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AN EMPLOYMENT CENTER Manchester is one of the largest employment centers in New Hampshire, and it offers a wide range of employment opportunities. Healthcare jobs are plentiful at the area’s several large hospitals. Manufacturing is still a mainstay—though the sector has shifted from textile mills to defense, automotive, and aerospace production. Technology companies—both research and development and manufacturing—are on the rise, embracing a high-tech future for the area.

A COLLEGE TOWN

Manchester boasts eight area colleges and universities as well as numerous vocation programs. A local school system includes 21 schools, along with technology and vocational training. In addition to attracting and educating students, these colleges and universities make a wealth of activities and cultural events available to Manchester’s wider population.

A TOURIST DESTINATION

From historic mills to world-class athletics and entertainment venues to an expanding parks system, Manchester has a lot to offer visitors.

A PLACE TO LIVE... AND THRIVE

With so many neighborhoods, Manchester offers a place for every taste. A complete City, Manchester is on the radar of young and old. It offers a variety of walkable environments where residents can easily travel to the City’s vibrant local restaurant scene, catch a movie or a show, ski, play golf, or spend some time in nature in the City’s renowned parks system.

DID YOU KNOW...?

HOW A 19TH CENTURY TOWN BECAME A NEW MILLENNIUM MARVEL

Above: Politico Magazine featured Manchester in a 2016 article about the resurrection of “its massive riverside mill district into a teeming knowledge industry hive.” Bottom: The Merrimack River bisects the City. Flanking the river are the historic millyards which house technology companies, and Catholic Medical Center, which employs nearly 3,000 people.

The Amoskeag Plant grew almost continuously for seventy-five years (the last building was constructed in 1915), so it provides an excellent reflection of changes in architectural style and taste. But the real value of the mill lies in its strikingly beautiful layout. Both the mills and the workers’ housing are stylistically conservative for their times, and, except for a few examples of high Victorian fantasy in the towers and gateways, the buildings are remarkably plain. The reason for this restraint in the design of individual buildings becomes apparent when one enters this complex. No structure stands isolated or distinct. Instead the dense and continuous mass of red brick buildings flows together into a unified and organic whole. The millyard is open at each end, with canals and railroad tracks running through its entire length on two different levels above the river. However, instead of a long straight avenue, a gentle curve softens the rigor of the design, dividing the millyard into identifiable spaces....In terms of urban design, the millyard is unique. Nowhere else in this country, and in only a few places in the world, does such a unified and comprehensively designed area of this size exist.”

Source: conservationtech.com