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Originally Posted by James Bond Agent 007
Yeah I guess Nashville would be a real underdog too. Though personally my preference is for a Midwestern underdog.
If Chicago doesn't get it we might have to put bnk on suicide watch.
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Nah that would be just Amazon's loss. I'm pleased how things are going on here.
https://siteselection.com/issues/2018/mar/top-metros-2017-repeat-defenders.cfm
From Site Selection magazine, March 2018
Repeat Defenders
For the third year in a row, Chicago, Omaha and Sioux City are No. 1 in their respective population categories.
Does earning the champion’s crown year after year ever get boring?
Not in the world of economic development. That’s because every year has a different story — with every project during that year writing its own chapter.
In 2017, according to Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database, the leading metro areas for corporate facility investment projects for the previous two years have held onto their crowns again, as Greater Chicago, Omaha and Sioux City — all defined as multi-state metro areas by the Census Bureau — earn the No. 1 ranking for their respective population tiers.
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“We’ve spent a lot of time wooing Amazon and other tech companies, and we’ve been successful because we have a lot of young people wanting to live here,” says Zopp. The area’s two- and four-year higher education institutions help feed that pipeline, but so do the neighborhood blocks where they end up living.
“In the war for talent, when the day is done, companies want to recruit talent, and want them to have a good place to live,” Zopp says. Chicago has stayed affordable. “You can be a young millennial and live downtown or a train ride close to downtown, in a cool, hip community, or move a few train stops away and buy a house that’s affordable.” Redfin analysts in December found just 25 neighborhoods that it said fit the bill across 80 major U.S. markets, and more than half were in the Chicago area, which Redfin called “the rare major metro area that has remained relatively affordable and has largely bucked the severe inventory shortage trend seen across much of the country over the past few years.”
That affordability extends to office space.
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Reflecting a melding of corporate and entrepreneurial cultures, Chicago has more than 100 startup incubators and accelerators and more than 300 corporate R&D centers.
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Already, the working group that has become CRGC collaborated on initiatives including coordinating a regional response to Amazon’s search for an HQ2. “If the cooperation that was forged in the effort to pitch the Chicago region to Amazon for its second headquarters showed us anything, it’s that we can take job creation and economic development to a new level — a level that benefits everybody — if we work together,” said McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks.
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2017 Project Rankings
Total Projects by Population Tiers
Metros with Population Over 1 Million
2017
Metro
State
Projects
1 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin
Ill.-Ind.-Wis.
402
2 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land
Texas
196
3. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
Texas
192
4. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell
Ga.
131
5. New York-Newark-Jersey City
N.Y.-N.J.-Pa.
128
6. Cincinnati
Ohio-Ky.-Ind.
111
7. Columbus
Ohio
99
8. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria
D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va.
82
9. Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson
Ind.
73
10. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim
Calif.
72
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/chicag...t-corporate-relocation-target-2018-03-05
Chicago — with a lift from O’Hare’s planned revamp — again named best corporate relocation target
Published: Mar 6, 2018 9:00 a.m. ET
The Chicago-Elgin-Naperville metro area topped second-place Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, according to the
64-year-old Site Selection magazine, published by the Atlanta-based corporate investment and expansion consultancy Conway. The rest of the top 5 metros for relocation in populations over 1 million were Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, then Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell and New York–Newark–Jersey City.
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