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Report: ‘Era of Less’ Widens the Gap Between Project Priorities and Funds

Ernst & Young and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) used “A Strategic Priority” as the cover line on their Infrastructure 2011 report, released in mid-May.

How Not to Mess Up a Site Selection Deal

Prominent consultants give frank advice to communities at TrustBelt.

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COVER STORY: SCIENCE & RESEARCH PARKS

COVER STORY: SCIENCE & RESEARCH PARKS From Site Selection magazine, July 2009 Want to kick your organization into overdrive? Explore the critical mass offered by national institutions. Sandia Science & Technology Park and its tenants have capitalized on their neighborly relationship with Sandia National Laboratories. by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com s the United States government […]

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At the Center of a Bright Idea

Dr. Jorg Bagdahn surrounds himself daily with the keenest minds in photovoltaic research and development. He’s hoping that model replicates itself in similar choices by executives at world-leading solar energy manufacturing companies.

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Governor Laura Kelly

In word and deed, Gov. Kelly delivers a pro-business message.

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Go Small or Go Home

The pandemic changed site selection patterns for companies and their workers.

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Life Sciences

Good Company in Cork

A steady personnel pipeline keeps life sciences thriving in Ireland.

Phoenix-Area DC LEEDs the Way

Insights from REI’s supply chain VP show where goods movement is moving next.

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Service Sector Surges Across Great Lakes State

With nearly a million jobs in the fast-growing financial, professional, business and information service sectors, Michigan is poised to continue to strengthen these key industries.

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WORLD REPORTS

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, November 2007 LCD Makers Invest to Meet Soaring Demand by JOHN W. McCurry john.mccurry bounce@conway.com The Triangle industrial zone in Zatec, Czech Republic, is home to new LCD manufacturing facilities built by Japanese firms. The Triangle is a former air base that has been redeveloped. E astern Europe is […]

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New Mexico: All About Albuquerque

There’s a lot of movement happening within the borders of New Mexico and that movement appears to come from opportunities — job opportunities, to be specific.

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Good Afternoon, Vietnam

Vietnam’s inexpensive and productive labor force has oftentimes earned it the title of the ‘Next China’.

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Life Sciences

Report Forecasts the Future Of BioPharma R&D in India

Boston Consulting Group research explains where new value-generation opportunities await, and how to value-invest for greater return on Subcontinent location plays.

Site Selection’s Annual State Legislative Update

S tate budgetary shortfalls have mirrored the U.S. economy at large over the past year, prompting many legislatures to adopt stringent measures to curb spending and maintain the tax base. Many held special legislative sessions in order to achieve some fiscal progress. While some economic development branches have been streamlined, most […]

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Talent: Where Supply Meets Demand

Nanjing’s many universities and other higher education institutions are meeting and exceeding investors’ human resources requirements.

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Project Bulletin: July 11, 2023

Indian radial tire maker JK Tyre & Industries Ltd. has announced the completion of the first phase of capacity expansion of its manufacturing facility in Banmore, Madhya Pradesh.

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PAVING THE WAY TO PANDEMIC RECOVERY

Employers applaud governor’s data-driven approach.

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Life Sciences Oasis

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

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Life Sciences

Arizona’s Bio Momentum

When you think of Arizona you may picture scenic vistas, some of the world’s greatest golf courses, the nation’s largest public university (ASU) and lots of sun.

The Assembly Line Effect

Some folks may be wondering why Michigan, Ohio and Indiana are winning a disproportionate share of automotive assembly plant investments these days.

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Warsaw Pact

When you’re going through a $13-billion merger, it helps to have a playbook, a platform and an open mind.

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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.

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Transmission for the Transition

CBRE says these markets are focused on how to provide renewable energy for data centers. Plus, we list top global territories for recent data center development.

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PSEO Data Connect Talent Credentials, Geographic Flow & Earnings

In June the U.S. Census Bureau released data for institutions from six new data partners in the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) experimental data product. It was an invitation to experiment a bit with sorting those data.

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Investment Profile

The Deep End Of the Labor Pool

Just nine years remain before Vision 2020 — Malaysia’s blueprint for achieving fully industrialized status — is to take effect. Former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad set the Southeast Asian nation of 28 million people on the Vision 2020 course in 1991, complete with nine strategic societal challenges to be overcome in order to become fully developed by the end of the decade.

Prudence in Abundance

In Tipton, Abound Solar will occupy a never-used facility built by automotive concern Getrag, and employ up to 850 in the manufacture of solar panels.

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Victoria’s Vow: ‘To Support the Science’

BioMedical R D

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Atlantic Provinces: The Fire Inside, Site Selection Magazine, July 2003

M ore than 430 foreign firms – mostly U.S.-based companies representing service, manufacturing and retail industries and the offshore energy sectors – have set up shop in Atlantic Canada. Whether their operations are in Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia or Prince Edward Island, most industry players are drawn to […]

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Carbon in Norway; Logistics Projects; Automotive in China, Apollo Tyres

The world’s largest facility for testing and developing carbon capture technologies was inaugurated in Mongstad, Norway, in early May. Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) is a joint venture between the government of Norway, Statoil, Shell and Sasol.

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Everything You Need

Three company leaders explain why San Bernardino County is a healthy place to grow.

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Features

Real Projects Mean Real Progress

The most powerful utility economic development teams are backed by corporations that don’t just move power around. They wield it.

Why Businesses are Choosing Greater Phoenix

A pro-business climate, highly educated workforce and reasonable costs serve as magnets.

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Time to Innovate

Bahrain bids to become a Middle East hub for tech startups.

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World Reports: Europe, China, Australia

From Site Selection magazine, May 2004 WORLD REPORTS Edited by JOHN W. McCURRY Europe Emphasizes Other Means to Power Alternative energy continues to draw more emphasis in Europe. Two recently announced projects take aim at harnessing power from the wind and sun and a third is studying the feasibility of building a power plant based […]

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New Facilities 1993 (Charts), page 7

From Site Selection magazine, February 1994 New Facilities 1991-93 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1994 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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2015 Top Metropolitans

These regions know how to connect the dots, bridge the gaps and cultivate talent.

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Cover

Make Way

A survey of global energy projects provides these snapshots of new solutions to age-old challenges. Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL) demolished the twin striped stacks and 7,500-ton boilers at its nearly 50-year-old power plant to make way for construction of FPL’s US$1.3-billion Riviera Beach Next Generation Clean Energy Center.

Snapshots of new projects in Ethiopia, Dubai, Argentina, Uzbekistan, Switzerland and Rotterdam

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OFFSHORE WIND: Dominating International Breezeways

The global wind energy industry set new installation records in 2024 despite economic and policy challenges.

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THE WORLD LOVES SC CARS & TIRES

Automotive manufacturing drives economic growth in the Palmetto State.

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Lights, Camera, CIR: Video Newest IDRC Web Offering

With IDRC?s Corporate Infrastructure ResourcesSM (CIR) management concept garnering headlines in major media like The New York Times, new opportunities are opening to reinforce the association?s message to the asset management profession. Accordingly, IDRC has streamed a new video outlining membership benefits onto its newly updated Web site. In the seven-and-a-half minute video, Set Your […]

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In a Region Known for Energy Resources, Tech Is Tomorrow’s Fuel

These days, seeing “cryptocurrency” and “custody” in the same sentence does not bode well.

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Features

Up From the Brine

Peruvian firm Li3 Energy, Inc., in May closed on its acquisition of 60-percent ownership in a group of six private companies that own the Maricunga Project in northern Chile, believed to be one of the top 10 lithium projects in the world.

The Greenhouse Effect

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

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: TOP BUSINESS PARK LOCATIONS

ProLogis’ Kaiser Distribution Park in southern California ProLogis Park Chanteloup in Moissey-Cramayel, France usiness park design is in continuous flux, a trend likely to persist given the volatility of the capital markets, high fuel costs, ever changing supply chain strategies, and the challenging world situation. Trends Impacting U.S. Parks NAIOP and other sources have identified […]

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Hit Makers

When it comes to economic impact, these projects make the Top 40.

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Trophy Case

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

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The Plain Jane Alternative

Territories reward all manner of renewable energy use and green behavior. But the ultimate renewable, however unglamorous, may be the innovative technologies and policies that drive better energy efficiency.

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Energy Report

Analysis: China, Not the U.S., Will Lead Electric Vehicle Markets

Advances in internal combustion engines will blunt the impact of rising electric-vehicle market share in the world’s major economies, and the U.S. will not be the top EV market, according to a recent report.

North, Central and South New Jersey Boast Unique Economic Ecosystems

Conway Custom Content Managing Editor Savannah King is our tour guide through three regions that know how to propel companies toward success.

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Eight Means Great For Findlay, Ohio

The Northwest Ohio community aims to help manufacturing and a whole lot more advance to the next level.

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Pork Facility is at the Crux of National Policy Debates

One of the biggest pork processing facilities in the country is all systems go, even as its leaders navigate the challenges of potential tariffs, immigration and workforce development.

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International Business Climates: A European Incentives Update

E conomic slowdown and uncertainty is increasing pressure on companies to improve margins. Within Europe, one response of multinational corporations has been to initiate cost reduction through consolidation/rationalization /relocation projects of both manufacturing and service activities. Government financial incentives are available for these projects (as well as typical new/greenfield investments) and […]

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Well Connected

Belgium is a significant center of life sciences development, both in biotechnology and in medical equipment.

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Energy Report

Crossing Boundaries

Founded by a man from Denmark, currently based in the UAE, and with offices in such locations as Moscow and Johannesburg, energy storage and smart grid firm Rubenius is nothing if not global.

West Virginia to World: ‘We’ve Got Your Back.’

‘We’ve Got Your Back.’

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FDI Rises in Europe: H.B. Fuller Opens Nanjing Plant: The Longest Tunnel Progresses and more.

Germany recorded the highest percentage gain in an inward investment rebound in Europe in 2010, according to Ernst & Young’s ninth annual European Attractiveness Survey.

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IDRC Abstracts

Abstracts of major presentations of the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent corporate real estate association. “Workplace Transformation: Redefining the Workplace,” IDRC Tennessee World Congress Opening General Session, Oct. 18, 1999: Bell South CEO Duane Ackerman kicked off the session with “Concrete, Cars and Cyberspace,” a case study in workplace redefinition. With many […]

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Highlights – October Site Selection magazine

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MORE Than a Feeling

How a new tax incentive is attracting and keeping companies in the Gem State.

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Online Insider

Happy Feet

In Portland, Ore., there’s a burgeoning sub-cluster of footwear companies, now more than two dozen strong. Part of a larger and ever expanding cluster of athletic and outdoor (A&O) companies, this growth has turned the region into the North American go-to industry hub.

Putting the Pieces in Place

When the 100-MW Quartzsite Solar Project in La Paz County, Ariz., receive US Dept. of Interior approval on June 3, it was just the latest in a series of projects around the world for the large-scale solar developer.

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Top U.S. Giants of 2009

Top U.S. Giants Of 2009: Lists of largest U.S. projects ranked by investment, job creation and square footage

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IDRC’s New Web Design Emphasizes Content, Portends Portal Development

A recognized industry leader in providing corporate real estate (CRE) information over the Internet, IDRC has unveiled its newly designed Web site. “E-business is changing everything,” commented IDRC Marketing Committee Co-chair Dennis Boles, Haworth director of global facilities. “The new IDRC home page reflects how the association recognizes that change.” A key element of the […]

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The Drive to Globalize: Profit Motive Rules as Foreign Direct Investment Soars

Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 The Drive to Globalize: Profit Motive Rules as Foreign Direct Investment Soars by Tim Venable How global is your company? If you’re committed to making your firm as profitable as it can be, it must be increasingly worldwide in scope. Your headquarters might be in Peoria, but […]

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The Golf Shot Heard ‘Round the World

How Frisco beat out 200-plus cities to land a crown jewel of sports

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Area Spotlights

Growing the Next Crop of Arkansas Jobs

In a recent interview with Site Selection, Maria Haley, executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, outlined her team’s economic development strategy and addressed other key trends in Arkansas.

A Brazilian Aviation Bet: 8 Mega Airports, 800 Regional Ones

The world’s been paying attention to the mega projects that are under way in Brazil as part of the nation’s latest economic expansion and its preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Monstrous stadiums, a bullet train between Rio and São Paulo, super highways, new deep sea oil rigs, and of course, huge seaport and airport expansions all are in the works.

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IAMC Insider: Growing Toward DEI

IAMC members celebrated an exciting few days in Boise recently during our Fall Forum, and I hope you walked away from the conference as energized as I was. I thank everyone for their support as I took the gavel from Karen Shchuka. She has made the transition easy, and I thank her for all of […]

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Digital Disruptors

SOUQ.com founder Ronaldo Mouchawar is among the entrepreneurs bringing e-commerce to the Middle East.

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Mississippi: The Benefit of Doing Business with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

The Manufacturing Imperative – Workforce Pipeline Challenge from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers is one program empowering the nation’s technical colleges and their students.

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NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

eridians were made for man, not man for meridians. Time must be regulated … to suit man’s convenience.” Sir Robert Ball, eminent British astronomer, in support of William Willett’s daylight saving time proposal “The Waste of Daylight,” published in 1907. When Credit Suisse First Boston chose Research Triangle Park for its new […]

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Area Spotlights

Fair Weather Ahead

It may be early in the season for county fairs, but it’s not hard to find job fairs in Louisiana

Kentucky Preps Workforce Through Apprenticeships, Scholarships

Kentucky’s leaders urge those in need of a job to take advantage of the state’s already robust workforce development programs.

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No Jacket Required

The casual coastal lifestyle of Corpus Christi pervades the region.

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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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Soft Landing in Thailand

A CEO talks through his global fiber company's location choice in an evolving Asian marketplace.

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Top Deals of 2023

Like flickering lights, intermittent doubts put some folks on edge about the viability of the EV revolution. Judged by the capital investment, job creation, turning dirt and rising steel at projects around the world, however, the current is strong and steady. Continuing a trend from the year before, investments in the industry dominate this year’s […]

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International Update

Force Field

Atlantic Canada has taken heat over the years for its overfished waters. The kinetic energy those chilly waters produce may be harder to deplete.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST: POWER PLAY

Hydroelectricity helps deliver the EV revolution to central Washington.

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Hit the On Switch

Already known as a crossroads of Europe and Asia, Georgia finds itself at several promising junctures.

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Moving Through the Midwest

Logistics offers an economic beacon for the region.

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Survey Reveals Manufacturers’ Post-Pandemic Plans

Supply chain managers are recalibrating a moving target like never before.

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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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Area Spotlights

Cold Is the New Hot

Dan Francisco says it’s no secret why rapidly growing high-tech companies enjoy life in the Rocky Mountain West.

New Facilities 1988 (Charts), page 2

From Site Selection magazine, February 1989 New Facilities 1988 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1989 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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I’m in Micanopy. On Purpose.

I come to Micanopy for vacation. How many people can make that claim?

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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.

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License Reform Removes Barriers for Employment

Last summer, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson began removing barriers to employment by signing a bill that expanded licensing reciprocity in the state. House Bill 2046 allows workers licensed in others states to be licensed in Missouri and work in the state. Before the bill’s signing, Missouri only allowed license reciprocity if the license was awarded in […]

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IAMC PROFESSIONAL FORUM, CHARLESTON S.C.

verybody in this room has something to do with the rebound since 9/11.” That’s how Jim Dieter, executive managing director for CB Richard Ellis, greeted a full house of continuous learners at the IAMC Professional Forum on Monday morning, March 21, as he prepared to explore with them the “Dynamics of the […]

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Area Spotlights

Turbo Power

Two prime industries help keep Oklahoma’s jobless rate low and economy airborne.

At the Cutting Edge

Universities in Indiana are leading the charge for industrial advancement and cutting-edge research.

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Fortress Toronto

Canada’s largest financial center is climbing global rankings thanks in part to a unique and healthy dialogue between regulators and the regulated.

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Kentucky Rocks

State’s metal sector is robust & resilient

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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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Uniquely Oregon

Six distinct regions offer business advantages and quality of life to boot.

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Features

‘Gold Mine’ Or Flash In The Pan?

The number of practical applications developed thus far for graphene can fit on the head of a pin … a very tiny pin.

Serving Those Who Served

The largest integrated health care system in the United States is in the midst of the biggest infrastructure improvement program it’s seen since the end of World War II.

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Are You Ready to Compete Too?

Joining the fray of competitiveness scorecards, new rankings from Switzerland's IMD rate 60 countries based on 338 criteria.

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NOT PLAYING GAMES

Higher education has become a critical workforce partner for video game development companies.

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‘Unrivalled’ Resources

Renewables bloom in Chile.

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From Site Selection magazine, March 1999 M A N A G E M E N T S T R A T E G Y Keeping Sprint’s New HQ Campus on Track Margaret P. Latshaw, Ph.D., is in the midst of what will likely be a high point in her career in corporate real estate. […]

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GM’s Summer of Love

by Adam Bruns

GM’s Summer of Love: Driven by efficiency gains, fuel-efficiency goals, promising sales and pure momentum, GM spends its summer spending money on its plants.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Nevada: The Start of Something Big?

Federal Tech Hub status stokes Nevada’s clean energy dreams.

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Industrial Redux

West Virginia offered the right mix to land, Gestamp, a major automotive project for an idled plant in South Charleston.

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New Plant Scoreboard

Continue to: 2003’s Top Metros – “Chicago Dominance More Than Mythical”

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Innovation That Puts the ‘Eco’ in ‘Ecosystem’

n September, semiconductor parts and equipment clearinghouse Moov Technologies showed more than 19,200 active listings

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Unrivaled Domination

Texas is still No. 1 for petroleum, and it’s not even close.

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Features

Site Plan Features Active Cultures

Alpina Foods’ new dairy manufacturing plant in Batavia, N.Y., isn’t built yet, and already it’s been expanded — twice.

Looking for Mr. (and Ms.) Goodhire: How Expanding Firms Are Finding Human Capital

Labor may be spare, but it’s out there. And broad-ranging corporate strategies are finding it. What would you ask for if you could get just about any expansion incentive imaginable? That was the situation for United Parcel Service (UPS) in 1998. Its new cargo-sorting hub would employ 6,000-plus with a US$250 million annual payroll. Clearly, […]

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Editor’s View: New Tools for Gauging Area Competitiveness, Site Selection Magazine, May 2003

C all it coincidence, but much attention is being given of late to the importance of competitiveness in the context of economic development, including here at Site Selection. No fewer than three new resources are suddenly at the disposal of corporate real estate executives and others charged with selecting the best location in which to […]

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2007 GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT

2007 GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT From Site Selection magazine, September 2007 The Infrastructure Dilemma Will the U.S. follow the world’s lead in turning to private-sector investment? by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com and ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com A ssessing the world’s infrastructure needs is a daunting task. Even more daunting for governments is developing formulas […]

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