Articles from the Atlanta Business Chronicle
By Maria Saporta
Published in the ABC on Friday, June 15, 2012
The quality of child care in Georgia experienced a decline for the fourth year in a row, according to a new report that is to be released June 15. The statewide survey was conducted by the Atlanta-based nonprofit group Quality Care for Children.
The nonprofit conducted its fourth annual survey of child-care centers in February and March, interviewing nearly 900 providers.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, June 15, 2012
More than 300 Atlantans participated in the 2009 design competition for a proposed National Center for Civil and Human Rights. In a public forum, the five teams of finalists presented their vision for what was destined to become one of Atlanta’s marquee attractions.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, June 07, 2012
A group of Olympic athletes are doing what they can to keep Atlanta’s Olympic legacy alive.
On June 23, Georgia’s Olympians and Paralympians will hold a “Walk to London” at Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta. The “Walk to London” is being held in cities across the country to help build awareness for the upcoming Summer Olympic Games that will be held in London beginning next month.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, June 07, 2012
It’s the beginning of a new era for the Woodruff Arts Center with the June 4 naming of Virginia Hepner as its next president and CEO.
Hepner, who will be the first woman to lead the multidimensional arts and cultural institution since its founding in 1963, comes to the table with a strong business background and with a deep passion for the arts.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, June 01, 2012
The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta is celebrating.
After five years of declining dollars coming into its annual campaign, the situation has turned around.
The Jewish Federation’s 2012 campaign has raised $15.4 million — about $720,000 more than the year before.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, June 01, 2012
Atlanta often claims to be something it’s not — hoping it eventually will become what it claims.
Ironically, Atlanta can accurately claim to be a leading center for global health. But for a host of reasons, Atlanta has yet to fully capitalize on the presence of numerous global health institutions based in the metro area.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, May 25, 2012
Atlanta Life Financial Group, a 107-year-old African-American-owned company, is going back to its roots.
By Maria Saporta and Amy Wenk
Friday, May 25, 2012
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is determined to restore the Cyclorama into a significant attraction for the city.
But he has yet to decide on the best location for the Cyclorama, a historical three-dimensional depiction of one of the most important confrontations of the Civil War — the Battle of Atlanta.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, May 18, 2012
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal is on the campaign trail — this time to help pass the regional 1 percent sales tax for transportation in metro Atlanta and in 11 other regions around the state.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Chick-fil-A Inc.’s stability in its management team continues with the promotion of five senior vice presidents to executive vice presidents.
Dan Cathy, president and chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, made the promotions to better reflect the company-wide roles that its executive team members have played as well as to provide more opportunities for the next rank of executives.
By Maria Saporta and Amy Wenk
Friday, May 11, 2012
The proposed College Football Hall of Fame is now in full restart mode with definitive plans to open the attraction by the end of 2014.
The project is receiving renewed commitment and support among its various partners and sponsors following a change in leadership late last year.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, May 4, 2012
Georgia Power Co. President Paul Bowers is emerging as the state’s business champion for educational improvement.
By Dave Williams and Maria Saporta
Friday, May 4, 2012
A nonprofit foundation, formed to raise money to support the work of Georgia’s cash-strapped natural resources agency, is showing its first results — two years after the General Assembly approved the initiative.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, May 4, 2012
The downtown home of Atlanta Life Financial Group may soon be owned by Georgia State University.
Georgia State University will seek approval from the Georgia Board of Regents at its May 8 meeting to purchase both the Atlanta Life property and the building that houses The Integral Group LLC development firm for $10 million, according to Kerry Heyward, GSU’s attorney who oversees real estate transactions for the university.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 27, 2012
A special person was missing from four of Atlanta’s big public company annual meetings on April 23 and April 24 — Wilton Looney.
The first meeting on April 23 was at Genuine Parts — a company where Looney served as CEO from 1961 to 1990. Looney, 92, who remains as a director emeritus, is only one of four CEOs who has led the company since its founding in 1928.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 27, 2012
Washington, D.C. — Metro Atlanta leaders witnessed firsthand how a city has stimulated its economy by investing in transit, sidewalks, bicycle facilities and smart growth development patterns.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 20, 2012
Joe Bankoff is about to start another career — this time in academia.
Bankoff, who has be president and CEO of the Woodruff Arts Center since September 2006, already had announced that he would be retiring from that role at the end of May.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 20, 2012
Junior Achievement of Georgia Inc. is considering locating two hallmark programs — a JA Finance Park and a JA Biz Town — at the Georgia World Congress Center.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 13, 2012
Georgia Health Sciences University in Augusta has received an $8 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation to support its expansion plans as well as help train more health professionals in the state.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 13, 2012
As a young banker in the mid-1970s, Beauchamp Carr quit his job at C&S Bank so he could volunteer full time to help save the Fox Theatre, then slated for demolition.
