No. 10 Spot May Elude San Jose, Calif., Naysayers Insist.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: November 8, 2003 | Copyright information

By Tracey Kaplan, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 8--San Jose, land of sunshine and silicon, has been touting something else lately to lure businesses and improve its image: By early summer, it will replace Detroit as the nation's 10th-largest city, or so civic leaders claim.

The boast surfaced recently in a speech the city manager gave at the Rotary Club, but it's also been part of a sales pitch officials have quietly been making to an airline weighing whether to fly to San Jose or tinier San Francisco. The higher population ...

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