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We'Re headed to Fayetteville, Georgia, just south of Atlanta.
And our first stop is the Hopeful Primitive Baptist church.
This small one room chapel has been standing for 200 years.
When you walk in that door, you feel the history.
I mean, you can see the top hats and tails.
You can see the regalia of the time.
You can see the horses in the, in, in there, in the, in what is now the parking lot.
Scott Johnson is the pastor there and a longtime resident of the area.
It's close enough to the city to be close enough to the city,
but far enough away to be far enough away.
We love Fayetteville and it's a very special place.
Yeah, you know, it's a small town.
For a long time it's been a bedroom community.
A lot of people commuting to Atlanta, you know, working for Delta.
People choose it because it's, because it's pretty, a nice, quiet town.
Bloomberg reporter Josh Saul covers energy and that's what drew his attention to Fayetteville,
along with another one of our colleagues, Don Lim.
And then the reason we're interested in it is that Blackstone came knocking.
Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm.