Augusta's growth rate leads Columbia, SC; Chattanooga, TN; and Cobb County, Athens, Macon and Savannah in GA in 2008

[JLA]

Originally Posted by joeyrun

The KIA plant is going in lagrange not columbus. Evans, Martinez or Aiken would never add more jobs than Augusta. What's happening in Columbus is what happen in Augusta about 5 years ago. The growth starts heading into the suburbs. Look how phenix city is growing in metro Columbus. Aiken and Columbia Augusta's suburban counties the growth has slowed significantly since the booming 5 years ago. Augusta major construction is happening in the city and downtown.


Im sure Columbus is growing and will contiune too. But its not growing faster than Augusta.


Your metro area vs ours the numbers don't match up. Exactly what county in Columbus is growing so much faster than one in Augusta. Three most populated counties in each metro area.

Augusta- Richmond 200,000 Aiken 160,000 Columbia 112,000


Columbus-Muscogee 190,000 Lee 130,000 Russell 50,000

Actually Kia is not in La Grange, but it is in the city of West Point, two different cities. But you're kidding right?

[JLA]

Originally Posted by joeyrun

My point was you don't have a billon dollars going towards one single project like augusta has. 3.2 billion is good Im happy for Columbus growth. But that's still nowehere near Augusta. And 75% of our major construction is happening in the city not in the suburbs and FT. Gordon.

? The last time I checked that $1,000,000,000 project will be located on Fort Gordon. Has the Federal Government decided to build in Augusta instead? No. Augusta, just like Columbus is benefiting from Federal Government job relocations and growth, which is a good thing. The jobs usually do not pay as much as their civilian equivalent, but they are more stable. The West Side of GA is happy to see something good happening in Augusta. But please do not turn this into an Augusta Vs. the rest of Georgia. No one wins.

[westga]

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