News

Downtowns: What's Behind America's Most Surprising Real Estate Boom

Monday, April 01, 2013 Morgan Brennan

Related Tags

Detroit

Excerpt:

One of the main factors businesses consider when deciding on where to relocate or expand is the available pool of college-educated workers. And that has cities competing for college-educated young adults. “The American population, contrary to popular opinion, is not very mobile, but there is one very significant exception, what we call ‘the young and the restless,’” explains Lee Fisher, president of CEOs for Cities, a national not-for-profit organization that helps U.S. cities map out economic growth.

Read more.

Signup for Email Alerts