New Jobs in the metro! (Atlanta, Griffin: appliances, hotels, transfer)

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Kaplan to move operations to Alpharetta - Atlanta Business Chronicle:


Kaplan to move operations to Alpharetta

Education and career services company, Kaplan Inc., signed a lease Wednesday for a nearly 100,000-square-foot building in Alpharetta, which the company said would accommodate its growing back office functions and bring 75 new jobs to the northern metro area.

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Atlanta to get gene sequencing center

Atlanta Business Chronicle: Atlanta to get gene sequencing center

Atlanta will soon get a high-tech cancer research institute.
Clark Atlanta University will team up with Georgia Tech to launch the Collaborative Cancer Genomics Center, a state-of-the-art gene sequencing facility at Clark Atlanta.

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Atlanta Business Chronicle: Atlanta to get gene sequencing center

The region is also attracting interest from the private sector.
Dendreon Corp., a Seattle-based drug maker, is looking at Atlanta's south side for an $80 million manufacturing facility that could create at least 300 jobs.

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Dendreon putting $70M plant in Atlanta

Dendreon putting $70M plant in Atlanta - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

Seattle-based biotechnology company Dendreon Corp. confirmed Monday it will build a $70 million manufacturing plant in Union City, Ga. As first reported by Atlanta Business Chronicle in its July 17 print edition, the plant will create around 300 jobs and will make Provenge -- a treatment that helps deal with prostate cancer that does not respond to traditional hormone therapy.

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First Data moving HQ to Atlanta

First Data Corp is moving its headquarters back to Atlanta, the company said in an earnings release on Friday.
The global payments processor has been based in Greenwood Village, Colo., since 2001.

Atlanta Business Chronicle reported last year the payment processing giant was expanding in Atlanta and could add 250 jobs by 2012.


First Data moving HQ to Atlanta - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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1000 jobs, not 250!!

First Data to bring up to 1,000 jobs

First Data Corp. plans to bring up to 1,000 jobs to metro Atlanta as it relocates its global headquarters back to the Peach State.

Atlanta Business Chronicle: First Data to bring up to 1,000 jobs

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Wipro adds Atlanta jobs - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

On Nov. 13, Atlanta Business Chronicle reported Wipro had signed a new 19,000-square-foot office lease and bringing 180 new jobs to Piedmont Center 4. Wipro is housing its business process outsourcing unit in Piedmont Center 4. The lease was for six years.
Wipro has said it plans to employ 500 people in Buckhead. But the expansion has been delayed by the economy. Wipro already has about 35,000 square feet in Eola Capital’s Piedmont Center 14.

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Animation studio a bright idea

Animation studio a bright idea - Atlanta Business Chronicle:


Film and television company Bright Ideas Entertainment LLC will build Georgia’s largest animation studio and add 350 jobs as part of a $20 million expansion.

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Electronic Arts eyes Atlanta - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

Electronic Arts eyes Atlanta

Gaming giant Electronic Arts Inc. is scouting metro Atlanta for a development center that, according to one estimate, could employ up to 300 people.

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Kaiser Permanente plans $400 million metro expansion


Kaiser Permanente is moving forward on a $400 million expansion of medical facilities in metro Atlanta, officials said Friday. The five-year plan would add 20 facilities to the company's existing 17 here, with a goal to place all metro Atlantans within a 15-minute drive of a Kaiser medical facility, company officials told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Kaiser, a giant insurer that also owns and operates its own medical facilities, expects to add 500 jobs to the area through the expansion.