Booming Initiative:

Baby Boomers reshape corporate America for a second time

 

By Keith Laing

 

Next year, Vickie Gordon will leave the job she has held for nearly two decades.

At age 60, she believes that now is the time for her to move on. Gordon, who serves as Intercontinental Hotels and Resort’s senior vice president for corporate affairs and works out of the corporation’s Atlanta office, plans to step down in June 2008. But she is not heading for a life of shuffle-boarding yet. Instead of taking a post-retirement cruise, Gordon will go into business for herself and open a public affairs firm.

 

Welcome to the Good Life

By Kamille D. Whittaker

 

In the early 1970s the migration trend of the preceding five decades began to reverse: African Americans were returning to Atlanta in droves, coagulating in pockets of what was then a latently segregated city. The exodus spiked at the turn of the century, fueled by the endorsements of national publications which repeatedly dubbed a more racially dispersed Atlanta as the best place to live, work and play. Now, with 3.4 million baby boomers reaching retirement age in 2008 nationwide, Atlanta stands poised to welcome home the brunt of the new retirees while other recent grads and professional transplants are simply hoping to manifest dreams of enhanced opportunity and homeownership.

 

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