Expansion Management Magazine - Summer, 2007 lists Fayetteville MSA #3

Click on link above, click on cover story, then go to page 5. These communities are literally magnets for business. Researchers looked at the facility relocation activity of 19 million companies during the past eight years to detrmine the most popular destinations for relocating businesses.

100 BEST PLACES to LIVE and LAUNCH 2008 Fortune Small Business scoured the country for towns that combine a great business environment with alluring leisure offerings. We looked at economic conditions such as local taxes rates alongside natural beauty - and easy access to museums, hungry gamefish, and more. Follow the link below to Fayetteville, the only city in Arkansas to make this top 100 list:

MSN Careers reports Forbes.com recently released its annual list of the 200 Best Places for Businesses and Careers, and, among those places, Fayetteville ranked in the top 10 for U.S. cities with the highest job growth.

Best Places for Business and Careers Ranks Fayetteville #8; up from #9 in 2006!

The MSA in 2008 ranked very high in Job Growth - 16th; Cost of Doing Business - 12th; and Cost of Living - 28th in the nation. Fayetteville is #17 overall in this yearly ranking and the highest ranking MSA in Arkansas.

In its 2007 report,"Best Cities for Doing Business," Inc. Magazine ranked Fayetteville, Arkansas No. 4 in the top 20 mid-size city category to do business and "Overall" rank moved up to #13 from #19 in 2006. Hottest industries in NWA are Wholesale, Business Services & Government

iN Northwest Arkansas jobs are up 14 percent since 2001, with growth in services, education, and transportation. Two key drivers: Wal-Mart's headquarters in nearby Bentonville and the University of Arkansas. Overall Rank is 13, up from 19 in 2006 | 1-Year Job Growth 3.2% | 5-Year Job Growth 20.7% | Index Score 93.4 --- The index is calculated from a normalized, weighted summary of: 1) recent growth trend: the current and prior year's employment growth rates, with the current year emphasized (two points); 2) midterm growth: the average annual 2001-2006 growth rate (two points); 3) long-term trend: the sum of the 2001-2006 and 1995-2000 employment growth rates multiplied by the ratio of the 1995-2000 growth rate over the 2001-2006 growth rate (two points); and 4) current year growth (one point).

COPD Digest magazine 2007 award for best air quality and hospitals with pulmonary programs, support groups, assisted living facilities, cost of living, crime rate and population were all factors considered.

NuWire Investor magazine has chosen Fayetteville as one of 10 college towns for real estate investment, August, 2007. Read entire story by clicking on the link below:

This list of the top 10 college towns was compiled by weighing factors such as growth potential, job markets, property values, cost of living, atmosphere, retirement appeal, intangibles and overall investment potential.

2007 Fayetteville Sustainability Issue of Connecting Northwest Arkansas; click on link below:

Be sure to read Guest Editorial "Deepening the ties that bind" by John A. White, Chancellor, University of Arkansas

Fayetteville is the only Arkansas city listed

According to MSN, some of the best places to live and work may be smaller so-called flyover cities such as Fayetteville, Arkansas, according to Bert Sperling of Sperling's Best Places. Fayetteville MSA recognized as #1

Sperling has put together a list of the top 10 affordable job powerhouses for MSN Real Estate: places where the cost of living and unemployment are low and the number of jobs is growing steadily.

Attractions of a College Town - Fayetteville, Ark.: Down-home sophisticate

From Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, May 2007

Warren Bland, PhD, a nationally recognized expert on retirement towns, has just released his "best college towns" list for 2007. Not only are these great college towns, but they also rank high in Bland's retirement location model which uses 12 criteria to evaluate each place. So if you plan to spend some time this summer visiting college towns for eventual retirement, start in Boulder, Colorado, Bland's top pick. The towns are located in 10 different states across the US.

Fayetteville tied with two other cities for 6th place on this list.

Country Home magazine, in conjunction with Sperling's BestPlaces, reveals that Fayetteville MSA is ranked #74 out of 379 MSA's 2007 Best Green Place to live in America and #1 in the state of Arkansas.

FAYETTEVILLE MSA No. 8 Among Milken's Best Performing Cities 2005

Released February 22, 2006, the index measures the hottest places for jobs creation in the country.