Area Spotlights

Food processing has long been an industrial staple in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead has been in office only a few short weeks, and already his economic development program is on quite a roll.

ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston’s new sweet potato processing plant in Delhi, La., has hit a sweet spot in terms of sustainability.

‘Project 21’ is the latest of many projects to land in Memphis.

Could it be that there is finally some reason for optimism regarding the California economy? The technology sector is displaying some job-creating power, and exports and overall container traffic are up at the huge ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

The next chapter in Florida innovation could be a tale told by a mouse … but not the mouse you think.

It’s the dead of winter. Where would you rather be: in Chicago with the wind biting off the Great Lakes and the snow piling up faster than Illinois taxes? Or in Atlanta, where there might be sun, and maybe lower taxes?

Meeting customer needs is job one for expanding companies in Maine.

Companies that develop bio-pharmaceuticals, manufacture laboratory testing instruments and distribute pharmaceuticals and healthcare products are finding what they need to succeed in the Mid-Atlantic region.

In the nation’s center, a solid work ethic is one of them.

“We are a people business,” says Alicia Laszewski, spokesperson for C3, a Florida-based company that’s investing in a whole bunch of people in Twin Falls, Idaho.

The seemingly ubiquitous southern yellow pine is creating quite a stir in Ware County these days as the U.S. subsidiary of a major German energy company readies to turn the plentiful feedstock into wood pellets to help fire its power plants in Europe.

The Hudson Valley region of downstate New York is quietly becoming home to a significant cluster of renewable-energy manufacturing operations.

A burgeoning industrial cluster has the potential to brighten Michigan’s economy.

The CEO of the South Baldwin Chamber on the Alabama coast wants the rest of America to know that, despite the calamitous effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, her community is resilient and poised to rebound.

The tale of Viper Motorcycles’ move from Minnesota’s Twin Cities region to Auburn, Ala., involves weather, state governors and a search for the perfect place to assemble a US$37,000 bike.

Yuengling, which promotes itself as America’s oldest brewery, began brewing its beer in Pottsville, Pa., in 1829. In

The erstwhile textile manufacturing region of southern Virginia is starting to see an economic rebirth as a high-tech center, especially in terms of IT-related operations and data centers.

Seattle fared well as a “market to watch” in the recently issued Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2011 report from the Urban Land Institute and PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLC. The report, published in October, is based on the views of more than 875 people familiar with the real estate finance and service provider arenas.

California companies seeking greener pastures often cast a wistful eye at Texas and Colorado.

Last year at this time, the State of Nebraska’s Department of Economic Development (DED) and Department of Labor were advertising for an outside contractor to conduct a competitive advantage assessment.

Sprawling corporate campuses in Upstate New York that were formerly associated with two industry icons will soon be home to an array of young high-tech companies.