Once the textile capital of the world, Greenville, S.C., now aggressively markets itself as a premier location for corporate headquarters and major manufacturing facilities. Located just over 100 miles from Charlotte, N.C., in the Southeast’s busy I-85 corridor, Greenville was once home to 13 large mills producing textiles for everything from household goods to clothing. When many of those mills moved overseas, Greenville was left with abandoned factories and rising unemployment.

Over the past 25 years, Greenville had to reinvent itself and attract different types of businesses. Hubbell Lighting recently opened its new headquarters in Greenville; Michelin Tire Corp. built its largest manufacturing plant and North American headquarters in the area; and BMW has one of its largest and greenest manufacturing facilities outside of Germany there. While Greenville has not seen the explosive growth of larger southeastern cities such as Charlotte or Atlanta, its population is expected to grow at a steady 5-percent clip through 2011. Greenville County has 417,166 residents, and the 10-county “Upstate region” of South Carolina has 1,297,943 residents.

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