ABSTRACT
Three edge cities form this cluster: Tri-County/Forest Park in the Cincinnati metropolitan area and Airport Highway/Spring Meadows and Maumee/Arrowhead Park in the Toledo area. They are characterized by balance among major employment sectors: no one sector is clearly dominant, as was evident in, for example, manufacturing or retail edge cities. Manufacturing has a significant presence in these edge cities, with between 13 and 17 percent of employment, but retail and social services employment comprise the largest shares of employment in these edge cities, followed by personal services, producer services, and wholesale. In this respect, they resemble the Balanced/Retail and Personal Services cluster. However, the employment shares for wholesale and social services in these three cities are generally higher than for the four in the retail/personal services cluster, and their proportions of retail and personal services employment tend to be lower. Although some of these differences are statistically significant, they typically are only a few percentage points, and the addition or subtraction of a few large employers could alter the relative position of the major employment sectors. (See Figure 5.1)
