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Originally Posted by tjp
How do we always top this list but still consistently have one of the slowest growing MSA economies?
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Because the site selection list is by
number of projects, not total investment amounts, which is what really matters and what growing cities are actually interested in. Thus, 400 "projects" each involving 5 employees and a painter fixing up a warehouse are cause for celebration in Chicago, while actual people and their wallets are leaving Chicago for the metros getting multi-billion dollar microchip plants or EV battery plants, each of which would count as just ONE project under Site Selection but would create more jobs than all of the Chicago projects combined.