Fortune Rates Cities: Dallas, Atlanta, Kansas City,...

Fortune Rates Cities: Dallas, Atlanta, Kansas City, Mo., and Los Angeles are the best metropolitan areas in America for U.S. businesses, according to rankings in a Fortune magazine survey. The business weekly said it ranked the top 10 of the nation’s largest metro areas based on such factors as labor force, cost of doing business, economic base, infrastructure and quality of life. Dallas-Fort Worth emerged on top based on its 28% commercial real estate vacancy rate, large pool of “talented workers,” surging population and active night life. The rest of Fortune’s top 10: Baltimore; New York; the San Francisco Bay Area; Pittsburgh; Portland, Ore., and Minneapolis-St. Paul.