Naples ranks high on a
lot of “best” and “top” lists — best beaches, best golfing, best food city,
best small city, best town for the holidays, top city for firefighters, top al
fresco dining.
Now, the city has been
crowned the reigning champ for future job growth in the United States by Forbes
Magazine.
Florida
is home to six of the top 10 metro areas when it comes to the highest
forecasted employment growth, to include Naples, Orlando, Ocala, Port St.
Lucie, North Port, and Cape Coral. Leading the way is retirement hot spot Naples
with projected annual gains of 4.6% through 2017, according to Moody’s Analytics.
“Areas like Naples are adding jobs at a
faster rate because of the population growth among baby boomers,” says Moody’s
Analytics economist Kwame Donaldson, who focuses on the Florida market.