Southeast Florida Expected to See Growth Slowing

Southeast Florida's job creation pace, the strongest in the nation last year, will slow by 24 percent in the next decade, according to the first-ever regional economic report and forecast published Wednesday by the Economic Development Research Institute.

Even so, the EDRI report predicts that the seven-county region stretching from Monroe County to Indian River County will produce 500,000 new jobs by 2015.

Leading the regional economy will be growth in professional services and health care. Employment related to the Scripps Research Institute could bring up to 45,750 jobs to the region.

However, declines in jobs in agriculture, little or no growth in manufacturing and wholesale trade, and a slowdown in the expansion of retailing and real estate will temper the pace of job creation, said Greta van Unruh, EDRI executive director.

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