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How many companies and events passed on Charlotte and Raleigh because of HB2? If you think it's all in the past,that's fine. I for one don't believe think memories are that short. Just my opinion though.
But since you brought it up. I'm sure the RNC would impress Amazon and even Apple.
Off the top of my head, Charlotte lost the NBA All Stars and Raleigh lost Credit Suisse
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From an economic standpoint, I don’t think Charlotte hosting the RNC would be a bad thing. A large convention means a lot of people spending money in the city.
Interestingly PayPal never went and found another location to expand after backing out on Charlotte. They had a round of layoffs at their sites in Phoenix and Omaha and decided they have space in those buildings for any organic expansion.
You guys totally missed the point of my examples of credit Suisse and the all star games.
Credit Suisse did expand in Raleigh and the All Stars was pushed back until 2018.
(And PayPal never expanded. There’s an article from developers and business leaders how there is so much activity of companies to relocate here that as always, we have trouble building enough office space and Charlotte is adding office tower after office tower)
By next year Charlotte could go over 900,000 people. I know HB2 had an effect on Charlotte growth .
From 2010 to 2017 Charlotte gain 128,028 in population.
Raleigh gain 52,851 people from 2010 to 2017.
Would Charlotte and Raleigh have more development and people if HB2 was not passed?
I do know that Charlotte did not gain as many people during HB2 and I think the same happen to Raleigh
HB2 put the ACC football play off to Florida. No NCCA tournaments were in NC. The ACC play their basketball tournament in New York City. How many concerts were cancel ? The state took a beating.
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