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Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 1162113, member: 2141"] I laughed, too. Cincinnati does have P&G, which is a big one plus the grocery chain Kroger's and the regional bank Fifth Third. The rest are in the burbs. For its size, Cincinnati metro is well represented; but, NYC and Chicago are the majors, Cincinnati is not. Reminds me of then NC Governor's public statement in 2010 after Fidelity announced that it was moving 2,000 to RTP. [INDENT] [I]"This project … builds North Carolina's solid reputation as a financial leader, not only in the country, but in the world," Easley said. "North Carolina has more than 200,000 people working in the banking and finance industry, second in the U.S. only to New York. I want to send out the word: We're hard after the Big Apple."[/I][/INDENT] I think the RTP area of NC is a great place; but, still most people I know laughed. NC is not and will not be competing with NYC anytime soon. NC itself lost a lot of it's mojo during the recession when one of it's two big banks, Wachovia, folded (into Wells Fargo) and now while BoA is still headquartered in Charlotte, most of its executives are in either NYC or Boston. Plus, Fidelity never did build a huge new campus and instead purchased Nortel's abandoned complex. Some of the jobs to be relocated also did not fully realize and Fidelity found higher than expected costs savings by moving employees from Boston and it's closed Marlborough MA campus to its Smithfield RI and Merrimack NH campuses instead. [/QUOTE]

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