In quick succession earlier this year, Georgia landed two huge deals with automobile manufacturers Rivian and Hyundai Motor Group. Both of those planned factories will be located on what the state calls a megasite — land assembled, entitled and marketed by the state for game-changing economic development moves. Georgia is in a battle with its Southeastern state neighbors to get major manufacturers to open large-scale facilities within their borders. State officials have focused their strategy for attracting these companies on megasites — which allow a company like Rivian to bypass months of sales negotiations and entitlement work to quickly get a plant up and running. But its supply of these sites is almost out. 
Earlier this month, Georgia, along with the Development Authority of Peach County, purchased a roughly 1,100-acre site in the center of the state, just south of Macon, that is being marketed as Georgia's latest — and only — megasite. Rivian and  Read the full story here. | 
