doctors for Rural Georgia

  February 13, 2018

  Jean Sumner is a third-generation rural doctor. As a child, she watched her grandfather and father care for the residents of Washington County, Georgia. She followed in their footsteps and became a “small-town doctor,” the kind who knows your mother, sits behind you in church and roots for the local football team.

• Atlanta Global Leadership Summit Designed to Empower Women in STEM March 19th-20th

  February 12, 2018

  The Global Women in STEM Leadership Summit to be held in at the Atlanta Four Seasons, March 19-20, 2018 is the only one of its kind 2-day summit held in the world that is dedicated to giving women in STEM access to powerful tools, strategies and connections to advance their careers and their lives. Three hundred entrepreneur, academic, and business-women in technological and scientific fields from around the globe will participate.

• Secretary of State Brian Kemp Announces Record-Breaking Month of Annual Business Registrations

  February 12, 2018

  Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced a record-breaking month of annual business registrations. In the month of January, the Corporations Division processed over 216,000 annual business registrations – more registrations in one month’s time than ever before.

• Atlanta Habitat Hosts Inaugural "Welcome to Our Neighborhood Gala" February 24th

  February 09, 2018

  Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, with presenting sponsor The Home Depot Foundation, and gala hosts Clark and Lane Howard, presents Welcome to Our Neighborhood, an inaugural fundraising gala that celebrates Atlanta Habitat’s 35 years of empowering families through homeownership and rebuilding neighborhoods, block-by-block.

• Georgia State Study: New City Incorporations Raise Residential Values And Property Taxes

  February 09, 2018

  When a city incorporates, residential property values and property taxes in the new city are more likely to increase, according to a new Georgia State University study.

• Georgia Quail Hunt Celebrates 30th Anniversary

  February 09, 2018

  Area leaders were on hand this week to welcome 27 site selection professionals to Southwest Georgia, not only for the world-class quail hunting but more importantly to learn about the potential for doing business in the region. It’s all part of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s 30th Annual Georgia Quail Hunt in Albany.

• Atlanta’s Park over GA400 Announces Formation of Nonprofit Board

  February 08, 2018

  Jim Durrett, executive director of Buckhead Community Improvement District, announced the formation of a nonprofit board that will oversee the next phases of planning, funding and development for Atlanta’s award-winning Park over GA400.

• Arby’s Moving National Headquarters to Columbia Property Trust’s Three Glenlake Building

  February 08, 2018

  Columbia Property Trust, Inc. announced that it has signed a new 161,000-square-foot, 12-year lease with Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc., which will relocate its national headquarters to Columbia’s Three Glenlake office building in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket.

• Exporting Provides Opportunity for Growth for Rural Companies in Georgia

  February 08, 2018

  Even the basics of international commerce felt foreign to Bruce Roberts. He knew how to ship something via UPS but didn’t have a clue how international ocean freight worked. He didn’t know how helpful a Skype account or making a website friendly to international customers could be in attracting overseas clients.

• Atlanta and GWCCA Campus Officially on the Clock for Super Bowl LIII

  February 06, 2018

  The Atlanta Super Bowl LIII Host Committee today was officially handed host committee responsibilities for next year’s Super Bowl from the National Football League and Minnesota Host Committee in a press conference at the Mall of America.

• The Georgia Ports Authority Wants to More Than Double Container Capacity by 2028

  February 06, 2018

  At the 50th annual Georgia Foreign Trade Conference Monday, GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch reviewed the strategic plan for Georgia's ports that will allow for 10 million twenty-foot equivalent container units, 1 million rail lifts, and more than 1 million auto and machinery units per year.

• Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Communicates Commitment to Affordable Atlanta, Apartment Acquisition by Westside Future Fund

  February 05, 2018

  On a barely above freezing Friday morning, a small crowd of media, officials, and community gathered outside worn-down buildings in English Avenue. Exactly 30 days since taking her oath of office, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms communicated to both "Legacy" Westside community residents and her larger-Atlanta citizen audience that the 35-unit apartment buildings behind her were a physical testimony to her commitment to them.

• Lanier Islands Announces Joint Venture with Safe Harbor Development and Margaritaville Holdings

  February 02, 2018

  Lanier Islands, a stunning 1,500-acre lakeside resort and entertainment venue in north Metro Atlanta, is about to undergo another exciting transformation.

• National Championship Success Proves Atlanta and GWCCA Campus is Epicenter of College Football

  February 01, 2018

  On Monday, Jan. 8, thousands of University of Georgia and University of Alabama fans swarmed to Atlanta to attend the College Football Playoff National Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. It was an event of firsts and breaking records, and while the Crimson Tide prevailed as champions, the Atlanta community proved why the city is recognized as the epicenter of college football.

• Hartsfield-Jackson World’s Busiest Airport for 20th Consecutive Year

  January 31, 2018

  Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport served more passengers and conducted more aircraft movements than any other airport in the world in 2017.

• Chick-fil-A Opens Innovation Center in Tech Square

  January 26, 2018

  Chick-fil-A invented the chicken sandwich and now the company is continuing to innovate through a new center in Georgia Tech’s Technology Square.

• Metro Atlanta Sets Record for Jobs in 2017

  January 26, 2018

  State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said that metro Atlanta closed out 2017 with a record-high number of jobs. The 29-county metropolitan statistical area ended the year with more than 55,000 new jobs, almost 90,000 more employed residents and a much larger work force.

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