Investment Profile

Interstate highway access — check. Commercial airport site — check. Quick proximity to 50 percent of Florida’s population — check. Abundant and growing workforce — check. Foreign Trade Zone — check.

Cincinnati-area natives increasingly appreciate their region’s advantages and the global arena in which the city competes for new investment — and jobs.

Griffin Land, the owner-operator of almost 3 million sq. ft. of commercial space on land holdings of nearly 4,000 acres in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, is seeing its tobacco nursery heritage supplanted by its choice reputation as a developer and partner.

Gov. Tom Corbett laid out Pennsylvania’s most ambitious energy plan ever on Jan. 21. The bottom line? Expanding companies will find even more cost savings when they invest in the Keystone State.

The cauldron of innovation that gave rise to one of the world’s most successful drugs is poised to produce more where that came from.

“Wages, logistics and taxes are three big advantages for South Florida.”

Never before has one building symbolized so much.

The SEED Center in Lake Charles, La., represents the culmination of a regional partnership aimed at bringing new business and industry to Southwest Louisiana.

When Apple iPhone manufacturer Foxconn announced recently that it would invest $30 million in a new robotics plant in Harrisburg, Pa., the industrial site selection called into question whether cheap labor and tax breaks are still paramount in corporate location decision-making.

Toledo is a city that prides itself on its global ethnic and cultural diversity, and the entrepreneurial and industrial links that accompany that heritage.

Rocket science and rental cars may not appear to have a lot in common.

On February 18, 2011, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, after just over a month in office, kept one of his first campaign promises: He signed into law a bill creating JobsOhio, a privately funded non-profit that works with the state and its Development Services Agency to foster job creation and corporate investment.

When Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett took office in 2011, he expressed frustration with how long it took businesses to get the permits they needed to open new facilities.

In a speech to the American-Turkish Business Council this fall, Turkish President Abdullah Gül dropped a few facts on his audience:

How can real estate be uniform and customized at the same time, especially across an expanse as vast and diverse as Asia?

One is a global pioneer in semiconductor research and manufacturing.

Early this summer a group of site consultants from across the country came to visit Northwest Ohio.

Two of Europe’s most significant IT capital investment projects just landed in the same region — the federal German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

The Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) now administers the state’s Shovel Ready Program, working with communities around the state to ensure that its inventory of economic-development-ready sites is current and accurate.

Located in the western end of Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe, the City of Hamilton has emerged as one of the premier destinations in Canada and all of North America for new investment — all within the course of a decade.

When the world's fastest-growing retailer needed a logistics solution in America's largest consumer market, it looked no further than San Bernardino County, Calif.

One first-place finish in a state business attractiveness ranking is noteworthy.

Why establish a new Asian operation without local partners who can facilitate the process at every turn?