Month: May 2015

Glassdoor Team| May 19, 2015

Thinking about moving to a new city for a job? Turns out, all cities are not created equal forjobs.

That’s why Glassdoor is revealing its newest report on the 25 Best Cities for Jobs. These 25 cities stand out for having the highest Glassdoor Job Score*, determined by weighting three factors equally: how easy it is to get a job (hiring opportunity), how affordable it is to live there (cost of living), and how satisfied employees are working there (job satisfaction).

As part of this report, we include each city’s median pay for employees, median home value, job satisfaction rating, number of current job openings and population. Check out the results below:

25 Best Cities for Jobs

1. Raleigh, NC – Glassdoor Job Score: 4.1

• Number of Job Openings: 24,146
• Population: 1,242,974
• Median Base Salary: $50,950
• Median Home Value: $198,400
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.3

2. Kansas City, MO – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.9

• Number of Job Openings: 28,786
• Population: 2,071,133
• Median Base Salary: $46,000
• Median Home Value: $138,500
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

3. Oklahoma City, OK – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.9

• Number of Job Openings: 16,759
• Population: 1,336,767
• Median Base Salary: $38,100
• Median Home Value: $129,400
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.3

4. Austin, TX – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.9

• Number of Job Openings: 33,198
• Population: 1,943,299
• Median Base Salary: $50,000
• Median Home Value: $226,400
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.3

5. Seattle, WA – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.9

• Number of Job Openings: 69,423
• Population: 3,671,478
• Median Base Salary: $70,000
• Median Home Value: $344,700
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.3

6. Salt Lake City, UT – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.8

• Number of Job Openings: 17,970
• Population: 1,153,340
• Median Base Salary: $44,000
• Median Home Value: $224,000
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.4

7. San Jose, CA – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.7

• Number of Job Openings: 51,439
• Population: 1,952,872
• Median Base Salary: $99,000
• Median Home Value: $863,800
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.5

8. Louisville, KY – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.7

• Number of Job Openings: 16,295
• Population: 1,269,702
• Median Base Salary: $40,000
• Median Home Value: $131,100
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

9. San Antonio, TX – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.7

• Number of Job Openings: 29,980
• Population: 2,328,652
• Median Base Salary: $40,000
• Median Home Value: $147,600
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.3

10. Washington, D.C. – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.7

• Number of Job Openings: 116,770
• Population: 6,033,737
• Median Base Salary: $61,000
• Median Home Value: $361,200
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.4

11. St. Louis, MO – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.7

• Number of Job Openings: 31,365
• Population: 2,806,207
• Median Base Salary: $45,000
• Median Home Value: $133,200
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.3

12. San Francisco, CA – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.7

• Number of Job Openings: 94,933
• Population: 4,594,060
• Median Base Salary: $70,000
• Median Home Value: $728,000
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.5

13. Columbus, OH – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.6

• Number of Job Openings: 25,242
• Population: 1,994,536
• Median Base Salary: $43,000
• Median Home Value: $146,700
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

14. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.6

• Number of Job Openings: 102,311
• Population: 6,954,330
• Median Base Salary: $50,000
• Median Home Value: $157,900
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

15. Boston, MA – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.6

• Number of Job Openings: 86,565
• Population: 4,732,161
• Median Base Salary: $56,000
• Median Home Value: $367,600
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.4

16. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.6

• Number of Job Openings: 48,231
• Population: 3,495,176
• Median Base Salary: $52,000
• Median Home Value: $210,300
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

17. Atlanta, GA – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.5

• Number of Job Openings: 69,642
• Population: 5,614,323
• Median Base Salary: $49,180
• Median Home Value: $155,200
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

18. Memphis, TN – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.4

• Number of Job Openings: 14,776
• Population: 1,343,230
• Median Base Salary: $42,000
• Median Home Value: $107,000
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

19. Indianapolis, IN – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.3

• Number of Job Openings: 23,863
• Population: 1,971,274
• Median Base Salary: $44,000
• Median Home Value: $130,100
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

20. Chicago, IL – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.3

• Number of Job Openings: 124,633
• Population: 9,554,598
• Median Base Salary: $50,000
• Median Home Value: $186,900
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

21. Houston, TX – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.3

• Number of Job Openings: 74,442
• Population: 6,490,180
• Median Base Salary: $52,000
• Median Home Value: $157,900
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

22. Baltimore, MD – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.3

• Number of Job Openings: 45,558
• Population: 2,785,874
• Median Base Salary: $46,000
• Median Home Value: $244,100
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

23. Richmond, VA – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.2

• Number of Job Openings: 17,933
• Population: 1,260,029
• Median Base Salary: $45,000
• Median Home Value: $186,300
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

24. Pittsburgh, PA – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.1

• Number of Job Openings: 29,456
• Population: 2,355,968
• Median Base Salary: $43,000
• Median Home Value: $124,500
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.1

25. Nashville, TN – Glassdoor Job Score: 3.1

• Number of Job Openings: 27,850
• Population: 1,792,649
• Median Base Salary: $41,600
• Median Home Value: $176,700
• Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.2

 

The new owner and developer of Wade Office Park, Dominion Realty Partners, is proposing a 10-story office building at Wade Park that would be visible to the thousands of motorists who pass by every day on the Wade Avenue extension connecting the I-440 Beltline to I-40. A rezoning request filed with the city on May 11. The rezoning would allow for a building with up to 350,000 square feet in rentable office space and up to 150 feet in height, or 12 stories tall. The two existing Wade office buildings built in 2008 are nearly capacity. Construction of the third building, the 103,000-square-foot Wade III, is slated to finish in July. The building was 22 percent preleased at the end of first quarter.

TBJ: 5-15-15

Raleigh is No. 6 among cities with the strongest housing recoveries..

 

Using data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the National Association of Realtors, financial websiteS martAsset examined the 100 largest metro areas, both pre- and post-housing crisis, to determine which cities have bounced back the most. Charlotte is right behind Raleigh.

Top 10 cities

1. Nashville

2. San Francisco

3. Honolulu

4. San Jose

5. Columbus, Ohio

6. Raleigh

7. Charlotte

8. Philadelphia

9. New Orleans

10. Colorado Springs

TBJ 4/27/15

The owners of Crabtree Valley Mall are finalizing plans to add several new retail shops and a new parking deck ramp to the front of the mall property. The project will add five or six new retail spaces of about 2,000 square feet, all of which will be facing Glenwood Avenue, between the mall’s front entrance and Starbucks coffee shop on the east side and the Sears department store to the west.

The new parking deck ramp near Sears, also known as the “blue deck,” will add about 20 more parking spaces and help ease traffic flow.

The exterior work is expected to be completed before the holidays, and the finished spaces will be ready in February 2016.

TBJ 4/27/15

 

 

Real estate sources across Raleigh are saying that Allscripts Healthcare (Nasdaq: MDRX) is close to signing a big office lease deal to move all of its people and operations out of The Forum office park in north Raleigh to a higher profile, 18-story building at North Hills.Sources say the health care information technology company, which employs more than 1,260 people in Raleigh, has been considering either a deal to renew a contract for office space that it occupies in three buildings at The Forum or to relocate elsewhere in the Raleigh area.

Allscripts, which is based in Chicago, in 2013 restructured its lease for 304,622 square feet in the Forum II, Forum IV and Forum V buildings on Six Forks Road, according to Wake County records.

At North Hills, Kane Realty is already constructing an 18-story office tower – North Hills Tower Two – that will be completed in spring 2016 and have 300,000-square-feet of leasable office space, but real estate sources say that Allscripts is instead negotiating to have its own 18-story tower build on another site at North Hills.The North Hills master plan has three more office towers designated on the east side of Six Forks Road after Tower Two is completed.

If Allscripts does decide relocate, it would be another blow for the businesses around The Forum office park on Six Forks Road in north Raleigh. Across the street at the Colonnade office park, anchor tenant Salix Pharmaceuticals in early April announced it would lay off 258 workers in North Carolina primarily at its corporate headquarters at Colonnade, following its merger with Valeant Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: VRS).

TBJ: 4/27/2015