Advance Auto Parts WAS Fortune 500. 
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First Citizens Bank is our very own F500 
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You are correct, we used to have several, just plain 
Advance Auto Parts and First Citizens are currently on the F500 (although Advance may drop after the rough couple of years). We also have Martin Marietta which has been teetering in the low 500s for years. A couple of other F1000s are located in the city limits too.
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@oakcityyimby My sincerest apologies as you are correct. 
I had been looking at tech companies on the list, my mistake!
I happily take full ownership of my error as we need more, especially in DTR! 
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Hah, don’t mention it. I didn’t even cover the fact that we both only have an NHL team on top of our elite college sports!
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KC being so low really surprised me. I’ve been there a bunch since my folks used to live there. And the city just feels way bigger than Raleigh.
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It’s probably because it has a larger % of old urban development.
100% Raleigh will pass it this decade.
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Got this from Bring MLB to Raleigh but it kind of fits here. The Raleigh Durham Fayetteville TV market is FAR larger than Nashville’s and nipping at the heels of Charlotte’s tv market. And yes the Braves consider Charlotte part of their market but I think if Raleigh got a team many would drop them.
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So I played around with the tool again to see if I could find a larger population circle for KC and Raleigh. It was easy to find a larger number for Raleigh by going to the Triangle population center we discussed earlier.
It was more difficult to get KC’s number much higher, but I was able to bump it up a bit. Interestingly, the Triangle has a larger number.
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I watched a YouTube last night from a local RE YouTuber that showed this chart of the average age of first time homeowners, and that age has shot up since the pandemic. This data may be driving the construction of apartments. Here’s a screenshot of what they shared.
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I think that u/SuicideNote on Reddit is someone in this very forum because they’re always posting development and city gov’t info that we discuss in detail in here, and are always well-informed and tend to correct other Reddit users that clearly have no idea what they’re talking about. So: Which one of you is u/SuicideNote? 
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So, nobody is wanting to claim u/SuicideNote? I can tell you that it’s not me. I have no idea how to even use Reddit!
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Not me. I’m on reddit but idk who that is.
if i recall FCB now has a west coast presence…either directly or with some two year old purchse of another west coast bank?
Silicon Valley Bank, I think.
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Correct Silicon Valley Bank is a division of Raleigh based First Citizens Bank. FCB specializes in rolling up failed banks because they run such a good bank.
https://www.svb.com/
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New county info coming in:
Growth in Metro Areas Outpaced Nation
Wake County grew to an estimated 1,232,444 people (about 42,000 more than the 2023 estimate).
Census shows where NC population is growing, declining | Raleigh News & Observer
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“It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” 
They had to have adjusted previous years’ estimates for Wake to now be 1.23M. Previous years we’ve seen our growth at about 18-20,000 per year, and now they are saying we are up more than double that in one year?
The only disappointment I have is that we crossed the 1.2M in the same year as Mecklenburg. I wanted at least one year we were in the 1.2M club and they were still in the 1.1M club. I know it’s petty, but that’s the truth.
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