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![]() Greenville, SCGreenville is conveniently located about halfway between Atlanta
and Charlotte
and is also close to mountains and beaches. With mild year-round
temperatures
and an award-winning downtown, residents and visitors alike find plenty
to do
all over the area. Greenville is considered the cultural and
entertainment center
for the Upstate featuring a major performing arts center, a 17,000 seat
arena,
a 368,000 square foot exhibition center, nationally recognized museum
collections,
and 39 parks, playgrounds and recreation centers.
As the economic center of South Carolina, Greenville is a
designated foreign
trade zone area and boasts the highest level of foreign capital
investment per
capita in the nation. The city is home to more than 240 international
firms from
23 nations, including BMW, Hitachi, Michelin and many more, and is the
site of
Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research
(CU-ICAR), a
campus connecting the research efforts of the university and
corporations such
as BMW, IBM, Microsoft and Michelin. region's college graduates represent one of the highest
concentrations of MBAs
in the nation.
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