This is a column by Opinion Editor Adam Van Brimmer.
Next to the door of the Savannah Economic Development Authority boardroom is a framed front page of the Savannah Morning News from Sept. 22, 2009.
It’s what we call in the newspaper business a “one-story front” meaning the news being presented is big enough to command the entire page. The headline, in large type and all caps, is “IT’S MITSUBISHI.”
Twelve years have passed since the gas turbine manufacturer became the first tenant and until last week’s Amazon fulfillment center announcement the only tenant of the most anxiety-inducing place in Chatham County this side of the Tybee Road on a beautiful summer weekend.