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Thursday, March 07, 2013

By Ellen Cutter, Market Street, Director of Research

In 2004, I started my master’s program in city and regional planning at Georgia Tech. I had just moved from Oregon, where I served as an AmeriCorps volunteer after college. Besides having some…

By Martin Sinderman
Atlanta Business Chronicle

WINNER – The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta

A new outlet mall in a bustling north metro Atlanta suburb is enjoying leasing activity strong enough to convince its owners to open it sooner than originally planned — making the project the Retail Deal of…

By: Erin Dentmon
Cherokee Tribune

Elected officials, government staff and industry leaders in construction, engineering and other fields heard good things about the state of Cherokee County during a lunch meeting Wednesday at The Bluffs by the Council for Quality Growth.

Cherokee County Board of Commissioners Chairman Buzz Ahrens…

By: Megan Thornton
Cherokee Tribune

CANTON — Economic development was the focus of Thursday’s Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce breakfast, including where the county stands and where it’s headed in the future.

Marshall Day, chairman of the Development Authority of Cherokee County, provided an update on accomplishments in 2012…

Universal Alloy Corporation (Canton) was recently featured on the cover and within the Georgia Economic Developers Association 50th Anniversary Publication. This document was featured as an insert with the January 2013 issue of Georgia Trend Magazine.

The Georgia Economic Developers Association (GEDA) was founded in 1963, and since this…

By: Kristal Dixon

A global manufacturing company will soon establish its North American headquarters in Cherokee County.

Continental Case will set up shop inside the county, bringing with it a $3.5 million investment and 70 new jobs.

The Georgia Department of Economic Development late Friday announced the news.

The company…

By Staff Reports
Cherokee Tribune

CANTON — The Cherokee Office of Economic Development announced Thursday that International Thermocast, based in Woodstock, has expanded into a 98,000-square-foot facility in the Canton-Cherokee Business and Industrial Park.

The building is located on almost eight acres in the city limits of Canton. The…

Atlanta, GA Dec. 21, 2012. Horizon Group Properties, Inc. (OTC: HGPI.PK) and CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. (NYSE: CBL) today announced that the Grand Opening date of the new outlet center located in the North Atlanta suburb of Woodstock, GA. will be one month earlier than previously scheduled.…

By: Kristal Dixon (Woodstock-Towne Lake Patch)

A Woodstock-based company has closed on a deal to expand its footprint into Canton.

The Cherokee Office of Economic Development announced Thursday that International Thermocast has closed on a deal that would allow them to expand into a 98,000-square-foot building at 189 Etowah…

Canton-Sixes Patch

A company based in the Netherlands will move a sliver of its workforce into Cherokee County.

Vanderlande Industries will move into a facility located within the Northpoint Industrial Park off Highway 92 near Interstate 75 in the extreme southwestern part of the county. The Cherokee Office of Economic…

From staff reports
Cherokee Tribune

ACWORTH — Vanderlande Industries, an automated material handling systems and service company, is relocating some of its operations to Cherokee County from Fulton County, officials from the Cherokee Office of Economic Development announced at Tuesday’s meeting of the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners.

Vanderlande…

By: Erin Dentmon
Cherokee Tribune

Construction on Cherokee 75 Corporate Park is moving along. The property is set to be available for businesses starting in the first quarter of 2013.

The Development Authority of Cherokee County met Monday to discuss Cherokee 75 and next year’s plans for economic development.…