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Rally Tuesday for $15 an hour wage in Atlanta
Archived photo by Hyosub Shin Atlanta fast food, child care and home health care workers who make less than $15 an hour will rally Tuesday afternoon outside City Hall to demand higher wages. Some...
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Blackstone to take major stake in NCR
The investment powerhouse Blackstone is taking a major stake in Duluth-based NCR, just weeks after Blackstone and other investment groups reportedly considered buying the maker of ATMs and cash...
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Executive Park in Brookhaven is up for sale
Executive Park, the Class B office park along I-85 at Druid Hills Road, is for sale. Executive Park in Brookhaven is being marketed for sale. Courtesy of Cushman & Wakefield. A listing from real...
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NCR gets an $820 million investment from Blackstone
NCR will receive an $820 million injection of cash from Blackstone, money that the company says it will use to reshape itself. The announcement, coming a week after NCR broke ground on a new...
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NCR chief says investment good for Atlanta
NCR’s top executive says a huge investment from Blackstone is a high-profile validation of the company’s strategy – and also good news for its adopted home of metro Atlanta. “When the largest private...
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Tax breaks to be considered for downtown Post apartments
Post Centennial Park A planned Post Properties apartment community in downtown Atlanta featuring a pet spa and rooftop pool that last year was approved for about $4.4 million in public grant money to...
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Walmart exec says the company can spur Georgia manufacturing
A top Walmart executive said she thinks the company’s beefed-up emphasis on buying American carries special potential benefit for Georgia. The impact of any change in Walmart buying can be huge: the...
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Again? Fresh push on for Georgia $15-an-hour minimum wage
Georgia legislators of the Democratic persuasion say they will again push to raise the state’s minimum wage to as much as $15-an-hour. Such efforts haven’t gone well in the past in the...
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Chamber’s McGowan to join Dentons policy group
Brian McGowan, the No. 2 officer at the Metro Atlanta Chamber who’s also held high-profile roles in economic development in California and the federal government, is joining the public policy and...
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VW Chattanooga safe … for now
The VW sign of Germany’s car company Volkswagen is displayed at the building of a company’s retailer in, Berlin, Germany. Germany’s motor transport agency is ordering a mandatory recall of Volkswagen...
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Atlanta workers together for Thanksgiving
The metro Atlanta workplace is apparently a bit friendlier than in most of the country – at least when it comes to celebrating Thanksgiving. Slightly more than one-in-four respondents to a national...
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Atlanta home prices flattening, up for year
Atlanta home prices continued to decelerate into the autumn, rising at a slower pace than the national average, according to a highly-watched national report. The region’s average price was up 0.1...
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Construction up in 2015, mainly residential
Construction this year in metro Atlanta has edged up from last year with most of the increase coming from residential building, according to an industry report released today. Total building is up 2...
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Home care workers get Georgia court win
Labor advocates praised a Georgia Supreme Court decision this week in favor of a class action on behalf of home care workers. The decision, handed down in Anderson et al v. Southern Home Care...
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Rents up, but home prices less affordable in 2016?
Home prices are going to keep rising faster than incomes in the coming year – not a good thing for affordability, according to a forecast released today by a national real estate data company. And that...
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Coming soon: The second act for Colony Square
Midtown Atlanta’s Colony Square was decades ahead of its time. Now, the venerable mix of office towers and a shopping mall is about to play catch-up with the modern era. This week, noted developer...
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Buckhead’s Darlington apartment tower marketed for sale
The Darlington, a 1950s-era brick apartment tower known for its population counter near Piedmont Hospital in tony Buckhead, is being marketed for sale as a potential megawatt redevelopment opportunity....
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Atlanta Fed chief says case for higher rates “compelling”
All clear for lift-off… In a Florida speech this morning, the president of the Atlanta Fed said he’s convinced that it’s time for the central bank to start raising its benchmark interest rate. With...
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Gulfstream to lay off 1,100
Private jet builder Gulfstream plans to lay off about about 1,100 workers nationwide, but the impact on Georgia isn’t immediately clear. Workers file past new Gulfstream G650 business jets under...
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Aren’t those millennials ready to buy houses yet?
The housing market is looking for a few good millennials. Well, more than a few. More like a few million. And by good, the market means young people with money. And not just an income, what the market...
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