Greensboro/HP ranked #1

Gov. Mike Easley announced that North Carolina, for the second consecutive year, tops the Southeast in attracting new industrial plants and moved up two spots to rank No. 3 nationally in business growth, according to Site Selection magazine’s annual Governor’s Cup ranking. The magazine’s tracking of new corporate plant locations, released in its March edition, ranked the Mooresville/Statesville area as the nation’s No. 1 rural region and Greensboro/High Point as the nation’s top region with a population of 200,000 to 1 million