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No. 1: Houston, Texas By Jane Bennett Clark, Senior Associate Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance July 2008 COMEBACK KID Population: 5,542,048 Population Growth Since 2000: 14.9% Percentage of Workforce in Creative Class: 31.3% Cost-of-Living Index: 88.1 (100 being national average) Median Household Income: $50,250 Income Growth Since 2000: 13.1% It's the city of big plans and no rules, beat-the-heat tunnels and loop-the-loop highways, world-class museums and wiry ...

A joint venture between Mission Equities GP LLC and Alex Brown Realty Inc. has purchased the St. Joseph Professional Building, located next to the St. Joseph's Medical Center in downtown Houston. The buyers picked up the 139,000-square-foot building in March from ORIX Capital Markets LLC. Terms of the deal, which was announced this week, were not disclosed. The 18-story medical office building at 2000 Crawford was built in 1964. St. Joseph's Medical Center was acquired in 2006 by Hospital ...

Waste Management Inc. and the Houston Astros are teaming up again this summer to promote recycling at Minute Maid Park. The Houston waste collector is placing eight automatic recycling machines at the park for 20 games beginning April 22 through June 11.

How a combination of ambition, entrepreneurship, trade, and tolerance made Houston America’s booming opportunity city.