Welcome to A Great Story to Tell, a website that highlights how the progressive community of Gainesville and Hall County, Georgia, stands out in so many ways compared to the rest of the United States.
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- Gainesville-Hall County's regional population exceeds 479,000 from 15 surrounding counties.
- Gainesville-Hall County is a regional biotech center with a world-class stable of international life-sciences...
- New to our area: a 128-bed patient tower, a women and children's center and 100,000 square feet of medical offices.
- Annual discretionary consumer expenditures: Over $1.5 billion.
- The largest concentration of pre-retirement and active-adult housing companies in northern metro-Atlanta.
- Gainesville-Hall County is home to three institutions of higher education.
- Smithgall Woodland Garden is poised to become one of the largest woodland gardens in the country.
- The World Language Academy is a public charter school with immersion in Spanish, English and Mandarin Chinese.
- Northeast Georgia Medical Center invested over a quarter billion dollars in new construction.
- North Georgia's healthcare headquarters: 2.5 million square feet of medical offices.
