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Music Industry Keeps Spotlight on Nashville

Last Wednesday night, all eyes across America were on Nashville as the Grammy nominations concert broadcast live from Bridgestone Arena. Earlier that day, we were honored to have our Partnership 2020 investors hear from George Flanigen, chair of the Recording Academy, and Randy Goodman, co-chair of the Music City Music Council, about how this show landed in our city – ...

'Nashville' Comes to Primetime

Get ready, Nashville -- your city, in all its crazy, beautiful, entrepreneurial, dramatic and musical glory, will be coming to ABC primetime television in October, with the premiere of the Lionsgate/ABC TV series named, you guessed it, Nashville.

This morning, we hosted approximately 100 Partnership 2020 investors to hear from Loucas George, producer of the series, along with Gaylord’s Steve ...

The Role of Rankings in Economic Development

In a recent poll on harrisinteractive.com, Nashville and Tennessee both ranked within the top 20 locations people say they would most like to live. This is more great publicity for our city, region and state, and confirms what a lot of folks have been saying about Nashville.

This ranking ties in to all four of the strategic drivers outlined in ...

Middle Tennessee's Blueprint for Prosperity: An Economic Development Scorecard

At yesterday's Chamber and Partnership 2020 Annual Meeting, we announced the region’s economic development “scorecard" for the July 1, 2010-June 30, 2011 fiscal year. In the spirit of the often-quoted Lewis Carroll statement, “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there,” a number of years ago we set up a set of concrete, quantifiable, ...

Wall Street Journal Spotlights Nashville's Health Care Industry

This week, a Wall Street Journal article shone a national spotlight on Nashville as the best place in the country to start a health care business. Titled "Where the Action Is," the article profiled seven U.S. cities that have become hotspots for their respective industries.

According to the Nashville Health Care Council, the health care industry contributes nearly $70 billion ...

Why Quality of Life is Essential to Our Prosperity

Quality of life is a top priority for families and businesses considering relocation. This broad measure encompasses factors such as cost of living, quality of schools, climate, transportation/infrastructure, recreational amenities and parks, entertainment options, and quality of neighborhoods. Because it plays such an integral role in our region’s continuing economic prosperity, quality of life is one of the strategic drivers ...

Nashville Is an Ideal City for Relocation

A new Kiplinger ranking recognized Music City as the No. 3 Best Value City for 2011. The article from Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine homed in on the specific industries that have helped Nashville emerge strongly from the recession, putting it on track to create more than 151,000 jobs by 2019. Most of the job growth is expected to occur in ...

Forbes Ranking Anticipates Promising Future for Nashville

For the second time in a little over a week, Nashville has landed a top spot in another Forbes ranking. Among the 52 largest metro areas in the nation, Nashville sits at an impressive No. 3 on Forbes’ list of “next big boom towns” in the U.S.—cities that are well-positioned to grow and flourish during the coming decade.

The ...

New Ranking Reinforces Nashville's Economic Strength

Yesterday, we were excited to see a great new honor for our city, with the release of a Forbes article naming Nashville the sixth-best U.S. city for business and careers.

To determine the ranking, Forbes considered metrics such as cost of doing business, projected economic growth, educational attainment, income growth, projected job growth and net in-migration for the 200 largest ...

Nashville Adds Jobs; Local Employment Outlook Among Nation's Best

Our purpose at the Chamber is to facilitate community leadership to create economic prosperity, and one of the primary ways to do this is through job creation. According to an article published in the Nashville Business Journal on June 14, recent employment statistics show that the Nashville area’s economic outlook is one of the nation’s strongest, illustrating that the work ...
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