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“Every Day Is An Opening Day!”
Atlanta is a young city, given by American standards. However, because of its geographic location, it distinctively spurred to become a commercial mecca for corporate, non-profit and private enterprises in the Southeast. Despite being tempered by fire, Atlanta continues to rebuild and seek new beginnings, while keeping its southern charm. It is the ideal host city for the 21st Annual NAAAP National Convention & Diversity Career Fair. Although young, Atlanta is a city rich with history, culture and heritage.
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- 2nd fastest-growing Asian American population growth in the United States
- Metro Atlanta has more than 200,000 Asian Americans
- Atlanta is headquarters for 15 Fortune 500 and 24 Fortune 1,000 companies
- Ranks 3rd in the nation among cities with the most Fortune 500 headquarters
- 80 percent of the United States’ population is within a two-hour flight of Atlanta
- 169 number of airlines serving the city
- Proud host of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games
- U.S. Census Bureau ranks Atlanta second in the nation in the percentage of its population with a college degree.
- Georgia has more than 58 colleges and universities; it is home to world-class colleges/universities such as Emory University; the Georgia Institute of Technology; Mercer University; Spellman College; Oglethorpe University; Agnes Scott College; Morehouse College; University of Georgia; and Georgia State University
- 951 shopping centers (a person would have to visit three a day to see all of them in a year)
- 57 public golf courses
- 100 streets with the name “Peachtree”
- Largest federal regional concentration outside of Washington, D.C.
- Largest cable-supported domed stadium in North America, the Georgia Dome
- World’s largest aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium
- World’s largest bas-relief sculpture and the world’s largest exposed mass of granite at Stone Mountain Park
- Largest 10K race in the world, the annual Peachtree Road Race with 55,000 runners
- Longest escalator in the Southeast at MARTA’s Peachtree Center station, 192 feet
- Tallest hotel in North America, the Westin Peachtree Plaza, 73 stories; 723 feet tall
- Tallest building in the Southeast, Bank of America Plaza, 55 stories,1,023 feet tall
- Second-largest theater organ in the nation, at the Fox Theatre
- The second-largest convention center in the world - the Georgia World Congress Center
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