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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...
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The Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce is bringing SpecTech back to Rome this year for a two-day event, which brought great positive results as SpecTech Four (shown above) last year. SpecTech helps to provide the opportunity for people with ideas and people with financial support to work together toward a common goal. (contributed photo)
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...
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FILE - George Kastanias checks the lunch crowd at La’Maries at Magretta Hall, 201 Broad St. (Doug Walker / Rome News-Tribune)
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 ...
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Mount Berry Square mall. (File / Rome News-Tribune)
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...
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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...
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Floyd Medical Center
Hospital bond deal generates almost $900,000 in cash for Floyd County
Historically low interest rates have prompted Floyd Medical Center officials in Rome to refinance $35 million worth of bonds that were authorized 10 years ago, while at the same time issuing an...
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Attendees chat and enjoy food and freshments at last year s Night at the Movies event at West Rome s Rome Cinemas. (Photo by Foxworthy Studios)
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 ...
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The Ramada Skytop, formerly the Holiday Inn Skytop, which closed its doors in 2009, was the last hotel in Rome with a lounge that serves alcohol. (File, rn-t.com)
Skytop sold in online auction to Charles Williams Real Estate Investment Corp.
Charles Williams Real Estate Investment Corp. is now the owner of the Skytop property off Chateau Drive. Williams purchased the former Holiday and Ramada Inn property in an auction from Garris...
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New photos: Lowe's distribution center construction continues to grow
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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...
Sales tax collecting continues upward trend
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
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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...
New boutique on Broad
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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...
Shopping center line up coming together
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
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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...
Women take the helm of local industrial supply firm
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
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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...
Sports Stop to open at the mall
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
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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...
Planners recommend zoning changes to North Rome parcels
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
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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...
Planning commission recommends South Broad rezoning; Mercy Housing plans teardown of old McCall Hospital
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
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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...