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Amazon’s Jefferson Fulfillment Center held a STEAM Engineering Challenge for students at Jefferson Middle School that required them to collaborate and to think critically and creatively. Amazon also donated $10,000 worth of STEAM equipment to help educate and inspire Jackson County, Georgia’s next generation of innovators!
GE Appliance opened their new distribution center in Jackson County, GA, creating 100 new jobs and $55 million investment. With local support, this project only took around 12 months to complete!
Baker & Taylor announced they will be adding 115 new jobs at their distribution center in the City of Commerce, Georgia to better serve the 6,000 public libraries that are their customers.
Stacy Watson, Director, Economic & Industrial Development at the Georgia Ports Authority gave an update on the Northeast Georgia Inland Port that is being developed in Hall County, just minutes from Jackson County, Georgia.
Amazon will create more than 500 full-time jobs in the Braselton area. The 600,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Jackson County will be used for packing and shipping large items.