CRE EDUCATION: Making the Grade

Real estate education programs are as varied as the deals they teach you to make. The Urban Land Institute’s Directory of Real Estate Development and Related Education Programs is currently in its ninth edition, and includes 60 programs in the United States and abroad. Of that sample, only a handful mention corporate real estate as […]

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2020 Global Best to Invest

This annual report is usually a celebratory recognition of some of the world’s best performing economies, especially those most successful at attracting investment and creating jobs.

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Your R&D Hub in Central and Eastern Europe

Hungary intends to become the regional leader in innovation and R&D

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PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE: Building a Bigger, Better Texas

A new Statewide Economic Development Strategic Plan aims to unify Texans around a common goal: Ensure that Texas remains the best state for business into the year 2030 and beyond.

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Lessons Learned, Lessons Applied

How Colorado OEDIT is leading the economic recovery effort.

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Energy Matters: A compendium of recent energy-related news briefs for the busy executive.

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Technology InSITE: Nestlé Uses Nimble Tax System

Managing personal property taxes and compliance across multiple states can be an ongoing challenge for large corporations. Nestlé USA has a diverse portfolio of more than 40 manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and office buildings, plus vending equipment, that requires a robust system.

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Small Towns On the Hunt

Snapshots from the megasite family photo album.

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Growth Plan to Benefit ‘All Corners of the State’

Considering a Northwest location? If so, you may benefit from one or more of Business Oregon’s priorities for the next several years.

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Power Plays

States that exempt or abate property and sales taxes on computer and telecom equipment will soon make the short lists of data center site selectors.

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AI Challenges Traditional Site Selection

Could AI help you pick your next major facility location or expansion?

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Wired Cities: Working-Class Communities Build Next Frontier of High-Speed Connectivity

T ACOMA, Wash. — When Mitch Davis needed a high-speed launching pad for his startup Internet company, he ditched high-priced Seattle for its blue-collar neighbor some 35 miles to the south: Tacoma. When John Gorst needed a place to set up his Internet utility company that provides Web hosting of applications for small businesses around […]

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Project Bulletin, Feb. 24, 2025: Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Vinton, Texas; Endicott, New York

QTS officially named as data center developer in Iowa; Vinton Steel grows under Texas JETI program; BAE Systems expands manufacturing site in New York.

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People Pleasers

“We are a people business,” says Alicia Laszewski, spokesperson for C3, a Florida-based company that’s investing in a whole bunch of people in Twin Falls, Idaho.

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Economic Immunity

A global pharma giant is looking to supplement its huge philanthropic and humanitarian efforts some straightforward corporate facility and talent investment.

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Six Superlatives

A half-dozen ways that Oregon’s boundless, natural gifts inspire body and spirit.

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India’s Mobility Sector: Why the Time is Now for Global Manufacturers

Why the time is now for global manufacturers to invest in India’s mobility sector.

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How Kaizen is Transforming a Community’s Workforce

At joint Toyota-Mazda plant in Alabama, job training goes to school.

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Georgia Lands $5 Billion EV Plant

Rivian will build electric pickup trucks on a rural 2,000-acre site east of Atlanta.

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Real Estate Services Update

T he corporate real estate industry’s service provider community is in the midst of a heightened state of “convergence” if the past few months are any indication. Late 2000 saw numerous alliances and acquisitions that support a theory put forward in the Site Selection January 2001 cover story, “E-Business Levels the Real Estate Playing Field”. […]

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Asked & Answered: Five Questions About Artificial Intelligence

When the topic turns to the potential impact of artificial intelligence, workforce development analysts consistently liken AI’s rapid and evolving emergence to such era-defining phenomena as the industrial and digital revolutions. AI, experts believe, will reshape the global workplace and redefine how companies compete.

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State of the Decade

How does one state dominate for 10 years? Three key traits set the tone.

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Losing Weight

Composites are gaining increased use in a myriad of industrial sectors including automotives, aeronautics and wind energy. The trend is spurring new projects, new partnerships and new supply chains.

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Ripples, Then Waves

A new report from Jones Lang LaSalle documents how US shale zones reach well beyond the oil patch.

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The Power to Change

Salt River Project is turning the Arizona desert into an oasis of high-end data centers.

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Location Branding: How to Measure A Nation’s Image

NASA’s space program contributed to countless inventions, including the lithium battery, the artificial heart pump and even the cordless vacuum. It also helped to demonstrate America’s technological prowess to the world — an element that contributes in building the U.S.

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SITE Visit: Survivor: Canada

Four Canadian shipyards wait for their federal government to pick two of them.

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Top Deals: 1998’s Very Honorable Mentions

From Site Selection magazine, May 1999 T O P     D E A L S 1998’s Very Honorable Mentions A hot year for the world economy, 1998 saw a dizzying array of top-flight facility deals, too many to be crammed into one top 10. Here are a few other eminently worthy deals Site Selection cites […]

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NORTH AMERICAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY REVIEW

hat do you do in an industry that was estimated in 2003 to have global over-capacity equivalent to 40 OEM assembly plants? Compete, that’s what.       That’s what NAFTA’s 10-year-old partners have been doing for automotive investment, whether against each other or, increasingly, banding together against the rest of the world. Sometimes the […]

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Big Skies, Open Questions

Corporate site selectors want to see a single digit next to states in rankings designed to shed light on their suitability for investment.

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A Board as Big as Texas

Meet the CEOs who comprise the TxEDC Board of Directors.

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AUTOEXEC: Software for the Technology-Averse, Site Selection magazine, March 1999

From Site Selection magazine, March 1999 A U T O E X E C   Systems and strategies for maximizing corporate real estate assets New versions of corporate real estate software systems are giving users no excuse not to use them — or even like them. Today’s software applications involve little or no learning-curve time […]

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Char: Baked, Not Broiled

What if it were possible to take the woody debris left behind from harvesting, logging or mine site-clearing and develop it into a substance that could be added into soil, not only making the soil more productive and able to retain more moisture, but to stabilize it against erosion?

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The Data Center Destination

How Oregon is winning the competition for the next generation of secure data facilities.Silicon Valley has seen the future of data centers, and it resides in Oregon. That’s the conclusion of John Sheputis, CEO of Fortune Data Centers, a San Jose, Calif.-based company that’s opening a 240,000-sq.-ft. (22,296-sq.-m.) data center on a 15-acre (6-hectare) site in Hillsboro near Portland.

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Can Developers Breathe New Life into Dead Malls?

Retail experts share their prescription for curing dying properties.

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Healthcare Reform Presents Job-Creating Opportunities for US Firms in Saudi Arabia

Today, the bilateral relations between our two countries are stronger than ever.

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Site Selection Debuts Leading Occupancy Costs Index

The Johnson Controls USA Office Costs Index [See Tables One, Two, Three and Chart A for data] The Johnson Controls USA Office Occupancy Costs Index is based on a detailed model of a medium grade air-conditioned office building, which operates reasonably efficiently with no unusually high service standards or demands. The building is 160,000 rentable […]

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IAMC Insider: We’re All in This Together

IAMC Chair Jennifer Roth explores how working, communicating and networking have evolved over the past year.

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Welcome to the Middle of Everything

There’s never been a better time to do business in the State of Illinois.

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Plugging in From the Desert:

New Projects from Facebook Connect to Worldwide Goals

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Tech Blossoms

The most recent edition of the Americas IT Forum took place in Guatemala, bringing together thought leaders and innovators from different fields and countries across North and South America. The discussion ranged from technological issues and marketing trends affecting business on all levels to innovation and technology-led economic development. A novel concept in intertwined topics and in blending together people from different backgrounds, the Forum proved to work.

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A Technical Solution Finds Wisconsin

When one door closes, Microsoft swoops in.

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IAMC Insider: Highlights of IAMC’s First Virtual Forum

Many of you attended IAMC’s first Virtual Forum on September 14 and 15. If you were there, I hope you enjoyed it and benefited from the professional development programs. Piecing together anecdotal evidence with data from the post-event survey, we have strong indications the conference was highly valued by most of the participants. Overall, they […]

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: WORK-FORCE TRAINING PROGRAMS

ork-force training programs are designed to either support new job creation or increase the skill level of the incumbent workforce. Work-force training monies flow through reimbursable programs or tax credit programs funded by various sources including: Unemployment Insurance Taxes (“UIT”), General Fund Appropriations, Future Payroll Taxes, or Income and Franchise taxes.       Generally, to secure reimbursable […]

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No Boundaries

When it comes to physically demarcated free trade zones, look to Singapore or Hong Kong as shining examples. Or look to eastern China, where boundaried zones have proliferated. The Republic of Korea’s internal competition among zones has led to several excellent models such as the Incheon Free Economic Zone and the Gwangyang Free Economic Zone. Vietnam’s burgeoning roster of zones is also engaged in healthy competition. The argument for special economic zones (or SEZs) is hard to refute.

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D.C. Projects Designed to Draw Workers Back to the Office

Will highly educated talent choose mixed-use properties? Developers are banking on it.

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Startup Ecosystems: And the Sun Shines on the Bay

The San Francisco Bay area is still the world's startup capital even as everyday support systems need a reboot.

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Through the Mill

With a GDP of more than $300 billion*, Québec represents nearly 20 percent of Canada's economy.

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Made in Michigan: The Next Generation Of Innovators

Michigan’s research universities are creating pipelines of high-quality, eager talent who are invested in the state.

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Up in Arms

Is Australia about to deliver an about-face in renewable energy policy?

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Asia’s Developing Economies: The World?s Hottest Markets For ’97 Business Expansion

Dreaming of areas where consumer buying power is on the rise? Where markets aren?t saturated? Where people are eager to buy your company?s products and services? Then turn your eyes to the developing economies of Asia: China, India, the Philippines and others. Those countries, plus South American stars like Brazil, Argentina and Chile are where […]

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APPRENTICESHIPS: The Swiss Solution

The best apprentices make the best workers. Just ask the Swiss.

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The Perfect Climate for Dreamers

Texas rolls out the welcome mat for corporate growth.

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Behind the Sun

If returning to the early darkness of standard time has you down, Hoboken and Buffalo will show you the light.

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FIELD NOTES FROM 6 CALIFORNIAS

FIELD NOTES FROM 6 CALIFORNIAS

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Strength in Numbers

When your company has spent the past two decades establishing global dominance by rolling out the largest inventory of state-of-the-art industrial distribution facilities in the world, what do you do for an encore?

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Light Bulbs

The first in a series of profiles of young life sciences leaders.

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Gambling on Growth

Measuring casinos’ economic contribution to the TrustBelt economy.

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Ford’s BlueOval City Is the Prow of the Ship

Ford Motor Co. broke ground in September 2022 on its nearly 6-square-mile BlueOval City mega campus in Stanton, Tennessee.

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Europe’s Best Rev Up Investments

 W hen Japanese automaker Toyota needed to increase its share of the European marketplace in the late 1990s, it went in search of the automaker’s Holy Grail — the perfect site for a new manufacturing plant. After heated competition, the Nord-Pas de Calais region in Northern France offered the most tempting of sites.     […]

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A Vision Come To Life

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.

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World Reports, Site Selection Magazine, May 2003

Visteon Builds Facility in France Automotive supplier Visteon has invested 30 million euros (US$33 million) in its new factory next to the PSA Peugeot-Citroen assembly plant in Noyal/Chatillon-sur-Seiche near Rennes, France. The 177,600-sq.-ft. (16,500-sq.-m.) facility will support current and future business with PSA. The plant will employ 400 at full production, manufacturing and assembling HVAC […]

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AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND

A biomanufacturing pioneer selects Queensland for its first industrial facility.

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Project Bulletin: Kansas City, Missouri; Plano, Texas; Redford, Michigan

Edged's data center begins operations in Missouri; Delta Electronics builds upon its base in Texas; Daimler Truck plans facility and operations modernization in Michigan.

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A Region of Resilience

Five years after Hurricane Rita delivered a devastating blow to the Lake Charles area and surrounding communities, British Petroleum accidentally unleashed a gushing flow of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico in deepwater off the coast of Louisiana.

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A Community College On the Cutting Edge

During the course of a year immersed in career and technical education topics, two of the stories I’ve pursued stand out.

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Back in the USA

Dean Sbragia had been in the medical products distribution business for 23 years when his company, Med-Fit Systems, purchased the commercial assets of fitness equipment builder Nautilus in February 2010.

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Site Selection for Life Sciences Companies in Europe

The 2018 edition of KPMG’s biannual overview offers pointers for entering the market and then navigating a changing landscape.

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Remarkable Growth in a Remarkable Time

Exclusive insights from the author of Cushman & Wakefield’s 2022 Global Data Center Market Comparison

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A Web of Innovation

Illinois’ esteemed universities join forces for the future.

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Home Field Advantage: Ballpark Figures From Two World Series Cities On the Rise

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.

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The Trust Belt

With Upper Midwest cities like Cleveland and Ann Arbor recently winning significant headquarters projects, it may be time to rebrand the region with a new moniker: the “Trust Belt.”

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IAMC INSIDER

SEPTEMBER 2006 Changes Over Time (cover) Gov. Kaine: Virginia History Rooted in Economic Growth Vaccine Territory Request Information

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Rio Grande Valley Lifestyle

The region’s high quality of life attracts developers, new projects to Cameron County.

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NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

ood fences make good neighbors,” poet Robert Frost once observed. Tell it to Pixar, Bob:       The red-hot computer-animation company (“Finding Nemo,” “Toy Story”) may add 1,300 jobs in a US$325-million, 20-year expansion of its San Francisco-metro headquarters in Emeryville. Then again, Pixar may pack up and leave town.       And […]

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Beyond Bells & Whistles

What’s Smartest? Systems That Help Humans.

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Workforce, Investment in Innovation Keep New Jersey’s Pharma Sector Growing

The Garden State is willing to throw some elbows to keep pharma companies, and others, inside its borders.

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Q&A: A Corporate Services Chief Says CIR Is Key to Adding Value

Site Selection: Congratulations on your recent promotion to Senior Vice President, Corporate Services. How does this change your role at Charles Schwab? Parkash P. Ahuja: Thank you. As for my responsibilities, prior to this change I was responsible for corporate real estate facilities, purchasing, travel, food services and corporate records. I used to report to […]

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Smart Space

Senior lecturer in property at the University of Melbourne in Australia, explores how big data improves a building’s operational efficiencies, and how landlords can use big data effectively to attract and retain tenants.

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Indicators for the Year Ahead

For the past four years, industrial has been the top-ranked property sector in the Emerging Trends survey and it remains so for the year ahead.

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How California Is Protecting its People and its Businesses

When the global COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S. in early 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom wasted little time in organizing a comprehensive statewide response.

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The Way We Were: Lessons from Manufacturing’s Front Lines

Shifting map of America’s factory belt highlights migration pattern of good jobs.

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Commerce Helps Businesses Find Solid Ground

Looking to grow your company? The state stands ready to assist.

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Maryland’s New Frontier

Darryl Sampey, a veteran of Maryland’s life sciences community, co-founded BioFactura, a biopharmaceutical startup, in 2004. Twenty-plus later, he views the newly expanded business as a “poster child” for a homegrown Maryland biotech company.

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Striking a Balance

The lure and lore of the downtown headquarters

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Fracking the Eagle Ford Shale

When Lynn Buehring leaves her doctor’s office in San Antonio she touches her inhaler to be sure it’s close.

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Waistline Watch

New obesity rankings tell you if your state is one of the biggest losers.

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More Than a Snapshot

Jones Lang LaSalle's latest cluster analysis shows why digging deep is worth it.

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Berlin and the Burgh

Two Siemens investments on opposite sides of the Atlantic have energy and community redevelopment at their heart.

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Project Bulletin, August 18, 2025: Paducah, Kentucky; Weybridge, England; Chicago, Illinois

General Matter moves in on the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky; A consumer healthcare company delivers new R&D site in England; AbbVie plans manufacturing facility expansion in North Chicago.

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Project Bulletin: Hanover, Pennsylvania; Holly Springs, North Carolina; Kulim, Kedah, Malaysia

Utz opens a distribution center in Pennsylvania; Amgen establishes a new facility in North Carolina; Hyundai Motor plans to expand offerings in Malaysia.

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Getting Things Done – Together

“It’s amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares who gets the credit.”

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INTERNATIONAL APPEAL

Four international companies have created about 1,600 new jobs in Arkansas in the past year, and combined they invested $425 million in the state.

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How the West Was One

Over the last 20 years of American economic history, if you asked site consultants which region was the number one investment destination they’d probably have said “the Southeast.”

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Good Medicine

Life sciences, logistics among sectors showing vitality.

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Data Centers Straining the Grid? Alternatives Lurk Underwater

In Europe, data center projects are pursuing a number of alternative paths to resiliency in order to reduce pressure on a grid stretched to capacity.

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IAMC INSIDER

JANUARY 2008 To Green or Not to Green (cover) Meet a Member Learning What Counts Request Information

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Staying Power

Study: Eds & Meds clusters promote long-term economic health

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SEPTEMBER 2007 Arteries of the Economy (cover) Meet a Member IAMC People & Projects Request Information

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Top Metropolitans: The Fast Track To No. 1

Greater Houston, Texas, which in 2011 secured 195 corporate facility expansion projects, is increasing the size of its metropolitan economy at a rate that leads every other metro area on the continent, according to a new study from the Brookings Institution.

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