February 10, 2025

Consumer Stories

Downtown Bouncing Back with Big Event

It hasn’t been an easy year for downtown Augusta businesses, but they are working to put the lost revenue from Hurricane Helene and a rare winter storm behind them and move forward. An upcoming event, Downtown Get Down, hopes to be the kickstart for a better 2025. “It’s the 2nd year for this event and the start of fundraising for the new year to increase visibility for small businesses and bring more people downtown to support them,” explained Downtown Soul City Director, John Porter. This year’s event features a casino

Mitzi Oxford February 10, 2025 No Comments

B2B Stories

Simon Says: Job Jolts in the CSRA/Georgia

The Augusta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) ended the year with another record employment level. In December, there were 248,400 people employed in the area, the highest on record. Six months in 2025 had record employment, and nine months saw month-on-month employment growth. It may have been ten without Hurricane Helene. Over the year, employment grew by 2,800, or 1.1%. One of my favorite podcasts is a BBC show called More or Less. They like to ask, “Is that a big number?,” in other words, what is the context or comparison?

Dr. Simon Medcalfe February 10, 2025 No Comments

B2B Stories

Space travel from Augusta!

An organization that focuses on the state of the aerospace industry today and looking to the future has scheduled its annual event to bring industry experts to Augusta. The Skyworx Innovation Exchange is set for March 13 at the Hull McKnight Building at the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center. The goal is to showcase new aerospace technologies with presentations from diverse groups in the industry. “We have an original equipment manufacturer for the Advanced Air Mobility, which we have the acronym AAM for, and it’s just the new technologies

Dana Lynn McIntyre February 10, 2025 No Comments

Downtown Bouncing Back with Big Event

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Space travel from Augusta!

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