Entrepreneur.com featured the top cities for entrepreneurs. Nashville was named one of five as a “creative center.” Five cities where creativity and capitalism make sweet music together.
Nashville ranked as one of the Top 100 Places to Live in 2010 by RelocateAmerica. The rankings focused this year on communities poised for recovery and future growth. The RelocateAmerica team discovered communities with strong local leadership, employment opportunities, thriving community commitment, improving real estate markets, growing green initiatives, plentiful recreational options and an overall high quality of life.
Tennessee has been given an award for its economic-development efforts by Area Development magazine, which writes about corporate site selection and facility planning. The state is one of this year's winners of the magazine’s Silver Shovel Award, presented to states with successful development efforts. The awards recognize state economic development agencies for job-creation efforts such as infrastructure improvements that attract new employers, as well as investments in expanded facilities.
Entrepreneur.com featured the top cities for entrepreneurs. Nashville was named one of five as a “creative center.” Five cities where creativity and capitalism make sweet music together.
Nashville ranked as one of the Top 100 Places to Live in 2010 by RelocateAmerica. The rankings focused this year on communities poised for recovery and future growth. The RelocateAmerica team discovered communities with strong local leadership, employment opportunities, thriving community commitment, improving real estate markets, growing green initiatives, plentiful recreational options and an overall high quality of life.
Tennessee has been given an award for its economic-development efforts by Area Development magazine, which writes about corporate site selection and facility planning. The state is one of this year's winners of the magazine’s Silver Shovel Award, presented to states with successful development efforts. The awards recognize state economic development agencies for job-creation efforts such as infrastructure improvements that attract new employers, as well as investments in expanded facilities.
Southwest Airlines featured all things Nashville in their June issue of the Spirit Magazine.
In Chief Executive’s annual survey of best and worst states for business, conducted in late January of this year, 651 CEOs across the U.S. again gave Texas top honors, closely followed by North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The business leaders were asked to draw upon their direct experience to rate each state in three general categories: taxation and regulation, quality of workforce and living environment. Within each category respondents graded states in five subcategories, as well as ranking each in terms of its importance to the respondent and how individual states measure up.
Southern Business & Development named Tennessee Co-State of the Year. The Nissan expansion in Smyrna was also named as both the Automotive and Green Economy deals of the year in SB&D magazine. Nissan is investing $2.5 billion and adding 1708 jobs at a new Lithium-ion battery plant in Smyrna, TN. The batteries produced will power the Nissan LEAF zero-emission vehicle.
Tennessee has the 13th best business tax system in the country according to a ranking released today by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. Tennessee’s ranking was driven by its lack of a personal income tax, its lack of a capital gains tax, its low property taxes (2.18 percent as a percentage of income, which was seventh lowest in the nation, the SBE said), cheap diesel taxes (18.4 cents per gallon, which ranked seventh lowest), and low gasoline taxes (21.4 cents per gallon, 16th lowest).
Bloomberg BusinessWeek partners with the nation's leading site-selection service ZoomProspector.com to compile a list of the top places to build the next Apple or Google. Franklin, TN was ranked #8.
Site Selection magazine has named the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce’s Partnership 2010 economic development team one of the top 10 economic development groups in the country.
RelocateAmerica.com announces Nashville as on of America's top 100 Places to live for 2010. To be considered for the list, a community is nominated at RelocateAmerica.com. From the thousands of submissions, RelocateAmerica.com's editorial team reviews the nominations and selects the Top 100 Places to Live, as well as the Top 10 for each smaller category, based on interviews with local leaders; feedback from residents; and economic, environmental, education, crime, employment and housing data for the past year.
The West End's Hutton Hotel has received an auspicious ending to its first year in business, being named to the 2010 Hot Hotels list by Condé Nast Traveler magazine. The hotel, which opened last February inside a renovated office building at 1808 West End Ave., made the list of 134 top hotels in 55 countries.
Four Nashville hospitals are among the best in the nation in overall organizational performance, according to an annual survey. That’s the most of any city in America. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Baptist Hospital, Skyline Medical Center and Saint Thomas Hospital all found a place on Thomson Reuters’ 100 Top Hospitals National Benchmarks study, which evaluates hospitals in areas ranging from mortality to profitability.
KPMG's latest guide for companies looking to relocate shines a light on Nashville and other mid-size cities. The 2010 Competitive Advantage Study — which measured labor costs, taxes, real estate, utility prices and other costs — showed that cities of between 1 million and 2 million people have consistently lower business costs than big cities. And of the 12 mid-size cities that KPMG singled out, Nashville ranked fourth for its low business costs.
Tennessee will receive $500 million towards public education from the Federal Government’s Race to the Top competition.
Men’s Journal magazine has named Nashville one of the “Best Places to Live in 2010.” Nashville was among 25 U.S. and Canadian cities featured. Others included Minneapolis, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Vancouver and Louisville, KY.
Nashville's Belmont University is one of five schools singled out by Fortune magazine for fostering entrepreneurship. “Belmont is itself a case study in niche building: Its long-standing program in music and business is unique, and last year it became the first school to offer a major in social entrepreneurship,” Fortune notes on its Web site. Fortune also cited five student-run retail businesses on Belmont’s campus.
Tennessee has been 5th ranked among the top states in the nation in Site Selection magazine's annual Governor's Cup rankings for its economic development performance in 2009. The Governor's Cup award recognizes states with the most new or expanded private-sector capital projects.
Tennessee rates as the 13th-best state for small businesses, according to the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council’s “Small Business Survival Index 2009.” The small business survival index is a comprehensive measure of states and how friendly they are to businesses, based on taxes, various regulatory costs, government spending, property rights, and health care and energy costs.
Tennessee was named the 2009 State of the Year by Business Facilities magazine, a national economic development publication. The Hemlock Semiconductor project in Clarksville was also named the magazine's 2009 Silver Award winner for the Economic Development Deal of the Year, with Hemlock announcing its $1.2 billion investment and creation of 500-900 jobs. In 2009, Tennessee had 16,700 new jobs and $3.1 billion in new capital investments, according to the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development.
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December 28, 2009
Nashville is the nation's 18th most literate city, according to a study by Central Connecticut State University — ahead of every city in the South except Atlanta, New Orleans and Austin, Texas. The study ranked cities with at least 250,000 people according to their reading habits and education level.
· Nashville: Music City Still Rockin'
December 18, 2009
Karl Dean, mayor of Nashville, on why Tennessee is drawing more than country music hopefuls.
· Tennessee Ranks 4th Happiest State
December 18, 2009
Tennessee ranked as the fourth-happiest state in America based on the answers of Tennesseans and what researchers called objective measures of good living. The Centers for Disease Control polled more than 1.3 million people across the country. The places where people are most likely to report happiness also tend to rate high on studies comparing things like climate, crime rates, air quality and schools.
· Nashville Ranked as One of the Best Cities for Business
December 16, 2009
Nashville ranked 15th as one of the best U.S. metro for business in the MarketWatch's 3rd annual survey.
· Nashville One of America's Fastest Recovering Cities
November 19, 2009
Nashville ranked 19th as one of America's Fastest Recovering Cities based on diversified industries and relatively stable housing that give residents a measure of economic security.
· Tennessee Ranks #5 for Business Climate
November 03, 2009
Tennessee ranked as the fifth-best state in the country to do business, according to an annual listing by Site Selection magazine. The Volunteer State has been ranked in the top five for five of the past seven years. The annual business climate rankings are determined by two factors: 50 percent by the state’s economic performance in Conway Data’s New Plant Database, which tracks new and expanded business facility activity, and 50 percent from surveys of corporate site selectors nationwide.
· 10 Best Cities for African Americans
November 02, 2009
Nashville ranked 6th as one of the Best Cities for African Americans based on high-paying jobs, affordable homes, a vibrant social life and short commutes.
· Nashville Named America's Friendliest City
October 09, 2009
Nashville has been named America’s Friendliest City from Travel + Leisure magazine. The publication asks readers to rate 30 U.S. cities based on culture, shopping, restaurants, nightlife and more. This year, Nashville also ranked second in the nation for live music and concerts and fourth for an affordable getaway.
· Nashville Ranked #4 for Best North American Cities for Live Music
August 25, 2009
The Society of American Travel Writers, the world’s largest organization of professional travel journalists and photographers, recently polled its members to come up with the “Top 10” best North American cities for live music. Nashville ranked number 4 for live music.
· 3 Universities in Nashville Rank Among Best in the Nation
August 20, 2009
Three area schools landed in the top 20 on lists in the U.S. News and World Report annual rankings of the nation's best colleges and universities. Vanderbilt University came in at No. 17 on the overall list. Belmont and Lipscomb universities appeared on the "Best Universities-Master's" list for the southern region. Belmont came in at No. 7 and Lipscomb at 21. Both also appeared on the magazine's "Top Up-and-Coming Schools" list for the South, Belmont at No. 2 and Lipscomb at No. 13.
Nashville receives high rankings in Business Facilities' August issue with the Metro Rankings cover story. Nashville ranked as #1 in Quality of Life, #6 Best Cost of Living and # 9 Economic Growth Potential.
Family Circle announced the results of its exclusive survey to identify the best TOWNS AND CITIES across the country FOR FAMILIES. The communities featured in the magazine’s annual roundup of perfect places to call home combine affordable housing, good neighbors, green spaces and A+ public school systems. Hendersonville, TN ranked in the Top 10.
Nashville ranked 13th out of 350 of the country's metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in Forbes listing of the Best Places to Begin a Career.
Area Development, a leading executive magazine covering corporate site selection and relocation, has honored the state of Tennessee with its prestigious Gold Shovel Award. The honor is presented annually to the state achieving the most success in terms of job creation and economic impact.
Next Generation Consulting announced its "Next Cities™" rankings - the best places to live and work for young professionals - in three population categories. Nashville is ranked 14 on NGC's Next Cities List in Super Cities Category - with population over 500,000.
Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School and Martin Luther King, Jr. Magnet High School have been named to Newsweek Magazine’s Top 30 U.S. High Schools, ranking respectively at 28 and 29. This is the fourth consecutive year Hume-Fogg and MLK have been recognized by Newsweek’s annual report that evaluates and ranks the nation’s top 1,300 high schools. In addition to HFA and MLK, Hillsboro High also gained recognition for the fourth consecutive year, ranking 677.
ALEC reviewed state's ecnomic outlook by comparing the economic performance over the last 10 years by evaluating state's fiscal and economic policies, as well as the ramifications of those policies. Tennessee ranked ninth for best economic outlook.
Nashville's The Gulch neighborhood rated as one of the best eight neighborhoods in the Southeast by Men's Journal.
Each year, POLICOM Corporation ranks the 366 Metropolitan and 574 Micropolitan Areas for "Economic Strength." Nashville ranks 5th for "economic strength." This is the long-term tendency for an area to consistently grow in size and quality.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Baptist Hospital are ranked among the top 125 hospitals in the nation by Consumers’ Checkbook. Top hospitals were selected from 1,467 acute-care facilities in and around the nation’s largest metropolitan areas.Criteria for selection included death rates and adverse-outcome rates for various medical and surgical cases, ratings by physicians and patients and major medical school affiliation.
Nashville ranks 25th on Forbes 11th annual ranking of the Best Places for Business and Careers.
Chief Executive magazine's 2009 "Best & Worst States" survey took CEO's pulse on what the best and worst places for jobs and business growth. Tennessee ranked 5th. The fifth annual survey asked 543 CEOs to evaluate their states on a broad range of issues, including proximity to resources, regulation, tax policies, education, quality of living and infrastructure.
Tennessee’s child care oversite was ranked third nationally on a report card from the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. TN ranked behind the Department of Defense and the District of Columbia in the study that reviews child care standards, safety, school readiness and health promotion of young children.
Tennessee's high school graduation rate rose more than any other state's between 2002 and 2006 according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.