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As if mergers and acquisitions weren’t keeping biopharma-sector real estate managers busy enough, the ground is shifting beneath their feet

GE Power & Water’s chief sustainability officer compiles a world’s worth of lessons in water use and conservation.

North Carolina is one of several states carving out a share of the US$5-billion U.S. computer and video game sector.

The life sciences sector continues to grow in Ireland, where the industry generated more than €53 billion in exports in 2009

How does a company that has set the environmental benchmark so high with the products they sell ensure that their own massive and far-flung operations conform with the sustainability standards they are helping other companies meet? This was the challenge for Siemens Corp., the world’s largest provider of environmental technologies, a multinational conglomerate that generates […]

The relatively few, isolated incidents of oil coming ashore were dealt with quickly and efficiently, say economic developers along the Gulf Coast, but the national press never bothered to report the full story on the cleanup.

When your company has spent the past two decades establishing global dominance by rolling out the largest inventory of state-of-the-art industrial distribution facilities in the world, what do you do for an encore?

The November elections weren’t the only topic of conversation at the Mid-America Economic Development Council (MAEDC) 2010 Competitiveness Conference in Chicago last month, but they continued to reverberate through many of the subjects discussed by a panel of site selection consultants.

Kris Bagwell describes the new EUE/Screen Gems Studios in Atlanta as half studio, half construction site.

Communities around the U.S. — and more than a few Boeing and Airbus managers — are waiting for news of which aerospace giant will build the next generation of airborne refueling tankers.

There's more to making a zone work than just drawing a line around it and calling it special.

Medical device heavyweight Becton Dickinson may be one of the busiest companies in the sector in terms of current real estate activity.

Australian firm Unilife Medical Solutions is nearing completion of its US$26-million global headquarters and manufacturing facility in York, Pa.

The pace of change in our business world is more rapid than at any other time in our nation’s history. Just 10 years ago we barely knew what “Google” was:

Despite overwhelming evidence that state and local tax incentives are having little to no positive effect on promoting real economic growth anywhere in the country

Has your company paid heed to the potential benefits foreign trade zone status can confer? If not, listen up.

Talecris Biotherapeutics, which nearly merged with Australian vaccine maker CSL last year, is moving forward with its huge manufacturing expansion near Clayton, N.C.,

The world’s largest stand-alone Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) power project went live July 18 in Shanghai, China.