As more Americans from the Baby Boom generation retire and look for the perfect place to spend their golden years, what cities are catching their attention? A high percentage of boomers are choosing to lower cost, less crowded regions over urban areas.

Categories: Quality of Life, Research
Tagged: Baby Boomers, Charlotte NC, Livability, Maury County TN, Phoenix AZ, population trends, Retirees, Retirement, seniors, Texas,

Where manufacturing once dragged down job creation it is now helping to propel it in many communities such as Seattle, a convergence of in-demand industry segments such as energy and aerospace combined with technology infrastructure and a base of workers with the advanced skills needed for the increasingly complex and sophisticated manufacturing processes.

Categories: Job Creation, Research
Tagged: Job creation, Joel Kotkin, manufacturing, Reshoring,

Where will the future tech jobs be? Though Silicon Valley continues to lead in its creation of tech jobs, other cities are catching up, expanding not only their IT sectors, but also science- and tech-driven jobs across an array of industries.

Categories: Job Creation
Tagged: Jacksonville FL, Nashville TN, Salt Lake City, science, Seattle, Silicon Valley, STEM, tech jobs, Technology,

Though it is a metro region with just around 515,000 people, Chattanooga TN is thinking big in terms of innovation and knowledge companies, thanks to the nation’s first gigabit-per-second fiber optic network, installed by the municipally owned EPB utility and available to 150,000 homes and businesses in a 600-square-mile area.

Categories: Entrepreneurship, Quality of Life
Tagged: Broadband, Chattanooga TN, Entrepreneurship, Gig City, Kansas, Northeast North Carolina, Tennessee,

Developing regional clusters of companies focused on auto, aerospace and other specialized sectors is key to building back manufacturing in many parts of the U.S., according to a new report from the Brookings Institution.

Categories: Job Creation
Tagged: advanced manufacturing, aerospace, Alabama, auto production, Dayton Ohio, industry clusters, Kentucky, manufacturing, Midwest, Southeast,

The annual Best Cities for Job Growth rankings has demographer Joel Kotkin channeling his inner John Mellencamp.

Categories: Job Creation, Research
Tagged: job growth, Joel Kotkin, Kansas, Quality of Place, Texas, Wyoming,

A customer service center for Amazon.com, more engines for Toyota and more energy jobs for Houston lead this week’s job creation and site selection announcements:

Categories: Deals, Job Creation, Site Selection
Tagged: Amazon.com, BlueWare Inc., CCL Industries, GE Energy, South Carolina jobs, Texas energy, Toyota, US Fibers,