Southeast Shoutouts | Atlanta Tech Village opens second location
The Charleston Digital Corridor sees now as the right time to add a second building.
From Atlanta, GA:
The Atlanta Tech Village (ATV) location in the historic Sylvan Hotel on Hotel Row in downtown Atlanta is now open. In an email, David Cummings, ATV Founder and also Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Atlanta Ventures, writes that “we have a beautiful street-level entrance with a lobby, reception, and small event space. Upstairs, the building features 40+ private offices, several conference and board rooms, multiple kitchens, and another event space that can accommodate 50 to 75 people comfortably.”
As noted in this article that we published last August 1, the original ATV location in Buckhead has become the fourth-largest tech space in the U.S. with 103,000 square feet of offices, co-working, and event areas. Now, Cummings and his partners have an even bigger goal with the second location: “We’re excited to celebrate this next milestone in building the largest start-up and innovation district in the country,” he writes, adding, “55 more buildings to go!”
From Charleston, SC:
The (Charleston) Post and Courier reports that last year was a good one for the Holy City. According to the article, six companies raised a combined $140 million in capital in 2024, a powerhouse video game developer leased 30,000 square feet of space on Daniel Island to take advantage of the Lowcountry’s talent, and the Charleston Tech Center leased out its final spaces.
“Perhaps that’s why Ernest Andrade, Executive Director of the Charleston Digital Corridor, sees now as the right time to add a second structure to the upper peninsula office complex,” Teri Errico Griffis writes. She also references a recent study from the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Charleston Regional Development Alliance that says the Charleston area is expected to net 35,000 new jobs by 2028, with the information technology sector expected to grow the most at 15.7 percent.
From Jacksonville, FL:
First Coast Inno reports that a Jacksonville businessman who has sculped landscapes for about four decades kept seeing a problem: the mountains of waste his industry left behind. Now, after a decade of R&D work, Bob Hawkinson holds 11 patents on soil and marine biodegradable products through his new venture named Recede Bioplastics.
The products include biodegradable weed eater trim line, plastic flags, plant pots, pot labels and mulch bags that block weeds as they degrade without poisoning the soil. The article says that Hawkinson is in conversations with firms to try and get his biodegradable options — Ecoboundaries, Gutter Guppy’s, Guppy Tails, Weed Recede, and Color Pockets — to market by the spring of 2025.
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