Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Q.C. vs. the ATL
Posted by Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Who will reign as Queen of the South? Well, since Charlotte already has the crown ...
“We could’ve easily become a Knoxville, Greensboro or Richmond,” McCrory said. “Instead we compete, fortunately, with Denver, Dallas and Atlanta.”Charlotte, the Queen City, maintains pretensions of one day surpassing Atlanta as economic King of the South. Sam Williams, head of Atlanta’s Chamber of Commerce, says dream on.
“We don’t really compete tooth-and-nail with Charlotte because the companies we go after (are) in the international trade, logistics and biomedical fields and they’re not looking to go to Charlotte,” he said. “Dallas, Tampa and northern Virginia — those are our consistent competitors.”
But some observers say recent missteps by Atlanta — over traffic, transit, water, the environment and politics — may enhance Charlotte’s position.
Read the rest of this Atlanta Journal Constitution article here.
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