Area Spotlights

Can natural gas energize the economic development of an entire region?

The countdown of the phaseout of the 29-year old Space Shuttle program is in its final stages.

Michigan is incrementally converting pockets of its once vast automotive manufacturing engine into the green economy.

Yahoo! is building its latest data center in Lockport, a northern suburb of Buffalo.

In relative terms, 2009 was a very good year for North Dakota.

Oregon’s approach to clean technology continues to reap benefits. Seattle’s transit-friendly approach to industrial development is paying dividends.

Everyone has to live somewhere. You might as well live someplace nice.

NCR just opened a new ATM manufacturing plant in town as part of its big move to Georgia

Regeneron was a fledgling biotech firm employing four people when it moved to the Landmark at Eastview campus in Tarrytown, N.Y., a little more than 20 years ago

The relocation of 1,600 high-salaried jobs from Manhattan to Jersey City may change perceptions of the New Jersey business climate.

Move over, automotive industry. You’ve got company. The entire Southeast is home to a thriving aviation industry, and Mississippi is no exception.

Mark Siegel, president of Advance Broadcast Solutions, says the combination of convenient transport and a pro-business philosophy by the local government was enough to convince him to relocate his company to the City of SeaTac.

When a metro area has accounted for nearly half of its entire state’s corporate facility locations and expansions since the beginning of 2008, it’s hard to ignore.

Resurgence in the Northern Minnesota mining industry is forging a lasting footprint on the economy of the entire region and state.

Southeastern states aren’t usually on the short list of wind energy equipment builders looking for new manufacturing sites, but a German firm has ambitious plans to make Chattanooga a leading center for wind tower development.

Third out of 50 is a more-than-respectable finish in Site Selection’s latest ranking of state business climates, and Virginia routinely finishes in the top five or 10.

A region defined by its days of sun capitalizes on them with technology as well as tourism. But the economies of the Desert Southwest display their energy awareness in many forms: Some save it, some generate it, and some purport to move it where it needs to go.

Kansas lures a nacelle plant

Projects keep pace in counties up and down the Ohio.