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This report prepared for the U.S. Council of Mayors predicts that these three metros will be home to the fastest growing economies in the U.S. through 2020:
I presume this is because the Fayetteville metro includes the Wal*mart HQ and a growing number of branch offices of its suppliers.
And the University of Arkansas, and a few other F500 companies. All three areas are anchored by their state's flagship university and have pretty large base of private-sector jobs.
Yes. Walmart has a lot of vendors with offices here. It is claimed that 25% of the Fortune 500 now has offices here.
Tyson Foods just bought Hilshire Farms (I think) and before that they were already Fortune 500's #93.
JBHunt is Fortune 500 also. That's three, including the Fortune #1 in a metro of 500k people. Plus, the University of Arkansas, which creates a lot of research which straddles the engineering and entrepreneurship communities here.
And the University of Arkansas, and a few other F500 companies. All three areas are anchored by their state's flagship university and have pretty large base of private-sector jobs.
While NC State is the state's largest university, it's not the flagship university, but point well taken. If the Raleigh MSA still included Durham and Chapel Hill (which it no longer does), then it could be considered housing both the flagship and the largest university in the state...oh, and a little place called Duke.
In the end, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other because the Triangle's other side is ranked 5th in the same survey.
While some of the cities shown are in fact booming in a positive direction I'm not sure how the Orlando metro area made the list of top performing. While there are signs of growth here it's not positive, nor sustainable as job creation has overwhelmingly been low paying service sector jobs with no benefits or real futures. There has been very little addition or creation of higher paying professional jobs as evidenced by the fact the area has the lowest average salary per capita of all major cities and a well-documented brain drain in terms of migration of population (college educated outward bound, high school graduate or equivalent inbound). As with all of these studies, it's always important to look within the numbers...
While NC State is the state's largest university, it's not the flagship university, but point well taken. If the Raleigh MSA still included Durham and Chapel Hill (which it no longer does), then it could be considered housing both the flagship and the largest university in the state...oh, and a little place called Duke.
In the end, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other because the Triangle's other side is ranked 5th in the same survey.
I'm considering Raleigh as being representative of the Triangle as a whole, which includes UNC-CH.
I'm considering Raleigh as being representative of the Triangle as a whole, which includes UNC-CH.
The report linked in the OP separates Durham and Chapel Hill, and ranks them 5th in percentage gain. Though, looking at those gains relative to where that places the metros in real results, it appears less impressive.
The report linked in the OP separates Durham and Chapel Hill, and ranks them 5th in percentage gain. Though, looking at those gains relative to where that places the metros in real results, it appears less impressive.
It's diluting the reality which for some reason the BLS decided was a good idea. I don't know know of any other situation in the US where city limits touch (Durham and Raleigh) yet are "separated" as metro areas. It's completely bizarre.
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