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New majority owner of Partridge Inn fuels $10 million renovation

New General Manager ✔ New Majority Owner ✔ New bathrooms ✔ New HD 55” TV’s ✔ New adjacent parking lot ✔ These are just some of the changes happening during the historic Partridge Inn’s $10 million renovation, which started September 15th and will last until before the Masters Golf Tournament. Taconic Capital, a Park Avenue global investment firm in New York City became the new majority owner since purchasing its share in August—just prior to the remodeling of the landmark hotel. Atlanta-based NorthPointe Hospitality Management Company still represents the P.I.

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Lessons From Restaurants

  Don MacNeil is the former Marketing Director of Windsor Jewelers and long-time on-air radio professional.   Is it just me, or… Lessons From Restaurants Have you ever driven past a freshly opened restaurant – one that’s clearly a mom-and-pop startup with a sign that’s been painted by a family member and you can still tell what the building was in a former life, and thought, “Doesn’t stand a chance?” Maybe there’s a bank loan involved in this noble, but doomed endeavor.  Worse, maybe instead, life-savings are at stake, but

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TaxSlayer to host Gator Bowl on New Year’s Eve

For the 11th year, a local online tax preparation company will sponsor a college bowl game. TaxSlayer, LLC will sponsor the 77th annual Gator Bowl, which will be played at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville on Friday, Dec. 31 beginning at 11 a.m. Wake Forest University will take on Texas A&M University. Tickets are currently on sale and prices start as low as $44 each. At the game, four outstanding high school student-athletes will receive the Gator Bowl Charities Award of Excellence Scholarship of $2,500 each (see photo above of

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Marketing the Chamber

As part of ABD’s podcast series, we partner with the team at Alison South/Augusta Podcasts to share other videos they are producing. Since today is our “Marketing Day” with Don MacNeil’s column and a look at TaxSlayer marketing, we are airing a “Southie Session Podcast” to talk marketing with Alison South and a client—the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce.

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Local IT firm to relocate to green technology facility

A local information technology, cybersecurity, and telecommunications company will invest $2 million in the development of a green technology building in west Augusta. IntelliSystems – currently located at 1115 Greene St., and a downtown neighbor for 28 years, is relocating its operations to a state-of-the-art facility at 3687 Wheeler Road, which was formerly occupied by both John Deere and MEDAC. “The consensus was that now was the perfect time to reunify all of our staff under one big, beautiful, solar-powered roof,” says Kevin Wade, the company’s Founder, President, and Chief

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B2B Podcasting

Lessons Learned From Cyber Attacks

Nowadays, if you do not have an I.T. or Cyber protection plan, you could be putting your clients at great risk and your employees in a tenuous situation as well. In today’s Vodcast,” Cross Link Consulting founder Patrick Reynolds, invites you to “save the date” on a Cyber conference and provides some tips on how to prevent a Cyber attack.

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Real Talk Real Estate: Investing Part One

As part of our ongoing “Real Talk Real Estate” series on Fridays, ABD will be discussing Real Estate Investing with Paul Myers at Myers House Buyers. In Part One of a Three Part series, Paul explains how he got started and how you can too!

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Best in Business awards presented to SRS contractor and staffing company

On Wednesday, Dec. 8, the Augusta’s Entrepreneur Award was presented to Charlie Wall and Jason Kennedy – Co-founders of Loop Recruiting, during the Augusta Metro Chambers’ Member Economic Luncheon at the Augusta Marriott at the Convention Center. The Corporation of the Year award went to Savannah River Nuclear Solutions. Founded in 2015, Loop Recruiting – located at 972 Broad St. in Augusta, provides staffing services for many large technology companies, such as TaxSlayer, Unisys, and Electrolux. The business recruits employees for a variety of jobs, including direct-hire positions, temporary employment

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Nearly $5 Million renovation project set for 2022

Next year, construction will begin on renovating one of Augusta University’s libraries, according to Dr. Neil MacKinnon, the University’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. Improvements on the Greenblatt Library – located on the Health Sciences campus, will include a new café/coffee shop and a new entrance on Laney Walker Boulevard, as well as expanded student services. According to Dr. MacKinnon, construction is expected to be completed by September 2022.

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Wild Wing’s Transition to Doc’s Porchside

Augusta Business Daily’s done many stories on the Scholer’s decision to end their Wild Wing’s franchise and develop their own concept. Doc’s enlisted the help of Alison South to help with the brand. One of the “Southie’s”, host Emily Ann Lively, sat down with three of the key leaders of the new restaurants.

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