The Second Annual Inner City 100

A listing of the fastest-growing privately held inner-city businesses in America.

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Le Corbusier hated city streets. In the middle of the 20th century this influential French architect led his peers in a zealous critical assault on intimate clusters of small-scale urban buildings. Give us towers! cried the modernists. Give us freeways! The Inner City 100 issue gives you streets. In a unique collaboration with Harvard professor Michael E. Porter's nonprofit group, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, we present the 100 fastest-growing businesses in America's urban cores and highlight the methods used to build them. Because of their locations, the companies honored here sometimes find life a little more challenging than many other businesses do. But that has only made them more creative. On the flip side, the CEOs who grew up in these inner-city neighborhoods often find their success -- and their consequent ability to give back to their communities -- more than usually gratifying. Great companies are born in garages and office parks and basements and incubators. And thanks to factors ranging from diverse workforces to innovative investment programs, more and more are born on city streets. Here is a list of the second annual Inner City 100. Our special Inner City 100 area has details on all the companies on the list. -Leigh Buchanan

The Second Annual Inner City 100

1. Caribbean Shipping & Cold Storage
2. Shore.Net
3. Tucker Technology
4. Construct Two Group
5. NuStyle Development
6. Classic Sport
7. Thermagon
8. Integrated Packaging
9. Wellington/CPM
10. Bills Khakis
11. Pac-Van
12. Roasterie
13. TCG
14. Roundhouse
15. Plitt
16. Axxis
17. Candy Bouquet International
18. Cambria Environmental Technology
19. Fast Track Litigation Support
20. Hamel Group
21. MedVenture Technology
22. Warren Associates
23. Ameriscan Designs
24. Give Something Back
25. VA Construction
26. Lone Star Direct
27. Envios, R.D./Pronto Envios
28. Triad Manufacturing
29. Harvest Valley
30. Belkin Components
31. Wagner's Meats
32. Bilt-Rite Construction
33. iQuantic
34. Cleveland Medical Devices
35. Contract Furnishings
36. Janitron
37. Jade Systems
38. Little Earth Productions
39. Integrity Distribution
40. Central Auto & Transport
41. Insight Product Development
42. Innovative Display & Design
43. City Theatrical
44. Sophisticated Systems
45. Goose Island Brewing
46. Roses Southwest Papers
47. Seibert Powder Coatings
48. Interface Data Systems
49. Marion Scott Real Estate
50. Allegheny Child Care Academy
51. Sterrett Dymond Stewart Advertising
52. Rysar Properties
53. Alegre Construction Specialists
54. Oneida Sales & Service
55. Crystal Window & Door Systems
56. Fischer Group
57. Complete Payroll Management
58. Calvert Plumbing & Heating
59. Reprographics Northwest
60. Pro-Terra Environmental Contracting
61. Talbot & Associates Consulting Engineers
62. G-Katmar
63. On-Target Supplies & Logistics
64. Mid-South Sales Group
65. Lifestyle Street Gear
66. NTI Global
67. Color Reflections
68. S & S Promotions
69. ColorMatrix
70. Lori Bonn Jewelry
71. Gateway Security
72. Quality Laser Services
73. Arizona Office Equipment
74. Intech Construction
75. Zycron Computer Services
76. CB Richard Ellis
77. EDTEC
78. Archives Management
79. Hereford House
80. AAA Business Supplies
81. T3 (The Think Tank)
82. Chambers, Conlon & Hartwell
83. A-1 Fire Equipment
84. Tracey/Soltrace
85. Neil Kelly
86. Ocho Rios
87. Stagecoach Cartage & Distribution
88. St. Louis Pre-Sort
89. ECI
90. Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse
91. Jen-Cyn Enterprises
92. Stripmatic Products
93. PlastiComm Telecommunications
94. Star Hardware
95. Keystone Travel/American Express Travel
96. Davies Office Refurbishing
97. Convention & Party Decorators
98. Titan Tube Fabricators
99. August Packaging
100. Leasa Industries

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