Washington City Mayor Kress Staheli, left, listens to local Pioneer history with students from Sandstone Elementary during its annual Cotton Days Celebration in downtown Washington City. WalletHub ranked the city as the top best small city for business opportunities.Sonya Gelter, owner of an air sanitation business in St. George, drove to Washington City to get her gel nails done at Organic Gel Nails. The small nail studio is owned by Leona Roberts, who started her business in 2013.
WalletHub based their data on various sources that looked at comparing 1,334 small cities with populations between 20,000 and 100,000 on three factors: business environment, access to resources and business costs.Mayor Kress Staheli credits the low regulation, low taxes, and minimal red tape as factors to the city making WalletHub’s list.
Exit 13 on Interstate 15 on the outskirts of town is bustling with new development, from hotels to restaurants, Hess said.