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| Atlanta Apartment Locator Services : Atlanta Apartments |  | Contents | |
| Economy |
| Despite romantic associations, Atlanta has always
been more a commercial city than an ante-bellum monument. It
is the major center of regional commerce, and boasts an especially
strong convention and trade show business. According to the
ranking of world cities undertaken by the Globalization and
World Cities Study Group & Network (GaWC) and based
on the level of presence of global corporate service organisations,
Atlanta is considered a gamma or minor world city. |
| Several major national and international companies are headquartered
in Atlanta or its nearby suburbs, including five Fortune 100
companies: The Coca-Cola Company (started in Atlanta), BellSouth,
United Parcel Service in Sandy Springs, Home Depot (started
in Atlanta), and Georgia-Pacific. Home Depot founder Bernie
Marcus has donated more than 200 million dollars to build the
new Georgia Aquarium. Newell Rubbermaid recently moved to the
area as well. Atlanta also has its own Flatiron Building, built
before (1897) the better-known one in New York City (1902). |
| On the north side of the city near Midtown, the former Atlantic
Steel plant is being redeveloped as Atlantic Station, a mixed-use
urban renewal project combining housing, retail, and office
space, and promoted as one solution to Atlanta's ever more serious
traffic and summer smog problems. The metro area has one of
America's longest daily commutes, and is one of the most car-dependent
cities on the planet, both due to suburban sprawl, and lack
of large nearby lakes or mountains to compress growth. It also
has a notorious reputation as being one of the most dangerous
for pedestrians, as far back as 1949, when Gone With the
Wind author Margaret Mitchell was struck by a speeding car
and killed. |
| The city is a major cable television programming source; CNN
Center, headquarters of the Cable News Network, is in Atlanta
where the network was founded, and The Weather Channel broadcasts
from just outside of town. In addition to CNN, Ted Turner's
(and now Time Warner's) other networks from Atlanta include
Cartoon Network/Adult Swim and companion channel Boomerang,
TNT, Turner South, CNN International, CNN en Español, CNN Headline
News, CNN Airport Network, and TBS. Atlanta's WTBS channel 17
(originally WTCG) was Turner's start in television in the 1970s,
after he bought the struggling UHF TV station, turning it into
a profitable venture which still broadcasts "Superstation" TBS
locally and nationally. Atlanta's WSB was the first AM radio
station in the South. There are also many Atlanta FM radio stations
that play music of different kinds. |
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