Johnson & Johnson Site in New Jersey Home to Largest Solar Array in the State

With the flip of a switch on September 23, the largest solar panel array in New Jersey came to life on the Titusville campus of Janssen, a division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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Busy Berlin

Merging real estate portfolios after a corporate acquisition is never easy. When it involves a portfolio the size of a small city, the task becomes daunting. Such is the case in the heart of Berlin, where Bayer AG is digesting Schering AG’s huge pharmaceutical and manufacturing complex following the companies’ 2006 merger.

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Locations of the Future

Where site selectors are most likely to invest in the next five years.

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Destination Bahrain

The hidden gem of the Arabian Gulf offers a rich history and a flair for all things modern.

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St. Albert Could Be Your Next ‘Headroom’ Community

Sustainability and investment attraction are tandem priorities in this community of 73,000 on the northwestern outskirts of Edmonton.

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Success In Short Order

A still-new business creation program is already making a big impact.

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Commanding View

Mark Twain found the Upper Mississippi otherworldly, serene and bucolic when he traveled through the region 130 years ago.

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Editor’s View: Reshoring Analysis Points To Better Days Ahead

Editor in Chief Mark Arend says the 2021 State of North American Manufacturing Annual Report from Thomas and the Reshoring Initiative’s 2020 Data Report both indicate things are trending in the right direction.

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Europe’s 1999 Facilities Race: How Important Is Monetary Union?

The United Kingdom attracted more new and expanded corporate facilities in 1999 than any other European country. France took the runner-up position, while Germany ranked third. Those results are essentially a photocopy of 1998’s facilities race, in which the same three countries took the top three spots, based on Ernst & Young’s European Investment Monitor […]

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5 REASONS TO FALL IN LOVE WITH KANSAS

Remember that feeling when you first fell in love?

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Revival of a Legend

The home of a storied spy operation is relevant again.

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Pharmaceutical/Biotech Siting: The Search for Space, Workers, ‘Community’ and Creative Financing

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 Pharmaceutical/Biotech Siting: The Search for Space, Workers, ‘Community’ and Creative Financing by Steve Usdin Today’s pharmaceutical/biotech site selection decisions are driven by factors both old and new. On one hand, the industry is searching for skilled labor and room to expand, traditional location concerns, but increasingly scarce resources […]

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Conditional Tense

Shell Chemical LP on March 15 signed a land option agreement with Horsehead Corporation to evaluate a site in western Pennsylvania for a potential $2-billion petrochemical complex. The complex would include an ethane cracker that would upgrade locally produced ethane from Marcellus Shale gas production. The site is located in Potter and Center Townships in Beaver County near Monaca, Pa.

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Built to Last

How Kentucky continues to grow its manufacturing empire.

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Opportunity Zones

Sectors beyond energy add zip to Gulf of Mexico economies.

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A Blueprint For Building What Matters

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and the state’s Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) launched the Build What Matters campaign in late October 2021

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Biotech Locations: ‘Sign of the Future’

Leaders Explain Why Their Life Sciences Firms Are Growing In Greater Montréal

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Critical Milestones on Critical Mineral Projects

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.

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WORLD REPORTS

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, November 2008   Chemical Specialist Expanding Globally Lanxess is expanding its caprolactam production facilities in Antwerp (above) and recently opened a new center for rubber research in Qingdao, China (below). by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com  G erman specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG is in the midst of several […]

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Shale Oil and Gas: Revitalizing Inland Transportation Networks

Shale oil and gas deposits have cast energy-related site selection and the oil and gas supply chain in a new light. It now turns its transformative power to inland logistics and transportation networks. Shale plays around the country are requiring mass quantities of commodities and equipment that must be transported by rail or highway. The thousands of wells being drilled in places ranging from Pennsylvania and Ohio in the northeast to Mississippi and Louisiana in the south, to North Dakota and Wyoming in the west require extensive resources to drill and produce.

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The Southeast’s Automotive Industry Sweet Spot

Nearly 200 auto suppliers in Mississippi employ about 26,000.

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The Shale Revolution

The abundance of shale gas in Pennsylvania is reducing energy costs across the state and lending a hand to the already robust manufacturing sector.

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THE FUTURE OF REMOTE WORK: Hybrid Work Delivers Best Results

An experiment that took place over six months delivered some surprising results at Trip.com.

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Digital Derby

North Carolina is one of several states carving out a share of the US$5-billion U.S. computer and video game sector.

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‘Line of Sight’ Drives Site Selection for Fujifilm Diosynth CEO and Global Team

What does the world of photography have to do with a pending $2 billion location decision? It all depends on having the right chemistry.

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An Inside Look

U.S. Endoscopy, a provider of niche diagnostic, therapeutic and support accessories used in the gastrointestinal endoscopy and urology markets, has grown dramatically in recent years at its headquarters

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Geared for What’s Next

"Since Northwest Georgia is our home, it matters a lot to us to expand here.”

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Green Agendas Meet Reality TV

Green Agendas Meet Reality TV: In an energy efficiency battle for the ages, the biggest loser wins.

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Comfort Zone

Comfort Zone: A peek inside a Philadelphia public health nonprofit’s shift in culture, location and workspace design offers a glimpse into its employees’ and its city’s future.

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3 Cities Bucking the Tide of Midwest Talent and Population Loss

Where jobs and people are growing, you’ll find 7 things these locations have in common.

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Blu Homes To Build Prefab Eco-Homes By Deep Blue Sea; ‘They Were There Last Time We Checked’; Billion-Dollar Bounce In South Carolina

North American Reports: Blu Homes To Build Prefab Eco-Homes By Deep Blue Sea; ‘They Were There Last Time We Checked’; Billion-Dollar Bounce In South Carolina

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Finland Adapts to a New Technology Landscape

ICT hubs like Tampere offer a unique mix of skills, research and innovation.

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On a Higher Plain

Colorado’s colleges and universities compete to win on the national stage.

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Consider the Alamo

The Alamo, made famous in 1836 for its part in the Texas Revolution, is a central part of the Lone Star State’s history.

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Texas: Recent Changes Related To Texas Economic Development Incentives

  In addition to exclusive insights from Womble Bond Dickinson Partner Stephanie Yarbrough, this news roundup from the Lone Star State also includes a close look at Frisco...

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Whither Plastics?Plant Location Criteria as Diverse as Products

Like the products they produce, plastics firms are a multifarious lot. Little wonder, then, that the industry’s site selection patterns are no less diverse. U.S. manufacturers serving the Midwest-dominated automotive market cite different site selection priorities than do producers of foam or fiberglass insulation or PVC pipe for the construction industry. Plastics manufacturers whose customers […]

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Will AeroNexus Take Anchorage’s Cargo Might to New Heights?

We look into the more than $700 million in projects at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Alaska, and explores the location options for New York's airport city.

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In the Middle of Everything

Small town makes a big impression in Southwest Ohio.

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WORLD REPORTS: July 2025

International logistics company DP World is establishing a new free trade zone at the Port of Caucedo in the Dominican Republic. The FTZ will encompass over 555 acres at the port, whose presence will increase current twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity from 2.5 million to 3.1 million.

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Project Activity Climbs 32% in Pittsburgh

Total capital investment dips, but jobs rise 56% in 10-county region.

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Places for Discovery: Institutions With Energy’s Future On Their Minds Saturate TVA Territory

Institutions With Energy’s Future On Their Minds Saturate TVA Territory

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COVER STORY – THE GREEN IMPERATIVE

COVER STORY – THE GREEN IMPERATIVE From Site Selection magazine, January 2008   I   n coming years, it may not be that far-fetched to observe a range of products from traditional manufacturing industries supporting the job-creating potential of their former service providers in environmental services, energy management and green building.    Such is the powerful, […]

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Safe at Home

Expanding firms find access to capital, knowledge workers and pro-growth incentives in Greater Philadelphia.

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Workers Revive Flint Economy

Automotive industry firms build advanced manufacturing plants in Vehicle City.

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Made For the Future

Is it just coincidence that companies are realizing pioneering renewable energy success along Great Lakes shorelines? Or that territories in two nations are seeing progressive energy policies blend with their industrial heritage to spawn growth in corporate investment?

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Project Bulletin: March 11, 2024

A joint venture worth $11 billion is set to begin construction this year in India’s western state of Gujarat.

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TOP GLOBAL PROJECTS

MARCH 2006 Where the Biggest of the Big Went in 2005 (cover) Biggest Global Projects Request Information TOP GLOBAL PROJECTS Where the Biggest of the Big Went in 2005 by MARK AREND mark.arend bounce@conway.com A sia’s booming industrial centers are exerting an enormous pull on global capital investment, and it should come as no surprise that […]

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Industrial Hemp: A Global Test to Explore the Benefits of Hemp

Over the course of one year, researchers in Italy’s Sicilian region aim to revolutionize the ways in which industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) can provide a sustainable solution to materials commonly used across global industries. Although botanically related to another cannabis sativa species known as marijuana, hemp holds less than 0.3% of the psychoactive component […]

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After the Fall

Twenty-five years later, Germans remember when the Berlin Wall fell, reflect on how far a unified Germany has come, and ponder how far it has yet to go.

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Hubs of Innovation

A vigorous, modern economic system requires a thriving marketplace.

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The American Dream Reimagined

The American Dream Composite Index lays out a better blueprint for measuring economic development achievement.

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Maryland: It Starts With The Man in Charge

But climate tech is totally Maryland.

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Right On Time

E-commerce workforce demands are being met through innovative, digital logistics certifications.

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Life In the Pay Zone

To find people in North Dakota connected to the boom in the state’s oil patch, just stand still at an airport and they’ll walk by. That is, if they were able to find a parking space.

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Workplace Management: Mastering the Corner of Space and Strategy

IDRC’ s blue-ribbon powwow in Nashville spotlighted a host of workplace innovations that add competitive edge. Above all, though, space must fit strategy. “The evolution of the built environment over the next 50 years will shape the future of our society, creating new patterns of geographical distribution and human activity.” — Landscape of Change At […]

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Inflection Point

New labor market intelligence and a new vision are set to propel San Bernardino County to the next level.

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‘Outlier’ No More

The newest multinational among many to find the Aegean Free Trade Zone in Izmir, Turkey, is Cummins Inc.

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Valley of the Sun

A Case Study in High-Tech Cluster Formation

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The Retail Crossroads: Exploring the Potential for Malls

Despite the recent stagnant performance of regional malls and the growth of e-commerce, major real estate investors are acquiring retail assets.

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Top Deals: Breakthrough Victories

Every picture tells a story. Every year corporations and communities come together to paint pictures of project success. And every spring Site Selection salutes the best corporate facility projects in the world, judged by investment, high-value and high-volume job creation, creativity in negotiations and incentives, regional economic impact, competition and speed to market.

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The Best of Best Practices

Site Selection presents the Best Practices Award winners selected by the International Development Research Council Pssssst! Wanna fix some problems in your company?s real estate program? Once upon a time, you might have told someone from finance or operations to come up with a plan, or hired an outside consultant, and then imposed a solution […]

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Project Finance: Wish List to Punch List

Ten months from groundbreaking to financing completion: In the best of times, one might look askance at such a delay. In today’s economy it counts as a solid success.

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The Lone Star State Ranks First in the Nation in Capital Investment

Industry diversity serves the Texan economy well whether its signature oil and gas sector is doing well or not.

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Ontario Vintner: ‘Biodynamic’ Is Better

Better Vines. Better Wines. Better World. So reads the description of the biodynamic farming methods in place at Southbrook Vineyard

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In Position

Young brainpower, ambitious centennial goals and 20 years of public-private partnership make Turkey a land of ample opportunity.

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The more things change the more they stay the same, goes the saying. Access to a skilled work force remains the No. 1 priority of corporate site seekers, according to a recent Site Selection survey of economic development (ED) groups and service providers. This has been the case for years, and as long as unemployment […]

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Stop the Presses:

Ever heard of a nationwide media empire being launched in the game room of a single-family house? You would have if you’ve been following the economic development success story that is Pflugerville, Texas.

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World Changers

Illinois is North America’s undisputed leader in FDI.

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Kansas Connections

State workforce services ensure businesses and talent reach
new heights.

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Easier Decisions

One fertilizer plant project, in the southwest corner of Indiana, made news in late 2012 because it will happen. Another made news in early 2013, in the same part of the state, because it will not happen.

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