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Originally Posted by skyscraper
My point is, of the companies that *are* coming here, how many cite our proximity to NY&DC as the prime reason for doing so? I haven't heard many. clearly they have their reasons for doing so, and that's great. But we should be leveraging those qualities so that more companies will come here not for the proximity but for the city of Philadelphia and what it has to offer. Taxes are part of the reason, but not the entire reason, as you state. It's always a good place to start though, when looking for ways to incentivize people and companies to locate here.
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Yeah, I think the proximity selling point is from Philly's chamber of commerce. It's not their only selling point, but definitely one that gets repeated the most. I don't think they are doing justice by always highlighting it, but maybe they look at travel stats and think that's important to highlight. Who knows?