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This year’s Top Utilities in Economic Development exhibit resourcefulness and resilience on behalf of those they serve.

The tools you can use abound with options, but they can’t do your thinking for you.

Rising demand for Latino foods is causing a wave of new plant construction across the US.

Location selection — be it for a corporate headquarters, a manufacturing facility, a lab or a shared services center, is an important decision.

Can any place on earth match the US head start with LNG? As permit delays continue, plenty are trying.

Toyota moves from three HQs to one, FDI continues to flow, and Mexico continues to welcome top dollar.

At least four locations are cultivating cybersecurity clusters as demand for IT protection mounts.

The Biotechnology Industry Organization and its state affiliates will soon find out if they will be getting A’s, B’s or C’s on their biennial report cards at this year’s BIO International Convention in San Diego.

To choose the top economic development deals of 2013, we evaluated, as we do every year, such factors as capital investment, job creation and regional economic impact among all corporate facility projects we tracked.

Recent biopharma project news, policy evolution and research offer some ideas on the way forward for industry executives facing location decisions.

Forty percent of the world’s mobile traffic goes through the networks of Sweden-based telecommunications and network company Ericsson, and the company supports customers’ networks servicing more than 2.5 billion subscriptions.

In January, using new employment data from 123 countries and the European Union, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said that in 2012, employment in renewable energy worldwide stood at 5.7 million with the potential for adding 11 million jobs in the years to 2030, with 2.1 million of the new jobs coming from the wind sector.

Airport Cities are developing rapidly into office locations for non-aviation related companies.

If you like challenges, here’s one: Pick up today’s Wall Street Journal and highlight companies that don’t depend on technology.

Joseph Parilla and Alan Berube at The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program recently marked the anniversary with the debut of their “New North American Trade Map” concept and their report “Metro North America: Cities and Metros as Hubs of Advanced Industries and Integrated Goods Trade.”

As long as some genius gives Great-Aunt Millie an iPad for Christmas, the world will have customer contact centers.

Creative types don’t need tailor-made environments and amenities, just the freedom to build that ecosystem themselves.

2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the granddaddy of them all when it comes to large site certification for industrial development. Tennessee Valley Authority’s Megasites Program was created in 2004.

The National Association of Manufacturers on Dec. 3 unveiled a report it commissioned by former World Trade Organization Appellate Body Chairman James Bacchus asserting that permits to export liquefied natural gas and coal are being delayed unnecessarily by the federal government.

Site Selection is proud to publish our fifth annual State of the States report in this, our 60th anniversary issue.

What if it were possible to take the woody debris left behind from harvesting, logging or mine site-clearing and develop it into a substance that could be added into soil, not only making the soil more productive and able to retain more moisture, but to stabilize it against erosion?