With Booming Tech, Culture and Creativity, Here's Why All Eyes Are on Atlanta

Civic and business leaders explain its renaissance

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Atlanta is seemingly everywhere these days—on big and small screens as the backdrop of major productions, on the hottest hip-hop playlists, in the Super Bowl, and in headlines about major corporate expansions.

So what’s in the water? What factors have made Atlanta a success on so many fronts? And what can other cities learn from it?

To find out, Adweek gathered together a roundtable of civic, industry and cultural leaders who represent a cross-section of Atlanta’s most thriving areas:

• Kwanza Hall: Atlanta City Councilman and mayoral candidate
• Frank Patterson: President of Pinewood Atlanta Studios, one of the largest film and TV production facilities in the U.S.

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