Spalding County Development Authority

Transportation | Utilities | Telecommunication

Griffin and Spalding County are ideally located just 35 miles south of Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport; Interstate 75, just minutes from the county’s industrial and business parks, connects with I-85 and I-285 (Atlanta’s perimeter) adjacent to the airport. International travel from the world’s busiest airport, ground travel by means of a number of Interstates and State Highways, or passenger and/or freight travel by rail are all within minutes of all parts of the county. Griffin’s industrial and business parks offer fiber optic cable and are well-suited to business of almost any type.

Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Designed to accommodate 78 million total passengers per year (yet now exceeding that number), the Hartsfield-Jackson has implemented a master plan called “Hartsfield 2000 and Beyond” which is a 10 year, 5.4 billion capital improvement plan which incorporates construction, renovations, and expansion for the airport. The addition of a fifth runway helps eliminate some delays at the airport; the project cost approximately $1 billion including land acquisition completed in May 2006.

Most airline flights in the Southeastern US connect at Hartsfield and non-stop air service is provided daily from Atlanta to more than 190 cities, 145 of those being domestic destinations. Eighty percent of the nation’s population is within two hours’ flight time, with nearly 100% within four hours’ time. The main hub for Delta Air Lines, Atlanta’s Hartsfield manages over 2,400 flights per day. Six concourses with 199 gates allow efficient connections without passengers having to enter the main terminal building (although the trip is a treat). The 28-gate International Concourse can handle inspection processing of 6,000 passengers per hour.