The
Triangle Park
metropolitan area of Raleigh, Cary, Chapel Hill, and Durham was named "The Best Place to Live in America" by Money
magazine and "The Best City for Business" by Fortune magazine. Pick up a
magazine or check with the BBB about Research Triangle Park, NC, and you
will continually hear the adjective "world-class".
Vibrant and beautiful, the Triangle
region (which includes Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill) has a population
exceeding one million.
Local institutions offer world-class
educational opportunity:
Duke University,
North Carolina State University,
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill,
Meredith College,
North Carolina Central University,
and
Peace College have
world-wide reputations for excellence in their fields.
The world-class economic vitality,
didn't just happen. Created in 1959, the
Research Triangle Park (RTP)
is the most successful planned research park in the United States.
Originally 7,000 acres of North Carolina pine forest (8 miles x 2 miles in
area), it may well be the largest in the United States also. 131
organizations are located in the Triangle, and about half of the employees
there work for multinational corporations. Estimates are that the 45,000
employees total payroll is $2.7 billion. As envisioned by business,
academia and industry leader in this area, R&D related organizations
account for more than 90% of usage of the Park.
Cultural and recreational facilities
include dazzling multimedia star shows at
Morehead Planetarium
, world-class traveling exhibitions at the
North Carolina Museum
of Art, the world's only Acrocanthosaurus skeleton at
North Carolina Museum
of Natural Sciences, NC Sports Hall of Fame, and an
exhibit on moonshine at the
North Carolina Museum
of History, and butterflies and bugs at
the North Carolina
Museum of Life and Science.
The climate allows a
world-class community quality of outdoor life with hiking
trails, cycling trails, campsites, boating, picnicking and fishing for 10 months every year.
Raleigh Parks & Recreation,
Lake Wheeler,
Lake Johnson, and
Pullen Park take excellent
advantage of the Neuse River, Walnut and Crabtree Creeks and their
tributaries, and are fairly connected by the Capital Area Greenway. Both
beaches (the Atlantic Ocean) and mountains (the Great Smoky Mountains )
are within a day's drive.
College
and professional athletics
are hosted
in the world-class
RBC Center
by the
NCSU Wolfpack football, and
Carolina Hurricanes hockey
home teams. Less than 2
1/2 hours away, is Charlotte, with its NFL and NBA franchises.
Cultural institutions in the Triangle
are also world-class. The new
ALLTEL Pavilion is not only
successful and beautiful, it boats the best acoustics in the world and
seats over 20,000.
The
BTI Center for the Performing Arts
includes Fletcher Opera Theater, for opera, dance, and theatrical
productions (featuring
Carolina Ballet, the
National Opera Company and the
A. J. Fletcher Opera Institute);
Kennedy Theater (featuring
Burning Coal Theatre); The
Lichtin Plaza (a 2 acre venue for festivals, concerts, and social
functions; and the Meymandi Concert Hall featuring the
North Carolina Symphony).
The Artistic Director of Carolina Ballet in Raovative production of The Nutcracker.
Working from Tchaikovsky and Petipa's original production notes, Weiss
created the production to honor the memory of George Balanchine.
more links:
http://www.rtp.org/ and
this
http://www.trianglebusinessnc.com/
