Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The Alabama health care software developer is creating up to 75 jobs in a target area of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce's Competitive EDGE program.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
East Cobb is gaining at least 10 jobs from the expansion of PointClear Solutions. The 6-year-old Huntsville, Ala.-based company develops software for customers in health care, including hospitals, doctors, government agencies and other information technology companies. It is opening an office at 1775 The Exchange, which is just east of Marietta, north of Smyrna, west of Interstate 75 and south of Terrell Mill Road. “Our business has grown substantially here over the past 18 months, and we continue to sign new business,” PointClear CEO David Karabinos said in a news release from the Cobb Chamber of Commerce. “We now have a critical mass of clients and employees here.” PointClear will have 10 employees in Cobb within two months and plans to …
Monday, January 23, 2012
East Cobb Commissioner JoAnn Birrell is wary of county funding for the Cobb Chamber's economic development plan.
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Should Cobb taxpayer money be used to help spur economic development in the county? That's a bet Cobb commission chairman Tim Lee is hedging as he pledged last week to help fund a major initiative by the Cobb Chamber of Commerce. But East Cobb commissioner JoAnn Birrell spoke out against the proposal, according to a report in The Marietta Daily Journal on Friday, saying the county should not commit to funding that it cannot control. The Chamber initiative, called Competitive EDGE (Economic Development for a Growing Economy), would come with a still-to-be-determined contribution from Cobb government. The plan was devised by Market Street, an Atlanta consulting firm. Described as a "game-changing" project, EDGE (Facebook page) would be "…
Thursday, October 27, 2011
A consultant to the Cobb Chamber of Commerce has identified health care services as a target for economic development.
A consultant to the Cobb Chamber of Commerce has identified seven targets for economic development, Chamber Chief Operating Officer Demming Bass told the county Board of Commissioners on Tuesday: Those are the initial recommendations from Midtown Atlanta-based Market Street Services as it carries out the Chamber’s four-part, six-month Competitive EDGE (Economic Development for a Growing Economy) initiative. The county board heard the midway update on the project during the afternoon, then voted 5-0 Tuesday night to approve economic development changes that give Cobb more flexibility to offer incentives to companies to move to or expand in the county, the Marietta Daily Journal reported. The revised county policy is set to expire in a year …
David
12:37 pm on Monday, January 23, 2012
Hopefully Mr. Ott's acting career is working out for him, because if he commits his East Cobb (I'm one of them) and Smyrna-Vinings tax-paying constituents to carry the financial burden of consultants and politicians who think multisyllabic psycho-babble (see "holistic, transformational economic development strategy and implementation plan") make it o.k. to waste money we don't have, he'll have a … more ›