Triad economic development group honored
GREENSBORO - For the second consecutive year, the Piedmont Triad Partnership has been named among the top 10 economic development organizations in North America by Site Selection magazine. Site Selection, one of the nation's leading economic development publications, reaches 44,000 executives with each issue.
The criteria used by the magazine in evaluating economic development organizations include new jobs and investment, innovation, leadership, and customer service. According to the magazine, the regions and organizations earning top honors for 2006 shared common elements of market access, strong logistics support networks, qualified labor, competitive costs, and "good old-fashioned ingenuity."