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Business owners take a wait and see attitude with shutdown
The government shutdown hasn’t shaken the confidence of Miles Whitlock in the American consumer. For now, people will still go out and spend money, he said, and banks will lend money, too. But he doesn’t think their patience is infinite. The longer the shutdown lasts, the more likely the economy ...
Web strategy pays off for Athens retailer
From her cubicle at a credit card company in Columbus, Ga., Diana Harbour saw a flat trajectory for her life ahead. It terrified her.Eight hours a day, the English lit major wrote bland paragraphs of boilerplate to be printed on credit card statements. She also plotted her dream.Eight years later ...
“I want to be a protector”
They want to leave jobs they hate. They yearn for adventure. And, naturally, they say they want to serve. How bad do they want it? Enough to travel hundreds of miles, diet off scores of pounds and hit the gym in earnest to prepare for this day. They’re the applicants ...
Workers exposed to safety hazards at LaGrange auto parts factory
The sparks would burn through Kimberly Scandrick’s cotton work shirts, leaving pinprick-sized marks on her arms and chest. Freckles, she and a co-worker at Sewon America called them, laughing uneasily at the scars left by the robotic welder. Still, in the back of her mind, Scandrick worried that the sparks ...
Georgia’s federal workers begin filing for jobless aid
The number of people receiving unemployment benefits in Georgia could nearly double if most federal workers in the state seek aid as a result of the government’s partial shutdown. But Georgia’s beleaguered trust fund for benefits will be OK, state labor officials say. About 5,000 federal employees around the state ...
Avalon reaches deal for ‘gigabit’ Internet
The developers of the mixed-use Avalon project along Ga. 400 in Alpharetta has struck a deal to connect homes, apartments, retail tenants and its high-end office users with ultra-high-speed Internet service. North American Properties said Thursday its deal with Hotwire Communications, a provider of fiber-to-the-premises broadband, will create the first ...
Idled federal workers fear lengthy downtime
The partial government shutdown this week drizzled uncertainty on tens of thousands of households in metro Atlanta, applying a financial pressure that will ratchet higher the longer it goes on. A few federal workers who spoke to the AJC this week expressed a mix of emotions, most saying they had ...
Cousins Properties sells retail centers
Cousins Properties said Monday it sold a Missouri shopping center and sold its portions in two retail joint ventures as it puts more of its focus on high-end office buildings and “opportunistic” mixed-use projects.The Atlanta-based real estate investment and management company said it sold Tiffany Springs MarketCenter in metro Kansas ...
Kia supplier to hire 350 at new West Point plant
State leaders formally announced on Monday an auto parts supplier will build a new plant near the Kia Motors factory in west Georgia, in a move that will create 350 jobs. Hyundai Dymos, which builds transmissions, axles and seats, will open the $35 million factory in July, Gov. Nathan Deal’s ...
Looking for a village to raise start-up tech firms
It may take a village to help a start-up company soar. So say some entrepreneurs, asserting that young companies grow faster and better in a community of peers than they do on their own. As Atlanta struggles to pull away from hard economic times, they say, it needs to nurture ...
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