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J. Scott Trubey
J. Scott Trubey is a business reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Paulding’s airfield of dreams faces obstacles
Go from your car to the gate in fewer than 15 minutes. That’s one of Mario Rodriguez’s pitches to convince fliers to choose Long Beach Airport over Los Angeles International, 20 miles away. Long Beach handles only about 5 percent of the traffic of bustling LAX, but it preaches convenience ...
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 ...
Fuqua team picked to develop Peachtree Corners project
A $150 million mixed-use town center in Peachtree Corners is a step closer to reality after the city’s downtown development authority selected a group to develop more than 20 acres of city-owned land. Fuqua Development, apartment giant AMLI Residential and Pope & Land Enterprises were named the “top-ranked” team for ...
Global Payments names new CEO
Sandy Springs-based transactions processor Global Payments has named its president, Jeffrey S. Sloan, as its new CEO, the company said Tuesday. Sloan succeeds Paul Garcia, Global’s chief executive since 1999, who will remain as the company’s chairman. Sloan joined Global in 2010, steering the company’s Americas operations and its mergers ...
Judge: Descendant of Coca-Cola founder owes $7 million
A descendant of Coca-Cola Co.’s founder owes a bank more than $7 million to resolve a soured Paulding County real estate loan, a judge ruled Monday.The two-page order brings to a close one chapter in a sad financial saga for Asa G. Candler V, a developer and great-grandson of Coca-Cola ...
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 ...
Georgia eyes bigger Hyundai presence
New cars spill off the Kia Motors assembly line in every 60 seconds. The automaker’s nearly four-year-old plant near the Georgia-Alabama line is close to maximum capacity, humming 24 hours a day, often six days a week. That crunch – plus labor issues at Kia and Hyundai factories at home ...
The floodgates opening on Savannah port dredging?
The push to deepen the Savannah harbor has been in limbo for years. Now it must feel like the floodgates have finally opened. Days after Vice President Joe Biden said the dredging would happen “come hell or high water,” the chair of the House committee handling a bill that would ...
Arthur Andersen alums remember shattered firm
Mark Oshnock remembers the whispers in the airport when an elderly couple saw the Arthur Andersen tag on his briefcase. Those were the darkest days, when the accounting firm’s collapse and the scandal surrounding its biggest client — Enron — shook confidence in Corporate America. This week, 11 years after ...
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