Articles from the Atlanta Business Chronicle
By Maria Saporta and J. Scott Trubey
Friday, March 12, 2010
Change is afoot at Andrew Young’s namesake — the globally known School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.
The school’s new dean, Bart Hildreth, resigned abruptly, claiming he was asked to step down, and people close to the school say top administrators are considering cost-saving measures that could include folding it into the J. Mack Robinson College of Business.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 5, 2010
The Atlanta Committee for Progress, the highly influential group of business leaders engaged with the city of Atlanta, has named a new chairman.
Phil Kent, chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System Inc., was elected to lead the group at its March
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 5, 2010
For the first time ever, the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta Inc. has a $5 million donor — Publix Super Markets Inc.
The grocery store company, already the top donor last year raising $4.69 million, experienced an 8.5 percent
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 26, 2010
The campaign to raise $325 million for Grady Memorial Hospital has crossed a key milestone.
“We have broken the $300 million mark,” said Tom Bell, SecurAmerica executive chairman, who has been leading the fundraising campaign along with Pete Correll, an investor in the Atlanta Equity Fund and retired CEO of Georgia-Pacific LLC. Grady Hospital CEO Mike Young also has been part of most fundraising calls.
By J. Scott Trubey and Maria Saporta
Friday, February 26, 2010
The Chick-fil-A Bowl will be spun off from the Atlanta Sports Council into a new entity headed by Gary Stokan, the bowl’s president and CEO, officials with the Metro Atlanta Chamber said.
Dan Corso, vice president of marketing for the council, has been tapped to head the chamber’s sports marketing arm. The separation is expected to take place March 1.
By J. Scott Trubey and Maria Saporta
Friday, February 26, 2010
When it came time to select an investment adviser for the potential sale of beleaguered Sea Island, it all started with relationships.
Sea Island Co. announced Feb. 18 it had retained Goldman Sachs & Co. to advise it in a possible sale of the posh but debt-riddled resort and seaside community.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 26, 2010
One of Atlanta’s largest homeless shelters has once again skirted foreclosure, at least for now.
The Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless’s building at Peachtree and Pine streets on the northern edge of downtown had been scheduled for the auction block on Tuesday, March 2.
But on Wednesday, Feb. 24, Ichthus Community
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 19, 2010
One early sign of success of the Early Education Commission will be when people start saying “Pre-K through 12” rather than “K through 12.”
That’s according to Dennis Lockhart, chairman of the Early Education Commission and president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
By LIsa R. Schoolcraft and Maria Saporta
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Frank Poe, director of the Dallas Convention Center, is the new executive director of the Georgia World Congress Center.
The GWCC Authority unanimously elected Poe, a 38-year veteran of the convention industry, on Tuesday. He’ll take the reins on April 1.
By J. Scott Trubey and Maria Saporta
Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 4:02pm
Officials with the Metro Atlanta Chamber confirmed Tuesday a deal has been reached to spin off the Chick-fil-A Bowl from the Atlanta Sports Council into a new entity headed by Gary Stokan, the bowl’s president and CEO.
Dan Corso, vice president of marketing for the council, has been tapped to head the chamber’s sports marketing arm. The separation is expected to take place March 1.
By J. Scott Trubey and Maria Saporta
Monday, February 22, 2010, 4:54pm EST | Modified: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 2:03pm
The Metro Atlanta Chamber plans to split up the Atlanta Sports Council and the Chick-fil-A Bowl in a move that will bring in a new leader for the city’s top sports marketing organization.
The parting of ways between the chamber, its sports council affiliate and Gary Stokan comes as he transitions from the city’s head sports pitchman to pointman on the popular bowl game and the planned College Football Hall of Fame.
By Maria Saporta and J. Scott Trubey
Friday, February 19, 2010 | Modified: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The state’s budget crisis is threatening funding for the College Football Hall of Fame, which could jeopardize Georgia’s claim to build the prized attraction.
Gov. Sonny Perdue included $10 million in bond financing for the shrine to college football greats in his FY 2011 budget proposal.
But the newly minted speaker of the state House of Representatives has said the cash-strapped
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 19, 2010
When the Obama administration doled out $8 billion in high-speed rail grants last month, Georgia watched Florida get $1.25 billion and North Carolina get $545 million for high-speed rail projects.
All Georgia received was a planning grant for $750,000 to study the feasibility of three high-speed rail lines — Atlanta to Birmingham; Atlanta to Chicago (through Tennessee) and a third from Macon to Jacksonville.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 12, 2010
Marketing guru Ken Bernhardt is thinking ahead. He wants to make sure the marketing profession continues to attract the best and the brightest.
That’s why he is working with the Atlanta chapter of the American Marketing Association to create the “Ken Bernhardt AMA-Atlanta Outstanding Collegiate Marketer Award.” The award will recognize four collegiate AMA members.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 12, 2010
University of Georgia President Michael Adams sounded an alarm of what could happen to the state’s economic future if it continues cutting its investment in higher education.
“The state is slipping, and it has slipped especially in the last two years,” Adams said during a wide-ranging editorial board visit Feb. 5 at Atlanta Business Chronicle.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 5, 2010
For longtime Atlanta businessman Cecil Conlee, the story of Shannon Wroten says it all. “She was without a house, and saw a sign for Year Up Atlanta,” Conlee said. “She was recruited into the program. And on Monday (Feb. 1), she started a full-time job with the Atlanta Fed. Year Up is about taking someone who is lost and is now on a career path.”
Wroten, along with 15 other students, was in the inaugural graduating class for Year Up Atlanta — a program that began in Boston in 2001 and now is reaching 1,000 students in six cities.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 5, 2010
A groundbreaking bill to support the arts, economic development and quality-of-life initiatives was introduced Feb. 1 in the state House of Representatives.
House Bill 1049, introduced by Rep. Ron Stephens, R-Savannah, and Stacey Abrams, D-DeKalb, would transform the local option sales tax by allowing counties to pass a fraction of a penny sales tax.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, January 29, 2010
The opportunity to make money has brought two friendly adversaries together.
David Ratcliffe, CEO of Southern Co., has teamed up with environmentalist Ted Turner to form a strategic alliance on the development of renewable energy projects in the United States.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, January 29, 2010
Longtime Atlanta developer Tom Cousins is selling his prized Nonami Plantation near Albany, Ga., to legendary media mogul and environmentalist Ted Turner.
The Nonami Plantation, which is about 8,800 acres, is considered one of the best quail hunting spots in Georgia.
By J. Scott Truby and Maria Saporta
Friday, January 29, 2010
The Jones family’s eight-decade sole control of the posh Sea Island resort could soon come to an end.
Sea Island Co. Chairman and CEO Bill Jones III confirmed Jan. 27 the company, founded in 1929 by his grandfather and cousin, would hire an investment banker to review its “strategic options,” which could include finding a buyer or major investor in the struggling ultra-luxury Georgia coastal resort.
