The sale of the former Louisiana Pacific plant in Center to Atlantic Wood Pellets is a step closer following action by the Jackson County Industrial Development Authority.

ARC initiatives include highway corridors; community water and sewer facilities, telecommunication, and other physical infrastructure; health, education, and human resource development; economic development programs; local capacity building; and leadership development.

Terms of the deal are revealed in this article, welcoming new conversation to the age-old question of public subsidies for private sports teams in the name of economic development.

Three planned reservoirs and a water-supply test project on the Georgia coast will divide $44.9 million from the Governor's Water Supply Program, as the Georgia DCA board voted to authorize GEFA to oversee $39.5 million in state grants to help build reservoirs in Hall, Paulding and Carroll counties.

Presenting Cherokee County as an ideal location for large, job-creating companies is one of the central goals of the Cherokee Office of Economic Development. A deal that will soon add 300 more jobs to the county earned COED recognition for striking the "Deal of the Year" by Georgia Economic Development Association.

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Partnership Gwinnett was created as an initiative of the Gwinnett Chamber to encourage economic development. Some of their tools for redevelopment are described here by Nick Masino, including CIDs, Redevelopment Powers ACT & TADs, Opportunity Zones, and Less Developed Census Tracts.

Amanda Rhein with Invest Atlanta describes a few of the programs available to help with redevelopment in the city, including NMTCs, PACE bonds, and TADs.

This document from the Georgia Dept. of Community Affairs overviews how the state is using the Treasury's State Small Business Credit Initiative funding. Programs include a capital access program, credit guarantee, and funding for CDFIs.

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