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Understanding SEO for Economic Development: Ensuring Your Organization Ranks on Search Engines
Jun 29 2023Search engine optimization (SEO) is a vital aspect of digital marketing that can help your economic development organization attract businesses, visitors, and investors to your community.
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Georgia is at the epicenter of the nation’s electric vehicle revolution, and its system of higher education is working to drive the industry forward. By prioritizing research and development and gathering the top researchers and players together, Georgia’s college and university systems are a prime incubator for the kinds of...

While attending the 2023 Paris Air Show in France, Governor Brian P. Kemp today announced that Pratt & Whitney - an RTX business specializing in aircraft and helicopter engines - will expand their operations in Columbus, Georgia. This project will create nearly 400 new jobs and bring $206 million in...

Looking at a map of the 140,000-mile-long U.S. rail network you could imagine it as a nation-spanning circulatory system. Its tracks have the branching look of a land-based vascular organ, pumping passengers, and needed goods from within the central parts of the country and out to its extremities.
In...

Statewide tour will gather business executives, elected leaders and government officials to discuss the local creative economy and the impact of film, music, broadcast, digital production and gaming in the region. For more information email GeorgiaUnscriptedRoadshow@gmail.com
Georgia Entertainment News has announced the Georgia Unscripted Roadshow. These events will take...

The League of American Bicyclists honored the efforts of Columbus to build better places for people to bike, by renewing the bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) award first presented in 2014.
Columbus joins 506 communities across the country in the movement for safer streets, and better bicycling for everyone...

This is an interesting period in the food processing industry. On the surface, it’s enduring a number of struggles, such as addressing inflation, supply chain issues, lack of workforce, energy costs, etc.
But the industry always has one ace in its deck of cards, no matter the problems: people...

The Columbus Museum’s newest “on tour” exhibition opened this week at the Bo Bartlett Center in uptown Columbus, Georgia. Facts & Figures: Contemporary Realism from The Columbus Museum presents the very best of the style's paintings from the holdings of the Museum's permanent collection. Anchored by the work of beloved...

After taking some hits during the pandemic, Georgia tourism is poised for a record summer. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport expects to handle about 2.1 million passengers during the Memorial Day holiday period, which began Thursday and extends through next Wednesday. That’s up from roughly 2 million travelers during the same...

Boldness Is Key When It Comes to Starting a Business — Here Are 5 Ways to Boldly Launch Yours
May 24 2023Launching a business requires a lot of hard work and dedication. However, sometimes it takes more than that to make your business successful. Boldness is key when it comes to launching a company, and being able to make pragmatic choices can set you apart from your competitors.
The first...

Crunch Franchise today announced the upcoming fall opening of Crunch Columbus, a $5 million, 45,000-square-foot fitness facility, with $1.5 million dollars' worth of state-of-the-art equipment. Crunch Columbus is located in a newly renovated space at 2925 Manchester Expressway, previously occupied by Best Buy.
Fusing fitness with entertainment to make...

Life Science Conversions in Real Estate
Apr 1 2023One of the hottest topics discussed in real estate circles today pertains to whether life science conversions can save the perceived imminent obsolescence affecting large swaths of the office sector. Obsolescence is nothing new. Obsolescence, however, in the real estate world, prior to COVID, typically took years to achieve. The...

Key Steps to Satisfying Workforce Needs
Apr 1 2023According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics most recent report released on March 10, 2023, the unemployment rate for March was 3.5 percent. The unemployment rate has hovered at this level over the last 12 months, ranging between 3.5 percent and 3.7 percent, except for in January 2023 where it...