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“Greenville has a successful track record in attracting and retaining companies from around the world and
we look forward to our future as the premier location for international investment”
Knox White, mayor, Greenville
....and the hits keep coming! I usually post links to these things on my FB page even though we moved from the area a couple yrs ago. The Upstate was our home for 13 years!
Is Greenville really a "micro" city? The Greenville-Spartanburg CSA is more populated than Birmingham, Oklahoma City, Memphis, Buffalo, etc.
True, but Greenville, Anderson, and Spartanburg are all 30 minutes apart. Theres alot of open fields and small towns between them. So while the CSA is 1.4 million, its very low density. Theres really around ~500,000 people in the immediate area around Greenville.
While Memphis has 930K people in 1 county alone. All those cities you named are more packed and centralized. Look at their freeway systems, compared to Greenville.
Micro city sounds dumb either way, but yeah I definately wouldnt put too much stock in the upstate being more populated than Memphis and OKC, until the Upstate becomes more centralized and urban.
This designation is merely an artifact of the annexation laws in SC. I understand city officials will try to promote any positive stories but Greenville isn't really in the same category as an urban area as the other cities on the list.
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