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Greensboro-High Point Area Ranks Second For Added Biz Space

Downtown Greensboro . DAVID FORD/WFDD

A national business trade magazine has ranked the Greensboro and High Point area number two in the nation for new and expanded corporate spaces.

Site Selection magazine says the Omaha, Nebraska area was the only place that topped the Greensboro region among areas between 200,000 and 1 million people.

The magazine focused on corporate projects that included more than $1 million of investment, added at least 20 new jobs, and had a minimum space of 20,000 square feet.

Loren Hill, president of High Point's Economic Development Corporation, says the area had 41 such projects for the year, with top-ranked Omaha having only one more than that.

The rankings did not include facilities such as government buildings, schools or hospitals.

The Greensboro region consists of Guilford, Randolph and Rockingham counties.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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