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TRAINING PROFESSIONALS LABOR FORCE Largest Catoosa County
Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) Catoosa County’s estimated population is more
offers programs of study specific to the needs of than 68,000, and its labor force numbers more Employers 2022
Catoosa County’s existing manufacturing industries than 34,000. Approximately 23% of the labor force
and provides skilled employees for the area’s has some college level training. • Catoosa County Public Schools
workforce. The GNTC campus is across from the • Costco Wholesale Corporation
Rollins Business Center. TRANSPORTATION
While Catoosa County has four exits within • Five Star Food Service, Inc.
GNTC is also the area’s provider for Georgia about eight miles of interstate highway, each • Food City
Quick Start, the nation’s #1 workforce training exit is its own center of economic activity. I-75 puts • Lake Winnepesaukah Amusements, Inc.
program, working with qualified companies to the area in close contact with Atlanta, Chattanooga,
provide customized employee training at no cost Nashville, Knoxville, and Birmingham. Traffic from • Lowe’s Home Centers, Inc.
to the company. • Publix Super Market, Inc.
Alabama and west Georgia from Highway 27 • Solmax
The grand opening of the Catoosa County Public usually enters I-75 at Ringgold by way of • Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
School System’s From Here to Career College and Highway 151.
Career Academy introduces 80,000-square feet of • The Home Depot
space to train our next generation of young people Catoosa County is only a 30-minute drive to • Walmart
entering the workforce. The academy, through Georgia’s Appalachian Regional Port, an inland port
academic instruction, dual college enrollment, and that is a powerful gateway to the Port of Savannah, *Listed alphabetically, not by number of employees. Source: Georgia Area Labor Profile Feb. 2023
apprenticeships and internships equips students Ga., the second-busiest seaport on the East Coast.
to lead in their fields, as they will already be The Appalachian Regional Port, through CSX,
connected with the people, the knowledge, and provides a direct, 388-mile rail route to the Georgia
the passion to succeed. Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal.

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