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I think Las Vegas is legitimately big for its importance. In addition to tourism, it actually has a major military presence that is important to the local economy plus they are quickly diversifying their economy quickly. Even within tourism its gone far beyond gambling since Las Vegas has survived the opening of casinos across the country.
Green Bay - football team gives it name recognition
Bentonville, Arkansas - Home of the largest company in the world - yes the world's #1 corporation is not in New York, LA, Chicago, London, paris, Tokyo, Bejing, Hong Kong, Madrid, Rome, but in Bentonville AR.
Norfolk, VA - major naval center, one of the most important ports in the U.S.
Atlantic City, NJ - famous for tourism
Key West, FL - tourism, attractions
Laredo, TX - major trade center on the border
Wilmington, DE - banking, insurance, chemicals, etc but poplation is aroud 70,000
I think Las Vegas is legitimately big for its importance. In addition to tourism, it actually has a major military presence that is important to the local economy plus they are quickly diversifying their economy quickly. Even within tourism its gone far beyond gambling since Las Vegas has survived the opening of casinos across the country.
Green Bay - football team gives it name recognition Bentonville, Arkansas - Home of the largest company in the world - yes the world's #1 corporation is not in New York, LA, Chicago, London, paris, Tokyo, Bejing, Hong Kong, Madrid, Rome, but in Bentonville AR.
Norfolk, VA - major naval center, one of the most important ports in the U.S.
Atlantic City, NJ - famous for tourism
Key West, FL - tourism, attractions
Laredo, TX - major trade center on the border
Wilmington, DE - banking, insurance, chemicals, etc but poplation is aroud 70,000
Agreed about Bentonville. The Northwest Arkansas area of the state, because of Wal-Mart, actually feels like it should be in the suburbs of an urban area and they have a lot more there than most places its size would. It's really not much bigger than sleepy Fort Smith but it feels much bigger because there is so much more going on. Plus though its economy has slowed down from the '00s it has still been fairly resilient to the recession. If one had to live in Arkansas, NW Ark is a better choice than Little Rock for this reason.
Talk about wow. Indy is 5X smaller than Chicago and yet it has some serious competition with the city.
Heck last year Indy tried to get CME group which owns the Chicago Board of Trade and the Mercantile Exchange to move to our city and set up its Headquarters and Electronic Trading operations.
lol and I could offer Apple to set up operations in my living room...doesn't make it a legitimate or strategic offer than they would even remotely consider, nor that I am in any sort of competition with the Bay Area.
lol and I could offer Apple to set up operations in my living room...doesn't make it a legitimate or strategic offer than they would even remotely consider, nor that I am in any sort of competition with the Bay Area.
I had a meeting with Mayor Ballard he believes that idea from CME group was legit. Also CME group's owners and CEO had a meeting with the leaders of Indianapolis in the City-County building in the very conference room i met Ballard in.
Illinois just pulled the corporate welfare card to save their ass. However it wont last long as Illinois is broke and if they raise taxes again or void the CME group incentives just to keep the jobs in state then i see a golden opportunity for World Class Indy.
Illinois just pulled the corporate welfare card to save their ass.
You do realize that any tax incentives that IN would have tried to give would be that same sort of "corporate welfare" you lament so much...right?? Hypocrisy at its finest.
You do realize that any tax incentives that IN would have tried to give would be that same sort of "corporate welfare" you lament so much...right?? Hypocrisy at its finest.
yep but Indiana can afford it.
Indiana has a balanced budget and isnt broke.
Illinois is worse cause in the end either one of 2 things happens.
Illinois has to raise taxes on its citizens to pay for it or cancel the incentives. or B Illinois goes crying to Obama's national government for a bailout.
Luckily all it takes to stop option B is for Republicans to hold the House. Which they will.
Not to be a homer but Pittsburgh gets my vote. Lots of leading high tech innovation coming out of Carnegie Mellon (and Pitt), and now we seem to be the energy capitol of the lower 48, with the new Marcellus Shale gas boom.
New Brunswick NJ (Johnson & Johnson HQ's and Rutgers - second biggest college student body in U.S.)
Salt Lake City (Mormonism and hosted Winter Olympics)
Lake Placid NY (hosted the Winter Olympics twice)
In the 1970's maybe.......
Kodak is bankrupt and no longer a viable company...... U of R is the most relevent thing in Rochester today
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