Friday was a big day for the Rowen development in Gwinnett County as it celebrated the groundbreaking of its first tenant: the Belgium-based biologics manufacturing company UCB. The ceremony for UCB’s 79-acre campus highlighted this major $2 billion investment in life sciences, manufacturing and job creation. Businessman Sachin Shailendra chairs the Rowen Foundation, Gwinnett Commission Chairwoman Nicole Love Hendrickson and the Commission are important partners and Gov. Brian Kemp attended to celebrate with the UCB team. Dedication speakers included UCB CEO Jean-Christophe Tellier and U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce Jeffrey Kessler. This impressive coup has Georgia RISING…
Atlanta Dream’s stadium nightmare
The Atlanta Dream are about to play in the WNBA Finals, but they have a problem – they don’t have anywhere to play! The team has played its playoff games in State Farm Arena, which is owned by the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. But due to scheduling issues, State Farm isn’t available now, as it already has concerts and Hawks games on the docket. So the Dream are scrambling, and may have to play Finals games in the 3,500 seat Gateway Center Arena (State Farm seats 17,500). The scheduling snafu has the Dream DRIFTING…
