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McKinley Conway, 1920-2011: Last Flight Home in a Landmark Life

Oh, hell, Mac Conway wasn’t like anybody. He never followed anyone’s footsteps; he couldn’t really. He was too restless a spirit, too hell-bent on slashing through the tangle and lighting out headlong for the territory ahead. Moreover, he was that rare human who discovered some bona-fide virgin turf; he even did it repeatedly. And every time he unearthed new ground, he’d start building. Building things nobody’d ever built before.

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Consumers Energy: ‘Clean Serving Clean’

How Consumers Energy is partnering with businesses to ramp up renewables.

Innovation to Spare

Can a nation be stable and dynamic at the same time? The answer from Canada is a distinct “Yes.” A look at the corporate projects unfolding across the nation reveals both Canadian stability and Canadian outreach.

AI in Site Selection: AI and the Art of Avoiding Drinking Your Own Bathwater

I’m halfway through my seventh decade, and I’ve spent my life in aerospace.

Equipment Maker STIHL Grows Its Virginia Beach Campus

Plus Roanoke area expansion to add 180 jobs, and Richmond chosen for 'Cyber Fusion Center.'

Aiming Higher

Georgia’s highly ranked higher education systems keep the state’s talent pool primed and flowing.

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No Doubting ‘Thomas’

A new locomotive factory from GE gets the Texas fast-track treatment.

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Changzhou National Hi-Tech District:

Industrial investors are finding the space, work force and business cost advantages they require in the Changzhou National Hi-Tech District (CND), just 160 kilometers west of Shanghai — China’s glittering commercial and financial center.

QUESTION & INSIGHT

D eborah Rochkind recently stepped out of the whirlwind that was AOL TimeWarner’s real estate group after seven years managing AOL’s 5- million- plus square- foot (465,000- sq.- m.) portfolio in 15 countries. Most of her time at the Internet giant was spent working on financial management, mergers and acquisitions, lease negotiations Deborah Rochkind and […]

Mexico: The Dry Canal Is an Operational Reality

This is one Latin American infrastructure megaproject that is actually happening.

The Travel Industry and Metropolitan Economic Growth

All visitors and newcomers, together with the money they bring into a community, stimulate economic development.

FILM & ENTERTAINMENT: The Era-placeable Impact of Taylor Swift

As the Eras Tour ends, Alexis Elmore talks to those in the front row for the economic impact of Swiftonomics.

Area Spotlights

Risk Insurance

New locations in Iowa emerge as safe investment havens for expanding companies needing to move quickly and efficiently.

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A Leader in Cybersecurity

New laws, innovative programs and higher learning institutions are all part of Texas’ pivotal role in combating cyber-crime.

Top Micropolitans: A Buckeye Bonanza

All around the state, economic development organizations are scorching their competition for new and expanded corporate facility projects.

The Midwest FinTech Epicenter

Chicago has long been home to key commodities exchanges and leading financial institutions. Now, it’s also home to a slew of new fintech companies.

Paddle Power:

How a River Race Helps Build a Cleaner Michigan

TOP MICROPOLITANS OF 2008

TOP MICROPOLITANS OF 2008 From Site Selection magazine, March 2009 Spreading the Word The appeal of Statesville-Mooresville is no longer a secret, as expanding firms become the North Carolina community’s best recruiters. by RON STARNERron.starner bounce@conway.com Kooks Custom Headers relocated from Long Island, N.Y., to the Statesville Business Park along U.S. Highway 70 near […]

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The Topeka Triangle

Three unique location assets form the foundation of future economic development in the capital region of Kansas.

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Good Sports: Big Leases in The Big Apple

Two of the nation’s leading professional sports leagues are deepening their roots in Manhattan with major office leases in Midtown.

Red Hat is Aligned and Ready in Boston

On September 15, Red Hat announced its plans to expand its Boston footprint to a new location in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston's Seaport District.

Park Visitors Drive Gateway Economies

If outdoor recreation opportunities are on your company’s or family’s location matrix, new data released by the National Park Service this week is worth visiting.

SHOOTING FOR THE STARS

Georgia sets record for film and TV production in 2021.

How to Grow an Aerospace Cluster

An Innovation Campus at Wichita State University will keep the region’s aerospace sector well stocked with talent.

Energy Report

Pellet Run

The past year has been filled with progressively busier project location and construction activity by biomass fuel firm Enviva, which until last year was known as Intrinergy. And there’s even more on the immediate horizon.

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The Multiplier Effect

The Phoenix East Valley awaits the implications of landing Apple’s $2-billion command center; Boeing uses cost competitiveness to thread the sequestration needle.

New Facilities 1990 (Charts), page 6

From Site Selection magazine, February 1991 New Facilities 1990 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1991 Conway Data, Inc. All rights reserved. SiteNet data is from many sources and is not warranted to be accurate or current.

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND

A biomanufacturing pioneer selects Queensland for its first industrial facility.

Drone Maker Lands $900 Million Project in Central Ohio

A nationwide search led the defense contractor to a site in Greater Columbus.

The 3D City Strikes Back

Additive manufacturers in Pflugerville respond swiftly to COVID-19.

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Run to Daylight

Is a jail with no fence sustainable? It certainly aims to be in downtown Douglasville, Ga., just west of Atlanta along the I-20 corridor.

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The Toughest 10K Ever

Breakthrough moments are a dime a dozen. Breakthroughs involving the world’s largest tunnel boring machine and Niagara Falls will run you about $1 billion a pop

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Restocking the Medicine Chest

When New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in September signed into law the New Jersey Economic Opportunity Act, streamlining the state’s incentive programs to two, he did so on the heels of two ribbon-cuttings.

More Where That Came From

Energy industry expertise reigns supreme in the south central United States.

Workforce Scores Big in Southern Nevada

Southern Nevada is stepping up its workforce game with key partnerships and initiatives.

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.

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION – SERVICE PROVIDER SHOWCASE

orporate real estate executives know what they want in a service provider: a listening ear, a capable team and a commitment to deliver on the project. Two long-time service providers who have worked with hundreds of national clients say that these three qualities are essential to providing superior service to a corporate […]

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Down on the Farm

The Rochester, N.Y., area may soon be a significant center of biofuels innovation and production.

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Signature Deal

Boasting more than US$27 billion in revenues and more than 4,200 employees at such firms as Kindred Healthcare

Where Big Tech Companies Make Big Investments

Ohio helps it technology startups grow.

Green Incentives: A Primer

States and communities offer financial incentives in hopes of recruiting and/or cultivating manufacturing of renewable energy products.

Is It Real?

A maker of synthetic cadavers and other simulation products for medical training experiences the excitement and growing pains that come with corporate adolescence.

Office and Retail Blend to Create the Bleisure Effect

Entertainment districts and millennial playpens demonstrate the interwoven nature of value when it comes to office and retail markets.

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Building On a Firm Foundation

All across the Commonwealth of Virginia, biomedical innovators are pursuing a shared passion to help their fellow citizens live longer, healthier lives.

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Where the Grass Is Greener

Kansas is an agricultural powerhouse.

Fresh Blood

Emeryville welcomes renewed investment from Spain’s Grifols in a legacy site.

Clean Green Machines

A new and improved index highlights the leading countries, states and metro areas in sustainability.

IAMC Insider: Look How Far We Have Come

In the midst of our daily routine, it can be very easy to overlook what we have accomplished

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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Cultivated Crop

Two major life sciences projects, both in the ag-bio sector, were announced for the Research Triangle Park area within a span of three days in mid-May.

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SITE VISIT

SITE VISIT From Site Selection magazine, March 2009 DHL Grows Gateways Luis Eraña (left), general manager, DHL Express Mexico, says the company’s newly expanded facilities in Mexico will aid DHL’s response to rising commercial activity at the domestic, North American and global levels. The company’s Mexico City investments include an expanded sorting facility (above […]

A Commitment to Carbon Neutrality

Michigan’s proactive approach to curbing climate change

Trophy Case

More than mere deal-closers, law firms themselves are kind of a big deal.

More Than Just Real Estate

Institutional developments reach beyond their walls to catalyze urban communities.

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.

International Update

Heavy Duty

Wisconsin-based Manitowoc Cranes announced in February that it would establish its first Latin American manufacturing beachhead in Brazil.

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Driver Not Needed

How Torc Robotics engineered a leading position in self-driving vehicle tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

‘We Will Get This Done’

Why are so many companies picking Kentucky locations for their largest-ever capital investment projects?

How Millennials Are Changing the World of Work

Want your company to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace? Throw away every stereotype you have about millennials.

Top Global Projects

T wo independent sources of foreign direct investment intelligence essentially concur where business expansion and relocation in 2003 is concerned. Both Conway Data’s New Plant database, which has tracked such activity for 40 years, and IBM Business Consulting Services-Plant Location International’s (IBM-PLI) GILD (Global Investment Location Database) make the same case: Corporations are not shutting […]

FTZs Are Key to Costa Rica’s Medical Device Explosion

From 2014 to 2022, medical device exports in the country grew from $1.68 billion to $5.87 billion.

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Pure Manufacturing

Ohio is home to an emerging cluster of major battery and energy storage projects. BASF’s November 2010 announcement of a new-generation manufacturing facility in Elyria — a Cleveland suburb often viewed as a Rust Belt poster child — is a recent example.

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Emerging in South Carolina

Rumbling bulldozers had barely scraped the sandy loam at the groundbreaking of Nephron Pharmaceuticals’ new South Carolina plant when CEO Lou Kennedy began talking about doing more.

THE STATE OF THE STATES

The following pages highlight recent corporate facility projects, new laws and incentives policies, wages, employment, demographics and cost-of-doing-business facts in one easy-to-digest compendium.

Gear Here

Idaho’s outdoor recreational equipment firms abide by the same maxim as any other company:
Go where your customers are.

As Skills Gap Widens, Employers Just Add Water

Head south to Tampa Bay, say execs at growing financial services firms.

My Shanghai Addiction

Shanghai is responsible for one of my latest addictions.

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Steep Hill to Climb

The headlines about public-employees unions obscure another labor topic: The UAW’s new push to organize at foreign-owned automotive plants.

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THE STATE OF THE STATES

The following pages highlight recent corporate facility projects, new laws and incentives policies, wages, employment, demographics and cost-of-doing-business facts in one easy-to-digest compendium.

Workforce Within Reach

Oregon’s institutions of higher education keep the talent pipeline flowing.

Hoosier Energy: The Evolution of Opportunity

Unprecedented demand drives economic development modernization in Hoosier Energy territory.

From Dream to Reality

North Carolina Biotechnology: From Dream to Reality

New Facilities 1991 (Charts), page 2

From Site Selection magazine, February 1992 New Plant & Equipment Expenditures 1958-91 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1992 Conway Data, Inc. All rights reserved. SiteNet data is from many sources and is not warranted to be accurate or current.

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The Efficiency Quotient

To understand how rapidly the chemical and plastics manufacturing sectors are changing in Germany, all you have to do is talk to Ralf Irmert.

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Technology Is Changing the Game In The European Property Market

A n increasing number of executives in the property market across Europe are convinced high tech will reconfigure relationships in the entire real estate community, from users and providers to contractors and owners. The recession, many feel, will even accelerate the use of technology to help companies downsize, and real estate may be among the […]

The Quality Location For the Shooting Set

Mississippi’s top industry recruiter — Governor Tate Reeves — used his visit to the SHOT Show 2023 convention in Las Vegas in January to make the case that the state’s firearm and ammunition industry is on fire.

How a Kiwi Car Company Chose California

In a sneak peek at the California Spotlight coming to the March 2024 issue of Site Selection, a CEO tells Ron Starner why his driverless shuttle firm is making the 6,500-mile jaunt from Auckland to Riverside.

How Texas Keeps Winning

It takes a coordinated effort, says state economic development chief.

Shining a Light

In addition to its multiple investments in manufacturing plants this summer, General Motors also is doing its part for renewable energy, smart grid and electric vehicle technology.

International Update

Europe’s Best for Business

Where Europe’s investors want to invest — and where they will.

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Pennsylvania: Back To the Moon — From Pittsburgh

An emerging space technology cluster is casting the City of Bridges in a new light.

Editor’s View: Know When to Hold ’Em

You read it here first: Another North America headquarters for a global company is coming to Atlanta, and I’m not referring to Amazon’s HQ2

Catching Some Rays in Chernobyl

A Chinese solar power giant and its state-owned partner endeavor to make power from the sun at the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster.

The Sweet Spot for Global Trade

International intermodal logistics center offers promise of ‘game-changing’ industry for Florida’s Heartland. If business leaders and economic developers in Florida’s Heartland have their way, the region will also become known as the sweet spot for global logistics, manufacturing and international trade.

Business Spoken Here

The McCrory Administration and top state business recruiters are more than fluent in the language of business and commerce.

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Dawn of an Era

When German silicon producer Wacker Chemie AG originally announced the selection of Cleveland, Tenn., as the site of a new US$1-billion, fully integrated polysilicon factory in February 2009, it represented the second solar industry announcement for the state that winter.

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Southeast Asia: Good Food = Good Growth

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.

The Yard Keeps Growing

Iroko Pharmaceuticals was little more than a seed five years ago. But it planted itself in one of the most fertile growth mediums for life sciences: Greater Philadelphia. On Dec. 12, it achieved full bloom with a new headquarters, and sought to seed the future at the same time.

A New Day for Diamonds

Lab-created gems are shaking up the jewelry market.

Boston Uncommon

Beantown is the only city to top 80 points in newly released biannual energy efficiency rankings.

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Big Science

There is a science to site selection. But rarely do the specifics of science itself so directly impact a location
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Why Companies Keep Growing in the Crossroads Region

A strong and competitive state business climate is part of the story.

Writing History in a Lab

Oak Ridge National Laboratory keeps changing the world 70 years after its biggest invention.

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 […]

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

JULY 2006 Barracks to Biologics (cover) Little Greenville Lands Big Solar Plant, 1,200 Planned Jobs Give Us Your Opinion! NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS Barracks to Biologics Bristol-Myers Squibb Chooses Devens for $660-million Plant by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com W orld War II barracks are coming down and modern biologics lab and manufacturing space is going up on […]

World Reports, Site Selection Magazine, September 2002

From Site Selection magazine, September 2002 WORLD REPORTS | CHINA | ENGLAND | MEXICO | EUROPE | AMSTERDAM | FREE AND OPEN TRADE | As Rest of World Shuffles, China Sprints Even amid widespread concern about too much reliance on China as the new industrial powerhouse, the capital and projects just keep coming. […]

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Come Together

A city in coastal Turkey cashes back-to-back winning tickets on major industrial projects.

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Arab Youth: A ‘Wellspring of Untapped Potential’

Firms want to employ the region's potential workforce, but these youth's may have bigger plans.

A New Day for Diamonds

Lab-created gems are shaking up the jewelry market.

The 7E7: A Bold Gamble for Both Boeing and the State of Washington

A ppropriately, the University of Washington Husky Marching Band played “Tequila.” That 1958 oldie reflected the giddy buzz rippling through the gala toasting Boeing’s decision to bring its US$900-million 7E7 assembly plant to Everett, Wash. Both Boeing and Washington had similar reasons to celebrate. Each had mounted a bold gamble aiming […]

Robust In the Rockies

Colorado’s environment for doing business is as healthy as its growing populace.

There’s Black Gold in Them Thar Hills

When it comes to minerals gleaned from the earth, there is perhaps no place in America more important to the national and global economy than West Texas.

North American Reports

Coast to Coast HQ Watch

by Adam Bruns

Alot of moves are in the works by corporate headquarters across the U.S., for reasons ranging from cost containment to Asia attainment.

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Blame Canada?

A global consultancy issues two new reports on global biopharma competitiveness, finding the US tops and its northern neighbor wanting.

The Innovation Infrastructure You Can’t See

Windsor-Essex, Ontario, is the only major Canadian metro south of the US border; more importantly, it’s a powerhouse industrial center.

The Fight Begins

Gov. Greg Abbott advocates for an even stronger Texas economy.

WORLD REPORTS

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, May 2008 Freudenberg Debuts Shanghai Facility P&G Plant Makes Scents in Singapore Ecolab Taps Zurich for EMEA HQ Frankfurt Airport Readies for A380 Jets Solar Demand Drives Japan Expansions Yahoo Speeds Global Moves Yahoo opened a new lab in Haifa, Israel, in March. by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry […]

Cultivating Ontario’s Aerospace Future at Downsview Park

Ontario has long been an aerospace industry hub for a host of reasons – an exceptionally well-educated and talented workforce, accessibility and a strong transportation infrastructure, an excellent quality of life, generous incentives to encourage innovation and reasonable operating costs.

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The 2010 Global Best to Invest Rankings

The Site Selection editors are pleased to present the third annual Global Best to Invest rankings.

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‘Mine’ Your Own Business

Louise Story’s article in The New York Times last month is merely the latest installment of the longstanding observation that state and local incentives amount to a zero-sum game, whereby one location’s win is another’s loss.

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.

Talent Attraction Efforts to Focus on Custom Solutions

A new strategic alignment aimed at talent development is just one way Indiana is building on four consecutive record-breaking years for economic development.

Health Tech On the Upswing in Trio of Quebec Metros

A mix of factors have put patients, physicians, researchers, institutes, business accelerators and even animal subjects in close physical proximity.

Small Town, Big Opportunity

With ample space and easy access to markets, Abilene draws companies to Northwest Texas.

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Ad In: Indiana’s Logistics Advantage

Only a handful of Midwestern states offer companies the logistics advantage of a northern water route via the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and a southern water route via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to the Gulf of Mexico.

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STATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

STATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE From Site Selection magazine, November 2007 Enter the Fray Jurisdictions of all sizes do what they can to reduce the cost of doing business. by MARK AREND, ADAM BRUNS & JOHN W. McCURRY, mark.arend bounce@conway.com C orporations and governments alike are faced with transparency mandates that have brought renewed focus […]

EDITOR’S VIEW

EDITOR’S VIEW From Site Selection magazine, July 2008 by MARK AREND mark.arend bounce@conway.com Congress to Industry: A Bronze Will Do I f the governing bodies of the various U.S. sports teams preparing for the summer Olympics in August act quickly, they can still enact some measures that will affect those teams’ performance in the games. […]

Into the Stratosphere

Citing a highly skilled workforce, the cost of doing business and the number of aerospace companies already located in the state, a report released in December 2013 by PricewaterhouseCoopers proclaimed Florida number one in aviation manufacturing attractiveness.

The Clean Energy Leader

California sets the standard for the country and the world.

Hiring Harmony

Some tech companies are eschewing Silicon Valley for the quality of life a few miles north. Newly hired software engineers are already busy crafting code for the “Industrial Internet” in GE’s new Global Software Center in San Ramon, Calif. When GE announced its plans for the center late last year, it planned to hire 400 software professionals. The project is going so well that the iconic company is considering doubling that number in the coming years.

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Top 10 Competitive States: Powerhouse In the Making

Since assuming office in 2008, Louisiana’s economic development team has focused on state competitiveness. It’s working.

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Bright Light

Understandably overshadowed by horrific human rights news in the country, a major renewable energy agreement was signed last week in Nigeria that could spell a bright future for solar energy in a nation looking for ways to wean itself from overdependence on oil.

Rebound Detroit!

The resurgence is real. If there’s a town that can muscle the rest of the deal, it might be the Motor City.

Queensland: A State of High Performance

A State of High Performance

Competitiveness Evolves from Competence

Biotechnology in Costa Rica has considerable political support, being one of the seven areas of the 2011-2014 Science, Technology and Innovation Plan.

Capital Area’s Clean Energy Hub Adds an Offshore Wind Project

Who says offshore wind towers and components need to be built on the coast?

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Top Groups: Extreme Makeovers

The top-performing economic development organizations had to overcome a lot in 2010. Here’s how they did it.

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Parcel Delivery

Big sites are all about the land — and the water, too.

Incentives for Existing Businesses?

Are companies asking too much of state and local governments? It depends on whom you ask.

‘We’re No.1!’

In Texas, finishing in first place is not just an annual occurrence. When it comes to measurable economic development performance, it’s a way of life.

Editor’s View: How Smart Is Your City?

Our cover story takes the smart city discussion in a new, different direction. Editor in Chief Mark Arend shares his own different take on what’s smart.

Colorado Makes a Name for Itself

With a robust mix of startups and giants of the aerospace industry, Colorado hopes to become known as America’s “Aerospace Alley.”