Phoenix
Phoenix
Growing Companies Choose Phoenix
The city is affectionately known as “The Connected Place” and has become ground zero for several tech-based industry disruptors. Phoenix also flaunts a myriad of outdoor attractions and relatively low cost of living.
Paypal
Lyft
ON Semiconductor
Oscar
American Express
Zoom
Doordash
SAP
Top Companies have thousands of employees in Phoenix
2,700 software degrees awarded annually
Gained 1.6M residents since 2000 One of the fastest-growing metro areas
Top ten largest US metros with 4.9m residents
300 days of sunshine every year
“Greater Phoenix is an emerging tech market. The region is sought after for its talent, collaborative environment, business-friendly culture and quality of life.”
—CBRE
:Talent
With world-class universities and a consistent cohort of tech degree graduates, Phonix stands out as a epicenter for tech talent, making it an attractive city for growing companies.
Phoenix is the 8th largest producer of tech degree graduates, more than 24K between 2012 and 201711
Home to University of Arizona & Arizona State, ranked #5 best qualified graduates by WSJ11
Phoenix among top cities cited as tech talent hot spot12
57,000 Workers in High-Tech Positions
—Chamber Business News
:Cost
Phoenix has 5M residents, but affordability and quality of life score high—providing many advantages to expanding companies.
One of the fastest growing metro areas—gaining 1.6m people since 2000
Fourth Most leased space by tech companies—after SF, Manhattan and Seattle
Top ten largest US metros with 4.9m residents
Phoenix Stands Out as an Affordable City
—CBRE
:Quality of Life
Basks in Sunshine
—NCDC
:Connection
Easy access to the West Coast and Mexico make Phoenix a uniquely-positioned city from which to base operations.
Nonstop destinations9
See full list at nsflight.com
Ranked #1 large airport in the US by the Wall Street Journal
The sun shines on Phoenix during 85 percent of its daylight hours
Over 70 domestic and international direct flights from Phoenix
:Strategic Sectors
Aerospace and Defense
- Arizona is home to more than 1,200 small—and larg—scale aerospace and defense companies
Industry 4.0
- Industry leaders such as Intel, Microchip, Honeywell, Raytheon, JDA Software & Insight manufacture in AZ
Data Processing and Hosting
- Because of it’s reliable weather, Arizona hosts over 350 data centers
Autonomous Vehicles
- Arizona has given permission ot car companies to test their self driving cars in Phoenix for years now
Cybersecurity
- Some of the nation’s leading cyber intelligence centers are located in Greater Phoenix
:Growing companies choose Phoenix
Phoenix’s economy is built on a diverse mix of industries and strategic focus. Recent investment in the region includes:
Intel
$7 billion investment and 12,000 employees
TSMC
$12B investment and thousands of employees
Carvana
HQ in Phoenix, 135K ft2 space, over 1,000 employees
DoorDash
ZorroSign
Moving HQ and 300 jobs to Phoenix
Oscar
139,000 ft2 and 400 jobs
ZipRecruiter
500 new employees at Phoenix location
SAP
40,000 ft2 and 275 employees
Infosys
1,000 new employees at Phoenix location
Indeed
100 new employees at Phoenix location
Wag
220 new employees at Phoenix location
Clear Link
300 new employees at Phoenix location
MiTek
40 new full-time positions, $5M, & 412K ft2
Zoom
R&D Center; to hire hundreds of software engineers over 5 years
Root
To create 480 jobs over five years
Emerging tech is lightly regulated
First fully driverless cars in the US are testing in Phoenix
Sources
1 2020 Scoring Tech Talent, cbre.us; 2 C2ER, coli.org; 3 Cushman and Wakefield Phoenix Office MarketBeat Report Q2 2020; 4 Cushman and Wakefield Phoenix Industrial MarketBeat Report Q2 2020; 5 Zillow.com; 6 Statisticalatlas.com; 7 Statista.com; 8 Crunchbase News, news.crunchbase.com; 9 nsflights.com; 10 myCollegeOptions, mycollegeoptions.org; 11 AZ Big Media, azbigmedia.com; 12 The Business Journals, bizjournals.com; 13 Phoenix Strategic Plan, phoenix.gov; 14 AZ Central, azcentral.com;
