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Areas GDP ranks 59th in US
Gainesville on par with San Francisco, other large cities
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Ramon Chavez inspects a utility vehicle as it reaches the end of an assembly line in the Kubota plant in Gainesvile. - photo by Tom Reed
Gainesville-Hall County is on par with San Francisco in at least one respect: They both had the same percentage growth in real gross domestic product in 2011. Gainesville-Hall ranked 59th out of the nation’s 366 metropolitan areas on the inflation-adjusted growth of its GDP between 2010 and 2011, according to a Feb. 22 report by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. “I would expect that through our concentration of professional, logistic and health care services for the entire Northeast Georgia region, as well as the strong presence of goods producing in this community, that we would do very well in terms of (GDP),” said Tim Evans, the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce’s vice president of economic development.