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February 25, 2004
The Top 25 Cities for Doing Business
Posted by Carole Matthews at 4:12 PM
Inc. contributing editor Joel Kotkin will be appear on NPR's most popular show, "Morning Edition," tomorrow, Thursday, February 26, between 8 and 10a.m. Eastern to discuss the March 2004 feature, "Top 25 Cities for Doing Business in America."
In recent weeks, cities across America have been latching onto the good -- and bad news -- from the lists. The good news, obviously, is that the a city made the list. The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area proudly announced its ranking in a recent press release from the Tampa Bay Partnership. The Greenville/Spartanburg area shared some bad news and challenged its ranking as one of the worst cities to do business in in a recent story on Greenvilleonline.com.
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I know Joel is great -- but so is Larry Kosmont. We just co-published wih Rose Institute of Claremont College 12th annual Kosmont-Rose Cost of Doing Business Survey. Reports on taxes, fees, incentives that impact business in 314 cities towns and hamlets in 50 states. Widely used by developers, planners, city officials (How does our town stack up?). There is nothing like it! There's more -- if interested call me -- David Crawley 661-799-8686.
Yeah, there was a good bit of buzzing here in GSP area regarding Inc. putting our area in the bottom 25.
I would have to disagree with the article. True, it focused on textiles, and this area has been hit hard with a lot of textile companies closing up over the last few years.
But what the article didn't say is that the new ICAR site is underway (with major sponsorship from Clemson University, and BMW), a brand new 600k square foot shopping area with brand new restaurants, etc will be opening up within 2 year, and more are all coming to town.
I own my own business and we are starting to see a lot of growth now. Many companies are starting to pick up and the opportunities here are getting stronger.
Plus our cost of living as well as a short commute makes this area sooooo much nicer than Atlanta.
I found the list extremely helpful. While I was surprised by some of the rankings, I was nonetheless kicked into gear and motivated to look for a new hometown for my businesses.
I would have liked to have seen a bit more detail involved in the rankings, though, as there is quite a bit more involved in choosing the best cities for business than what was touched on. Seemed to me like the rankings were based mostly on data, rather than an in-depth study of the entire business and social community.
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