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Old 10-25-2012, 12:41 PM
 
Location: ATL
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Old 10-25-2012, 12:52 PM
 
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google is already here in atlanta (off thornton road) data center

microsoft too
Yeah, but Data Centers are not exciting. They use up a lot of space and hire a few technicians. They just want cheap power.
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Old 10-25-2012, 12:55 PM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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Yeah, but Data Centers are not exciting. They use up a lot of space and hire a few technicians. They just want cheap power.
Atlanta doesn't have cheap power.

You're right. Data centers are not exciting. I would rather see more actual software development here.
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Old 10-25-2012, 12:56 PM
 
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Wow! Bisnow reports that General Motors is targeting a former UPS software development facility in Roswell for its potential Atlanta Innovation Center.

GM DECIDES? - Real Estate Bisnow (ATL)

Funny how so much of that is going OTP in North Fulton. Without the help of streetcars and commuter rail.
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Old 10-25-2012, 01:05 PM
 
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Funny how so much of that is going OTP in North Fulton. Without the help of streetcars and commuter rail.
Stop gap measure. They know it's only a matter of time before the city annexes all those auto-oriented suburbs and installs streetcars so that their employees can commute into a dense, vibrant, walkable and creative downtown with zero lot line development.

These big corporations are smart like that.
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Old 12-20-2012, 03:34 PM
 
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Wow, apparently this is happening!

From BisNow:

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GM Picks Atlanta

GM has something to tell Atlanta: Beep! Beep! You Betcha! (That's legal speak, of course.) It picked the former UPS Innoplex facility in Roswell for its massive software development center.

Sources tell us GM has purchased (for an undisclosed sum) the 230k SF facility at 2010 Warsaw Rd that Big Brown shuttered in 2009. The car company is expected to open its third national software development center sometime during the first half of 2013, potentially hiring more than 1,000 high-paid workers. A GM spokesperson says the company does not comment on “speculation and rumor.” We broke the story earlier this year that Atlanta was in the running for one of a handful of GM software innovation centers (Detroit and Austin already have them).
Chalk up another huge win for the ATL!

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Old 12-20-2012, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Atlanta's Castleberry Hill
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Wow Atlanta has been quite the cats meow lately. First Delta does a major purchase in Virgin Atlantic, Atlanta based ICE purchase the iconic NYSE, and now this news about GM. Atlanta is definetely on another level.
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Old 12-20-2012, 04:39 PM
 
Location: ATL
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I thought the region would not get any more jobs because of the failed transportation bill?
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Old 12-20-2012, 04:43 PM
 
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I thought the region would not get any more jobs because of the failed transportation bill?
We're getting all these without transportation improvements. It would be totally off the charts if we'd passed a transportation bill.
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Old 12-20-2012, 05:11 PM
 
Location: Sweet Home Chicago!
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A more recent article here > GM picks Roswell for new research center that could bring... | www.ajc.com
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