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Appalachian
Regional
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Top 10 Best Places for
Small Business in Georgia:
Murray County #6 of 159
Georgia Counties
--Named by Smart Asset 2021

Murray County IndustrIal developMent authorIty

Everything your business needs to grow By Lydia Cobb

t he Cities of Chatsworth and The City of Eton is home to the second miles on Georgia highways. And it’s Foss Floors and Polytech Fibers LLC

Eton have a higher level of
simple: in 16 minutes a truck driver can
inland port in the state (a third inland
are expanding. We are now welcoming
sophistication as drivers of
in 2024 in northeast Georgia). The
way. Currently, the facility has a capacity
our state’s economy. We are a port is expected to become operational pull in, unload a container, and be on their Green Galaxy Group, a Las Vegas,
Nevada-based manufacturer building a
destination with emerging careers for just Appalachian Regional Port is gateway to process 50,000 containers annually. facility in the Murray South Industrial Park.
about every skill. Through access to some of to Georgia’s seaport of Savannah, A 10-year development plan will Green Galaxy Group purchased 41 acres
the finest educational institutions in Georgia, the fourth busiest port in the U.S., for double that.
Murray County has a labor force of more markets in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, for its back-to-the-U.S. manufacturing
than 117,000 well-trained people across and Kentucky. Because of our inland port, big name facility to make synthetic surfacing.
five counties. Qualifying companies also businesses are relocating here. We have They are breaking ground on the first
have the support of Georgia’s Quick Start Inland ports relieve interstate congestion welcomed General Electric (GE) Logistics of seven buildings in late 2022 and will
initiative, which provides workforce training and carbon emissions by using rail passage. Center and Huali Floors, enhancing job eventually employ more than 400 people
at no cost. Each roundtrip container offsets 710 truck growth in the region. The companies of of all talents.

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