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Tallahassee Goes To New Heights
By Patrice Rush

TALLAHASSEE--Restaurants, new shopping plazas and mom and pop stores will not only bring revenue and tourists into Tallahassee, but also new jobs.

The City of Tallahassee has invited over 20 different entrepreneurs and company owners to build their stores here in the city.

BJ’s Brewhouse, a restaurant located on Apalachee Pkwy, recently opened this October. Since then they have hired over 20 staff members to join their team.

“ I believe this is just what Tallahassee has been looking for,” said Demetrius Wright, an employee at BJ’s Brew House. “ I haven’t been able to find a job so quickly before.”

Stevie B’s, Newks Eatery, Buffalo Wild Wings and many more resturants have opened in time for the fall semester. With businesses coming from all over the state, Tallahassee has found it’s motive to get people to get out and find employment.

“No more will people say that Tallahassee have no jobs,” said Tim Stewart, a manager at a local restaurant in Tallahassee. “We have implemented enough jobs this year to employ hundreds and hundreds of people.”

These new businesses will be able to hire residents from all over the county, leaving Tallahassee with a decrease in unemployment.

The unemployment rate in Tallahassee for 2013 is 6.9 percent,which is 2.7 percentage points lower than the rate in 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
By the year 2014, Tallahassee is expected to see a further decrease of 5 percent in unemployment.

Karen Mitchell, a resident in Tallahassee, said, “ I am grateful for the new restaurants that are being built in Tallahassee because they have helped me to put food on my table.”