Austin ranks 3rd on list of America’s fastest-recovering cities
Forbes (11/19/09)
To form our list, we ranked the 100 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas--geographic entities that the U.S. Office of Management and Budget defines and uses in collecting statistics--in five categories...Read More

Austin gets $13.4M for affordable housing
Austin Business Journal (11/2/09)
Austin received $13.4 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to support community development and produce more affordable housing. The Austin grants are part of $59 million in funding committed to...Read More

Austin among top 10 recession-proof cities to retire in
Forbes (10/15/09)
Four cities in the Lone Star State make the list. The Dallas-Ft. Worth metro area; Houston, just two spots behind it; Austin at No. 6; and San Antonio in the No. 10 spot. All three cities are benefiting from some positive Texan trends...Read More

Report says recession ended in August for Austin
Austin Business Journal (10/15/09)
The recession ended in August in one out of every five metro areas in the United States, including Austin and other major cities of Texas, according to the latest Adversity Index from Moody's Economy.com and msnbc.com...Read More

Fortune: Austin a top place to launch a small biz
Austin Business Journal (10/13/09)
With so many Americans in the unemployment line these days, a growing number are looking at entrepreneurship as an option. That's what makes this year's list of the best cities to start a small business from Fortune all the more timely...Read More

Round Rock 2nd fastest growing big city in U.S.
Austin Business Journal (7/1/09)
Round Rock is the second-fastest growing large city in the nation for the 12 months that ended July 1, 2008, the U.S. Census Bureau said in its annual population estimates released Wednesday...Read More

Austin-Round Rock best poised for recession recovery
Forbes (6/10/09)
From now to the end of 2010, the economy of Austin is projected to grow by $5 billion, and unemployment has stayed relatively subdued. The city's diverse economy, home to Dell, the University of Texas and...Read More

Austin ranks 3rd best city for economy, affordability and fun
U.S. News & World Report (6/8/09)
If you're a free spirit, music junkie, or barbecue lover-or if you simply have what it takes to "keep Austin weird"-Texas's state capital is for you. Considered ground zero for live music, this city of 716,000 residents is home to...Read More

Austin will be 5th fastest growing U.S. metro
Austin Business Journal (6/2/09)
The population of the Austin metro area will grow to more than 2.7 million by the year 2025, according to an analysis of government data by bizjournals. The projected growth rate of Austin and its suburbs ranks 5th...Read More

Austin among top 10 best cities for 2009
Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine (7/09)
Leave it to Austin to ruin the curve. While most cities around the country posted job layoffs in the past year, Austin added 3,300 jobs, the biggest bump in the country...Read More

Austin home prices up, still dropping elsewhere
Austin Business Journal (5/27/09)
Though the rate of decline is slowing in some regions, home prices continue to drop nationwide. But in Austin, home prices actually increased in March compared with the same month last year...Read More

Austin maintains its status as a "fit" city
Austin Business Journal (5/26/09)
The Austin area continues to be one of the fittest regions in the nation, according to the American College of Sports Medicine's American Fitness Index. Austin ranked ninth on the list... Read More

Austin the nation's top city for a "fresh start"
Austin Business Journal (5/21/09)
Austin is the best city in America to get a fresh start, according to a new report from Relocation.com. The online moving service company ranked Austin No. 1 on its list of the best cities to start over and... Read More

Austin 3rd most likely housing market to rebound
Today (5/19/09)
Real estate expert Barbara Corcoran talks with TODAY's Natalie Morales about the five cities in America that are may be on the verge of recovery from the housing slump and the three cities with the hardest road ahead of them... Play Video

Austin ranks No. 1 for potential job growth
Austin Business Journal (4/14/09)
Texas dominates a new list on job growth potential among the nation's largest metropolitan areas. Austin ranks No. 1 on the list of big cities for employment potential from NewGeography.com... Read More

Austin "low risk" for home price correction
Austin Business Journal (4/1/09)
The Austin metropolitan area is not likely to see a major correction in home prices, according to PMI Mortgage Insurance Co.'s First Quarter 2009 Economic and Real Estate Trends Report... Read More

Austin ranks 2nd for relocations
Forbes (3/30/09)
Unemployment is on the rise, credit is tight, and consumers aren't spending--which means they aren't picking up and moving much either… Read More

Forbes ranks Austin No. 8 on best places for biz list
Austin Business Journal (3/27/09)
Forbes.com ranks Austin the 8th best place for business and careers in its latest list. Texas' Capital City rose significantly from 47th on last year's list... Read More

Austin 2nd fastest growing city in nation
Austin Business Journal (3/19/09)
Austin was the nation's second-fastest-growing metropolitan area between 2007 and 2008, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau... Read More

Austin pushing up street projects; plan could create hundreds of new jobs
Austin Business Journal (3/16/09)
Austin City Manager Marc Ott announced today that the city will accelerate $69.1 million of spending on Austin street reconstruction projects to begin in the next 18 months... Read More

Opportunity Austin 2.0 has raised $16M to date
Austin Business Journal (2/5/09)
The Austin Chamber of Commerce's Opportunity Austin 2.0 is doing well despite a shaky economy. At the chamber's annual meeting on Feb. 4... Read More

Austin continues to be attractive to foreign real estate investors
Austin Business Journal (1/27/09)
In an increasingly volatile global real estate marketplace, Austin remains an attractive play for foreign investors looking for opportunities... Read More

Austin lawyer seeks to attract more alternative energy projects
Austin American-Statesman (1/27/09)
Lawyer Pike Powers is calling for a community-wide effort in Austin to attract more alternative energy manufacturing projects to Central Texas... Read More