September 24, 2026
Last week’s first installment of Site Selection’s annual location analysis of the latest Inc. 5000 list found California leading the way by a long shot when it comes to total Inc. 5000 company headquarters locations.
September 17, 2026
The state known for growing half the nation’s vegetables and three-quarters of its fruits and nuts knows a thing or two about firm cultivation as well.
May 14, 2026
In mid-April, a new cohort of eight startups in four states received more than $1 million in combined funding from the Powering Regional Opportunities for Prototyping Microelectronics (PROPEL) program.
April 9, 2026
Among the 500 most capitalized AI firms in the world, 70 are located in San Francisco, California, topped by OpenAI, the firm whose co-founder Sam Altman is in the news this week after an in-depth profile by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz in The New Yorker.
March 19, 2026
As DOGE depositions make the social media rounds this week, DOGE-driven dispositions remain a long-term topic in real estate circles.
February 5, 2026
Late 2025 saw the announcement of more than 140 New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) awards worth some $10 billion by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in a “double round” of allocations covering 2024 and 2025.
November 20, 2025
U.S. health care infrastructure might need some remedial help. To improve their grades, some states might look to the home state of ACT and the Iowa Assessments (formerly the Iowa Test of Basic Skills).
November 6, 2025
Provision, support and facilities for employee child care have risen in priority for employers over the past several years. To what extent has provision for family caregivers followed suit?
October 15, 2025
Longevity is one thing. Legacy and the annals of history are another level altogether.
October 2, 2025
In this third and final Snapshot analyzing the state leaders, metro geography and industry alignment of this year’s Inc. 5000, we look at which sectors lead the way by number of high-growth companies.
September 25, 2025
Two weeks ago in this space we analyzed the top states by number of Inc. 5000 companies, both cumulatively (where California is No. 1) and per capita (led by Virginia).
September 11, 2025
Rival mega-states top the Inc. 5000 tallies once again, while Mid-Atlantic neighbors lead the way per capita.
August 21, 2025
A coalition of top research institutions, patient and health advocates, and companies earlier this year published its annual analysis of jobs and economic activity supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding distributed to all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
August 14, 2025
Building on the success of OCO Global’s first edition market report focused on emerging Global Business Services (GBS) and Shared Services Centers (SSC) locations in Europe, we now want to highlight opportunities in the Americas, home to nearly one-third of the global GBS market.
July 31, 2025
Last week Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport celebrated the graduation of the first cohort from its Welding Apprenticeship program by holding a ceremony and pledging to bring them on as the first full-time welding crew hired directly by the airport.
June 12, 2025
Notwithstanding current executive and legal maneuvers over continued federal funding to universities, data continue to be crunched (for now) by federal agencies charged with doing so.
June 5, 2025
If you haven’t yet studied the newest Census Bureau analysis of the nation’s metro-area and city/town demographics, it’s time to add these two reports to your summer reading list.
May 29, 2025
UK-based TMF Group yesterday released the latest edition of its Global Business Complexity Index (GBCI), which studies the layers of bureaucracy that can form “a dead-weight burden on business that stifles local innovation and deters foreign direct investment with no obvious societal benefit.”
May 22, 2025
Before it was shorthand for the scourge/salve that is social media, “social” referred to society, as in “people living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions and values,” says Britannica.
April 17, 2025
“No form of nuclear fission power — of any kind — is possible without relying on uranium.” So state the France-based Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). So it figures where to find and process the stuff might be important.
April 10, 2025
We look in on three lists of 2024 corporate end-user facility projects abroad as tracked by the Conway Projects Database: Top 10 by investment, Top 10 by jobs and Top 10 by project area.
March 20, 2025
Can you have meaningful industrial development in the least polluted places in the world? New air quality data allows us to provide at least a partial answer.
March 13, 2025
Following recently released reports on the outlook for private equity and venture capital in the year ahead, that’s what Pitchbook is doing with “All In,” a new 26-page report on female-founded companies in the VC ecosystem (minus OpenAI deals). The report reveals the usual suspects and a few outliers in terms of company location.
March 6, 2025
It’s time for another chapter in Site Selection Snapshot’s occasional series on U.S. Census Bureau data sets useful to location decision-making.