Development Authority of Bulloch County

Development Authority of Bulloch County Economic Development Authority

Twenty-five years after, and Statesboro still gathers to remember. This Friday, September 11th, the Statesboro Fire Dep...
09/10/2026

Twenty-five years after, and Statesboro still gathers to remember.

This Friday, September 11th, the Statesboro Fire Department will host its annual Patriot Day ceremony at 9 a.m. at the fire department, located at 24 W. Grady Street. The public is invited.

Community members, first responders, local officials, veterans and area organizations gather each year to remember the people who died on September 11, 2001. This ceremony honors the firefighters, law enforcement officers, emergency personnel and civilians who answered the call that day and the days that followed. Friday’s event is a chance to stand with them.

Full details from Grice Connect: https://www.griceconnect.com/community/statesboro-fire-department-will-host-annual-patriot-day-ceremony-on-september-11-12743686

Photo Credit: Grice Connect

09/09/2026

Thanks to Georgia’s business-friendly environment, a record-breaking year for economic development is delivering new opportunities statewide, benefiting both Georgians and the companies operating here.

Dive deeper into another successful year in Georgia: https://bit.ly/4gQhICw

Economic development often looks at two ledgers: one that records what arrives and the other that records what stays. Th...
09/09/2026

Economic development often looks at two ledgers: one that records what arrives and the other that records what stays. The second one is harder to accomplish.

Fifteen years ago, Tina and Jeff Hook opened a wing place on Northside Drive and Statesboro has been going back ever since. Nationally, fewer than three in ten restaurants are still open at fifteen years. A restaurant in its fifteenth year is evidence that a market can sustain one, which is the more durable part of the story.

Wing Maxx is marking their anniversary by giving 15 percent of the day’s proceeds to Safe Haven, their 2026 Nonprofit of the Year, which serves victims of domestic violence and their children across Bulloch and five neighboring counties. The celebration runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 12, at the 127 Northside Drive East location. Local nonprofits will compete in a wing eating contest, local kids will have a coloring showcase, and a raffle will be drawn at 2 p.m. Wing Maxx has an open invitation for teachers, deputies, firefighters and officers who have been eating there all along. Parking will be available across the street at Renasant Bank.

Fifteen years is a number a business earns and a community awards. Congratulations to both.

The most consequential economic development work in Bulloch County rarely comes with a ribbon. Career pathways are infra...
09/08/2026

The most consequential economic development work in Bulloch County rarely comes with a ribbon. Career pathways are infrastructure. Communities build them years before they need them.

Industry, higher education, and school leaders met this month as the Career-Workforce Steering Committee, with Superintendent Dr. Torian White sharing his vision for One Bulloch. Career Ready Bulloch has the recap, and it is worth two minutes of your time: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19AmzBWbUu/

Saturday, Sept. 5 is National Play Outside Day. 🌿The idea is refreshingly simple. On the first Saturday of every month, ...
09/04/2026

Saturday, Sept. 5 is National Play Outside Day. 🌿

The idea is refreshingly simple. On the first Saturday of every month, we ALL go outside and do something fun TOGETHER. Kids, parents, grandparents...everybody. No sign-ups. No schedule. Just a few good hours in the open air.

So we made you a map. 📍 https://www.google.com/maps/d/view?mid=1Eg1RP9r9yBiNbU0m_WPNDHOoAX6FU6o

Twenty-three parks, trails, and green spaces across Bulloch County, each one pinned and ready to hand you directions. If you are new here, start anywhere. If you have lived here forty years, we would bet there are three on this map you have never set foot in.

Not sure where to begin?

Have twenty minutes? Shelby Park has a pond, a shaded loop, and a great many ducks. The Art Park sits right at the entrance to downtown. The Main Street Farmers Market runs 9 to 12:30 on South Main, which absolutely counts.

Have a whole morning? Mill Creek Regional Park runs a 1.25 mile trail around the lake, with two playgrounds along the way. The Blind Willie McTell Trail carries you through downtown, past the dog park, and out onto the S&S Greenway. The county disc golf course is free to play, all 18 holes of it.

Never been, and now it's time? Herty Pines Nature Preserve. Sweetheart Circle under the old oaks. The Botanic Garden at Georgia Southern, open 9 to 2 on Saturday.

Put your shoes on. The hardest part is walking out the front door. 👟

Statesboro STEAM Academy Opens Its Permanent HomeA community that is attracting global industry has to answer one questi...
09/03/2026

Statesboro STEAM Academy Opens Its Permanent Home

A community that is attracting global industry has to answer one question above all others: can it grow the skilled workforce those employers will need? Statesboro answered part of that question with a building.

Statesboro STEAM Academy has opened a new campus at 531 E. Main Street, an approximately $7.5 million facility built specifically for the way its students learn. The state charter school, whose full name is the College, Careers, Arts, and Technology Academy, began the 2026-27 year with about 290 students and room to grow toward 400. Inside are flexible spaces designed for inquiry, real-world projects, engineering, technology, and student-led research.

Here is why that reaches beyond the classroom. Bulloch County is absorbing more than $900 million in new industrial investment and over 1,500 committed jobs. Every one of those jobs is, in the end, a bet on local and regional talent. A school purpose-built to let young people design, build, and present real work is part of our talent-pipeline infrastructure, as surely as any road, rail spur, or water line.

There is a difference, Principal Corliss Reese noted, between a place adapted to serve as a school and a place created for learning. The same holds for a community and its future: you can adapt to growth, or you can build for it. Congratulations to Reese, the students, the families, and everyone who believed in this school long before it had the space to match the vision. Economic development is not only about the companies that arrive, but also about the trained and skilled people who walk through their doors.

https://www.statesborosteam.org/

Savannah/Hilton Head Airport FundingWhat does a taxiway in Savannah have to do with Bulloch County? More than you might ...
09/03/2026

Savannah/Hilton Head Airport Funding

What does a taxiway in Savannah have to do with Bulloch County? More than you might think.

Global industry does not relocate in a vacuum. Long before a supplier breaks ground, the executives, engineers, and site selectors who decide where billions of dollars will land have to get here first. For our region, they arrive through one front door: Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, the closest commercial gateway to Bulloch County and to the Hyundai Metaplant supply chain taking shape around us.

That gateway is getting a little stronger. More than $4 million in new federal infrastructure funding will reconstruct a taxiway at the airport, the latest investment keeping Coastal Georgia's aviation front door open and ready for business.

Roads, rail, water, runways. Economic development is mostly the infrastructure no one notices, right up until it is the reason a company chooses to come to our area and provides accessible jobs right here in Bulloch County.

Photo: Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport

A grand opening is a big signal. When a national brand chooses Statesboro for its first location in Southeast Georgia, a...
09/01/2026

A grand opening is a big signal.

When a national brand chooses Statesboro for its first location in Southeast Georgia, and about 100 neighbors line up before dawn to be there, that's a growing market showing its confidence. Raising Cane's arrived with roughly 170 new jobs at $15 an hour, from a company that's already giving back: a $1,000 opening-day gift to Georgia Southern's Center for Wildlife Education, with a pledge to support local schools, teams, and nonprofits.

The restaurants, retail, and amenities that make people want to stay are economic development, too. Welcome to Bulloch County, Raising Cane's. 🍗

https://www.wjcl.com/article/raising-canes-expands-in-georgia-with-new-statesboro-location/73509524

Still weighing it? Two days out, and the door's still open.The RISE Job Palooza is this Wednesday, September 2 — 100+ em...
08/31/2026

Still weighing it? Two days out, and the door's still open.

The RISE Job Palooza is this Wednesday, September 2 — 100+ employers hiring across our eight-county region, Bulloch included, all under one roof at Enmarket Arena in Savannah. Last year's Palooza drew more than 2,400 job seekers and 124 hiring employers.

📍 Enmarket Arena, Savannah · 🗓️ Wed, Sept 2 · 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. · Free admission and parking

No appointment needed — just your résumé. Don't have one? WorkSource Coastal will help you make one on-site, free. And the first 300 job seekers who attend and complete a short survey get a free meal, courtesy of RISE.

One afternoon could be the one that changes your next chapter.

risesavannah.com/jobpalooza

Grateful for Bulloch County!August 28th was National Thoughtful Day, and the most thoughtful thing we can think of is to...
08/31/2026

Grateful for Bulloch County!

August 28th was National Thoughtful Day, and the most thoughtful thing we can think of is to say “thank you" to the place we call home.

Bulloch County is a great place to live, work, and play and that does not happen by luck. It is built, on purpose, by people who care. People like our legacy business and manufacturing partners that have invested here for generations and new industry partners that are enhancing the fabric of this community. It is the educators from our local P-12 schools, Ogeechee Technical College, and Georgia Southern University who prepare our current and next generation workforce. It is the entrepreneurs willing to bring forth something new and exciting into the world and it is our neighbors who show up for each other time and time again.

At the Development Authority of Bulloch County, it is our privilege to work alongside these partners every day. A collaborative community is a thoughtful community; one that plans and works for the betterment of the entire group. We are taking this moment to be thankful for Bulloch County and to pledge our continued commitment to thoughtful and meaningful progress for our entire community.

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