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November 14, 2024

Gift Bag of New R&D Data Features Microbusiness Insights

Given California’s R&D prowess, it was no surprise that early this month the city of Sunnyvale (home to Applied Materials’ forthcoming Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization Center, pictured) was announced as the expected location for the CHIPS for America Design and Collaboration Facility.Rendering courtesy of Applied Materials It’s that time of year. Not the […]

October 25, 2024

Site Selection Snapshot: Slicing and Dicing the Academy

        Slicing and Dicing the Academy   Oxford University is No. 1 in the world for the ninth consecutive year. Photo by Chinyup Wong: Getty Images Earlier this month at Times Higher Education’s World Academic Summit in Manchester, UK, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 were unveiled. A total of […]

October 10, 2024

WorldSkills Brings France’s Summer of Global Competitions to a Close

        WorldSkills Brings France’s Summer of Global Competitions to a Close   Attendees from Japan and Hong Kong share a jubilant moment at WorldSkills 2024 in Lyon, France. Photo courtesy of WorldSkills How do you get 100,000 visitors to your city because of vocational education? Put your city in France, for starters. […]

October 3, 2024

The Geography of Genius

        The Geography of Genius   The Johnson Museum sits atop East Hill on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, one of several institutions frequently associated with MacArthur grant recipients from New York. 2019 photo by Jason Koski (UREL) © Cornell University This week’s announcement of 22 new MacArthur Fellows brings […]

September 26, 2024

NMTCs Bring New Fuel for Growth to Low-Income Urban and Rural Areas

        NMTCs Bring New Fuel for Growth to Low-Income Urban and Rural Areas   Rodgers Wade Manufacturing of Paris, Texas (whose replica Eiffel Tower is pictured here), is one of hundreds of manufacturers whose expansions have benefited from NMTC financing. Photo: Getty Images Last week $5 billion in New Markets Tax Credits […]

September 19, 2024

Tech Rules the Roost Among Inc. 5000 Industry Categories

        Tech Rules the Roost Among Inc. 5000 Industry Categories   But construction, logistics and manufacturing companies are well represented too. Rancho Cordova, California, part of Greater Sacramento, is home to a new headquarters and forthcoming business accelerator from consulting firm Clutch, the No. 1 firm by growth rate in this year’s […]

September 12, 2024

India Active Ingredient in RTX’s Global Investment Rx

        Virginia Tops Inc. 5000 Firms Per Capita List   The Big Apple tops the overall metro region and city rankings, while Sheridan, Wyoming, and Lawrenceville, Georgia, bring in per-capita metro and city honors. Brooklyn is one borough helping Metro New York to No. 1 among all U.S. metros by number of […]

August 29, 2024

Park Visitors Drive Gateway Economies

If outdoor recreation opportunities are on your company’s or family’s location matrix, new data released by the National Park Service this week is worth visiting.

August 22, 2024

In the Arena: How to Keep Track of Stadium Deals

As Major League Baseball’s regular season winds down like a pitch clock and pennant races wind up like a pitcher, sports team owners, communities and entire states keep taking their best swings at new stadium proposals and deals.

August 8, 2024

FLAP-D and Beyond

Since January 2015, Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database has qualified 58 major data center investments in the Europe’s “FLAP-D” markets: Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin.

August 1, 2024

Site Selection Snapshot – August 1, 2024

        Cart Before the Horse?           If a proposed 25% tariff were to go into effect, the cost of 12 STS cranes already ordered from Chinese companies by the Port of Virginia (pictured) would balloon from $161.52 million to nearly $202 million, says the AAPA. Photo courtesy of […]

July 25, 2024

Site Selection Snapshot – July 25, 2024

        These Places and Companies Lead the Way in Developing Vaccines           Moderna leads all companies in vaccine candidates on PhRMA’s list, followed by such companies as Pfizer, GSK and BioNTech. Since 2000, according to Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the U.S. Food & Drug Administration […]

July 18, 2024

July 18, 2024

Strategic direction and global trends can sometimes be ascertained through the lens of one company or conglomerate. RTX — encompassing Pratt & Whitney, Collins Aerospace and Raytheon since a 2020 merger — is a case in point.

July 11, 2024

Site Selection Snapshot – July 11, 2024

        SkillsUSA Competitors Make News by Making Things           Photos courtesy of SkillsUSA A presidential debate and a Copa America match were taking place at the same time and mere yards away in downtown Atlanta in June, with results that some would rather forget. But the memorable achievements […]

July 3, 2024

The Data Behind America’s Best Counties

The second annual edition of Site Selection’s America’s Best Counties was released this week, based on project tallies and associated capital investment and job creation between January 2023 and March 2024 as tracked by Conway Data’s proprietary Conway Projects Database.

June 27, 2024

Resonance Releases America’s Best Cities Report

New York City-based tourism, real estate and economic development advisor Resonance this week released its eighth annual America’s Best Cities rankings, which seek to “quantify and benchmark the relative quality of place, reputation and competitive identity of U.S. urban centers.”

June 13, 2024

Taking Stock of Housing Stock

At a time when workforce housing is sorely needed, last month the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded $3.17 billion in Public Housing Repair funding to 2,756 public housing authorities (PHAs) in all 50 states, D.C. and several U.S. territories to make capital investments to their public housing stock.

June 6, 2024

A Day to Remember, a Future to Create

Eighty years after a signature moment in history, a Tennessee-based company is honoring the past while helping forge a visionary future in Normandy.

May 2, 2024

Gulf Coast Ports Dominate Latest Tonnage Rankings

If you’re looking for business intelligence about waterborne cargo, there’s no better place than the Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Institute for Water Resources, which just released its annual tonnage report for 2022.

April 25, 2024

The Capitals of Connection

This year, for the first time, among the external indices used in Site Selection’s Global Best to Invest rankings (due to be released on Thursday, May 1) is the DHL Global Connectedness Report.

April 18, 2024

Scrubbing Clean Energy Data

Industry project investment data from sectors and professional practices attached to clean tech and clean power are central to the sophisticated index behind Site Selection’s annual Sustainability Rankings, which last year saluted top performers such as Sweden, North Carolina and Austin, Texas.