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May 9, 2019

Big Dreams Fuel Big Rigs

How a North Carolina county weathered the recession to emerge as a truck-making leader.

May 2, 2019

Investment promotion agencies — the national, municipal and regional organizations working to connect businesses with their communities — have never been more important.

March 7, 2019

Sleeping and Waking

What is a bedroom community? A distinctly North American term used to denote an area in which the majority of residents commute to work outside of the municipality in which they live.

March 4, 2019

Steady As She Goes

Earning the trophy it last won five years ago is a tribute to Dubuque’s enduring allure.

February 21, 2019

The Five Key Mistakes Amazon Made

While some have gleefully heaped criticism on New York over the demise of the Amazon HQ2 deal on Long Island, the world’s largest Everything Store might consider something new.

January 14, 2019

One for the Ages

While over-the-top and in-your-face as only an Amazon could pull off, HQ2 is very much in sync with the heightened trend of corporate headquarters mobility.

January 10, 2019

Eastern Promises

How Amazon turned the world upside down to deliver HQ2 packages to New York and Virginia.

January 7, 2019

Show Me the Workforce

Site Selectors say job skillsets are the driving factor in location decisions.

January 3, 2019

The 2019 Regional Workforce Development Rankings

Show me a governor who doesn’t take advantage of every opportunity to invest in the next generation workforce in his or her state, and I’ll show you a state that won’t be competitive in a few years’ time.

December 6, 2018

Coming Back for More

Projects on opposite sides of the Atlantic show how data centers can fortify regions in more ways than one.

November 29, 2018

SMART MOVES

Looking to position yourself near autonomous, smart and electrified vehicle R&D? It seems as if there’s an autonomous vehicle test bed around every corner.

November 12, 2018

Made in Memphis

Legacy institutions and startups fuel a top location for medical device manufacturing.