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Top Metropolitans: A City With an Edge

A company that was the talk of the Super Bowl has become a gold-plated example of the new Chicago economy: brash, sassy and hip.

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SITE SELECTION’S SIXTH ANNUAL SERVICE PROVIDER AWARDS

his year’s crop of client-service award winners had two features in common: a demonstrated ability to exceed corporate real estate clients’ service expectations and a profound understanding of how those expectations are evolving. The Site Selection/William Dorsey Service Provider Awards, now in their sixth year, recognize those organizations that not only claim to be client-focused […]

Why Europe Beckons

PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSOR ? CLICK ABOVE JANUARY 1999 Why Europe Beckons by MARK AREND Foreign direct investment in both the emerging and established markets of Europe is robust, thanks to investors’ flight to stability. Two European business location reports document where site seekers have been — and where they’re looking now. Whether a global […]

Trust — It Does an Economy Good

A new report from the Inter-American Development Bank finds that mistrust is an acute problem that limits socioeconomic development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The New World Discovers Columbus

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

Maryland: A Ticket to the Game

A look inMaryland’s bid to lure global startups is hitting paydirt. Just ask executives with entrepreneurial firms coming from places such as Seoul and London.

Life Sciences

Ready for Growth

A biopharma firm undertakes two major expansion projects in two major metros.

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Oklahoma: 3 Weeks, 3,000 Jobs

Aluminum, ammunition and a Dollar Tree distribution center were all drivers of 3,000 new jobs generated over three weeks in the Sooner State.

Why the World Comes to Oregon

A Globally diverse population calls the Beaver State home.

New Day Dawning

With the goal of being the best in the Midwest, a cascade of changes has set Missouri on a new economic development course. Try to keep up.

Outworking the Competition

Meet the new leader of the TxEDC: Aaron Demerson.

The Math Adds Up Here

In the Madison Region, computer and life science skills form the foundation of a globally competitive cluster in biotech and healthcare IT.

Life Sciences

Tex Med Goes West

A new campus from the mother of all medical centers could be a leading indicator for Houston.

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World View

As foreign investment pours in, personal and professional ties with other nations only strengthen Turkey’s business case.

Enterprise Zones Spark Debate

T he effectiveness of state enterprise zone programs, which offer tax abatements and other incentives for businesses to expand or move to economically blighted areas, remains a source of debate more than 20 years after states began creating them. Some state programs – like the Empire Zone program in New York, […]

Project Bulletin: June 27, 2023

To help expedite its exports to South Asian countries, German company Viessmann has just completed the construction of its first heating appliance manufacturing factory in Tinh Dong Nai, Vietnam.

The Great American Job Purge

The sucking noise heard coast-to-coast and border-to-border is from The Great American Job Purge orchestrated by a perfect storm

1999 Promotional Prospectives

1999 Proportional PerspectivesMichigan, Kentucky Bag No. 1s, but Shakeups Reshuffle Top 10s Albert Einstein, Time‘s “Man of the Century,” knew a thing or two about proportional perspectives. “When you are courting a nice girl,” he observed, “an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. […]

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Close Counts

A supplier follows its customers to Central America.

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‘More Competition Breeds Better Planes’

Now publicly scouring the nation and the globe for potential sites, San Diego–based Natilus, maker of an innovative blended-wing-body (BWB) aircraft, announced this week it aims to build a 300-job, 250,000-sq.-ft. complex near an airport to make its KONA cargo freighter.

Handicapping Manufacturing Investment in Southeast Asia

We sit down with two pros to get their take on the future of manufacturing in the region.

Perspectives from Europe on Business Resilience in Pandemic Times

Communities and companies are demonstrating novel solutions to dealing with the novel coronavirus, and some companies are indeed finding themselves busier even as they look to reposition and recover.

Reinvesting in Recreation and Wildlife Preservation

From dam removal to new camping sites, outdoor projects receive major funding boost.

New Challenges to Regional Giants’ Dominance

China and India metros dominate this year’s Best to Invest ranking of Asia-Pacific cities — determined by Site Selection’s New Plant Database, LocationSelector.com analysis from Amsterdam-based IC Associates and a survey of global site consultants. But there’s plenty of activity elsewhere in the region, particularly in Sydney, Australia, and Seoul and Ulsan, South Korea, which ranked sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively.

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Texas Soars

Texas Governor Rick Perry is proud to have won the latest pick-up basketball game with his fellow governors.

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An Ecosystem Evolves

At the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C., this fall, a panel discussion on partnering with US universities featured Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson and University of Maryland Vice President and Chief Research Officer Patrick O'Shea, who set the stage.

Tie Breakers, special advertising section, Site Selection Magazine, July 2003

T he experts agree. “Incentives will never make the wrong location right,” remarks Jay Biggins, managing director of Stadtmauer Bailkin Biggins LLC, an economic development consulting services firm based in Princeton, NJ. “Incentives do not drive a project, but they are definitely a factor in the final decision making,” says Kathleen […]

Blue, Blue Window

Long before the nation’s reshoring phenomenon took hold, there was an actual shoreline doing its part for the US economy.

Design Experts Shed Light On Workplace Performance Measures

Ever since Michael Hammer, the guru of Business Process Re-engineering, made the observation years ago that the business world has not adequately considered the effect re-engineering has on the notion of workplace, work space design experts have struggled to understand the relationship between the two concepts. What role does workspace really play in productivity? Can […]

Project Bulletin: August 22, 2023

Last week, San Diego–based DNA sequencing pioneer Illumina Inc. announced the opening of a new office and Illumina Solutions Center in Bengaluru, India. Senior executives from the company and its longtime channel partner Premas Life Sciences cut the ribbon together.

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Coda Looks for Columbus Conclusion

A California electric car maker wants to employ as many as 1,000 workers at a battery plant in Ohio. All it needs is that DOE loan.

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Rocky Mountains: Places for Fresh Beginnings

The sense of adventure conjured by the mere thought of the Rocky Mountains has real traction in the world of business.

WEYERHAEUSER CASE STUDY: Winning Project North Star

Winning in economic development requires great infrastructure, favorable taxes, low business costs, and a strong workforce. These factors are non-negotiable for companies that are locating a new facility or expanding an existing one.

Piping Up

Facility investment and job creation might hinge on an upcoming ruling on steel pipe dumping. Or they might just keep going full steam ahead.

Sector Update: Oil & Gas Services

Malaysia’s Oil & Gas Machinery and Equipment sector gained new momentum in August with the opening of the expansion of Halliburton’s Malaysia Manufacturing and Technology Centre in Senai, in the southern state of Johor Bahru.

Top Metros Tier 3: Sustaining the Momentum

With Odessa No. 1 and Midland tied for fourth place in our tally of corporate facility investment success for 2014 in Tier-3 cities, West Texas would seem to be on a pronounced upswing.

Energy Report

Sun Tracking Tools

Need to justify an on-site solar installation? These resources may provide answers … or at least provoke the right questions.

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The Way Back Home

Millennials return to plant roots, grow in the Magnolia State.

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Improvements Keep Illinois Hubs Rolling

Moving the Chains

The ground game of the Ohio State Buckeyes during the 1960s and 1970s was often referred to as “three yards and a cloud of dust.” It was an affectionate way of saying that the offense might not be pretty, but more often than not it gets the job done.

Indiana: Nature Powers Beneficial Science

Primient and Sustainea Biologics partner on a novel approach to sustainability in the corn wet milling and plastics sectors. Superior Ag lands a new facility on the banks of the Ohio River in Spencer County.

Wanna be a Skillionaire™?

Backers of a new online game initiative in South Carolina see the opportunity to alter young people’s career trajectories in life sciences and beyond.

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Nuclear Energy Gets a Callback

A potent economic and energy force – nuclear power – is changing the old acronym ‘NIMBY’ into ‘YIMBY.’

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Region on the Rebound

A diverse industrial base with a resurgent automotive sector, vibrant cross-border trade linkages and an improving North American economy are the main drivers of this region’s contribution to North American economic output.

Cleared for Take Off

The sky’s the limit for Oklahoma’s aeronautic industries.

How Antioch Checks All the Boxes

Midway between Silicon Valley and Sacramento, Antioch, California, affords businesses and residents a more affordable location with easy access to the Greater Bay Area and the state capital.

Management Strategy: Brownfields’ New Allure, Site Selection Magazine, March 2003

O ABOVE: In January 2003, crucial green lights from both the city council and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enabled brownfield redevelopment work to move forward on this bundle of some 250 former industrial properties along the Rio Salado in downtown Tempe, Ariz. – the largest piece of undeveloped land left in the entire city. […]

Out of the Dark

A project in Sierra Leone could be a beacon for many more to follow in Africa.

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Diamond in the Rough

In Wyoming, Mich., there is another field of dreams, one occupied by a now un-occupied General Motors stamping plant. The plant, originally built in 1936, was closed in 2009 to the shock and dismay of the community, putting 1,500 well-paid workers out of work.

Now the people dream that an investor will come. It is a shared dream by a community that understands itself, and that patience will be rewarded in the end.

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2023 Top Deals

B2I: Top Deals of 2023: Top Deals 2023: Wherein we salute the Top 20 corporate facility investments in North America and Top 20 in the rest of the world. E-mobility and semiconductors rule the day, with a few compelling exceptions.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND AI: Leading the Next Revolution

No need to fear artificial intelligence when you are in Texas. The Lone Star State ensures that businesses are not alone in harnessing the power of the chip.

Idaho’s Number One Change Agent

Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter set out a decade ago to make Idaho a more business-friendly state. In this interview, he explains how he did it.

Poised for Flight

Georgia’s vaunted aerospace industry is moving at the speed of sound.

Breakthrough Deals Buck Economic Trend

A new plant or facility in a struggling community can have a dramatic effect. So can the location of a fresh industry in an area previously unidentified with that specific business. These breakthrough facilities impact their communities by bringing new jobs, new industry and often new opportunities. With the slowdown in […]

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Saxony-Anhalt Rises to Top of Location Studies

American and international companies increasingly say they prefer a Saxony-Anhalt business location in east central Germany when setting up shop in Europe, according to three influential studies released recently.

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Under the Microscope

“Site Selection for Life Sciences Companies,” a report released this month by business intelligence firm Venture Valuation and KPMG, uses an agglomeration of other reports and proprietary data to analyze key decision factors relevant to the leading life sciences clusters in France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK.

Portfolio Management Migrates to the Web

Fast Track Project Management WorkPlaceUSA (www.workplace-usa.com), a Dallas-based provider of project management and other real estate services, is using an Internet-based project management system from Citadon (www.citadon.com), San Francisco, to facilitate the simultaneous creation of 13 network information centers for WorldCom. The $900 million effort involves building 12 centers totaling 1.3 million sq. ft. (120,700 […]

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING: Microchips and Spaceships Power Texas’ Manufacturing Prowess

Texas is where the future of advanced manufacturing is building.

The Race is On

A billion-dollar fund and a gigantic conglomerate drive biopharma investment in South Korea.

Columbus, Ohio: How the Columbus Region Became the Talent Factory of the Midwest

The secret sauce behind big wins from Intel, AWS and Honda? Workforce Development.

International Update

Cities of Opportunity

Analysis used to arrive at Site Selection’s Global Best to Invest rankings produced another benefit — an opportunity to shed light on investment in European metros that don’t often make headlines.

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Gov. Rauner: ‘It’s Time To Get Us on the List’

The Quad Cities’ Mississippi River divide is just part of the local landscape, except to Illinois-side economic developers and the capital investors they seek. The latter have a stark choice in which state to operate.

Global Site Selection Is Going Virtual

Decades into its development and still in search of a footing, virtual reality owns a somewhat suspect place in the mind of the general public, pre-millennials in particular.

Manitoba Premier Defines His Province’s Competitive Edge

Winnepeg, Manitoba, is the overall lowest-cost city of 26 Midwestern US and Western Canada metros.

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.

The Time Is Now

Visionary leaders and innovative programs show you how to find and welcome military veterans to your company's workforce.

International Update

Magic Factories

That’s what viewers of such films as “2012,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Titanic” and “Transformers” frequently say of the Academy-Award-winning work of Digital Domain, the Venice, Calif.-based visual effects studio that is owned by Florida investment and technology firm Wyndcrest Holdings.

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Tenant Energy Plans Are All About ROI

Sustainability programs come and go, but following the ULI's new program could help yours stick around a little longer.

Off to a Hot Start

A major automotive investment continues South Carolina’s streak of big deals.

Do You Believe in Unicorns?

Economic development at the fringes of civilization offers a testbed for new strategies in rural communities.

Ready for Prime Time

Amazon’s $1.5B investment in Northern Kentucky is the latest sign that business climate improvements are paying big dividends in the Bluegrass State.

Building On Solid Momentum

DCEO Director Richards outlines how state government partners with private industry to create expansion opportunities.

Area Spotlights

Taking Care of Business

Meeting customer needs is job one for expanding companies in Maine.

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Other Top Development Organizations: Honorable Mentions from 1999

Selected from the many nominations received for this year’s Site Selection list of top development groups, here are profiles of 10 other worthy organizations from 1999: Baldwin County Economic Development Alliance, Robertsdale, Ala.: Instrumental in attracting more than 1,000 new jobs and US$37 million in capital investments to its service area of 132,000. Major investments […]

Aerospace & Defense: Starships & Troopers

A sector that generated $391 billion in value and accounted for 2.1 million employees in the U.S. alone in 2021 is a sector worth paying attention to.

The Telecom Connection: How It’s Rewiring the New Economy’s Location Rules

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1998 The Telecom Connection: How It’s Rewiring the New Economy’s Location Rules by Jack Lyne “Infostructure” is dominating and changing many location criteria, perhaps nowhere more clearly than in corporate call centers’ swelling ranks. “The ‘digitized infrastructure’ connecting office buildings and factories has become as important as bricks, mortar and hard walls,” says a […]

The New Land of Opportunity

Colleges and universities produce life-saving and world-changing innovation in Ohio.

Six Projects Are Enough for an Ohio River Metro’s Win

At an ideal meeting place, Greater Paducah meets up with this year’s Great River Cup.

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Modes and Nodes

Shipping and location data offer distinct vantage points on what’s hot and what’s next.

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Further Action

Last week more than 200 people from around the country attended an event at Willow Run, a signature automotive brownfield site in Ypsilanti, Mich., and one of 89 former General Motors properties in 14 states under the aegis of the Revitalizing Auto Communities Environmental Response (RACER) Trust. It’s the factory where the inspiration for Rosie the Riveter worked, and a site that has been called “the world’s largest room” for its massive assembly floor space.

Editor’s View: Manufacturing Is On the Move, Site Selection Magazine, November 2002

T he most likely candidate for a location decision involving a new or expanded facility will be in the manufacturing sector, according to corporate executives surveyed by Development Counsellors International (DCI), a New York?based economic development marketing firm. More than 280 corporate executives participated in the exercise. Forty-four percent of the […]

Laser Focus, Global Opportunities

A Conversation with Ontario's Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade.

Not Going Sideways

Cal Coastal lends a helping hand to promising ventures in rural California.

The Next Era of Transportation Comes Together in Joliet, Normal and Decatur

Zero-emission vehicle maker Lion Electric CEO and Founder Marc Bédard recently observed that Lion had increased its delivered electric trucks, buses and minibuses for the sixth quarter in a row.

Area Spotlights

Defense Mechanisms

Companies that develop bio-pharmaceuticals, manufacture laboratory testing instruments and distribute pharmaceuticals and healthcare products are finding what they need to succeed in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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U.S.—MEXICO BORDER CORRIDOR: The $800 Billion Border

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GOVERNOR’S SMALL BUSINESS FREEDOM COUNCIL: Texas to Small Business: We’ve Got Your Back

Small business owners operating in the best state in the nation for small business now have a new ally in the fi eld.

Where Diversity and Equity Go Hand in Hand

A generational $3.8 billion redevelopment in Chicago aims to be a model for the nation.

eCities Reduce Legwork in Comparing Cost

A business cost survey is the centerpiece of a Web-based service that lets “eCities” get the word out concerning local business development opportunities. Corporate site seekers now have yet another way to access key cost-of-doing-business data in markets around the USA via the Internet. The Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey tm, published by Kosmont […]

Betting on Malaysia

South Korea, China or Malaysia? If you were forced to bet on which of these three ranks highest for global competitiveness, which would you choose? Without knowing the subject of this piece, few would have picked Malaysia, but this beautiful nation in Southeast Asia habitually beats its higher-profile neighbors to the north in some key statistics.

Area Spotlights

Resources Repel Recession

In the nation’s center, a solid work ethic is one of them.

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Here We Go

The Mid-Atlantic is seeing an uptick in location-related activity, much of it with existing buildings rather than greenfield development.

Seeking Alignment

Maine is a bundle of contradiction, wrapped snugly in traditional New England eccentricity.

How Illinois Became the King of Midwest Commerce

From project rankings to higher education, scorecards tell a convincing story.

The Shifting Landscape of Business Incentives in Europe: New EU incentives rules will likely be stricter and favor smaller companies in the Continent’s less developed regions.

Government financial support for corporate facility investment and expansion continues to be a common practice in most parts of the world.

P&G Investment Headlines Region’s Strong Industrial Momentum

The healthy rate of industrial expansion in West Central Ohio doesn’t get more robust than at Procter & Gamble’s plant in Lima...

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Super Bowling

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

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The UnitedHealth Alliance: Leadership Writ Large

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there,” humorist Will Rogers once observed. That says a lot about leadership, an eternally discussed but skimpily understood business success factor. When it comes to real estate leadership, though, a case study is at hand: the alliance between UnitedHealth Group […]

ROAD TO RECOVERY

In the wake of the global pandemic, Illinois focuses on restoring and revitalizing its business climate.

How a Midwest Town Became America’s No. 1 Youth Sports Hub

In the classic 1986 hoops movie “Hoosiers,” coach Norman Dale, played by Gene Hackman, tells his basketball team at a small high school in Indiana what it means to compete for a championship: “If you put your efforts and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don’t care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game,” he says. “In my book, we’re going to be winners.”

Execs Rank California, Texas Tops for Labor

Polled corporate executives pinpoint today’s top 10 U.S. labor markets Today’s drum-tight U.S. labor evokes James Marshall’s 1848 wisdom. Building a sawmill near Coloma, Calif, Marshall spied glittering flecks. He dipped his hand into the icy American River and then roared, “By God, boys, I believe I’ve found a gold mine!” The California Gold Rush […]

Powering Prosperity

Consumers Energy helps bring jobs to a town in northern Michigan.