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Originally Posted by muertecaza
Phoenix is correct and unchanged from 2023 at 10.
That Phoenix has 10 and LA has 9 is a good illustration of the point about Fortune 500 not necessarily meaning well-known. Phoenix's companies include a (literal) trash companies, a mining company, metal processing company, transportation, etc.
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This is probably also reflective of when each city grew, but coming to Phoenix from Cincinnati it was surprising the seeming lack of investment in community projects (zoos, museums) and events in Phoenix.
It felt like you couldn't go anywhere in Cincinnati without encountering a sporting event (tennis), museums, zoo, and/or art exhibit that wasn't sponsored in part by P&G and/or Kroger. Then again, those companies boomed during part of the "city beautiful" movement, IIRC?
Waste Management sponsors the Phoenix Open, but hell if I know if Petsmart or Freeport-McMoran, etc., do anything with the Heard, Art Museum, zoo (which is privately owned I think) or even the Arizona Science Center?
Then again, Phoenix attracts much larger convention crowds and sporting events (Super Bowl, Final 4) than Cincinnati.