Area Spotlights

There’s Something In the Air

Perhaps it’s the incentives directed specifically at aerospace company investment. Perhaps it’s the presence of three national laboratories and dozens of others, three Air Force bases and three test facilities.

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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.

‘Breath of Fresh Air’

With a work force ranked among the nation's best, the No. 1 public school system in the U.S., world-class academic and research institutions and a competitive business environment, Maryland is an ideal place for companies to grow and thrive.

Project Bulletin, Apr. 21, 2025: San Diego, California; Lynchburg, Virginia; Middleton Township, Ohio

Pharmaceutical manufacturer is all in on U.S. portfolio growth; Delta Star returns to Lynchburg for new expansion; Meta announces latest data center investment.

Top Metros of 2001

From Site Selection magazine, March 2002 TOP METROS The 2001 Governor’s Cup • and the winner is … • New Corporate Facilities and Expansions • 2001’s Biggest U.S. Corporate Facilities • Top Metros • Top Industries • Global Location Activity Chicago Breezes By Competition for Top Metro Spot By GINNY […]

Removing the Red Tape in Pennsylvania

As America searches for sustainable solutions, industrial hemp provides answers.

Aerospace Report

Jamaica Plans an Air & Sea Logistics Hub

The Government of Jamaica has unveiled ambitious plans that will build the Caribbean into a Global Logistics Hub for the Americas and position it as a regional trading mecca similar to Singapore, Dubai and Rotterdam.

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The Greenhouse Effect

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

We Can’t Wait!

The next train to Clarksville will include a new Google data center.

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ARKANSAS

Arkansas offers a unique and beautiful setting for a growing number of film and TV productions

Real World

Some are forward-leaning. Some are futuristic or visionary. Some are private, others public. Some exist and thrive already. Others look pretty on paper so far. A few are outright mind-bogglers.

What a sampling of science park activity reveals most of all is a hunger for environments conducive to innovation.

PROJECT FINANCE

PROJECT FINANCE From Site Selection magazine, March 2008 ‘Strange’ Statements Ahead How will a new lease accounting standard affect the lease-vs.-buy decision? by ADAM BRUNSadam.bruns bounce@conway.com F orthcoming changes to FASB and IASB rules may capitalize operating leases. The change may still be two years away. But what does the prospect of this new […]

Aerospace Report

Stockholm To Unveil its New Airport City Development

A new “unique urban design strategy” has been announced for the area surrounding Stockholm Arlanda Airport, in a bid to transform the region into “an attractive international meeting point for businesses, logistics and transportation”.

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COVER STORY

COVER STORY From Site Selection magazine, November 2007 North Carolina keeps its spot atop Site Selection‘s U.S. Business Climate ranking; a defense contractor explains why he’s not surprised. by MARK AREND and ADAM BRUNS,editor bounce@conway.com N orth Carolina has no intention of ceding its Top Business Climate ranking any time soon. For the […]

OFFSHORE WIND: Dominating International Breezeways

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

How Oregon Drives Innovation Forward

Fearless in flight, innovators take off.

IAMC Insider: Sustainability Includes Sustaining an Organization

Sustainability Includes Sustaining an Organization

Leadership Begins Here

Southern Oregon University’s micro-credential program creates key connections in the Rogue Valley.

Life Sciences

Engineering a Future

When the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania (ESWP) first convened in
1880, present in the room were Andrew Carnegie, George Westinghouse, George Ferris, Alcoa founder Alfred E. Hunt and William Metcalf, an engineer and draftsman with Fort Pitt Foundry and Crescent Steel Co. who was also the president of the Duquesne Club, a premier social club that still exists today in downtown Pittsburgh.

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Buyer Beware: Expect Urges Tactical, Not Pervasive, Systems Integration

Buyer Beware: Expert Urges Tactical, Not Pervasive, Systems Integration b y M A R K A R E N D This report begins a short series on how real estate managers can implement integrated systems without purchasing and installing too much technology. Knowing the difference is a valuable asset. The recent date change […]

The Rich Get Richer in JLL’s Latest Outlook Report

But suburban, second-tier and submarket options beckon with opportunity.

GE Aviation Invests in Indiana, Alabama Facilities

Proximity to Purdue University R&D, engineers sweetens Lafayette location.

Please Don’t Go

As the global economy struggles to recover from the worst recession in recent memory, persistent high unemployment and low investment have begun to redefine the way economic development policy makers think about employment goals. The simple but harsh math of economic development starts with a basic premise: There can be no job growth before first retaining existing employment.

Southeast Michigan Builds an Aerotropolis

Southeast Michigan Builds an Aerotropolis: Most regions have one airport from which to launch an Airport City. Advocates of the Detroit Region Aerotropolis hope its two airports and other infrastructure attributes will help the initiative take off.

Life Sciences

Jacksonville Lends a Healing Hand

The nation’s largest provider of advanced wound-care services found the perfect prescription for growth in Jacksonville, Fla.

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PNK GROUP: A New Generation of Industrial Buildings

PNK Group’s commitment to optimizing processes transforms potentially stressful projects into successful, hassle-free experiences.

A Community College On the Cutting Edge

During the course of a year immersed in career and technical education topics, two of the stories I’ve pursued stand out.

Telling the Arkansas Story

Amplifying the voices of successful Arkansas companies.

Tramagal, Greenest Countries, Novelis in Brazil, IBM in Africa

The FUSO Canter Truck plant in Tramagal, Portugal, celebrated its 50th anniversary in early February.

Green Light

When a province is creating more than half the new jobs for its nation, chances are it’s a leader in competitiveness.

Life Sciences

Trial Runs

If you’re a French contract research organization looking to grow in North America, then Montreal and Newark appear to be prime places to splash down.

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Time to Flex: Mississippi Plastics Knowledge and Innovation Cover the Spectrum

Mississippi plastics knowledge and innovation cover the spectrum.

The Ebola Effect

The data show how diseased economies affect livelihoods as well as life itself.

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.

Clusters & Mergers

Medical devices are a big deal in Minnesota. The cluster's attractiveness is central to a big $25-billion deal announced this week.

On the Map

The Rural Jump-Start program has boosted companies on the Western Slope, and stands ready to help firms get a foothold across rural Colorado.

Energy Report

Renewable Impact

“It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Louis Brandeis, 1932

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2000’s Top Deals: Chip Plants Deliver Big Bucks

I t’s no secret where the big bucks migrated in last year’s economic development race for large corporate facilities. The biggest deals, by far, involved the location of semiconductor manufacturing plants for the computer chip industry. Just as processing speed and computing power continually increase with breakthroughs in wafer fabrication technology, […]

Johns Hopkins Tops List Again

Notwithstanding current executive and legal maneuvers over continued federal funding to universities, data continue to be crunched (for now) by federal agencies charged with doing so.

IDRC Abstracts

Abstracts of recent major presentations of the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent corporate real estate (CCE) association. “Transforming the Workplace through Value-Based Management,” IDRC Tennessee World Congress Opening General Session, Oct. 18, 1999: Successful value-based CRE management requires understanding corporate goals and how CRE can add value, said Stern Stewart & Co.’s […]

Ohio Claims the Top Two Emerging Hubs for Biotech Research

What do Cincinnati and Columbus have in common? CBRE has the answer.

Solar Trade War Looms

Steve Ostrenga believes it’s time for some fairness in solar manufacturing. Ostrenga is CEO of Milwaukee-

Energy Report

Shot in the Arm

Quick: Where is France’s leading port for both ore and coal imports and containerized fruit?

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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 […]

CHIP MAKERS, SUPPLIERS, AMONG TOP GLOBAL INVESTORS IN 2022

Taiwanese manufacturers have found a penchant for investing in the Grand Canyon State.

Small Town, Big Opportunity

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

Top Utilities Provide Exclusive Insights Into the Pressing Need for More Power

Power provision is vying with workforce as the most pressing issue for industrial companies nationwide amid a glut of major industrial facility projects (data centers, semiconductor fabs, EV/battery supply chain, etc.). How is your utility’s economic development team working with operations and external stakeholders to address these concerns?

Creature Comforts

Ruffwear leads a pack of Oregon outfitters.

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Philly’s Resurgent Refineries

Greater Philadelphia’s refining industry is experiencing a rebirth. It’s a remarkable turnaround for an industry that seemed to be on the rocks only 18 months ago.

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Montgomery County, Maryland: Where Leading-Edge Life Sciences Happens

The largest and wealthiest county in Maryland, Montgomery County anchors the BioHealth Capital Region.

The Way to San Jose

Google helps propel a city’s ambitious vision.

Seeking First Light

It’s not every day a billion-dollar project comes to Hawaii. After all, whatever you produce there has to be transported everywhere else. But the 50th state is part of a very select global club of locations whose conditions produce a rare commodity: transporting views of our planet and of the known universe it occupies.

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.

Destination Bahrain

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

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Conscious Decisions

The International Facility Management Association supports about 23,000 members who manage more than 37 billion sq. ft. (more than 3.4 billion sq. m.) of property in 78 countries.

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How Arkansas Became A One-Stop Shop for America’s Favorites

An iconic roster of food and beverage brands continues to find success within the state’s agricultural sector.

Downtown Ain’t What It Used to Be

It’s better.

New Facilities 1995, page 3 (Charts)

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 New & Expanded Corporate Facilities 1993-95 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1996 Conway Data, Inc. All rights reserved. SiteNet data is from many sources and is not warranted to be accurate or current.

Business Climate Rankings: Texas Corrals Enough Points to Leave Trailing States in the Dust

Fresh from winning its 11th consecutive Governor’s Cup for total capital investment projects earlier this year, Texas is finishing 2023 ...

‘The Centerpiece of Our Pitch’

Three years after a significant bioscience project announcement, Georgia takes a giant step toward creating an industry hub.

International Update

Crossroads

Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo was able to crow at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, as his nation reaped a host of honors: Belgium was named the fourth most open economy in the world by Ernst & Young’s Globalization Index, while also coming in fourth among 123 countries in the Conference Board’s annual report on worker productivity.

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Today Russia, Tomorrow the World?

Actually, the worldwide web of activity by Russian utility and nuclear power champion Rosatom is already quite robust.

Dominican Republic Free Trade Zones Are Pushing the Envelope

More than 700 companies from around the world are part of a new way of doing business in the Caribbean.

Place With a View

Companies come to Portugal with the future in mind.

Down on the Farm, a Simple Retail Formula Still Works

How Tractor Supply thrives and multiplies in rural America.

Road Show

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

International Update

Meanwhile, Morocco

In the past two years, the dramatic changes in Arab countries have been a primary focus of attention.

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Where High Value Meets High Values

Executives at three national scientific and technical services organizations explain why St. Tammany Parish is home.

How Illinois Boosts Its Future Workforce

The state remains steadfast in workforce development investments.

Chinese FDI in the US and Mexico; multiple projects from Shaw Industries; the hottest US foreign trade zones; and a big treat for Tennessee from Unilever.

Chinese investors spent $12.2 billion in foreign direct investment in the first three quarters of 2013, on the way to a record-setting year, according to Rhodium Group’s Thilo Hanemann.

West Specializes While East Grows

I talian business application software firm Finmatica, looking to site its customer support services operation for the European and Middle East markets, did what a number of international firms do when they peruse Europe for potential sites. Finmatica chose a relatively compact operation filled with highly skilled, multilingual agents offering value-added services to clients around […]

Mid-Atlantic: Legacy Food Firms Aren’t Stuck in The Past

Nor are a range of other companies growing in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia.

Investment Profile

Celtic Future: More Tortoise Than Tiger?

Everyone loves a tiger. Powerful, elegant – yet tricky to manage. Ireland was the Celtic Tiger during the boom of the ‘zeros.

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Busy Berlin

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

Demonstrated Value

In major urban areas, nearly 80 percent of energy is consumed by buildings. Tenant spaces account for over half of a commercial office building’s total energy use, and building owners are starting to pay attention.

Golden Valley

Many the corporate acquisition comes with the promise of continuing investment in the acquired party.

A Region of Resilience

Five years after Hurricane Rita delivered a devastating blow to the Lake Charles area and surrounding communities, British Petroleum accidentally unleashed a gushing flow of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico in deepwater off the coast of Louisiana.

MASSACHUSETTS: A Leading Biotech Cluster Keeps Growing

Why the Boston area’s life sciences sector is outperforming national growth rates.

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Mutual Benefit

by Adam Bruns

Along the banks of what once was called the world’s most crooked river, a straightforward property deal closed in January in southeastern Michigan that will help keep a hometown company home and maintain a special community’s home all at once.

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Software Upgrade Reflects User Demands, Site Selection Magazine, May 2004

A myriad of property management software is available today to handle account and reporting needs of industrial sites. One product that has been around awhile and continues to draw favorable reviews for its latest version is Skyline II. SS&C, a Windsor, Conn.-based software developer for a variety of applications, is the creator of Skyline. […]

Evolving the Local Landscape

Motlow State Community College’s president shares his vision for local partnerships and training opportunities.

World Class Standard

A flurry of new projects in Trinidad and Tobago brings jobs, and validation.

Why Batteries Matter

Decisions along the battery value chain are particularly complex, as well as vital to carmakers’ future competitiveness.

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 […]

Features

Domestic Arrangements

“You’re going to see the development of these resources. The money is too big to even have the politics squash it.” So says Arthur P. Hall, founding executive director of the Center for Applied Economics at the University of Kansas School of Business, of the quickly evolving energy plays across North America.

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AEROSPACE: Flying High

Highlighted by recent corporate investment deals, aerospace has become the No. 1 export in the Bluegrass State.

Massachusetts: An Unexpected Story

Pete Abair, executive director of MassEcon, lists a few competitive advantages that you might not know about the commonwealth.

Union Pacific’s Big Utah Stake

The railroad observes 150 years as an economic engine.

The Thrill of Victory

Airbus adds Mobile, Ala., to its global network of passenger aircraft assembly plants, adding velocity to the northern Gulf Coast’s aerospace sector. On July 2, 2012 Airbus announced that the Brookley Aeroplex on Mobile Bay would be the site of the European aerospace giant’s newest final assembly plant — and its first in the United States — for production of the A320 family of passenger aircraft.

Channels on the Rise

Frac sand is quarried in Wisconsin, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois, making the Mississippi River an important mode of transport by barge. The Port of Natchez has announced a US$34-million expansion for trans-loading and storing sand and resin-coated sand. Blain Sand and Gravel and Fores Frac Sand are investing $7 million and $27 million, respectively, to add new processing and handling facilities and upgrade the rail at the port, creating 60 jobs. The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is now home to GNS Frac’s new $10-million sand drying and sorting facility at the Inland Rivers Marine Terminal in Port Allen, La.