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Developer wants rezoning for massive Sandy Springs project

A Houston development firm is planning a massive mixed-use development in Sandy Springs that would be one of the largest new developments in the Central Perimeter area in many years.Hines, a real estate investment trust, has requested a rezoning of land at Ga. 400 and Abernathy Road to allow construction ...

Solar energy project benefiting Cobb EMC back on track

Energy provider Dominion has signed a deal to take over a planned solar energy project in east-central Georgia that will have Cobb Electric Membership Corp. as its customer.The 40-acre solar project, called the Azalea Solar Power Facility, will be on farmland and forest acreage about 60 miles southwest of Augusta. ...

Eric Migicovsky, CEO of Pebble, displays his company’s smart watch in Palo Alto, Calif. The Pebble is one of a new breed of watches that not only tell time, but also connect to users’ smart phones.

Smart watches gain interest and popularity

PALO ALTO, Calif. — On a sunny day at a picnic table in Silicon Valley, Eric Migicovsky glanced down at his wristwatch. He wasn’t checking the time, he was checking his email. Glancing up, he grinned. The message was from yet another journalist.In this corner of a world obsessed with ...

Feds: Ex-postal workers stole $3.5M in tax, benefit checks

Two former postal workers and an accomplice pleaded guilty in federal court this week to stealing more than $3.5 million in federal tax refund and government benefits checks from a mail distribution facility in Atlanta. Prosecutors said Gerald Eason of Stockbridge and Deborah Fambro-Echols of Hapeville may be responsible for ...

Massachusetts-based Athenahealth, a player in the growing industry of healthcare information technology, will become the lead office tenant at Atlanta's City Hall East, rechristened as Ponce City Market.

Health tech firm bringing jobs to city

A major health care software firm will expand in the city of Atlanta, moving 100 jobs from Alpharetta to the intown area with plans to add hundreds more over the next five years.Athenahealth is in final talks to locate its expanded operations at the former City Hall East building, where ...

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