Scott Trubey

@FitzTrubey

@AJC Economy and environment editor. Tips/complaints: [email protected]. Cheers!

Atlanta, Ga.

Joined February 2010

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 25

Midtown group seeks design team to turn eyesore into ‘landmark destination’ ajc.com/business/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. 'If this public space feels like it could be equally at home in Boston, Chicago or Los Angeles, it likely misses the mark,' Midtown Alliance said in its posting.

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 25

Richard Kessler twice gave the hotel industry a wake-up call. He’s not done. ajc.com/business/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. Legendary Georgia hotelier Richard Kessler helped build Days Inn before launching upscale projects like Savannah's Plant Riverside. At 79, he has more plans.

Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 25

Regulators subpoena son of First Liberty Building & Loan founder after new lending firm emerges ajc.com/politics/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. State regulators seek financial recorders from the son of First Liberty Building & Loan founder.

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 25

Seven years after wooing Norfolk Southern, Atlanta may lose its HQ in merger ajc.com/business/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. In 2018 Georgia and Atlanta leaders celebrated a coup: convincing Norfolk Southern to move its headquarters to Midtown Atlanta. Now, that HQ and its jobs could be at risk.

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 24

Atlanta’s industrial market is overbuilt. But there are signs of a bounce-back. ajc.com/news/2025/07/a…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. Metro Atlanta’s industrial market at the end of June posted its first quarter of negative net absorption — a measure of whether a sector is growing or shrinking — since 2011.

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 24

Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific confirm merger negotiations ajc.com/business/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. The combination could create the largest railroad network in the country.

Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 24

Georgia’s film industry gets in on the vertical soap opera craze ajc.com/news/2025/07/g…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. The projects, at least for now, aren’t necessarily thought-provoking journeys into the human condition, but they’re putting crews to work.

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 24

Who received donations from First Liberty, the Frost family and their companies? ajc.com/politics/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. A list of those who received donations from the more than $1.4 million given by Brant Frost IV, his family, his companies and the Georgia Republican Assembly PAC.

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 24

Injured MARTA escalator riders say it took half an hour for help to arrive ajc.com/news/2025/07/i…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. Scores of people were on their way home from a Beyoncé concert when the escalator sped up and threw passengers to the ground, injuring at least 21 people.

Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 23

Georgia high school football player dies after medical emergency at practice ajc.com/sports/2025/07…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. The player was identified as sophomore MiKah King.

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 23

Georgia Power quietly dug deep holes in Georgia. Here’s what they found. ajc.com/business/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. Exploratory drilling Georgia Power conducted last year found south Georgia's coastal plain could have the potential to store large amounts of carbon dioxide deep underground.

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 23

First Liberty sold faith and MAGA loyalty. How conservative media helped. ajc.com/news/2025/07/f…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. On-air pitches framed the investments in First Liberty business loans as part of the “patriot economy.”

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 22

Sweet: Coca-Cola plans new Coke product made with U.S. cane sugar ajc.com/business/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. Coca-Cola has confirmed it will launch a new beverage offering made with U.S. cane sugar.

Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 22

As First Liberty empire crumbles, new lawsuit investor lawsuit emerges ajc.com/business/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. The complaint, which seeks class action status, adds to the growing web of civil and regulatory scrutiny surrounding First Liberty Building & Loan.

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 22

Developer known for revitalizing Turner Field area sells majority stake of itself to Texas company. ajc.com/business/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. Carter also developed Atlantic Station and City Springs in Sandy Springs. The company has been acquired by El Paso-based Hunt Companies.

Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 22

MARTA escalator malfunctioned after Beyoncé show — experts who reviewed video for the @ajc blame brakes of the moving stairs. ajc.com/news/2025/07/e…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. Experts who reviewed video footage of the Vine City free fall for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said malfunctioning brakes are a likely cause for last week’s incident, too.

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 21

Atlanta’s Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 'Cosby Show' star, dies in drowning in Costa Rica ajc.com/arts-entertain…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. Long-time Atlanta resident Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known as Theo Huxtable in the 1980s sitcom “The Cosby Show,” reportedly died in a drowning in Costa Rica.

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 21

FAA investigates Delta Connection close call with B-52 bomber ajc.com/business/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. SkyWest Airlines Flight 3788 was en route Friday evening from Minneapolis to Minot International Airport when the incident occurred.

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Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 21

Fulton board considers $9M tax break for mysterious ‘Project Sasquatch’ ajc.com/business/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. The project’s proponents are seeking a $9.3 million property tax break from the Development Authority of Fulton County on Tuesday.

Scott Trubey@FitzTrubey · Jul 21

How a Georgia woman creates a multimillion-dollar business in five years ajc.com/herstory/2025/…

FitzTrubey's tweet card. In 2019, Adria Marshall had $75,000 in annual sales for her hair care business, Ecoslay. By 2024, that had jumped to $3.6 million.