Roger Goss, senior vice president of trusts, is retiring from River City Bank on Aug. 31. Goss, who helped start the trust department in 2007, spent 27 years with SunTrust Bank before returning t...
Lowe's distribution center Work continues at the Lowe’s Home Improvement distribution center in the North Floyd Industrial Park. The center will be 1.4 million square feet and cost $125 million to build. Its projected comple...
Technology as an 'Innovation station' at SpecTech Rome Five The Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce will be hosting SpecTech Rome Five this Thursday and Friday. “SpecTech is to technology as industrial sites are to manufacturing,” Chamber of Commerce pres...
Kastanias leaving La Marie's, restaurant still open George Kastanias bid farewell to his Victorian Rose Tea Room at LaMarie’s , 201 Broad St. on Friday. His tea room will live on, as Marie Bishop-Brinson has acquired all of Kastanias’ recipes ...
Mount Berry Square Mall names new marketing manager Mount Berry Square Mall is pleased to announce the recent addition to the management staff of Tricia Dillard as Marketing Manager. Dillard has been hired by Urban Retail Properties, LLC, the manage...
Downtown Development Authority gives out over $13,000 in grants Rome’s Downtown Development Authority opened its checkbook Thursday morning, approving more than $13,000 in façade and building rehab grants. George Pullen was approved for $2,333 to help with faç...
Movie screens in Rome going digital Will you notice the difference between a film and digital screen? Robin Miller, the general manager of Village Theaters, thinks so. "Yes, it will be a huge difference," she said. Within the next ...
The Lowe’s regional distribution center project near Shannon continues to show signs of growth as construction continues. The newest images of the construction site located near the intersection o...
Several statistics provide good barometers of the local economy. Unemployment and housing figures are a couple of important ones, but perhaps most importantly, tax collections provide a concrete pi...
Nora Dundervill has obtained a business license for Vintage A Go Go, a women’s clothing boutique at 224 Broad Street in downtown Rome. Efforts to reach Ms. Dundervill by phone have been unsuccessf...
A leasing official with Madison Retail LLC said Friday that 87 percent of the leasable space in the Charles Hight Square mixed-use retail and office development at North Fifth Avenue and Turner McC...
Safety South Supplies has joined the ranks of companies certified by Women’s Business Enterprise. An industrial safety equipment firm operated by a woman? That’s right, and they’ll even sell you a...
Paul Limbaugh opened the Sports Stop in Mount Berry Square mall Friday, May 4. While Limbaugh is new to Mount Berry Square, his business has been at Arbor Place mall in Douglasville for about a doz...
Residents of the North Avenue corridor in North Rome may soon notice some changes to a dilapidated old landmark tavern, The Carousel. The Rome-Floyd County Planning Commission has recommended app...
The Rome-Floyd County Planning Commission has given its unanimous recommendation for the Mercy Housing Southeast application to rezone four parcels at South Broad Street and Cherokee Street for a m...