Savannah Morning News (Savannah, GA) articles from September 2007

Savannah Morning News (Savannah, GA) archives from September 2007

DP Partners begins work on industrial park.
September 5, 2007... Byline: Mary Carr Mayle Sep. 5--Nevada-based DP Partners has entered the lucrative Savannah distribution market with LogistiPort, a 72-acre industrial park on Dean Forest Road just four miles from Georgia Ports Authority's Garden City...

Savannah, Ga., tourism officials say business is good.
September 7, 2007... Byline: Christian Livermore Sep. 7--As they do every three months, local business people gathered with the staff of the visitors bureau to hear what the bureau is doing to bring tourists into Savannah. Savannah Area Convention and...

Tasters provide raw data on farm-raised fish.
September 7, 2007... Byline: Mary Landers Sep. 7--Researchers and their guests Thursday took a bite out of a fishy problem at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. And then they took another bite. And another. The question put to the sushi-loving...

Savannah, Ga., plans to negotiate costs of curbside recycling.
September 11, 2007... Byline: Scott M. Larson Sep. 11--A curbside recycling program in the city of Savannah is projected to cost households $1.02 per month. That could cover the entire $737,000 annual cost of the recycling program, said Stephanie Cutter,...

Savannah Morning News, Ga., business briefs.
September 14, 2007... Sep. 14--GOVERNOR DECLARES SEPTEMBER TO BE COLLEGE SAVINGS MONTH: For the fifth consecutive year, Gov. Sonny Perdue has declared September as College Savings Month in Georgia, urging families to plan and save for their children's education and...

Savannah Morning News, Ga., Arlinda Smith Broady column.(Column)
September 14, 2007... Byline: Arlinda Smith Broady Sep. 14--Kenneth Dunham enjoys being a positive force in the community, but he says that sometimes it can get overwhelming. As the president of the West Savannah Community Organization for nearly 11 years,...

Activists worry longer docks increase dead grass buildup in marshes.
September 14, 2007... Byline: Mary Landers Sep. 14--Wrack may be the ruin of a stretch of Wilmington Island marsh. That's wrack as in dead marsh grass that has accumulated in mats up to a foot thick in front of Betsy Cain's and her neighbors' homes. ...

Local health care business has global aspirations.
September 14, 2007... Sep. 14--A small business that started as a group of professionals providing health care services nearly two decades ago has flourished during the past few years. Founded in 1990, Medical Infusion Technologies administers intravenous...

Planning board denies homes at Coffee Bluff in Savannah, Ga.
September 18, 2007... Byline: Christian Livermore Sep. 18--The Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission denied the latest version of a controversial proposal that would put houses next to Coffee Bluff Marina. The new compromise plan would...

Planning commission emptied by city council election in Tybee Island, Ga.
September 18, 2007... Byline: Scott M. Larson Sep. 18--No new major developments will be approved on Tybee Island in the next two months or more. Nor will the Tybee Island City Council get any recommendations from the Tybee Island Planning Commission on...

Savannah's port target: 6.5 million TEU containers by 2017.
September 21, 2007... Byline: Christian Livermore Sep. 21--The port of Savannah is shooting for handling 6.5 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit containers by 2017, and four elements are necessary to make that happen, Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director...

Effingham County lawsuit with IDA over local zoning finally settled.
September 21, 2007... Byline: Wayne Hodgin Sep. 21--SPRINGFIELD -- A lawsuit challenging whether the Effingham County Industrial Development Authority has the right to supersede local zoning laws has finally come to an end. A June 28 ruling from the Georgia...

Savannah, Hinesville among country's 'best performing' cities.
September 28, 2007... Byline: Mary Carr Mayle Sep. 28--Savannah has jumped from 78th to 34th in the just-released 2007 Milken Institute/Greenstreet Partners Best Performing Cities Index, which ranks metro areas -- both large and small -- according to their...

LNG expansion gets go-ahead.
September 28, 2007... Byline: Mary Landers Sep. 28--A storage facility built to hold 7.3 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas on Elba Island, five miles east of downtown Savannah, will more than double its storage capacity by 2012. The facility's...

With an eye to the future, Georgia Ports Authority buys 175 acres.
September 28, 2007... Byline: Mary Carr Mayle Sep. 28--Looking to future growth, the Georgia Ports Authority on Thursday purchased 175 acres of property on Hutchinson Island from Colonial Terminals. The property has more than 3,700 feet of frontage on the...