Albany State University Homecoming Week has Estimated $4M Impact on Region
Monday, October 12th, 2015
for nine straight years, T-shirt vendor James Dozier of Atlanta has erected his tent and sold his wares at the corner of Radium Springs Road and East Oglethorpe Boulevard. While Dozier admits that he’ll probably never become a millionaire selling T-shirts at $5 apiece, he represents a microcosm of the economic impact of Albany State University’s annual Homecoming Week celebration.
“I’ve got family here and (homecoming) gives me a reason to come down here,” Dozier, a FAMU graduate, said. “I started this business because I knew many of the students here could not afford to pay campus book store prices for t-shirts. So I sell, good, affordable t-shirts starting at $5.
