There's a pro-active, pro-business
environment here. Leaders who have an attitude that says, `We're excited about your coming
and we can't do enough to help you. Moving here was great for Merisel and, I mean this,
the best thing that ever happened to me.
- Ranny Thompson, head of operations for Merisel's Channel Services Group
North Carolina Magazine
`It's never really hot or really cold and there are no blizzards,' complains a
young area resident. But New Yorkers, who shoveled out from 17 snowstorms last winter,
might see things a bit differently.
Money Magazine
The reason for Cary's tremendous growth is a tide of local prosperity generated
by the rise of nearby Research Triangle Park, a high-technology complex supported by
private industry, the government and the universities at Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill.
As the park mushroomed, so did Cary - fighting every step of the way to maintain its
livable charm and community spirit.
U.S. News & World Report
`Cary had the village atmosphere of the All-American Little City,' says Charles
Elam, Cary planning director. `As the place grew, it never lost that.'
U.S. News & World Report,
- excerpt from "If You're Looking for a Great Place to Live"
U.S. businesses, especially those whose success depends on staying atop new
technologies and process, increasingly want to be where new ideas are percolating. A
presence in brainpower centers like (the Triangle) pays off in new products and new ways
of doing business.
Fortune Magazine
Cary presents a remarkable case study in suburban emergence. It's site is a
dream, bordering Research Triangle Park, the Raleigh-Durham airport and I-40. Three major
universities are a short hop away. This one-time sleepy outskirt of Raleigh has become THE
suburb of choice.
Wall Street Journal
All photos courtesy of Melissa Bauer.
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