City of Hillsboro, Oregon

Economy Largest employers Employer Employees (December 2016)[78] 1. Intel 17,500 2. Hillsboro School District 2,570 3. Washington County 1,950 4. Nike 1,889 5. Wells Fargo Bank 1,681 6. Tuality HealthCare 1,400 7. Qorvo 1,085 8. City of Hillsboro 734 9. RadiSys 710 10. IBM Corporation 545 Manufacturing is the leading employment sector in Hillsboro, employing 24% of the workforce, followed by health care, education, and social services with a total of 15%.[71] One example of a manufacturer headquartered in Hillsboro is Beaverton Foods, a family-owned condiment manufacturer since 1929, with 70+ employees and $25 million in annual sales; it moved to its current headquarters in 2001.[79] Retail employment constitutes 12%, construction makes up 7%, and 13% of workers are employed in the administrative, scientific, professional, or waste management industries.[71] Sixty-eight percent of workers commute alone to the workplace, and eight percent use public transportation.[71] The average one-way commute time is about 24 minutes.[71] Many technology companies operate in Hillsboro, making it the center of Oregon's Silicon Forest.[80][81] In particular, Intel's[82] largest site is in Hillsboro, and includes three large campuses: Ronler Acres, Jones Farm, and Hawthorn Farm, along with several smaller campuses that employ about 16,000 workers.[83] Other high-tech companies operating facilities in Hillsboro include Synopsys, Epson,[84] Salesforce,[85] and Oracle's (formerly Sun Microsystems) High-End Operations. Hillsboro is the corporate headquarters for RadiSys and Planar Systems among others.[86] In 2006, Genentech announced plans to locate a packaging and distribution facility on 100 acres (0.40 km2) in Hillsboro.[87] The $400 million facility opened in 2010, which Oregon officials hoped would eventually also be used for research and development for the biotechnology company.[88] Other biotech or medical companies based in Hillsboro include FEI Company and Acumed.[89] The city is also a landing point on three fiber optic cable systems linking the United States across the Pacific Ocean: C2C, Southern Cross Cable, and VSNL Transpacific. These cable landings, lower energy costs, and tax breaks led to a boom of data centers being built starting about 2010.[90] Data centers include those for Adobe, NetApp, Umpqua Bank, OHSU, and Fortune Data Centers.[90] Beige stucco office at Intel Corporation's Hawthorn Farm campus. Building includes the company's logo on the exterior. Hawthorn Farm Intel campus Hillsboro serves as the corporate headquarters for Rodgers Instruments, Soloflex, Norm Thompson Outfitters, and Parr Lumber, among others. Fujitsu and NEC Corporation formerly had factories in Hillsboro.[91] Hillsboro is also home to the Laika stop-motion animation studio, creator of the Oscar-nominated feature films Coraline (2009) and Paranorman (2012).[92] The Hatfield Government Center in Hillsboro is the western terminus of the MAX Blue Line, part of the Portland metropolitan area's light-rail system.[93] The presence of MAX prompted the development of the pedestrian-oriented community of Orenco Station within Hillsboro.[94][95] (See also: Orenco, Oregon.) Orenco Station was called the Best Planned Community of 1999 by the National Association of Home Builders.[96] It was also named "Best new burb" by Sunset magazine in 2006.[97] Hillsboro overall was listed on CNN Money Magazine's list of best places to live in 2010 for cities with populations between 50,000 and 300,000 residents.[98] The city came in at 92, the highest ranking for any city in the state.[98] Tuality Healthcare's office building is a five-story red brick structure with silver colored metal and glass accents. One of Tuality Healthcare's buildings in downtown Hillsboro's primary commercial cores are concentrated along Tualatin Valley Highway and Cornell Road. Additionally, the Tanasbourne neighborhood is a regional shopping area on the eastern edge of the city.[99] The neighborhood is home to the lifestyle shopping center The Streets of Tanasbourne.[100] The $55 million outdoor complex with 368,000 square feet (34,200 m2) of retail space opened in 2004 with Meier & Frank (later Macy's) as the anchor tenant.[99][100] The other large shopping center in the city is The Sunset Esplanade, located along Tualatin Valley Highway.[101] In November 2005, the world's largest Costco, a warehouse club store, opened in Hillsboro.[102] The store, with 205,000 square feet (19,000 m2) of floor space, is about 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) bigger than the average Costco.[103] Wineries near the city include Oak Knoll Winery, established in 1970, the oldest and largest winery in Washington County.[104][105] Helvetia Winery & Vineyards to the north of Hillsboro started in the 1980s.[61] Wineries to the south include Gypsy Dancer Estates Winery and Raptor Ridge.[106] Local wines include pinot noir, pinot gris, and chardonnay.[107]