I give it 20 yrs more so than 10. the next 10 stuff will pick up from all the start ups and companies coming, the last 10 will be the solidification.
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I give it 20 yrs more so than 10. the next 10 stuff will pick up from all the start ups and companies coming, the last 10 will be the solidification.
CashmereThoughts
Veteran
I don't get this. I live in NYC.. Gays all over the place. I ain't really see gays when I was in atl that shyt is a myth to me
your gaydar was off then
theyre everywhere. Mostly the dude variety. Kinda keep to themselves.
Building economic ties with Ghana
Posted: 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Ghana has been on our minds a lot as a business and travel destination. Thanks to great partnerships, three distinguished Ghana government officials have visited Atlanta over the past 60-days: Joseph Henry Smith, Ghana’s ambassador to the U.S.; Trade Minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and the minister of energy and petroleum, Emmanuel Kofi-Armah Buah.
Ambassador Smith announced during his visit that Ghana brought in more than $3.5 billion in foreign investment on 189 projects in 2014. While in recent times, Ghana has experienced an increase in public debt and slow growth rates for some commodities, it still is recognized by the 2014 World Bank Doing Business Report as the “Best Place for Doing Business in the Economic Community of West African States Region.”
Ghana is rich in peanut production and the University of Georgia is already exploring partnerships in this area. UGA’s Amrit Bart, assistant dean and director of global programs, recently presented a model hatchery and women’s empowerment initiative to the Ghana ambassador.
UGA has also developed a concept entitled “Bringing Talent and Agricultural Knowledge to African Youth” to help spur support to the next generation of farmers by developing 4-H programs that engage youth, foster life skills and leadership development.
Over the past 10 years, trade between Georgia and Ghana grew 102 percent. Over the past 5 years, Savannah’s exports to Ghana grew 90 percent and included poultry, autos, lumber, meats, paper and other products. There is a tremendous opportunity to increase both imports and exports that should be explored. A sister port agreement is being considered as well as a sister city with Savannah to help strengthen ties between Ghana and Georgia. Liberia and the Georgia Ports Authority established the first sister port agreement a few years ago; Ghana would be the second African country to do so.
Over the next five years, Ghana will receive $498 million from the Millennium Challenge Corp., a bilateral U.S. foreign aid agency, to help bolster the power distribution system in the country. This could include on-grid and off-grid renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, hydro and aquaponics. With the oil and gas sector growing, my hope is that companies such as Georgia Power and the Southern Cos. could provide leadership to expand relationships between Ghana and Georgia in these areas.
Ghana’s Vision 2020 growth plan is also exciting, as it will help drive the private sector through innovation and value-added products in food production, manufacturing and energy. Emmanuel Kofi-Armah Buah, the minister of energy and petroleum, seeks Georgia investors to assist him with his vision to provide opportunities for investors, including refineries.
The 25 million people of Ghana and the government are open to working with the people of the Georgia and welcome their investment in agriculture and processing, cotton and textiles, food processing, forestry, healthcare, horticulture, mineral processing, oil and gas, tourism, utilities, airports and seaports, railroads and more. Ghana’s people are friendly, are about business and want to increase the relationship between the U.S. and Ghana. As trade minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah stated recently, “Atlanta is the African-American capital of the world.” Ties can be strengthened with the African-American community in Georgia as well.
Georgia can position itself as the hub for doing business with Africa by using Ghana as the gateway to Africa.
To further collaborative efforts and in partnership with the Ghana Embassy, the Ghana International Chamber of Commerce and Global Strategies for Good LLC, are planning a trade mission to Ghana for spring 2016. For more information, please call 678-632-2362, e-mail us at admin@ghicc.org or visit www.ghicc.org.
Matilda Arhin is president of the Ghana International Chamber of Commerce.Cynthia L. Blandford is honorary consul for the General Republic of Liberia.
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/opin...cial_twitter_2014_sfp#fc01e8aa.3828699.735751
Posted: 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Ghana has been on our minds a lot as a business and travel destination. Thanks to great partnerships, three distinguished Ghana government officials have visited Atlanta over the past 60-days: Joseph Henry Smith, Ghana’s ambassador to the U.S.; Trade Minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and the minister of energy and petroleum, Emmanuel Kofi-Armah Buah.
Ambassador Smith announced during his visit that Ghana brought in more than $3.5 billion in foreign investment on 189 projects in 2014. While in recent times, Ghana has experienced an increase in public debt and slow growth rates for some commodities, it still is recognized by the 2014 World Bank Doing Business Report as the “Best Place for Doing Business in the Economic Community of West African States Region.”
Ghana is rich in peanut production and the University of Georgia is already exploring partnerships in this area. UGA’s Amrit Bart, assistant dean and director of global programs, recently presented a model hatchery and women’s empowerment initiative to the Ghana ambassador.
UGA has also developed a concept entitled “Bringing Talent and Agricultural Knowledge to African Youth” to help spur support to the next generation of farmers by developing 4-H programs that engage youth, foster life skills and leadership development.
Over the past 10 years, trade between Georgia and Ghana grew 102 percent. Over the past 5 years, Savannah’s exports to Ghana grew 90 percent and included poultry, autos, lumber, meats, paper and other products. There is a tremendous opportunity to increase both imports and exports that should be explored. A sister port agreement is being considered as well as a sister city with Savannah to help strengthen ties between Ghana and Georgia. Liberia and the Georgia Ports Authority established the first sister port agreement a few years ago; Ghana would be the second African country to do so.
Over the next five years, Ghana will receive $498 million from the Millennium Challenge Corp., a bilateral U.S. foreign aid agency, to help bolster the power distribution system in the country. This could include on-grid and off-grid renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, hydro and aquaponics. With the oil and gas sector growing, my hope is that companies such as Georgia Power and the Southern Cos. could provide leadership to expand relationships between Ghana and Georgia in these areas.
Ghana’s Vision 2020 growth plan is also exciting, as it will help drive the private sector through innovation and value-added products in food production, manufacturing and energy. Emmanuel Kofi-Armah Buah, the minister of energy and petroleum, seeks Georgia investors to assist him with his vision to provide opportunities for investors, including refineries.
The 25 million people of Ghana and the government are open to working with the people of the Georgia and welcome their investment in agriculture and processing, cotton and textiles, food processing, forestry, healthcare, horticulture, mineral processing, oil and gas, tourism, utilities, airports and seaports, railroads and more. Ghana’s people are friendly, are about business and want to increase the relationship between the U.S. and Ghana. As trade minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah stated recently, “Atlanta is the African-American capital of the world.” Ties can be strengthened with the African-American community in Georgia as well.
Georgia can position itself as the hub for doing business with Africa by using Ghana as the gateway to Africa.
To further collaborative efforts and in partnership with the Ghana Embassy, the Ghana International Chamber of Commerce and Global Strategies for Good LLC, are planning a trade mission to Ghana for spring 2016. For more information, please call 678-632-2362, e-mail us at admin@ghicc.org or visit www.ghicc.org.
Matilda Arhin is president of the Ghana International Chamber of Commerce.Cynthia L. Blandford is honorary consul for the General Republic of Liberia.
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/opin...cial_twitter_2014_sfp#fc01e8aa.3828699.735751
Building economic ties with Ghana
Posted: 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Ghana has been on our minds a lot as a business and travel destination. Thanks to great partnerships, three distinguished Ghana government officials have visited Atlanta over the past 60-days: Joseph Henry Smith, Ghana’s ambassador to the U.S.; Trade Minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and the minister of energy and petroleum, Emmanuel Kofi-Armah Buah.
Ambassador Smith announced during his visit that Ghana brought in more than $3.5 billion in foreign investment on 189 projects in 2014. While in recent times, Ghana has experienced an increase in public debt and slow growth rates for some commodities, it still is recognized by the 2014 World Bank Doing Business Report as the “Best Place for Doing Business in the Economic Community of West African States Region.”
Ghana is rich in peanut production and the University of Georgia is already exploring partnerships in this area. UGA’s Amrit Bart, assistant dean and director of global programs, recently presented a model hatchery and women’s empowerment initiative to the Ghana ambassador.
UGA has also developed a concept entitled “Bringing Talent and Agricultural Knowledge to African Youth” to help spur support to the next generation of farmers by developing 4-H programs that engage youth, foster life skills and leadership development.
Over the past 10 years, trade between Georgia and Ghana grew 102 percent. Over the past 5 years, Savannah’s exports to Ghana grew 90 percent and included poultry, autos, lumber, meats, paper and other products. There is a tremendous opportunity to increase both imports and exports that should be explored. A sister port agreement is being considered as well as a sister city with Savannah to help strengthen ties between Ghana and Georgia. Liberia and the Georgia Ports Authority established the first sister port agreement a few years ago; Ghana would be the second African country to do so.
Over the next five years, Ghana will receive $498 million from the Millennium Challenge Corp., a bilateral U.S. foreign aid agency, to help bolster the power distribution system in the country. This could include on-grid and off-grid renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, hydro and aquaponics. With the oil and gas sector growing, my hope is that companies such as Georgia Power and the Southern Cos. could provide leadership to expand relationships between Ghana and Georgia in these areas.
Ghana’s Vision 2020 growth plan is also exciting, as it will help drive the private sector through innovation and value-added products in food production, manufacturing and energy. Emmanuel Kofi-Armah Buah, the minister of energy and petroleum, seeks Georgia investors to assist him with his vision to provide opportunities for investors, including refineries.
The 25 million people of Ghana and the government are open to working with the people of the Georgia and welcome their investment in agriculture and processing, cotton and textiles, food processing, forestry, healthcare, horticulture, mineral processing, oil and gas, tourism, utilities, airports and seaports, railroads and more. Ghana’s people are friendly, are about business and want to increase the relationship between the U.S. and Ghana. As trade minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah stated recently, “Atlanta is the African-American capital of the world.” Ties can be strengthened with the African-American community in Georgia as well.
Georgia can position itself as the hub for doing business with Africa by using Ghana as the gateway to Africa.
To further collaborative efforts and in partnership with the Ghana Embassy, the Ghana International Chamber of Commerce and Global Strategies for Good LLC, are planning a trade mission to Ghana for spring 2016. For more information, please call 678-632-2362, e-mail us at admin@ghicc.org or visit www.ghicc.org.
Matilda Arhin is president of the Ghana International Chamber of Commerce.Cynthia L. Blandford is honorary consul for the General Republic of Liberia.
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/opin...cial_twitter_2014_sfp#fc01e8aa.3828699.735751
Whats wild is if the cia never popped off the conflict in Liberia , liberia would be of the most advance nations in africa/the world as they were doing in the 50s what Ghana ks doing now. I think it is dope Ghana offers dual citizen ship and i hope more west african nations do the same to spark more investment and business opportunities for blacks globally
We from Atlantis praying like a Mantis.
AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
You're wrong
Gentrification in Atlanta is nothing new. Last year it was named one of seven cities "radically altered" by the trend. Before that dubious honor one filmmaker named his forthcoming gentrification documentary The Atlanta Way. Now a new report makes the case that Atlanta is among the cities hardest hit by the complex confluence of the rising cost of living, reverse white flight, and displacement over the past quarter century.
Governing this month published a study showing that Atlanta — coming in fifth just behind Portland, Washington D.C., Minneapolis, and Seattle — lays claim to one of the nation's highest gentrification rates.
The study, which gathered census data for 50 of the nation's largest cities, examines different census "tracts" — swaths of land that are typically larger than individual neighborhoods, but smaller than counties or Atlanta City Council districts — to determine if they were gentrifying or not. The report didn't look at tracts with fewer than 500 residents. It also only considered tracts where the median household income and home value were both in the bottom 40th percentile of a given metro region.
What did researchers find? The study shows that nearly 17 percent of Atlanta's eligible tracts — including large parts of Cabbagetown, Downtown, East Lake, Grant Park, Old Fourth Ward, Poncey-Highland, and Reynoldstown — experienced gentrification during the 1990s. Over the past 15 years, that figure has exploded with 46 percent of eligible tracts experiencing that trend such as Cascade Heights, East Atlanta, Edgewood, Kirkwood, Lakewood Heights, Old Fourth Ward, Peoplestown, Riverside, and West End.
Put into perspective: Governing recorded national average gentrification rates of 8.6 percent in the '90s and 20 percent since 2000. That means Atlanta is gentrifying at more than twice the rate of the average large American city.
Governing has provided CL with two maps — one from the 1990s and one for the past 15 years — that show Atlanta's gentrifying neighborhoods. We've included those after the jump:
- COURTESY GOVERNING
- Atlanta's gentrification, 1990-2000
- COURTESY GOVERNING
- Atlanta's gentrification, 2000-Present
In the big picture, the report notes that gentrification is relatively rare since 2000, occurring in only 8 percent of all neighborhoods that the magazine analyzed throughout the country. Governing cites numerous reasons for gentrification in the cities researchers studied: a growing desire to move back in urban centers, sudden economic growth after stagnant periods, and a rise in a neighborhood's white residents.
However, the report didn't delve into the specific reasons behind Atlanta's rapid gentrification.Governing Data Editor Michael Maciag tells CL that potential increases in education levels, rising housing prices, and infrastructure investment — let's say it all together, now: Atlanta Beltline! — are potential factors affecting the city. And Georgia State University Sociology Professor Deirdre Oakley, who's studied gentrification, says changes in education and income levels are often a sign that new people are moving into a neighborhood, not longtime residents improving their life circumstances.
"Here in Atlanta, traditionally a [predominantly] African-American city, these neighborhoods aren't just becoming more affluent, they're becoming more white," Oakley tells CL. "The question is: What has that done to the fabric of the community who lived there before these neighborhoods gentrified?"
Local government officials can attempt to address gentrification in a number of different ways. How those initiatives fare is partly based on political will, market forces, and larger economic trends like the Great Recession.
Mayor Kasim Reed spokeswoman Anne Torres tells CL the city has "significant power" to combat gentrification including the use of building permits, tax incentives, and the ongoing sale of its real estate to help guide the right kinds of developments. In addition, Invest Atlanta doled out $68 million worth of incentives last year that are expected to create 1,060 workforce housing units. That cash, Torres says, is being guided to the right kind of developers who will partner with the city to boost its workforce housing stock.
"We have a tremendous say in the outcome of the developments," Torres says. "[It's about] finding the right developers for the right neighborhoods."
According to Oakley, city governments ultimately have a "vested interest" in gentrification. The reason is simple: higher property values lead to higher taxes, and higher taxes mean more revenue. More revenue allows city governments to spend more cash on its citizens. More spending can be good overall — it helps make projects like the Beltline and Atlanta Streetcar possible — but it can also accelerate gentrification.
There's a downside to that. Though Atlanta might attempt to boost its workforce housing, that kind of policy doesn't necessarily help lower-income residents most affected by gentrification. To change that, Oakley says Atlanta should consider more policies to replenish its existing affordable housing stock, not deplete it for development's sake.
"City Hall can say we're [boosting workforce housing]," Oakley says. "But it's not going to solve the problem. When neighborhoods start to gentrify, it's a growth machine. Once private capital comes in, it's impossible to stop it without rent control like in New York City. There's no way that'll happen in Atlanta."
http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2015/02/03/can-anyone-stop-atlantas-rapid-gentrification
DaChampIsHere
Survive the drought
I'm actually really worried about the state of Atlanta. Seems like Kasim is losing it, whether through bad deals or being too stubborn with other members of the community, shyt reeks of conspiracy and pre-planned deals. White people are not going to have him like the blacks, but Atlanta is slowly becoming more white, so who is going to be voting for him? Atlanta is going to have it's first white mayor in years soon. That's going to be crazy.
Just hoping Atlanta doesn't end up like Detroit, but with a bunch of old film studio lots and warehouses instead of assembly lines.
In better spirits,
Hope all my young brehs have been getting a plethora of Edgewood twerk this summer
Just hoping Atlanta doesn't end up like Detroit, but with a bunch of old film studio lots and warehouses instead of assembly lines.
In better spirits,
Hope all my young brehs have been getting a plethora of Edgewood twerk this summer
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This his last term hence the fukkery. They can't do anything to him. He might burn the forest for the black candidates that follow him however.I'm actually really worried about the state of Atlanta. Seems like Kasim is losing it, whether through bad deals or being too stubborn with other members of the community, shyt reeks of conspiracy and pre-planned deals. White people are not going to have him like the blacks, but Atlanta is slowly becoming more white, so who is going to be voting for him? Atlanta is going to have it's first white mayor in years soon. That's going to be crazy.
Just hoping Atlanta doesn't end up like Detroit, but with a bunch of old film studio lots and warehouses instead of assembly lines.
In better spirits,
Hope all my young brehs have been getting a plethora of Edgewood twerk this summer
What do you do?
acquire debt financing for invest atlanta and certain develops for the city
Do you need a finance degree for that?
Do you need a finance degree for that?
To get in most likely. However the dirty little secret about finance is 90% is basic math. Nikkas try to make it seem complicated but its not.
If you sell yourself right you can get in though. They can teach finance but they cant teach work ethic
I'm going to change my major to finance.I'm trying to
good in Atl in the next 5 years