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Did not use the Find Nearest tool.
Did not use Summarize to create a Centroid for each region.
Did use RegEx Parse, Create Points, and Distance.
Instead I calculated the distance between each office within a region, summed them and took the origin city with the lowest value.
Results matched the Solution output.
Workflow:
I was trying the poly build tool for this exercise; however, I ran into some problems, and it wasn't efficient that way.
