City Business Planners What Business Should I Start in Laredo, Texas? Record freight and shrinking freight payrolls is the single most important fact about opening a business here, because it tells you to sell into compliance budgets rather than into load volume. By Will Huffhine • 5 min read
City Business Planners What Business Should I Start in Sioux Falls, South Dakota? Sioux Falls reached 213,748 residents on July 1, 2025, a 38.9 percent gain since the 2010 census, and Lincoln County on the south side is up 72.1 percent over the same span with a median household income of $99,166 against $75,970 inside the city. Money is arriving with them. By Will Huffhine • 6 min read
City Business Planners What Business Should I Start in Columbia, Missouri? Columbia has no convention center at all, so the largest indoor room in the city is a hotel ballroom complex of roughly 37,000 square feet on I-70 Drive Southwest. Everything above that ceiling happens outdoors and under canvas, supplied by exactly two full-line tent and table rental houses. By Will Huffhine • 4 min read
City Business Planners What Business Should I Start in Anchorage, Alaska? Anchorage is not a growth story and should not be underwritten as one. Anchorage rewards businesses that solve an expensive, seasonal, recurring problem and punishes anything that competes on volume and price. By Will Huffhine • 4 min read
City Business Planners What Business Should I Start in Spokane, Washington? Two national recovery-studio brands publish the exact list of states where they operate, and Washington appears on neither one. The nearest contrast therapy unit to Spokane sits in Lake Oswego, Oregon. In a county of 566,000 people that fields 18,365 basketball players at one summer tournament and By Will Huffhine • 5 min read
City Business Planners What Business Should I Start in Tallahassee, Florida? The lack of population growth in a city like this is usually the point where a market gets crossed off a list, and in this case it would be a mistake, because three categories here are turning customers away right now. By Will Huffhine • 4 min read
City Business Planners What Business Should I Start in Athens, Georgia? Strip the students out and what remains is a mid-sized Southern city with a hospital corridor, a federally designated doctor shortage, and a retirement wave building along its western county line. The businesses worth starting here serve the two-thirds of Athens that nobody is counting. By Will Huffhine • 4 min read
