September 10, 2025
LEDUC/NISKU, ALBERTA: Leduc Keeps Things Moving
The Leduc/Nisku Region in Alberta is one of those peripheral communities with enough momentum they don’t feel so peripheral anymore.
Investment Profile
September 10, 2025
COUNTRY OF GEORGIA: Rising Trends Converge in Georgia
Some say every site selection begins with a leader’s tourist experience of a place.
September 9, 2025
CONSUMERS ENERGY: Over a Thousand Acres of Advanced Manufacturing Opportunity
Known for its deep history in manufacturing, Michigan is poised to continue this legacy.
September 5, 2025
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: Precision Production Plants Its Flag in San Bernardino County
When people talk about the future of advanced manufacturing on the West Coast, they tend to mention names like Intel, Tesla, Boeing, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman.
July 29, 2025
NEW YORK CITY: Re:MADE In Brooklyn
Half a million college graduates over the past four years chose to locate in New York City, where a college student population of 530,000 still matriculates and an equally young business roster continues to grow — one in eight firms in the city started in the past 12 months.
July 29, 2025
ASCENSION PARISH, LOUISIANA: Why RiverPlex MegaPark Is on Every Site Selector’s Radar
What began a dozen years ago as a dream to transform a large tract of farmland in south Louisiana into a modern industrial park has emerged this year as a major economic development force in the South.
July 23, 2025
SILICON RANCH: How Communities Win In the Solar Farm Arena
Running a state’s economic development office — or the state itself — affords those officeholders valuable opportunities to hear what’s on the minds of company executives looking to invest capital in new facilities.
July 16, 2025
MARYLAND: America’s Aerospace Ecosystem Starts in Maryland
Aerospace companies looking to get their operations airborne quickly will find they can easily do so in Maryland. Over 9,000 such companies have a presence in the state, perhaps because it has the highest concentration of aerospace engineers in the country.
July 15, 2025
PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS: How a Growing Mid-Sized Texas City Builds a Technical Workforce
Pflugerville Mayor Victor Gonzales says there are many reasons why this booming Austin suburb in Central Texas was recently named the No. 15 Best Place to Live in America by U.S. News & World Report.
July 15, 2025
PENNSYLVANIA: Designed for Industries Of the Future
If you build it, they will come. This sentiment rings true for economic developers as much as it does for farmers building fields of dreams.
July 8, 2025
COUNTRY OF GEORGIA: New Reports Salute Growth In Global Trade, Innovation And Business Friendliness In the Country of Georgia
In March, John Pearson, CEO of DHL Express, and Prof. Steven A. Altman of the NYU Stern School of Business (lead author of the DHL Trade Atlas), shared in-depth analysis of global trade and regional connectedness as part of their ongoing research that tracks countries by both speed and scale of trade growth.
July 8, 2025
INVESTMENT PROFILE: TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY: THE WAY FORWARD
Nuclear energy is back. The more than 10 million people in seven states served by the Tennessee Valley Authority know this better than most.
May 6, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC: Welcome Home to the Bridge District
One of the most scenic and underutilized spots in the nation’s capital is undergoing an extreme makeover that will transform the area into a hotbed of mixed-use development.
May 6, 2025
GREATER PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard served for nearly two centuries as a strategic shipbuilding, maintenance and repair complex. About 40,000 people
March 14, 2025
VIRGINIA: Cybersecurity Is In the Commonwealth’s DNA
Virginia takes keeping its tech-talent pond well stocked very seriously.
March 7, 2025
PNK GROUP: A New Generation of Industrial Buildings
PNK Group’s commitment to optimizing processes transforms potentially stressful projects into successful, hassle-free experiences.
March 7, 2025
Maryland’s New Frontier
Darryl Sampey, a veteran of Maryland’s life sciences community, co-founded BioFactura, a biopharmaceutical startup, in 2004. Twenty-plus later, he views the newly expanded business as a “poster child” for a homegrown Maryland biotech company.
March 5, 2025
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: Airport Growth Fuels Economic Expansion
Airport-driven economic development is not just a desired outcome in San Bernardino County in Southern California; it is ingrained into the strategy and mission of those who lead the airports in this Inland Empire jurisdiction of 2.18 million people.
January 21, 2025
CONSUMERS ENERGY: Site 36: Act II
Site 36’s transformation marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Wyoming, Michigan. Previously a General Motors stamping plant and cornerstone of the city’s economy, the 75-acre site sat vacant for nearly 15 years following the plant’s closure in 2009.
January 10, 2025
OHIO
When a state is recognized for economic development success, as is the case with Site Selection’s annual Governors’ Cups (one for total capital investment projects the previous year and one for total projects per capita), the big projects that create thousands of new jobs near major metros naturally come to mind.
January 8, 2025
VIRGINIA
Realizing a promising opportunity requires a level of commitment equal to the promise — commitment of time, belief, work, capital and people.
January 8, 2025
New Business Is Popping Up Everywhere In Pflugerville
Most of us dream of one day launching a new business and being our own boss.
January 7, 2025
Global Companies Find Portugal Offers a ‘Central Place In the World’ for Business Services
If you were a North American company leader and could pick a European business services location that’s literally the closest to home, did you know Portugal would be your first landing spot across the Atlantic?
January 3, 2025
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
If you want to know why so many high-growth companies and the talented people they employ are moving to San Bernardino County in the Inland Empire of Southern California, the answer can be summed up in one word: opportunity