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Tech Toolbox: Facilitating Manufacturing

American Industries uses an integrated workplace management system to manage its vast portfolio.

Economic Diversity Drives Success

Arkansas offers a potent mixture of talent and resources.

State of the States: Data to Live By

As corporations look at investing in the United States more closely than ever before, their leaders will look at these key economic development indicators.

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Car Makers Turn on a Dime to Manufacture Healthcare Solutions

Pivots by these four North American OEMs demonstrate a legacy of innovation and ingenuity.

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The Secret’s Out

Size is relative when referring to Wyoming's incorporated rural communities.

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How Toyota Plans to Hire 5,000 Workers in North Carolina

Getting more EVs on the road takes a lot of workforce development ingenuity.

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International Update

Ready For a New Year

Two thousand nine was a difficult year for the economies of Latin America, especially Mexico.

REGIONAL SPOTLIGHT: DELTA & EAST MISSISSIPPI: Welcoming New Beginnings

Whether it’s the Mississippi Delta or East Mississippi, rural opportunities abound in the state’s non-metro areas.

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Select Company: Editorial Advisory Group Takes Shape, Site Selection Magazine, March 2003

T he people whose pictures you see here are members of a select group. In recent weeks, I have asked these corporate real estate executives, economic developers, service providers and other industry players to serve on Site Selection’s Editorial Advisory Board, and they have graciously accepted that invitation. My colleagues and […]

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The World Water Shortage: A Threatened Economic Input?

Freshwater is the lubricant that fuels development. And that means development is in trouble: “Forget oil. In the 21st century water will be king. Already, a supertanker full of water from a pure source . . . is worth more than any supertanker full of oil to thirsty populations in Asia,” says U.S. Congressman Bob […]

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Kurdistan: Where Pioneer Investors in Iraq Get Started

Iraqi opportunities. These two words don’t seem a good match, unless perhaps in the context of the oil or security businesses. But the phrase makes sense in Iraqi Kurdistan, the autonomous northern region of Iraq, where early commercial investors are now on the scene. Across many areas of Iraq, peace is fragile and daily life can still be unpredictably dangerous. But growth is returning to Iraqi Kurdistan led from its capital, Erbil. Brands such as Sheraton, Hilton, Porsche and Sony are entering Kurdistan looking to access the potential of this region of 4 million people. Nissan has opened its largest service center in the Middle East, and its new airport, opened in 2005, has one of the longest runways in the world.

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Whole New Level

Regeneron was a fledgling biotech firm employing four people when it moved to the Landmark at Eastview campus in Tarrytown, N.Y., a little more than 20 years ago

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Area Spotlights

Weathering the Recession

In relative terms, 2009 was a very good year for North Dakota.

Prime Movers

Auto manufacturing in Durban is pivotal to South Africa’s economic growth.

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An International Flight Plan

Exports to global markets fuel a surge in Kentucky's aerospace sector.

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Startup U

The University of Wyoming and its affiliate entities are sprouting new businesses around the state.

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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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Isle of Flight

The Isle of Grain, located in the Hoo district of Kent at the confluence of the Medway and Thames rivers, is home to, among other things, an LNG terminal, old anti-tank fortifications from World War I, and, not far away, a sunken World War II ship loaded with munitions, a familiar navigation hazard that it would cost some $40 million to disarm.

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Uncategorized

Blue Hen Blockbuster

Thanks to its friendly and straightforward laws, Delaware is known as the place to domicile your company, as well as the place to declare it bankrupt.

Records Are Made to be Broken in Kentucky

Having passed the pandemic slump, bourbon production and tourism soar to new heights.

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Where Aerospace Manufacturers Are Gravitating in 2020

PwC’s Aerospace & Defense practice has issued the seventh edition of its Aerospace Manufacturing Attractiveness Rankings.

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Wind Power

Kansas’ renewable energy sector is growing fast.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: SERVICE PROVIDER SHOWCASE

ompetition among commercial real estate service providers to serve the requirements of corporate America has never been greater than it is today. More than ever, service providers must find new and innovative ways to differentiate themselves in the market in order to compete for business, which is becoming increasingly more sophisticated across all lines of […]

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Frontline Care, Pioneering Innovation

The CEO of a growing telehealth firm hiring doctors by the dozens explains why the future of digital health technology is now.

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Features

Costs Drive Corporate Migration

The southward migration of regional headquarters operations from Northern U.S. states will continue unless government officials in the Northeast and Midwest get serious about cost containment

‘I’m Very Disappointed in You’

The United States knows it could do better, says a new report on global energy efficiency.

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On Track

Logistics infrastructure makes San Bernardino County a manufacturer’s dream.

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Where R&D Translates to Growth

Reports from the State Science and Technology Institute, The University Financing Foundation (TUFF) and Milken Institute paint a clear picture of the good things that can happen when university research and metropolitan ecosystems coalesce.

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Top of the Heap

When it comes to agricultural production, the Golden State shines.

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Head Offices Head the List

Brexit or not, new corporate campuses bring thousands of jobs to UK cities.

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Area Spotlights

Clear Leaders

Oregon’s approach to clean technology continues to reap benefits. Seattle’s transit-friendly approach to industrial development is paying dividends.

Terrell: The Gateway To East Texas

Terrell’s strategic location and proactive approach to development open doors for new opportunities outside of Dallas.

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Go on the offensive:

Make your hybrid policy a competitive advantage.

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Analysis 2025: The Rest of the Global Best to Invest

Site Selection’s Global Best to Invest rankings of country- and metro-level economic development performance and promise are based on an index of data from the following sources: Space does not always allow us to feature detailed insights from these various sources in our print publication. But online space does. Below are findings, observations and direct […]

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Editor’s View: On Plexiglass and The New Normal

Editor in Chief Mark Arend considers the new set of challenges now facing corporate real estate leaders as they recalibrate supply chains and consider reshoring operations.

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Artistic Freedom Enhances Quality of Life

STATEWIDE EFFORTS INCREASE ACCESS TO ARTS.

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Area Spotlights

The Greenhouse Effect

Everyone has to live somewhere. You might as well live someplace nice.

Collaboration Across Boundaries Is Key To Wins for Twin Cities and Clinton, Iowa

As the cold winds of winter approached Iowa in late 2020, specialty fibers made residents of Clinton, Iowa, glow with warmth.

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North American Reports: Alabama, Kentucky, Kansas, Site Selection Magazine, March 2003

T he enduring ditty etched on Alabama’s license plates has it wrong: It’s not that song’s stars that are falling on Alabama right now. It’s cars. Current case in point: the 430-employee, 400,000-sq.-ft. (36,000-sq.-m.) plant that Hyundai Mobis has decided to build in Montgomery. Mobis’s first U.S. production operation, the facility […]

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ENERGY TRANSITION

China’s global leadership in clean-tech and renewable energy is undeniable. An expert from the China office of Tractus explores why it may be worth finding paths toward collaboration, even amidst geopolitical turmoil.

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The E

Traditional businesses can rest easier: NASDAQ’s recent violent nature is a symptom of the impending collapse of dozens of former online darlings. As it turns, out solid business plans, management-team depth, effective business models (however boring), customer service, competitive advantages, and (duh) profits really do matter. The dot-com’s e-retail strategy — spending millions of dollars […]

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COLOMBIA

How two major companies are helping Colombia go green.

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Features

Coming Home

Joe Jacoboni experienced what many Americans have experienced when seeking technical help on the telephone: utter frustration and unresolved problems.

Uncommon Gazelles (cover story)

JUNE/JULY 1998 C O V E R S T O R Y Uncommon Gazelles: Unorthodox Strategies Fuel Their Fast-Track Expansions by Jack Lyne Though fast-expanding “little giants” are the stars of today’s entrepreneurial economy, their real estate strategies often buck real estate best practices, a Site Selection survey indicates. Gazelle has become the […]

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Valley of Visions

Valley of Visions: TVA scopes out the future by looking to the past

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ASIA: Why the World Isn’t Done with CHINA

China continues to attract a steady stream of foreign direct investments as innovation-led sectors gear up.

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Rise of the Millennial CEO

Forget talent attraction strategies; these young and energetic leaders are transforming metro area economies in Florida.

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Aerospace Executive Champions Regional Airport City Ambitions

Two large motor coaches were required to transport Airport City Conference and Exhibition (ACE) delegates from the conference site in Ekurhuleni, South Africa, to the Denel Campus in Kempton Park on April 24th.

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International Update

Server Security: Wales’ mammoth data center opens; and two more reports.

A facility built in Newport, Wales, in the late 1990s to house a major semiconductor manufacturing operation is finally getting an occupant.

Washington’s Innovation-Economy Edge Widens

The state leads the nation in percentage growth of new tech positions, with employment in the sector having grown by nearly 34% in the past decade.

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

Silicon technology specialist Intel’s vast real estate portfolio includes 49 million sq. ft. (455,210 sq. m.) stretching across 200 locations in over 50 countries. A diverse company, Intel encompasses a variety of products and services. “When people think about Intel, they certainly think about microprocessors, but we have 12 major business units which we break […]

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Biggest Energy Park. Ever.

Academics have a plan to fix the southern border. It may surprise you.

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Project Bulletin, Mar. 10, 2025: Muttenz, Kanton Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland; Gujarat, India; Panjin, Liaoning, China

Global CDMO expands in Switzerland; Jabil announces second silicon photonics manufacturing facility in India; One JV marks a milestone in China.

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Making Mississippi Mighty Is Job One For Gov. Reeves

Investments into infrastructure, broadband, workforce and site development form the foundation.

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Area Spotlights

The New World Discovers Columbus

NCR just opened a new ATM manufacturing plant in town as part of its big move to Georgia

Suddenly Solar

The Upper Midwest is not the first region of the U.S. that comes to mind when looking at the burgeoning solar-energy sector, but significant projects are happening across the region.

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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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A Road Trip Through ‘Multiple States in One’

Project activity has largely resumed to pre-pandemic levels throughout the Commonwealth, with industry sectors old and new in growth mode.

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You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Scorecard

Boston's still the best and LA's leap is laudable in the newest ACEEE ranking of energy-efficient US cities.

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Foreign Pipeline

Honda likes Ohio. Since November 2010, the company has announced investments totaling more than US$500 million in operations at its two auto plants and two powertrain plants in the state. Ron Lietzke, a spokesman for Honda in the U.S., says the investment is about strengthening the companies operations in Ohio and implementing new technologies.

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Features

New Pathways

A few things have changed since the not-so-long-ago era of the million-square-foot warehouse and lines of ships waiting to get into ports.

Innovation Begins in The Bay State

Six industries lead the way in Massachusetts.

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The Invisible 3.7 Million

When Spirit AeroSystems a decade ago pledged to invest more than half a billion dollars and create hundreds of jobs at the North Carolina Global Transpark in Kinston in the rural eastern part of the state.

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Leading the Way

KY Innovation helps startups scale and become industry leaders.

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Ready Today. Preparing for Tomorrow

Arkansas’ workforce development levels up.

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A Road Trip Through ‘Multiple States in One’

Project activity has largely resumed to pre-pandemic levels throughout the Commonwealth, with industry sectors old and new in growth mode.

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Area Spotlights

Whole New Level

Regeneron was a fledgling biotech firm employing four people when it moved to the Landmark at Eastview campus in Tarrytown, N.Y., a little more than 20 years ago

PROJECT FINANCE

PROJECT FINANCE From Site Selection magazine, March 2009 The Only Way Out Is Through Corporate end users cope while simultaneously scoping out opportunities. by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com S ome are pressing the escape button. Some are standing pat. Some are looking to acquire. Depending on the portfolio at hand, in some cases they’re […]

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Agtech Central

Led by St. Louis, Missouri is boosting its profile as a hub of innovation.

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Cap One/JLL Strategy Tames Hyper

Frankly, most companies would die for problems like Capital One Financial’s (www.capital1.com): five straight years of 20 percent-plus earnings growth and a spot in Fortune‘s “100 Best Places to Work.” But Capital One’s blistering growth had burned a gaping hole in its corporate real estate (CRE) strategy. Like some steroid-fueled bullfrog, the Signet Bank spin-off […]

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Push and Pull

Driven by its innovation ecosystem, California is golden again.

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Road Show

Gov. Asa Hutchinson spent a week in Europe recruiting aerospace companies to his state at the Paris Air Show.

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Area Spotlights

A River Crossing for the Ages

The relocation of 1,600 high-salaried jobs from Manhattan to Jersey City may change perceptions of the New Jersey business climate.

Return to the Waterfront

For most New Yorkers, 'underwater' triggers bad memories of Hurricane Sandy or the financial crisis. For this one, it signaled opportunity.

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Oregon’s Metals Industry Edge

Oregon’s metals and machinery ecosystem keeps expanding.

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Smarter Cities

New industrial urbanism calls for reassessing the relationships among cities, people and industry.

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Hubs & Outposts

INSEAD’s Global Talent Competitiveness Index offers food for thought.

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Oil & Gas: Federal Pause on New LNG Export Terminals Doesn’t Mean Pause of Exports or Expansions Already Underway

The federal government early this year hit “pause” on further LNG export terminals in order to reconsider some aspects of the environmental review process. But that doesn’t mean the LNG exports that began in February 2016 have paused. That very same government’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a State of the Markets report in March […]

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Features

Ready for Relaunch

For the sixth straight year, we present in the following pages and at SiteSelection.com vital specs and contact information on dozens of land parcels measuring 1,000 acres (405 hectares) or more

Revival of a Legend

The home of a storied spy operation is relevant again.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: PROJECT FAST-TRACKING

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New Friends and Different Space

Will fractured and reassembled research produce the next ‘rich seams’ of innovation?

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Level 3: Building a Business Power at Broadband Speed

“If you?re in a pretty strong telecom market position, you?re in a difficult situation,” says Kevin O?Hara, the intensely alert, 38-year-old COO of red-hot Level 3 Communications (www.level3.com). O?Hara?s words may seem to fly in the face of conventional business wisdom. Like Elvis, however, conventional wisdom has left the building. The telecom business, O?Hara explains, […]

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Twin Engines

AstraZeneca and MedImmune continue to find Maryland optimal for pipeline development.

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Features

Ready for the ‘CSO’ Mantle?

Even as the science behind global warming research is thrown deeper into doubt by the recent email debacle at the U.K.’s East Anglia University

Food and Beverage Steeped in Hampton Roads

Global food and beverage companies continue to make major investments in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News metro area.

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Shining Stars

A program focused on quality of place is yielding positive economic and wellness results in 16 small Indiana towns — with more to come.

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Vaccine Innovator Expands in Tobacco Country

The head of Medicago, a Quebec City-based clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing vaccines derived from plants such as tobacco and alfalfa

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Resounding Victory

The Thunder may not be in the NBA Finals, but OKC’s GE project win is just beginning to reverberate.

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Super Bowling

The International Bowling Campus opened with great fanfare one year ago.

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Cover

State of the States: A Fresh Look

by Adam Bruns

The following pages highlight recent corporate facility projects, new laws and incentives policies, updated FDI figures, wages, employment, demographics and Recovery Act funds facts in one easy-to-digest compendium.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Integrated Vision

As all eyes are on his state’s generous energy tax credit programs, Oregon’s governor calls for a larger, long-term perspective.

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North American Groups of 2006 North American Honorable Mentions Top Global Groups International Location Rankings TOP GROUPS 2006 From Site Selection magazine, May 2007 The Center Holds Middle America offers the market access companies seek, as the heartland places six groups in the top 10. CIGNA Corp. announced a $15- million facility […]

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Magnetic Mercosur: Free Trade Spurs South America’s 21st Century Surge

Surging free trade is rapidly changing the business fortunes of much of South America. Four nations — Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay — are aligned in the Mercosur customs union. And on Oct. 1, the Mercosur quartet added important ?associate member? Chile, Latin America?s most advanced economy. Bolivia will also likely soon join Mercosur, with […]

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Green Space Scorecard

New rankings revealed today show which states' human beings benefited the most from new LEED-certified space in 2014.

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Life Sciences Oasis

An increasingly valuable square mile gives rise to innovation in Aurora.

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Telling the Distribution Center Story

It’s a fact. Communities would rather have manufacturers and corporate headquarters than distribution centers.

Biotech’s Booming in Texas

As home to more than 3,400 biotechnology R&D firms and manufacturing companies, Texas is one of the leading biotech states in the country. More than 84,100 workers are employed in the biotech sector in Texas, and dozens of global biotechnology companies, such as Novartis, Allergan, Inc., and Endo Pharmaceuticals, have major operations in the state. A concentration of highly trained biotech workers, multiple top-tier medical and research institutions, and a top-ranked business climate all strengthen the state’s status as a biotechnology leader.

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New Study Assesses Key Business Location Factors

Housing and transportation in Greater Boston are key challenges to overcome. But talent always wins.

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2017 Top Investment Promotion Agencies

On the following pages we join corporate end users and site selection consultants around the world in celebrating those doing it best.

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On the Hunt

There’s no better place than Israel to scout for talent and ideas.

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Case Study Competition Sheds Light on New Wave of Talent and the Places They’d Like to Inhabit

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.

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Plenty of Resources

With US$216 billion (C$230 billion) in resource-based projects under construction or planned, Alberta has become the leading location in the Western Hemisphere for energy development.

Resonance Releases America’s Best Cities Report

New York City-based tourism, real estate and economic development advisor Resonance this week released its eighth annual America’s Best Cities rankings, which seek to “quantify and benchmark the relative quality of place, reputation and competitive identity of U.S. urban centers.”

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Everybody’s Doing It

But some states appear to do FDI better than others.

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Michigan’s University Research Corridor Picks Up Momentum

Behind the dozens of high-dollar corporate project investments that landed in Michigan in 2021 — from the likes of vaccine leader Pfizer

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Telecom Infrastructure: The New Facility Backbone

In the “Information Age,” telecommunications is as much a part of a community?s backbone as is its highways, railways and waterways. Now, businesses study not only an area?s physical and human infrastructure when locating a facility, but its telecom capabilities as well. And as telecommunications activities increase in the fast-paced global economy, the need for […]

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Crowded Skies

There is nothing like new competition to keep a player on his game. And there are new kids on the aviation services block in Southeast Asia that other contenders in the region will want to keep an eye on.

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