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Savannah is Alive and Well

By Howard Spiva

New York and the rest of the world loves Savannah, and like any beautiful lady, she responds best to those who love her.

The 12th Most Trendy Spot in the World~New York Times

The Atlanta Journal, Forbes, CNN Money, Family Fun magazine and The New Your Times praise Savannah as: 'Beautiful, One of the top places to live and work; One of the hottest Cities for Business;One of the best areas to start and grow a business;Best places to Retire; Top 10 Cities to Visit.'

It seems like everyone is in love with Savannah! College Students; Investors; Military; Shipping Companies; Importer/Exporters; Fortune 500 Companies; International businesses; Manufacturers; National Realtors Association; and America's largest demographic group - The Baby Boomers. Perhaps it is because Savannah's climate allows for year-round outdoor activity. For example, there are 60 golf courses and 15 recreational centers.

People who enjoy the outdoors love Savannah. Especially, people who love the water. Savannah is surrounded by both salt water and freshwater where people enjoy boating, fishing, crabbing, water skiing, kayaking, and swimming on its 420 miles of navigable waters set within 87,000 scenic acres of tidal marshlands. If you like to deep sea fish, watch for dolphins, explore the many protected barrier Islands or just relax on the beach come to Savannah!

Why do college students love Savannah? Our 14 area colleges and universities provide a diverse and talented group of over 43,000 students. The schools they attend include South College, Savannah Technical College and Memorial Health University, as well as Armstrong State University founded in 1935. Savannah State founded in 1890 is the oldest historically black college in Georgia. Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is the largest art and design college in the nation. SCAD hosts more than 50,000 visitors a year and its students come here from all 50 states and over 80 countries!

Real Estate investors love Savannah. Many around the country believe that our real estate market is still undervalued compared to almost every major city in America. With an excellent economic base, Savannah's real estate is a great investment if you just follow the four basic rules of investing which have been true since the beginning of time. (1) Buy low ~ sell high; (2) Location, (3) location and (4) Location. Well, you can still buy low here and Savannah has plenty of wonderful locations!

The National Association of Realtors love Savannah because of our low cost of living. Savannah's home and rental prices are more affordable than most cities like Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Seattle, Virginia Beach and Washington DC.

The boomers love Savannah! America's largest age group are moving and retiring here. Seventy six (76) million boomers control 70% of America's net worth and wealth and many are coming to Savannah. By 2030, the 'boomers' will populate our six coastal counties and the boarding four inland counties raising our population by 50% to over 840,000 people, according to a Georgia Tech report commissioned by the Coastal Georgia Regional Development Center.

Savannah, 'She's Wonderful, she's Marvelous; She's Fabulous, she's Beautiful!' These lyrics borrowed from the Herman’s Hermits 1965 hit, 'Leaning on a Lamp Post' could have easily been written about America's love of Savannah.

Why do I believe so strongly that people love Savannah? Just take a ride downtown and look around! Savannah is one of the most beautiful and charming cities in the nation, with one of the fastest-growing economies.

As a city we are rich with a variety of cultural influences including English, Irish, Scottish, African, Asian, German, Italian and Greeks.

Our business base is also diverse and strong. The trade Center and tourism brings millions of visitors to Savannah each year, who spend close to $1.8 billion. And it will only get better with the planned extension of River Street and the Savannah River Landing which alone is an $800-million project.

Two hundred and forty six (246) manufactures do business in Savannah including world famous JCB (construction equipment) and Gulfstream Aerospace (private luxury jets). Savannah businesses offer a range of products from companies like Georgia-Pacific, Great Dane Trailers, Derst Bakery, and International Paper. Savannah has 18 International firms and nearly 20 Fortune 500 Companies.

Tourist love our town! Over six million a year flock to Savannah's 52 acre Historic District which makes it one of the largest in the nation. Savannah features beautiful buildings and restored homes with superior architecture.

We have two military bases in the area that employ over 42,000 people plus they bring 36,000 military dependants and federal funds of over $2 billion.

Georgia Ports have thirteen major distributors and the longest contiguous docks in the US. Our ports are the 2nd largest on the Gulf and east coasts and 4th largest in the nation; serving over 70% of the US population and they are continually expanding.

Savannah International Airport is home to seven major airlines and is a major stop on Amtrak's Atlantic Coast route.

Employers love Savannah! Eleven counties surrounding Savannah provide employers a labor pool of over 300,000 people with a burgeoning manufacturing industry and ports exploding with growth.

Savannah is historic yet on the cutting edge on technology. Savannah has a superior network infrastructure with 33,000 miles of fiber optic cable and 100 square miles of wireless broadband coverage.

You can't easily define Savannah. The downtown is an urban forest with twenty two historic squares and live oak trees draped in Spanish moss. Nearby Tybee Island has three miles of sandy beaches.

The city has numerous art Galleries, 120 yearly festivals, including the ever popular and world famous St Patrick's Day Parade. River Street, City Market, Hutchenson Island, Forsyth Park, Fort Pulaski, Bethesda, Bonaventure Cemetery, Wormslow Historic Cite, Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, Telfair Museum of Art, Oatland Island Educational Center, Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House restaurant, Johnny Harris restaurant, Carey Hilliard's restaurant, the historic and haunting Pirates House, The Boar's Head, Paula Dean's 'Lady and Sons' restaurant, The Pink House restaurant, Elizabeth on 37th Street and The Crab Shack. There's something for everyone!

Savannah is where true Southern hospitality awaits everyone.....what more could you want?!

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
Howard Spiva

"I think you all have to agree with Howard, that Savannah is alive and well".

Thanks Howard!

HERE IS ANOTHER RECENT ARTICLE ABOUT SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

Sweet Sultry Savannah

March 18, 2008 by southerncommunityguide

Some 13 years past ‘Midnight,’ it’s a more wonderful place to live than ever.

By Melissa Schneider

Originally published in the Fall 2007 issue of Coastal Homes magazine

For founder James Oglethorpe, 18th-century Savannah seemed ripe to turn into a New World utopia. For Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, it was a city to be spared in his march to the sea. For native-son composer Johnny Mercer, it was a lilting, lyrical muse. Quietly quirky, Savannah has been quite the history-book page-turner.

How ironic, then, that it was a modern-day story that really put it on the map. The explosive popularity of John Berendt’s 1994 best seller “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” caught Savannah by surprise. Berendt’s version of the murder trials of antique dealer Jim Williams, with a “cast” that included some pretty eccentric cronies, captured the nation’s imagination. The exotic tale soon had millions of fans heading to Savannah in search of the book’s central locales, such as Bonaventure Cemetery and Mercer House, Williams’ home on Monterey Square.

As the hullabaloo intensified, long-time Savannahians waited to see what would happen to their genteel way of life. And here’s what happened: Many of the visitors who circled their way through Savannah’s everyday life in trolleys wound up falling in love with the city which contains coastal communities with boating, fishing, oceanfront real estate, oceanfront communities, coastal vacation home rentals, and coastal golf course real estate returning to make it their home.

Yes, there’s a little more traffic and a little more diversity now. But 13 years past “Midnight,” the authentic heartbeat of Savannah – an intriguing mix of Southern hospitality, timeless traditions and a hint of mystery behind every doorway – remains appropriately strong and steady.

Those Famous Squares

Oglethorpe’s city plan, a warp and weft of streets linking open, parklike squares (21 of which still exist), created the intimate, sought-after neighborhoods featuring coastal golf communities, coastal retirement communities, and more in the historic district. Elegant row houses and cotton factors’ estates – now private homes, restaurants and galleries – look out onto landscaped squares, each with a statue or monument at its center, along with clusters of brilliant azaleas and the ancient canopies of live oaks draped in Spanish moss.

The shaded cobblestone streets connect the bustling riverfront to the open air cafés and galleries of City Market, and southward to shops on Broughton Street. Here sophisticated boutiques offer calfskin handbags, Vera Wang gowns and Parisian textiles. Pause for energy at Leopold’s ice cream store, a Savannah institution since 1919, and chat with owner Stratton Leopold, who has produced many Hollywood films – most notably “Mission: Impossible III.”

Bull Street, an idyllic walking thoroughfare, links five distinctive squares – Johnson, Wright, Chippewa, Madison and Montgomery – to the gem of Savannah, Forsyth Park. A favorite jaunt, it takes pedestrians past the sweeping arched windows of the ShopSCAD gallery and the Gryphon Tea Room. Overlooking Madison Square, both structures represent the efforts of the Savannah College of Art and Design to protect the city’s architectural heritage and way of life.

Arts and Culture

Recently Savannah’s cultural scene has broadened its appeal to reach a more diverse community.

For 18 days in the early spring the Savannah Music Festival brings together a cross section of renowned artists from all genres. More than 100 performances of jazz, classical, blues, bluegrass, gospel and Latin music are staged at 20 intimate venues across the historic district, and tickets to premieres and commissioned works sell quickly. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2008, the festival hopes to exceed the current record attendance of 55,000 concert-goers and eventually rival the success of Spoleto in Charleston, S.C.

The Jepson Center for the Arts, opened in 2006, is writing a new page in Savannah’s history with its world-class traveling exhibitions and a multilevel, hands-on children’s gallery. Across the square at the Telfair Center for the Arts, the hottest ticket in town is the Telfair Ball. But quickly gaining in popularity is the “The Artful Table,” an annual exhibit of table-setting masterpieces from Savannah’s most accomplished hosts.

Savannahians appreciate good parties, and Southern homes are delightful venues for entertaining. Known for her elegant soirées, Savannah caterer Susan Mason is in demand from Hollywood to New York City to Savannah.

“What sets parties in Savannah apart is that the food is served in beautiful surroundings,” she says. “Indoors, the rooms are wonderfully intimate. Outside, we entertain on big verandas, breezy porches and courtyard gardens.”

Gardens More Good than Evil

Behind the ornamented gates and brick walls thick with ivy are the hidden gardens of Savannah. The temperate climate of the coast has allowed generations of gardeners to cultivate trimmed boxwood, camellias, azaleas and ferns beneath trickling fountains. When azalea blossoms are at their peak, gardeners open their creaky wrought iron gates for the Savannah Tour of Homes and Gardens, a four-day stroll through more than 20 private gardens and homes in the historic district and Savannah’s first suburb, Ardsley Park.

Edged with seasonal blossoms and white picket fences, the plantation homes and gilded-age summer cottages of Isle of Hope, Dutch Island and Beaulieu are tucked in the bend of small rivers feeding to Ossabaw Sound. A 10-minute drive from downtown Savannah, Georgia, they provide coastal intimacy via silent kayak rides along shallow, grassy marshes; fresh-from-the-dock blue crab dinners; and evening sunset cruises on Johnny Mercer’s Moon River, still wider than a mile.

Dining in the Best of Places

With Savannah’s proximity to the sea and saltwater marshes, restaurant seafood abounds – oysters, shrimp, blue crab, grouper and mackerel.

Request a second floor, Reynolds Square-view table at The Olde Pink House, a 1771 mansion built by James Habersham, and begin your meal with a bowl of the she crab bisque. Follow this with the pan-seared crab cakes and a side of whipped sweet potatoes with vanilla sauce.

Spectacular Savannah River views draw diners to Vic’s on the River, which makes its home on three floors of an antebellum cotton warehouse. Chef Jay Cantrell keeps them coming back with his creative take on traditional Southern food. He says he combines “all the bounty of the Lowcountry waterways and the locally grown produce,” put together with a contemporary flair. Don’t miss the fried green tomato appetizer, a traditional Southern dish that Chef Jay pairs with tangy goat cheese and sweet tomato chutney.

Preparing Southern cuisine is no longer a mystery, thanks to Chef Darin Sehnert’s 700 Kitchen Cooking School. Housed inside a fashionable boutique hotel, The Mansion on Forsyth Park, the school offers hands-on instruction for preparing cheddar and chive biscuits and rich shrimp and red-eye gravy over fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth grits. Students top off the meal with pecan praline angel food cake and good conversation.

On Friday nights couples gather at Casimirs, the Mansion on Forsyth’s opulent second floor lounge. The popular tables are outdoors on the marble rooftop terrace, looking out on Forsyth Park and the glistening white fountain that has been delighting visitors for nearly 150 years.

As you relax, poised between the hotel’s magnificent lounge setting and the simple beauty of the fragrant, 30-acre park, the tug of old and new Savannah is palpable and delicious.

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