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Charlottesville Ranked High!!....AGAIN

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Property Manager with Gibson Management Group, Ltd.

The Charlottesville area of Central Virginia is used to being ranked HIGH in most Forbes  "Places" surveys - Best Places to Live, Best Places to Retire, Best Place for Finding an EXCELLENT Property Manager and NOW we are ranked #11 in Best Small Places for Business and Careers According to their March 25, 2009 online issue.  We are the ONLY city in the state of Virginia and while I disagree that we do not have any billionaires per se * we have Fox Sports Newscaster Howie Long and his son Chris of the St.Louis Rams, Arthor John Grisham, Sissy Spacek and her husband Jack Fisk, and many members of the Dave Matthews Band which got its start on our Downtown Mall.  The Rolling Stones played in UVa's Scotts Stadium and U-2 will play here this year.

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/5/bizplaces09_Charlottesville-VA_2496.html

Many of the newer businesses are associated with the expansion of the University of Virginia Medical Center and the building of the new Emily Couric Cancer Center (named after Katie's sister who was a State Senator and died of cancer), the expansion of the private Martha Jefferson Hospital and the doubling in size of the NGIC * National Ground Intelligence Command * I'd tell you what they do but then I'd have to kill you.....yes, there are loads of opportunities for new, small businesses...it's where I started my business almost 12 years ago!!! 

Rank Metro Area Cost Of Doing Business (Rank)1 Job Growth Projected (Rank)2 Educational Attainment (Rank)3 Metro Area Population (thou)
1 Sioux Falls SD 3 11 30 232
2 Greenville NC 4 49 35 175
3 Morgantown WV 37 46 28 119
4 Bloomington IN 11 41 23 185
5 Columbia MO 13 74 6 163
6 Bismarck ND 18 10 32 104
7 Fargo ND 62 29 22 193
8 Lafayette IN 17 58 20 195
9 Iowa City IA 21 124 5 149
10 Auburn AL 70 1 19 135
11 Charlottesville VA 31 45 7 195
12 Bloomington IL 25 38 9 165
13 Rapid City SD 1 54 49 121
14 College Station TX 89 4 15 204
15 Billings MT 95 6 27 151
16 Las Cruces NM 39 2 54 203
17 Santa Fe NM 100 35 10 145
18 Bend OR 90 7 36 158
19 Bowling Green KY 48 51 48 118
20 Ames IA 40 161 3 85
21 State College PA 106 75 8 145
22 Ithaca NY 167 33 1 102
23 Athens GA 94 65 16 189
24 Grand Junction CO 101 18 62 142
25 Corvallis OR 93 80 2 82

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Wallace S. Gibson is a Certified Property Manager with over 50 years of property management experience and expertise.  She maintains a specialized property management business in Central Virginia serving Albemarle, Greene, Fluvanna and Louisa counties  

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