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What one person on this forum does not understand is the rate of growth. Raleigh can be the fastest going city in the US at 7% and Charlotte at 6.8 %. Which city is adding the most people. Using 2013 Census Bureau information.
Ex. 2013 population of Raleigh 431,746 x .07 = 30,222 people
2013 population of Charlotte 792,862 x .068 = 53,915 people.
You can crow a lot about being #!, but Raleigh comes in #2 for people added.
So post all the #1s you want. In the real business world, a per cent does not tell you a whole lot as finding out important data for planning.
If Raleigh is such a hot spot for business, why did Ikea locate in Charlotte and not Raleigh. Because Charlotte bigger city and is adding more people than Raleigh and a better location.
"San Francisco tops the list of U.S. cities whose residents have a park within walking distance, according to the Trust for Public Land, with 98 percent of the city's population benefiting from proximity to green space. Charlotte, N.C., is at the bottom of the list with just 26 percent. Of the 40 largest cities in the United States, those that placed the highest are as follows (the number indicates percentage of residents living near parks):
San Francisco: 98
Boston: 97
New York: 96
Washington, D.C.: 96
Philadelphia: 91
Seattle: 90
Chicago: 90
Below are the U.S. cities with the poorest park distribution:
Charlotte, N.C.: 26 (Finally #1 in something, lol )
Jacksonville, Fl.: 30
Louisville, Ky.: 32
Indianapolis: 32
San Antonio: 32
While acreage, atmosphere and activity are often key factors in determining the quality of a park, placement and accessibility should not be overlooked. Parks contribute to the environmental and psychological well-being of a community, so experts believe that investing in proper distribution should be a priority for urban cities."
Well, I guess nobody was fooled into believing Greater Gastonia's largest municipality was a "true" urban city anyway.
(Looks like annexing all of it's home county and a mediocre football team isn't the only common ground Charlotte shares with Jacksonville)
Last edited by Raleigh540; 05-02-2015 at 11:25 AM..
What one person on this forum does not understand is the rate of growth. Raleigh can be the fastest going city in the US at 7% and Charlotte at 6.8 %. Which city is adding the most people. Using 2013 Census Bureau information.
Ex. 2013 population of Raleigh 431,746 x .07 = 30,222 people
2013 population of Charlotte 792,862 x .068 = 53,915 people.
You can crow a lot about being #!, but Raleigh comes in #2 for people added.
So post all the #1s you want. In the real business world, a per cent does not tell you a whole lot as finding out important data for planning.
If Raleigh is such a hot spot for business, why did Ikea locate in Charlotte and not Raleigh. Because Charlotte bigger city and is adding more people than Raleigh.
Well technically the reason Ikea choose here is because it was a centralized for the carolinas as well as northern ga, and western Tennessee I believe. Just so happens to be the largest city in the Carolinas that was also in the centralized location
What one person on this forum does not understand is the rate of growth. Raleigh can be the fastest going city in the US at 7% and Charlotte at 6.8 %. Which city is adding the most people. Using 2013 Census Bureau information.
Ex. 2013 population of Raleigh 431,746 x .07 = 30,222 people
2013 population of Charlotte 792,862 x .068 = 53,915 people.
You can crow a lot about being #!, but Raleigh comes in #2 for people added.
So post all the #1s you want. In the real business world, a per cent does not tell you a whole lot as finding out important data for planning.
If Raleigh is such a hot spot for business, why did Ikea locate in Charlotte and not Raleigh. Because Charlotte bigger city and is adding more people than Raleigh.
Tell it to the CBJ.
From the Charlotte Buisiness Journal 2014: Raleigh is blowing Charlotte out of the water in BOTH jobs growth rate AND over all numbers (and doing it within a considerable smaller more dense city limits boundry I might add)
Well technically the reason Ikea choose here is because it was a centralized for the carolinas as well as northern ga, and western Tennessee I believe. Just so happens to be the largest city in the Carolinas that was also in the centralized location
Jacksonville is the largest city in Florida. Charlotte seems to have more in common with SC than NC.
He is right, Charlotte manufacturing jobs are growing at a rate that’s close to the national average, but North Carolina as a whole is lagging the nationwide trend significantly. The Queen City, which leads all N.C. cities with a total of 43,201 manufacturing jobs, showed a 1.3% increase in production employment from January 2014 to January 2015. That compares with a nationwide increase of 1.8% over the same period, according to the 2015 North Carolina Manufacturers Register., and South Carolina above North Carolina in growth in manufacturing jobs.
43,201 - Total manufacturing jobs in Charlotte, the largest number of all N.C. cities. Charlotte saw a 1.3% rise in production
employment in 2014
Charlotte and South Carolina are out pacing North Carolina in manufacturing jobs.
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