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Artist's rendering depicts the Atlanta Media Center, a film production center by the Jacoby Group in Norcross. Source:  Gwinnett Village CID.
Artist's rendering depicts the Atlanta Media Center, a film production center by the Jacoby Group in Norcross. Source:  Gwinnett Village CID.
By Rick Badie
Nov 11, 2014

Today, an Atlanta city councilwoman writes about efforts to retool a state road that links downtown Atlanta with Stone Mountain. Georgia Tech students studying urban design are working with residents, business owners and others to “imagine a new Memorial Drive.” Another guest writer highlights an emerging sliver of southwest Gwinnett County as a new regional hub of the entertainment industry. Finally, a veterans advocate sees employment opportunities in manufacturing for our returning servicemen and women.

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