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Andaz Savannah opens after renovations of former Avia hotel
Andaz Savannah, billed by its owners as a lifestyle hotel, opened Thursday at 14 Barnard Street in the former AVIA Savannah in the Historic District.A renovation to the hotel’s public areas has been...
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Law firm’s offices win attentionReaders of “Above the Law,” a website that “takes a behind-the-scenes look at the world of law” have selected the offices of the Savannah firm of Bouhan, Williams &...
View ArticleLocal employers add 2,400 jobs in August
Savannah-area businesses continue to hang out the “now hiring” signs.Employers in Chatham, Bryan and Effingham counties added 2,400 jobs in August, according to Georgia Department of Labor estimates....
View ArticleTrade Center gets fourth ships model
Shortly after the end of the World War II, the U.S. Navy designed a new generation of minesweepers, those tough little ships that brave treacherous waters to find and destroy enemy underwater...
View ArticleTourism group hears about future of air service here
Stephen Limberg, Savannah station manager for US Airways and guest speaker for the Tourism Leadership Council’s monthly meeting Thursday, was asked lots of questions about his airline’s future in...
View ArticleDockworkers agree to extend negotiations
A threatened dockworkers strike has been averted — at least for this year — as both the International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance have agreed to extend talks through...
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Anticipation builds for Kohl's arrival
The Kohl’s department store chain’s slogan is “expect great things.”Expectations couldn’t be greater for Sunday’s opening of the retailer’s first Savannah store.Shoppers, neighbors and Kohl’s...
View ArticleIPhone 5 launch draws Apple fans worldwide
In a now familiar global ritual, Apple fans jammed shops across the globe to pick up the tech juggernaut’s latest iPhone.Eager buyers formed long lines Friday at Apple Inc. stores in Asia, Europe and...
View ArticleFree enterprise: Hoping for the iBlip on gross domestic product
The race is on. The U.S. economy is going to get pushed from two forces, in a positive way. The question is whether those stimuli will be able to overcome the list of factors arrayed against a stronger...
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Spotted®: Creative Approach Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting
Creative Approach held its grand opening and ribbon cutting on Friday night.Located in downtown Savannah at 408 MLK Blvd., the recently renovated three story print business hosted an evening of hors'...
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Sunday foot traffic increasing in downtown Savannah
If you had wandered Broughton Street on a Sunday evening a decade ago, you would have had the street pretty much to yourself.Broughton’s resurgence was well underway at that point, but the strip was...
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Byrd flies into City Market; local cookie company opens retail store
Byrd Cookie Company’s long downtown hiatus is over.The Savannah institution opened a retail store in City Market last weekend, 85 years after founder Benjamin T. Byrd moved the business out of the...
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Savannah again ranks among top travel destinations
The Hostess City of the South has again lived up to that nickname.Savannah ranked among America’s top-10 cities in Conde Nast Traveler magazine’s annual “Readers’ Choice Awards.” Savannah tied for 10th...
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This week in BiS:• The Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce and the Savannah Morning News are sponsoring the 2012 Business Expo and Awards Banquet Oct. 25 at the Savannah International Trade &...
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Vikram Pandit steps down as Citigroup CEO
Vikram Pandit abruptly stepped down as CEO of Citigroup on Tuesday, shocking Wall Street, after steering the bank through the 2008 financial crisis and the choppy years that followed.According to the...
View ArticleOur economic times: Unemployment as a lagging indicator
Two weeks ago the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the nation’s unemployment rate for September fell from 8.1 to 7.8 percent, the lowest measure since January 2009.Unlike the decline...
View Article2012 another slamming summer at Tybee Island
Tybee Island posted another summer tourism sellout.Bed tax revenue rose 8.2 percent for the months of June, July and August 2012 over the same period last year and beat the previous record summer —...
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Gulfstream to add jobs in Brunswick Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced plans Wednesday to increase employment at its Brunswick facility by approximately 20 percent in the next year to support growing...
View ArticleReport highlights Savannah's development needs
I have to tell you, in the interest of full disclosure, that several months ago the Savannah Economic Development Authority asked me to serve in an advisory capacity on a new venture capital initiative...
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Beach volleyball tourney to return to Tybee in 2013
The Tybee Open on the Extreme Volleyball Players Tour is circuit organizer Ross Balling’s “favorite event of the year.”The Tybee Island Tourism Council on Wednesday ensured the island will contend for...
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