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Pittsburgh Regional Alliance Partnership is Selected as One of the Nation’s Top 10
May 4, 2009If you want to know where the jobs of the future are headed, look no further than Middle America.
From Houston to Chicago, communities in the central part of the U.S. are setting the pace in job creation and capital investment generated by corporate facility projects, according to the Conway Data New Plant Database. These top-performing cities are doing the best job at landing the real estate deals that drive economic growth.
Each year, Site Selection selects the previous year's Top Economic Development Groups based upon the following criteria: total capital investment; investment per capita; total jobs created; jobs created per capita; the contributions of the local or regional economic development organization toward the attainment of these numbers; overall economic vitality; depth and breadth of economic strength; diversity of industry; ability to generate breakthrough deals; and the ability to provide documentation for all projects.
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