Want to Move to Our Town? Here’s $10,000 and a Free Bike.
With offers of cash, housing and a budding talent pool, smaller cities and states hope to get in on the ground floor of a new era for remote workers.
Bentonville, Ark., city of roughly 55,000 in Northwest Arkansas, is best known as the home of Walmart’s global headquarters. Now it’s expanding its reach under the banner of the Life Works Here initiative, which awards selected remote workers $10,000 and a free bicycle for moving to the area.Credit.Beth Hall for The New York Times
By Alyson Krueger
World Trade Center Meeting Offers AI-Powered Business Networking for Georgia Firms
The World Trade Center Savannah, part of the Savannah Economic Development Authority, is recruiting companies for matchmaking meetings.
The
World Trade Center Savannah is offering firms throughout
Georgia virtual networking opportunities with business, government and nonprofit leaders around the world through its membership in a network of 320-plus such centers globally.
The
World Trade Centers Association, the umbrella organization that grants the license to the Savannah center and the
World Trade Center Atlanta, is holding its annual assembly virtually April 26-30.
Without the ability to network in person at its annual conclave, the association is deploying an artificial-intelligence-powered business matchmaking system to create opportunities for attendees to meet other like-minded companies.
A Saharan desert. A tropical rainforest. The bustling streets of early 20th century London. Maybe even a interstellar civilization on another planet.
Most of these would require expensive set design and months of construction to make possible. Now, they re available at the click of a mouse and they all could be found in a sound stage just outside downtown Savannah.
On Friday, the Savannah College of Art and Design announced their new XR stage and backlot expansion to the Savannah Film Studios, 2315 Louisville Road. The 10.9 acre project will include a Hollywood-style film backlot, an XR Stage for virtual productions, and indoor soundstages. The stage, which was created in partnership with MEPTIK Studios, will be state-of-the-art and will make Savannah Film Studios the most comprehensive university film studio complex in the country.
Although they come from different walks of life, the four recipients of an annual award given by Senior Citizens Inc. have plenty in common. They have volunteered much of their lives and say that in doing so, they have enjoyed helping make Savannah a better place.
The 2021 recipients of SCI’s Legends, Leaders, and Life Well Lived Award are Lila and Dale Critz, Deborah Goldwire and Robert James.
Patty Lyons, president of SCI, said the recipients have contributed significantly to their community, inspired others by the difference they have made, and exemplify a life well lived.
“We are looking forward to celebrating this year’s honorees,” Ms. Lyons said. “They are all inspiring individuals who have helped to make the lives of others better and who inspire us to live life to the fullest.”