Mag: Mobile top 5 Americas’ cities

Mobile, Ala., was ranked the Future 2019/20” the fifth best city in the Americas for foreign direct investment strategy, according to a study called “American Cities of the e June/July edition of fDi Intelligence magazine – a Financial Times publication. “To put this in perspective,” says Bill Sisson, the Mobile Area Chamber’s president, “New York was first, Chicago was second, followed by Montreal, Medellin (Columbia) and Mobile. That’s an impressive group of cities to be counted among.” The rankings are part of a 16-page spread where the section on Mobile, written by Naomi Davies, highlighted Team Mobile and the area’s “extensive transportation infrastructure.” “Mobile is an international community and we have plans to continue to diversify,” says David Rodgers, the Chamber’s VP of economic development. In May, the Chamber presented its new foreign direct investment strategy to Partners for Growth economic development investors. The study comes days before representatives from the Chamber, City and County, University of South Alabama, Alabama State Port Authority, Mobile Airport Authority, and private industry attend the Paris, France, aerospace tradeshow – one of the largest in the world. (Source: Mobile Chamber 06/13/19) Mobile is home to a French aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of Airbus and an Australia shipbuilding subsidiary of Austal.