Media Center
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| Bizjournals.com | America's 14th best metro area for small business. | Jan-'06 |
| Business Development Outlook | One of the nation's top 25 metro areas for biotechnology. | Nov/Dec-'04 |
| Business Facilities Magazine | 3rd hottest metro area for corporate headquarters. | '07 |
| Communications Workers of America Union | Ranked 11th fastest state to download files off the internet. | '07 |
| Dog Fancy | Ranked as one of the top ten friendly places in the US for dogs. | June-'05 |
| Education Week | Ranked number one state where a child has the best chance for success in life. | '07 |
| The Ewing Marion Kauffman and the IT and Innovation Foundations | Top highest percentage of information-technology jobs in non-IT industries in the U.S. | '07 |
| Expansion Management | Richmond / Petersburg metro area was ranked 4th in economic development Hot Spots among twenty mid-sized metro areas. | Winter-'08 |
| Ranked #17 in the top 20 Real Estate Markets for Expanding Companies. | Dec-'07 |
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| 5-Star Logistics Metros. | Oct-'07 |
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| Ranked #17 in the top 20 Real Estate Markets for Expanding Companies. | Oct-'07 |
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| Ranked 4th in the nation in overall quality of life of metros that serve as home to military installations (communities with military populations between 10,000 and 19,999). | Aug-'06 |
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| Ranked 2nd in the nation for public education in metros that serve as home to military installations (communities with military populations between 10,000 and 19,999). | Aug-'06 |
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| A five-star business opportunity metro. | Jul/Aug-'06 |
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| A four-star quality of life community. | May/Jun-'06 |
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| One of America's 50 Hottest Cities for business expansions and relocations (ranked 15th). | Jan/Feb-'06 |
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| A top 40 U.S. real estate market (ranked 33rd). | Aug-'05 |
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| A five-star business opportunity metro. | Jul-'05 |
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| Ranked 11th of the nation's top 50 metro areas for business expansions and relocations. | Jul-'04 |
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| Ranked 3rd for business expansions and relocations for metro areas with a population between one and two million. | Jul-'04 |
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| Top 5 U.S. metro area for European manufacturing investment. | Jun-'04 |
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| A four-star quality of life community. | May-'04 |
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| A top ten metro area for public schools (large MSA with more than 100,000 students). | Apr-'04 |
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| Expansion Management/Logistics Today | A five-star metro area for logistics operations (ranked 40th out of 362 areas). | Sept-'05 |
| A five-star metro area for logistics operations (ranked 33rd). | Sept-'04 |
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| Forbes | Voted best state for business three years in a row. | '06, '07 and '08 |
| Richmond / Petersburg metro area was ranked seventh in the top 10 annual list of the Best Places for Business and Careeers. | March - '08 |
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| One of the nation's 50 best places for business and careers (ranked 41st among the nation's 200 large metro areas). | May-'06 |
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| Richmond / Petersburg metro area named one of the nation's 20 best places for business and careers (ranked 14th among the nation's 200 large metro areas). | May-'05 |
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| Inc. Magazine | The nation's 14th best large city for doing business (areas with employment base of 450,000 or more). | May-'06 |
| One of America's top 25 large metro areas for doing business (ranked 23rd). | May-'05 |
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| Intel | Ranked 39th of the nation's most unwired cities for wireless Internet accessibility. | Jun-'05 |
| International Economic Development Council | Awarded the 2006 Outstanding General Purpose Website in populations exceeding 200,000. | Sept-'06 |
| Kiplinger's Personal Finance | Ranked 26th in the nation's 50 "smart places to live". | Jun-'06 |
| MarketWatch | Richmond / Petersburg metro area placed third in MarketWatch's Top 10 Centers for Business | Sept-'06 |
| Money Magazine | One of the top seven destinations for a summer vacation that won't break the bank. | '07 |
| MovieMaker | One of ten best cities in the country for independent film makers. | '03 |
| Newsweek | Newsweek's annual survey ranked four of the region's schools within the top 5% of the country's public high schools. All the four schools are located in Chesterfield County. | May- '08 |
| Partners for Livable Communities | One of America's 30 most livable communities. | Apr-'04 |
| Policom Corporation | Ranked 19th of the nation's 361 metropolitan statistical areas for long-term economic growth. | '04 |
| RelocateAmerica | Richmond / Petersburg metro area was ranked in the American's Top 100 Best Places to LIve | 2008 |
| R.L. Polk & Company | Ranked 5th in the U.S. for sales of gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles. | '07 |
| Site Selection Magazine | Rolls-Royce was chosen as one of the premier deals for 2007, both domestic and abroad. | May-'08 |
| One of the nation's top 20 economic development organizations. | May-'06 |
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| Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority (VNDIA) | For the year 2006, Virginia ranked number one as the top state for full-time employment by the Department of Defense in terms of civilian employment. | May- '08 |
| According to VNDIA, Virginia maintains the highest Department of Defense payroll in the nation. | Spring- '08 |