Your guide for doing business in the Richmond
area
 When it comes to evaluating the Richmond
region’s
economic climate, sometimes it’s best to let
outsiders make the call. For the Richmond area, accolades
are easy to find. Expansion Management, a magazine
for businesses looking to relocate, says Richmond is
the No. 8 Metropolitan Statistical Area in the country
for business recruitment and attraction.
Southern Business and Development magazine calls Richmond
one of the top 10 places for the creative class. Foreign
Direct Investment Magazine includes Richmond in its
list of top five places in North America for best quality
of life, human resources and development and investment
promotion.
And last year Forbes.com named Virginia the No. 1
place for doing business in the country, adding more
icing on the cake.
What Virginia Business offers up in this publication
is simply the facts. We pack the Richmond Statistical
Digest full of charts on the latest population estimates,
employment trends, wages, income, education assessments,
business expansions, transportation
and utility rates.
These facts show why the area has received so many
honors. A low unemployment rate. A job growth rate
stronger than Virginia as a whole. Major construction
projects being completed in all areas — from
hospitals to a performing arts center to a Fortune
500 headquarters and luxury riverfront condos.
We hope business executives will find this guide helpful.
If you’re considering Richmond as a business
address, or simply keeping tabs on the current business
environment, you are sure to pick up some new information.
Please contact me with any questions, or suggestions
for additional helpful statistics.
Jessica Sabbath
Special Projects Editor
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