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Business Insider calls Dix Park the next 'Central Park'
As a result of our in-person meeting during the New York City media tour last month, Aria Bendix published a Business Insider article featuring Dorothea Dix Park titled, “The site of an abandoned mental hospital in North Carolina is being transformed into the next 'Central Park.'… Read more >
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Business Insider Covers Raleigh & Dix Park
Local leaders, Ashley Cagle, Assistant Executive Director of Wake County Economic Development and Veronica Creech, Director of Economic Development for the City of Raleigh, sat down with Business Insider to discuss Raleigh and Dix Park. Ashley and Veronica shared information about smart grow… Read more >
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Raleigh Ranks No. 1 on 2019’s Best & Worst Cities to Drive in
Raleigh ranks number one in WalletHub's Best & Worst Cities to Drive in compared the 100 largest cities across 30 key indicators of driver-friendliness. The data set ranges from average gas prices to annual hours in traffic congestion per auto commuter to auto-repair shops per … Read more >
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Fast-growing D.C. Digital Firm Relocates HQ to Raleigh and Wants to Hire You
Go Fish Digital, a marketing agency with big-name clients like GEICO, United Way, and Adobe, has moved from Washington, D.C. to the Oak City.As part of its relocation, the firm has scaled up its workforce by almost 50 percent — from 25 to 39 employees, with 14 new hires. It has also ad… Read more >
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Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Firm Picks Raleigh for Second HQ
The Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity firm Agari has picked the Oak City for its new innovation hub, with the average salary: $130,000 a year. “The jobs represent high-wage positions, spanning software developers, product leaders, and customer success professionals,” Agari&rsquo… Read more >
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Where do College Grads Live? Raleigh.
Talent, or what economists refer to as human capital, is a key driver of economic growth. A wide body of studies documents the role of education in the economic growth of cities, regions and nations. But, talent has increasingly concentrated in a relatively small number of cities, leading to… Read more >
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The Research Triangle Featured in "Local's Guide" Video Series
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices (Carolinas Realty) has kicked off a five-part video series in partnership with Our State magazine. Episode two features "Top Spots" in the Reserach Triangle region. Watch the video Read more >
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Triangle Cities Make "Best Real Estate" List
WalletHub, a finance-focused website, recently did a study to determine the strongest markets for real estate. Several Triangle cities made the top 50 list - Durham, Cary, and Raleigh. Read more. Read more >
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Homegrown Tech Company Continues Massive Success
Bandwidth’s CEO and founder David Morken can basically sum up his company’s crazy trajectory since its inception into one sentence: “We’re a 20-year overnight success.”Back in 1999, he was a young attorney-turned-entrepreneur, fresh from serving in the Marine Co… Read more >
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Talent & Infrastructure Drive Life Science Success in the Region
The Triangle owes its high status as a life sciences cluster to talented workers and plenty of space -- lab space, that is. The Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area falls behind only Boston, San Francisco, and San Diego, according to an annual report from commercial real estate company JLL. But … Read more >
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