Area Among America’s 50 Hottest Cities

The Richmond-Petersburg Area ranked 21st in Expansion Management’s list of “America’s 50 Hottest Cities” for manufacturing Expansions and Relocations.

The magazine polled over 75 site selection consultants to find out their choice for the top cities for relocating and expanding manufacturing companies. The consultants used their broad-based knowledge and projects that they have worked on to narrow the list to 50 from 331 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs).

Chesterfield County is located in the middle of this MSA. The rankings took into consideration such things as business environment, work force quality, operating costs, incentive programs, work training programs and ease of working with local officials.