There are more than 3,000 counties in the U.S., but the jobs in private sector R & D (NAICS 54171 – Research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences) are concentrated in a small number of them. To illustrate, the top 20 counties (ranked by June 2021 employment below) account for 45% of …
In this month’s Flotsam and Jetsam, we explore a variety of topics, including: the state of the multi-tenant Class A office market, evidence of the growing gap between Boston and the DMV, and some more data about the really steep decline in MoCo’s real estate industry. Headline numbers Multi-tenant office vacancy, availability & net absorption …
In this installment we zero in on the “macro” context by looking at the local competitive effects that are evident in the data. What we see is that national economic trends and national industry-level trends indicate that the County’s economy should be a lot stronger than it is. The analysis confirms the thesis that the …
