Round and round. However, nearly 1,400 Georgia workers at one of America’s largest school bus manufacturers are voting on whether to unionize, asking for better pay and hours. Mike Petchenik reports from Atlanta on that and other stories in this week’s Georgia Business Minute.
Davis is the Principal of the Beman Real Estate Group and Vice President and Director of Commercial Real Estate at Blanchard and Calhoun, sits down with Augusta Business Daily publisher, Neil Gordon to discuss the commercial real estate market in the CSRA. Beman says there has been a shift in the demand for certain spaces in retail, dining, and offices, following adjustments made after the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information, contact Beman at his website: www.bemangroup.com.
Shane Johnson has always loved science and nature, which led him to launch his own outdoor business at age 15. Johnson owns Johnson’s Critter Control & Predator Management, LLC, which is based in Hephzibah and specializes in trapping wild animals, particularly coyotes and beavers, for farms and hunting clubs. Occasionally, he captures raccoons and other animals in urban areas, but he primarily works in rural areas. One of his customers is Padgett’s Farm in Waynesboro, where he got married last fall. “My friends have told me I should start trapping
Carey Pifer is the relocation director for Southeastern Residential and works with CSRA companies to help its employees find a great place to live. She sat down with ABD’s Neil Gordon to see how the market is as we approach the summer months.
By 2030, Frederick Griffin wants to provide enough healthy food to feed 100,000 people in Georgia and South Carolina, and his business just received funding that will help him turn that goal into reality. Griffin and his wife, Anna, own and operate a new business called Ebony Tree Farms, thanks to a 12-week entrepreneurial training program called Make Startups, which is offered by theClubhou.se. “We are a social enterprise and hydroponic farm system,” Frederick said. Hydroponics refers to growing plants in water-based nutrient solutions, not soil. Ebony Tree Farms is
Most local businesses have experienced employee shortages. Why are they continuing and what is the solution if any solution exists? Those were the million-dollar questions and the focus of the Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce’s member economic luncheon. It came as no surprise when guest speaker, Dr. Melinda Pitts, Research Center Director from the Center for Human Capital Studies at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, pointed to the COVID-19 pandemic as being responsible for the upheaval in America’s economy. Even with the end of the public health emergency on
Natonia Tillman loves owning and operating a downtown business because it’s not too far from other parts of the city, such as South Augusta. Tillman owns 10Twenty-Eight, a business center and networking lounge located at 1028 Broad St., which was one of 47 businesses that opened in downtown Augusta last year. Those openings contributed to more than $93 million in private investments in that area. “It puts us in an area that’s centrally located,” she said. “It’s also an area where there’s a lot of foot traffic, because people are
When Benjamin Ross established a counseling business with his wife, Vivian, they had no employees and saw clients in a small office on Wrightsboro Road, but they now have 10 staff members and a larger office on Central Avenue. The couple owns and operates Elephant in the Room Counseling Services, LLC. Benjamin attributes much of their success to his completion of a business training opportunity offered through a partnership between the Greater Augusta Black Chamber of Commerce and Bank of America. Last year, he graduated from the Intensive Entrepreneurship Training
Company: Beman Real Estate- Blanchard and Calhoun Contact: Davis Beman Phone: 706-538-4800 Website: Beman Real Estate Address: Blanchard & Calhoun Commercial Real Estate, 237 Davis Rd., Augusta, GA Neil Gordon discusses what lies ahead in investment, management, and brokerage with ABD Expo partner, Beman Real Estate- Blanchard & Calhoun
Sleek, fast, and red, white, and blue. The Thunderbirds have landed in Augusta. The team arrived in Augusta on Monday to practice its aerial acrobatics and map out logistics, prior to the air show at Augusta Regional Airport this weekend. Although the focus will be on fun, watching skilled pilots do what should be impossible, the event is expected to have an important economic benefit, bringing attention to the airport and tourism dollars to Augusta. “We hope that this infuses the economy a little bit with some dollars, both from
