While the typical outdoor lifestyle destination center being built these days appears to resemble every other mixed-use development of its kind, two innovative entrepreneurs in South Atlanta are working hard to change that.
To be competitive in the site selection process, state and local governments know that they must provide enticing incentive packages that catch a company’s eye.
From the moment my flight touched down at Great Falls International Airport in early October, signs of the area’s economic, geographic and cultural identity began to appear.
Film production projects keep discovering the Big Sky State, including a new complex in the same town where Edison made the first Montana film 127 years ago.
The sense of adventure conjured by the mere thought of the Rocky Mountains has real traction in the world of business.
Here’s why folks are fleeing the bright lights of the big city and loving it.
Entrepreneurship is making a mark in Montana.
Cryptocurrency miners reveal the site selection process that led them to Montana.
The oil and gas surge generates startups and diversified manufacturing.
Entrepreneurs are building innovative companies in Big Sky Country.
Corporate site selectors want to see a single digit next to states in rankings designed to shed light on their suitability for investment.
Led by the U.S. Small Business Administration's Business Person of the Year for 2012, and picked as Montana's Innovation Company of the Year in August 2012, Simms Fishing Products, captained by President K.C. Walsh, moved into a new 60,000-sq.-ft. (5,574-sq.-m.) headquarters, production and distribution facility in Bozeman last year.
Montana ended the last fiscal year on June 30 with more than $453 million in surplus funds, the second highest amount in state government history.
When the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently rated Montana the No. 1 state for business startups and the sixth best business climate in the nation, the news may have surprised some people.