Snapshot

The people come from different points of origin than the corporate investment. But are there states where high numbers of foreign-born individuals coincide with high numbers of foreign-sourced corporate facility investment?

We steal a glance at the findings of the World Happiness Report 2024 and how they align with countries’ economic development climates.

Last week the EPA recognized 103 U.S. manufacturing plants that earned the agency’s ENERGY STAR certification in 2023, designated for plants in the top 25% of energy efficiency in their sector.

A trio of federal program announcements during Q1 2024 unleash funds, people and resources intended to enhance the economic development, health and vitality of under-resourced and overstressed communities and sites.

Clean energy goals require the sometimes less-than-clean manufacture of the products charged with achieving those goals, from solar cells and panels to wind turbine blades and nacelles to all the EV- and semiconductor-related products that require critical minerals.

Triangulation was a thing even before University of Southern California basketball coach Sam Barry and his player-turned-coach Tex Winter popularized the triangle offense.

Karl Pischke, Principal, RCLCO RCLCO Real Estate Consulting this month released its annual report on the top 50 master-planned communities in the United States, ranked by sales the previous calendar year.

Necessity may be the mother of invention. To lure and cultivate corporate investment, a territory’s knack for invention and innovation is a competitive necessity.

Documenting community industrial development in the United States has been a core mission of Site Selection since we launched publication 70 years ago this month.

A team of students from Columbia University won the Colvin Case Study Challenge this year with their analysis of the One Boerum Place development on a property formerly belonging to Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York.

The Bay Area leads the way for No. 1 California when evaluating HQ locations of high-performing companies in the American Opportunity Index.

Home to institutions such as the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, the University of California San Francisco is part of the 10-campus University of California.

Samsung, which continues to grow in Austin, Texas (pictured), offers its global office workforce a variety of remote work and “work from anywhere” options.

In Oregon, where 64% of public high schools offer foundational computer science, scholastic esports organization Vanta in May announced it was partnering with East Metro STEAM Partnership (EMSP), Multnomah Education Service District (MESD) and Intel to establish an esports community initiative at the high school and middle school level.

This DOE illustration may remind some of the pioneering SimCity video game franchise, but the seven designated Hydrogen Hubs have real potential.

On October 19 at the inaugural America’s Top Small Business gala hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., 51-year-old fretted instruments store Elderly Instruments won a $25,000 grand prize in the Chamber’s America’s Top Small Business Awards.

Only four of the 30 teams in Major League Baseball are named for their states and not their home cities. Two of them — the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks — will meet in this year’s World Series.

Companies are diversifying their Asian location portfolios beyond China. Rich folks are getting out of China. But automation in China is rising at a record rate.

Five years ago Site Selection documented how Williams Sausage’s $44 million, 200-plus-job expansion into a second manufacturing complex and new corporate office in Northwest Tennessee was enabled in part by New Markets Tax Credits (NMTCs).

When USA Today this week unveiled the Top 25 highest paid football coaches at public universities, I immediately raced to find the Top 25 highest paid public university presidents, a list compiled by the Chronicle for Higher Education in August.

The Truman Center for National Policy’s “City and State Diplomacy Toolkit” will show you: There are plenty of strong examples of regions not waiting around for their parent states or nations to make connections for them that they could make themselves instead.

The past two Site Selection Snapshots have examined this year’s Inc. 5000 to reveal the top states and top U.S. metros and cities by number of firms on that list.

Today we examine which metro areas and cities have the most fast-growing companies. These Top 10 correspond closely with the most recent Census Bureau list of the most populated metro areas — only the Bay Area and Greater Boston are not also among the nation’s 10 most populous metros:

August saw the annual release of the Inc. 5000. Which means that today, on the same date we performed our analysis last year, we examine where all 5,000 firms call home.