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Springfield among top mid-sized metros for recruitment & attraction

Jun 28, 2007

Springfield was recently named by Expansion Management magazine as one of the top mid-size metros for recruitment and attraction. Springfield ranks with such cities as Tucson, Albuquerque and Des Moines.

Expansion Management teamed up with the National Policy Research Council to find out which cities were the most successful in expanding the local economy by attracting outside companies to locate there. To determine this, they analyzed the relocation decisions of 19 million companies over the course of eight years.

"For the metros and counties that ranked high in this study, it represents the best of all possible validation that their local economies are on the right track," says Bill King, chief editor of Expansion Management. "There's probably not a better vote of confidence than knowing that, when faced with a decision of where in the entire United States to locate a new facility or branch office, the consensus of millions of business executives was to choose these locations for a significant business investment."

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