At a time when Georgia’s unemployment rate is just below 10%, more than a thousand new jobs are coming to the Northeast part of the state.
Construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar announced today it will start building a one-million square foot plant in Athens.
“This plant will be about 1400 people,” said Caterpillar Chariman and CEO Doug Oberhelman. “We’ll make the most famous image I think of Caterpillar. That’s our bulldozer.”
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