From Site Selection magazine, September 2006 NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS Honda’s Sure Thing A new assembly plant in southeast Indiana is just part of the solution for both a region and a company. by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com D uring his first weeks as director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under President George […]

orest City Enterprises, a Chicago-based developer of biotech parks nationwide, would not necessarily have selected the Denver area for a new biosciences park several years ago. The company’s first park was built 20 years ago adjacent to MIT in the heart of one of the most pre-eminent biotech clusters in the country, says Michael Rosen, […]

E ver- growing volumes of global trade are driving many of the world’s current great infrastructure projects. This is particularly true in some of the crossroads of commerce, such as the Panama Canal, and in the world’s burgeoning manufacturing centers, such as India. Infrastructure projects under way today in Central and South America and the […]

ithin days of this issue arriving at your address, many in the U.S. and elsewhere will be noting with sadness and anger the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. What a different world we are in, and have been in for the last five years. It doesn’t seem so long ago that one […]

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f you think your company faces tough times these days, imagine being an electric utility.    Confronted with record demand for energy, rising fuel prices and global competition, North American power companies must build new business models if they are to thrive.    Consider the latest test for the U.S. power grid, a series of three interconnected […]

hen it comes to the value of continuous learning and study, there is no shortage of studies. A common finding of most of them may be the most agreed- upon but least acted- upon facet of the United States’ growing concern over its skills deficit: The primary importance of work- force training. Those cities, regions […]