{"id":9058,"date":"2012-06-01T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=9058"},"modified":"2012-06-01T17:30:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T21:30:46","slug":"concord-nh-doesnt-feel-like-no-1-but-not-so-bad-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/06\/01\/concord-nh-doesnt-feel-like-no-1-but-not-so-bad-either\/","title":{"rendered":"Concord, NH: Doesn’t Feel Like No. 1 (But Not So Bad, Either)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After POLICOM Corporation’s research came out yesterday ranking Concord, New Hampshire as the strongest micropolitan economy<\/a> in the country (check out yesterday’s post<\/a> on this if you haven’t yet), I decided to get some reactions downtown. Setting up shop at The Works Bakery Cafe<\/a>, I posed the question below. What do you think? Leave us comment!<\/p>\n

Concord was just ranked the number one micropolitan <\/a>economy in the country. Does it feel that way to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Per Gill-Foster, DJ and Construction Worker<\/strong>
\n\"per\"
\n“I knew I was in the right place. I felt it! …but seriously, strongest economy? That definitely seems off-base. It’s really hard to make a sale on anything here.”<\/div>\n
Mike Ames, Laconia Small Businessman<\/strong>
\n\"mike\"
\n“Certainly it\u2019s more thriving than where I live in Laconia. It\u2019s a mess up there. There were empty storefronts in Concord, too, but everything is better than it was a few years ago.”<\/div>\n

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Marjorie Waters, Meals On Wheels Delivery-Person<\/strong>
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\n“I\u2019m surprised! Although I think nonprofits like Leadership Concord have made a thriving downtown, by training leaders who invest in the community.”<\/div>\n
Stephen Johnson, Concord Resident and Tufts University Student<\/strong>
\n\"stephen\"
\n“I always assumed it’s not the most vibrant economy, because everything closes at 8pm. It becomes like an abandoned ghost town. But I do recognize we have a lot of small businesses. I think True Brew is the best coffee anywhere I’ve been, even in Boston, and South Korea.”<\/div>\n



\nOverall, New Hampshire did very well in the Policom rankings. Of the 366 metropolitan areas listed, Southern New Hampshire is included in the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy area, which ranked 38th, and Manchester-Nashua was not far beind at 40th.<\/p>\n

Out of 576 micropolitan<\/a> areas, Concord came in first, Lebanon came in at eighth, Laconia ranked 35th, Claremont was 45th, Keene 51st and Berlin came in at 274th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After POLICOM Corporation’s research came out yesterday ranking Concord, New Hampshire as the strongest micropolitan economy in the country (check out yesterday’s post on this if you haven’t yet), I decided to get some reactions downtown. Setting up shop at The Works Bakery Cafe, I posed the question below. What do you think? Leave us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}