Twin Cities Hit 'Critical Coolness," #1 For Business
1. LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Minneapolis-St. Paul is where it's at when it comes to business, much more so than any other of the nation's major urban areas. The Twin Cities ranked at the top of a MarketWatch study on the nation's best metro centers for business, winning by a wide margin. Minneapolis-St. Paul got 329 points, 38 points ahead of second-place Denver. The Twin Cities region has a high concentration of massive and diverse Fortune 1000 and S&P 500 companies. It also has a significant number of Forbes 400 private companies. Further, Minneapolis-St. Paul has a healthy array of up-and-coming companies on the Russell 2000 index. And it has more small businesses per capita than just about any other city.
2. Wall Street Journal -- There are 19 Fortune 500 companies with headquarters in the Twin Cities, including Best Buy Co., 3M Co. and Supervalu Inc., which have been attracting young professionals looking to begin a career. Average salary last year was $44,980 in the Twin Cities, almost $5,000 more than the national average according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"For the past two decades, these economic prospects made the Cities one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the Midwest," says University of Minnesota geography professor John Adams. Adding to the growing population is an influx of African and southeast-Asian immigrants.
2 Comments:
Hey Dip: Is that a clas oldenburg statue? is it in MPLS?? that's cool.
Angus: Yes, that is a Claes Oldenburg sculpture, a highlight of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, right near downtown Minneapolis, across from the Walker Art Center, and across from the old Guthrie Theater (now at a new location along the Mississippi, right near the 35W bridge that collapsed).
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