Looking for the perfect new business location in the Southeast? Look no further than Augusta, Georgia and Richmond County. Augusta, Georgia has one of the best locations for logistics and distribution. Interstate highway I-20 and other national highways put the city within 2 to 3 hours of the ports of Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia. The city is also convenient to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest airport in the world. A high-quality regional workforce, coupled with Georgia’s QuickStart customized employee training programs – free to qualified businesses – ensures relocating and expanding businesses a superior supply of employees. And hundreds of acres of developable land in available industrial parks as well as a quality inventory of available buildings in east Georgia and western South Carolina, with access to reliable and economical utilities for water, electricity and natural gas in industrial capacities, make Augusta, Georgia a prime location for practically any business or industry. The Augusta Economic Development Authority is ready to assist you with services such as: site location employee training workforce evaluation demographic information financial assistance Augusta EDA works to recruit new manufacturing, distribution, assembly and related industrial facilities to Augusta, Georgia, and we focus on the expansion of our many fine existing industries.