Dallas-Fort Worth ranks ninth among the 20 cities in contention for Amazon’s sometimes-coveted HQ2, according to the latest rankings of top tech talent markets.
According to rankings by commercial real estate firm CBRE, Dallas-Fort Worth is outgunned in the tech talent category by, in order, Washington, D.C., Toronto, New York, Austin, Boston, Raleigh-Durham, Atlanta, and Denver when looking only at cities in contention for the project called HQ2.
DFW beats out, in order, Chicago, Columbus, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Miami and five cities that did not make CBRE’s list of the top 50 North American cities for tech talent.
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