Atlanta, Georgia
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Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the state of Georgia. It is the county seat of Fulton County, although a portion of the city (the 1909 annex) is located in DeKalb County. According to the latest census estimates, the city has a population of approximately 419,122 and the Atlanta metropolitan area totaled 4,708,297. Atlanta has long been considered the economic powerhouse of the Southern United States and is arguably a poster-child for cities worldwide experiencing rapid urban sprawl, population growth, and commercial development.
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The local economy
Despite romantic associations, Atlanta has always been more a commercial city than an ante-bellum monument. It is the major center of regional commerce, and boasts an especially strong convention and trade show business. According to the ranking of world cities undertaken by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network (GaWC) and based on the level of presence of global corporate service organisations, Atlanta is considered a "Gamma World City."
Several major national and international companies are headquartered in Atlanta or its nearby suburbs, including four Fortune 100 companies: The Coca-Cola Company (started in Atlanta), Home Depot (started in Atlanta), BellSouth, and United Parcel Service in adjacent Sandy Springs. Delta Air Lines is also headquartered in Atlanta and is a major employer. Newell Rubbermaid is one of the most recent companies to relocate its headquarters to the metro area (Sandy Springs).
Just west of Midtown, a former Atlantic Steel plant has been redeveloped as Atlantic Station, a mixed-use urban renewal project combining housing, retail, and office space, and promoted as part of the solution to Atlanta's serious traffic and air quality problems. The metro area has one of America's longest average daily commutes, and is one of the most car-dependent cities on the planet due both to suburban sprawl and underfunded mass transit systems.
The city is a major cable television programming source; CNN Center, headquarters of the Cable News Network, is in Atlanta where the network was founded by Ted Turner, and The Weather Channel broadcasts from just outside of town. In addition to CNN, Time Warner's other networks from Atlanta include Cartoon Network/Adult Swim and companion channel Boomerang, TNT, Turner South, CNN International, CNN en Español, CNN Headline News, CNN Airport Network, and TBS. Atlanta's WTBS channel 17 (originally WTCG) was Turner's start in television in the 1970s; after he bought the struggling UHF TV station, he turned it into a "Superstation" broadcasting both locally and nationally on the emerging cable providers. Atlanta's WSB was the first AM radio station in the South.
Source - Wikipedia: Atlanta, Georgia
Recent Atlanta Business News
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- Maine girl bouncing back after six-organ transplant
- A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes - and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumor.
- CEO shares insight with students at MC
- Coca Cola Enterprises CEO and Chairman John Brock speaks at the Mississippi College School of Business Thursday.
- Southwest Atlanta Native Jennifer Jones to Blog for Cascade Patch
- A Jennifer Jones, a southwest Atlanta native, entrepreneur and a consultant to non-profit organizations in both Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., will begin blogging for Cascade Patch next week.
- Feb. 3: King Earns Freedom
- The headline is intended to lure readers into thinking that this article is about the iconic civil rights leader, Nobel laureate, and Atlanta native.
- Road improvements critical in Chattahoochee development
- Industrial business owners operating along the Chattahoochee River in Cobb County say they can coexist with a $300 million mixed-used Riverview Landing development coming in alongside them, but they are adamant that the roadway they all will share must be improved.
- Bill would broaden state incentives for job creation, high-paying jobs
- A bill introduced this week in the state House would sweeten Georgia's economic incentives and lower the threshold of eligibility for businesses in an effort to attract and add new jobs in the state.
- Celebrity Stylist to Share Money Making Weave Techniques with Aspiring Hair Stylists
- Celebrity Stylist Beautii Joseph has teamed up with Atlanta Natural Hair Care, Inc.
- Police Zone 2 Wins Crime Reduction Award
- Buckhead's Zone 2 , led by Commander Maj. Robert Browning, achieved the largest decrease in crime in the city for 2011, the APD said in an announcement.
