Life Sciences

Life Force

Boston is still the No. 1 life sciences cluster in the country. A cluster of reports and projects only reinforces the area’s leadership, even as the area’s leaders do the same in another context.

Squarely In the Middle

The community of Russell offers the perfect blend of industrial opportunity with a high quality of life.

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We Are Part of the Fix

The spotlight moves to corporate America.

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TALENT ATTRACTORS : Storm Metaphor Rises Again

THIS TIME IT’S ABOUT TALENT. In 2007, the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies published “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future.” The influential report addressed concerns over exporting […]

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Dynamic Data Duo

Google likes to use the power usage effectiveness, or PUE, metric to calculate the energy costs of housing and cooling servers on server farms such as the one located in Lenoir, N.C.

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The Dynamic Duo: Chemicals and Plastics

Creating plastics from chicken feathers, and other manufacturing marvels.

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Life Sciences

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.

Turn, Turn, Turn

You can't turn around in Germany without seeing wind turbines, many of them now of the gearless variety, their three blades turning their faces to the breeze.

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Buenos Aires – Building Community, Not Just Buildings

Buenos Aires embarked a few years ago on the creation of specialized business and industry districts, and they have been quite successful. Now this doesn’t sound like anything new, but there is an important difference. With far less going for them, as compared to other regions that have launched these types of projects, the Argentine capital has been able to do far more with far less.

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2022 Top Deals

This year for the first time we rank the top 20 North American deals based on job creation and capex. In this online edition, we also present the top 20 deals abroad.

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Oregon’s Metals Industry Edge

Oregon’s metals and machinery ecosystem keeps expanding.

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SITE VISIT

SITE VISIT From Site Selection magazine, May 2009 ‘I Know … Let’s Put on a Show’ Production projects aim to transform old shells with entertainment magic. by Adam Bruns adam.bruns bounce@conway.com W hen disaster strikes, the film industry may not be far behind. Such has been the result in Louisiana, where events, incentives and star-powered […]

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Life Sciences

Next Generation

Monsanto Co. on April 23 announced plans to bring together its St. Louis-based R&D team on one campus when it completes a more than $400-million expansion at its Chesterfield Village Research Center.

New Thinking Needed to Beef Up Cyber Workforce

If you can’t fill out your IT security staff, maybe have a look within.

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Norway’s Trump Card

Statoil’s busy in more than 30 countries (including the US), but its main pipeline of oil, gas and wind projects continues to churn between the North Sea and the Arctic Circle.

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Pioneers From The Beginning

The 2020 National Solar Jobs Census from the Solar Energy Industries Association ranks Washington No. 20 in solar power industry jobs with 3,565, with a five-year solar jobs growth of more than 1,300 jobs that places the state No. 13 in the nation.

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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: Tariff Forecast: Partly Cloudy Or a ‘Great Opportunity’?

The Blue Economy is a driver for the Gulf Coast and a magnet for foreign firms.

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Dream Comes True – Again – in South Carolina

Less than one full year after rolling out its first aircraft at its assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C., Boeing announced April 9 that it will invest $1 billion and create 2,000 new jobs over eight years at its manufacturing complex for the 787 Dreamliner.

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Area Spotlights

Easier Decisions

One fertilizer plant project, in the southwest corner of Indiana, made news in late 2012 because it will happen. Another made news in early 2013, in the same part of the state, because it will not happen.

Project Bulletin: February 26, 2024

Battery manufacturer EnerSys has plans to invest $500 million at Augusta Grove Business Park located in Greenville, South Carolina.

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GSA Web Site Supports Proactive Management of Biggest U.S. Portfolio

The U.S. government as a leading-edge indicator? The notion may seem farfetched, but that’s definitely the case with the U.S. General Service Administration (GSA at www.gsa.gov). For the two straight years, the GSA has garnered prestigious Best Practice Awards from the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent corporate real estate association. The organization […]

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After the Summit, The Journey Continues

In addition to the Investment Summit held the first week of May, SelectUSA is also a conduit to data resources that make for an ideal post-summit follow-up.

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Economic Champions

Ohio’s leaders share the reasons the Buckeye State is fertile ground for new and expanding businesses.

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Of Books, Beer and Beagles: Fingers and tongues wag aplenty in D.C., but tails do not.

Three early 2013 rankings and reports offer some guidance from the fringes of the site selection matrix.

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Area Spotlights

Once Lost, Now Found

Industry reports and the experts make it clear: A new world order is in the making, with the United States essentially redrawing the world’s energy map.

That Grand Taste of Tradition

Notes from Kentucky’s unstoppable bourbon boom.

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An Oasis of Innovation

How one Southern California county is acting like a greenhouse for entrepreneurs.

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A New Generation Of Farmers

Western Growers is cultivating an AgTech workforce.

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

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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, […]

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Cover

Top Industries: Milestones

When nine out of the top 10 corporate facility projects in a sector are valued at more than US$1 billion, you’ve officially arrived as a force to be reckoned with.

The Right Place Arrives at the Right Time

Consumers Energy partners with Grand Rapids leaders to respond to COVID-19.

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Seal-Rite move highlights Wisconsin’s thriving manufacturing industry

Seal-Rite Door plans to relocate operations from Rockford, Illinois, to Beloit, Wisconsin, and will open and operate a 105,000-square-foot site in the 28-acre Wisconsin Stateline Industrial Park.

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IAMC Insider, Site Selection magazine, March 2004

Dear IAMC members and prospective members: This month I am pleased to welcome many of you to the IAMC Professional Forum in Tucson, Ariz., March 13-17, 2004. Our focus is top-notch professional education and executive networking exclusively for the industrial and manufacturing corporate real estate community. We strive to present […]

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Washington’s Ready to Work

Life begins in Washington.

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Top U.S. Metros for Aerospace Employment & Manufacturing

New research explains where job markets in this sector are gaining altitude in manufacturing, air transportation and support activities.

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Area Spotlights

Be In That Number

Site Selection tracked 329 corporate facility projects between July 2011 and December 2012 landing in the dozens of counties lining the Mississippi River. Louisiana led the way among river states.

Refinery Complex Adds Heft To Malaysia’s Oil & Gas Aspirations

The Johor Bahru region in southernmost Malaysia is emerging as a key regional oil and gas hub, and the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA), which is overseeing the 2,217-sq.-km. (856-sq.-mile) Iskandar Malaysia development project, will play an important role in fostering this sector. Iskandar Malaysia comprises five component areas, or flagship zones, that in their own right will bring forth new commercial, residential, educational and industrial developments designed to transform south Johor into an economic engine for Malaysia and Southeast Asia.

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WorkSource Oregon: The Ultimate Job Matchmaker

Whether you’re an employer seeking talent or a worker seeking a job, Oregon’s one-stop shop does it all.

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EDITOR’S VIEW: What Who You Know Knows

The Site Selection team pays a lot of attention to all the data and analysis out there in order to direct your attention to the data, analysis and storytelling in here.

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EDITORS"S VIEW

cores of corporate real estate executives are by MARK AREND working today at leading industrial manufacturing companies with insights and intelligence their counterparts elsewhere are doing without. I am referring to those executives who participated in the Industrial Asset Management Council’s (IAMC) Fall 2004 Professional Forum in late September. From BASF to Boise Cascade, Philips […]

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Renewable Promises

Hydro-Québec’s clean hydropower and plans to grow its influence on both sides of the border hold vast potential for economic development in all of Atlantica, and New England in particular.

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Online Insider

Balls In the Air

by Adam Bruns

To win The Masters this weekend at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., will require supreme skills, patience and fortitude. It will also require a superior match of golfer and equipment.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Power Points

The world’s largest stand-alone Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) power project connected to the energy grid in Shanghai on July 18

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Top Groups: Interior Decorating

Coming out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American Heartland embarked on an extreme makeover from 2010 through 2013.

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From Temple to the Top

How Drayton McLane built a Texas empire that touches the world.

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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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Project Bulletin, May 5, 2025: Wilmington, Delaware; Vadodara, Gujarat, India; Ghent, Belgium

Merck breaks ground in Delaware; Indian Oil Corporation announces new strategy in India; Volvo launches new EV model production in Belgium.

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International Update

Scotland Lands Key IT, Life Sciences Investments

Two US companies announced plans in New York in early April to establish operations in Scotland.

Qatar Prepares for its Close-up

Ask someone if they should invest in Qatar more than five years ago, and they would not be able to place it on a map or give you one interesting fact. Now things have changed.

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New Mexico: Land of Enchantment… & Sustainability

Three solar companies fortify Albuquerque’s sustainability profile with projects. A helium production plant rises outside Roswell.

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Emerging from the Lion’s Den

PACT serves entrepreneurs and investors in the tri-state area of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Southern New Jersey, producing 30 programs and events each year.

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Riding the Wave

The shale revolution is lifting the fortunes of Gulf Coast ports.

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Central Casting

Pioneering workforce development programs aim to be right on time for tomorrow’s technologies.

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Investment Profile

Many Happy Landings

Private Jet Charter, a London-based company that arranges upscale chartered flights for clients around the world, could have chosen virtually any major market in the U.S. for its North American headquarters.

Good Prognosis

Korea’s economy is exhibiting encouraging signs as 2009 draws to a close. FDI announcements for the first nine months reached US$8 billion, up 8 percent from 2008.

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The Launchpad For Rocket Science

In Mississippi, 2020 has been a banner year for the space industry.

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Rothwell Leads Team Effort as Michigan Bags GM’s $1 Billion Investment

Michigan’s banner years under Doug Rothwell’s leadership just got a major exclamation point: General Motors (www.gm.com) has decided to invest US$1 billion to build two plants just outside Lansing that will add 2,800 jobs. And Rothwell, president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp. (MEDC at www.michigan.org), did a lot of the heavyweight deal’s […]

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New Jersey’s Foreign Accent

Companies from France and Ireland add further ballast to an already strong bioscience ecosystem.

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Mercer Survey Ranks the Best Global Cities for Quality of Life, Infrastructure: European metros dominate both rankings.

Vienna retains the top spot as the city with the world’s best quality of living, according to the Mercer 2012 Quality of Living Survey.

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Area Spotlights

Intelligence^2

Cybersecurity is in the national headlines, after serious data incursions, an executive order from the White House and, in February, accusations of data theft from U.S.

Mobility^3

High-speed rail will allow industry clusters and the human beings that comprise them to connect like they never have before.

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

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

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Tailored Fit

The pace of change in our business world is more rapid than at any other time in our nation’s history. Just 10 years ago we barely knew what “Google” was:

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Tapped Ohio

A couple of Scottish “punks” choose Ohio for building their craft brew empire – complete with beer-themed hotel.

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Searching for Friday in Sydney

I've lost Friday. It was there when I left home on Thursday.

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Area Spotlights

Places to Soar

Still learning to fly? California knows how to make a nest for you, then kick you out.

Vroom, Vroom

An emerging company picks a re-emerging site in a resurgent metro area.

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Incentives Update: New York Levels the Field

Film credit expansion seeks to answer competition from New Jersey, Georgia

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TOP UTILITIES 2003

tility economic development departments from 21 U.S. states and a Canadian province replied to this year’s Utility Survey in order to be considered for Site Selection’s sixth annual Top Utilities ranking. Based on 2003 project results from their territories drawn from Conway Data’s New Plant Database, the rankings examined four distinct criteria: total capital investment, […]

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Editor’s View: Staying Curious

Conversations with a historian and a veteran site selector cause our editor in chief to reflect on how 70 years have only served to polish and deepen the appeal of our work to those intrigued by the role of place...

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Meeting of the Minds

MindMixer finds talent its needs in Kansas City; Gov. Nixon says Missouri has only just begun.

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International Update

A Kingdom Updates Its Roadmap

The Arab Spring spared The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the level of protest seen in neighbours such as Bahrain.

Energy Report

Weathering the Storm

On Feb. 20, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) proposed to invest $3.9 billion during the next 10 years to proactively protect and strengthen its electric and gas systems against increasingly frequent severe weather conditions.

Atlanta’s Mother of All Water Projects

How the city got ahead of a potential emergency and ensured clean water for a century.

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Welcome to Transaction Alley

Top innovators in digital payments choose to call Georgia home.

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Top Industries: Asia Arrives

In leading the way in corporate facility investments worldwide in 2010, the transportation equipment sector can give credit to automotive companies

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Infrastructure: The Foundation For Kentucky’s Logistics Success

A major new bridge and new company projects continue to fortify the commonwealth’s national leadership role in logistics.

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Learning from the Masters

Business and community leaders pick the brains of leading site consultants at the World Forum for FDI.

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Energy Report

Givebacks and the Grid

Last month, Texas-based Wilsonart, a manufacturer and distributor of High Pressure Laminates (HPL) and other engineered decorative surfacing materials and components, announced it had taken additional steps to improve its energy efficiency and reduce its carbon footprint by purchasing 35-percent Renewable Energy Credits backed by 100-percent Texas wind-fueled electricity.

Got Milk? New York Does.

The state’s invaluable milk supply secures major project wins.

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, May 2009 Instant Space End users eye quick-build facilities. by JOHN W. McCURRYjohn.mccurry bounce@conway.com C Intel used a Sprung Instant Structure for its initial offices in Costa Rica, then later converted it into a company cafeteria. ompanies in the offshore call center and BPO sector often need a quick option […]

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AOL’s Balancing Act: The Need for Nearness vs. ‘Virtual Space’

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1998 AOL’s Balancing Act: The Need for Nearness vs. ‘Virtual Space’ by Jack Lyne When AOL hit cyberspace hell in 1996, it’s problems were rooted in old-fashioned physical space. But the online king has come back, centralizing brainpower and technology to fuel rapid global expansion. Cyberspace may be where you make your fortune — […]

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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.

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In Lockstepwith Employers

A conversation with Aaron Demerson, just reappointed as Commissioner Representing Employer at the Texas Workforce Commission.

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Energy Report

Fabrication Bays

One’s called Bay City and one’s called Baytown.

Into the Future

Texas leads the industries that matter most.

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R&D in the Rockies

Institutional know-how propels innovation in Colorado.

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Weathering the Trade Storm

Chris Clark, the typically sunny president and CEO of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, appeared unusually pensive discussing global trade tensions during a half-hour media briefing commenced via Zoom in mid-April.

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A Less Taxing Environment

The Keystone State may have unlocked the key to sustainable economic recovery: reducing the overall tax bill and freeing business from the burden of over-regulation.

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From Military Base to Quality Place

There’s a new town center blossoming on the South Side of San Antonio.

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Features

A.T. Kearney: European High-Tech Industry Becomes Increasingly Marginalized

The high-tech industry in Europe is experiencing declining figures in all key segments, according to a 2012 study from A.T. Kearney.

ALL SYSTEMS GO

Kansas wields the history, infrastructure and smarts to make things fly.

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China’s Zhengzhou Aerotropolis Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

On March 7, 2023, the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone (ZAEZ), crowned “China’s Aerotropolis” by the People’s Daily in May 2019, celebrated its 10th anniversary.

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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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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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The Carbon Capture Race Is Heating Up In Nebraska

The builder of a $2.5 billion pipeline moves from Dallas to Omaha to oversee the project.

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Investment Profile

One Big Greenhouse

Iroko Pharmaceuticals was little more than a seed five years ago. But it planted itself in two of the most fertile growth media for life sciences: Greater Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

COVER STORY: THE GULF COAST RECOVERY

n the parish of Iberia, La., not far from the rookeries and gardens of McIlhenny-founded Avery Island, a small alternative energy company is doing its part to rebuild a region’s energy infrastructure — and simultaneously rebuild a hurricane-ravaged economy — using the same natural force that has wrought so much destruction. After securing a 30-year […]

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INTERNATIONAL APPEAL

Four international companies have created about 1,600 new jobs in Arkansas in the past year, and combined they invested $425 million in the state.

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AQABA The Key to the Kingdom

The Aqaba region builds on its centuries-long role as a Red Sea crossroads linking Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

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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.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: PORTS & FREE TRADE ZONES

s the world flat or round? I guess that depends on which book you are reading at the moment. Regardless of shape, one thing is certain: U.S. companies are facing difficult global supply chain challenges. Challenges are coming from tightening of our borders, rising energy costs, reliability of suppliers in an uncertain economy –and the […]

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Area Spotlights

Pre-Cambrian Origins

Seventy years ago Stanley Davis purchased St. Peter Creamery, in the eponymous town located just north of Mankato and about an hour southwest of Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Pieces of the Pie

Snapshots of logistics intelligence and solutions show where the sector is going next.

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Visualizing the Future

Health information technology companies in Saxony-Anhalt are conceiving new solutions to old problems.

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Study Reveals British Columbia’s Low Call Center Labor Costs

W hoever said ignorance is bliss obviously wasn’t looking to site a facility, especially not a call center. And when ignorance means missing out on 40-50 percent in labor costs savings … well it could mean blissful unemployment. But on behalf of those not knowing that Canada’s British Columbia (BC) could save their firms that […]

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Transformation

Winston-Salem blends its tobacco past with a biotech future. After an 18-month, US$100-million makeover, two former R.J. Reynolds tobacco warehouses in downtown Winston-Salem re-opened in February 2012 as a 242,000-sq.-ft. (22,482-sq.-m.) state-of-the art biotech center that houses medical research departments affiliated with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and an incubator for fledgling biotech firms.

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Cleared For Takeoff

How Wichita’s top aerospace company will staff a $1-billion, five-year expansion.

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Area Spotlights

Fountains of Youth

Foreign investors, entrepreneurs and defense-related companies are transforming two once-sleepy North Florida markets from raw material-dependent communities into thriving high-tech centers of global commerce.

‘Foreign Investors Should Talk to Me’

Former Guatemalan President (1996-2000) and current Guatemala City Mayor Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen addressed a Guatemala Investment Summit on May 30th to encourage investors to consider seriously his metropolitan area the next time they are seeking a location for BPO, manufacturing or other facilities.

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Southeast Region: Keeping Deals on Track

How Southeastern States’ Economic Development Incentive Packages Compare

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Workforce Training Becomes an Economic Catalyst

Off The Grid Brewery is a 10-year-old family-owned business based at the heart of Southern California in San Bernardino County, that had long been able to meet its hiring needs on its own.

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Keep on Truckin’

Werner Enterprises invests for the long haul in Nebraska.

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EDITORS’S VIEW

recent article from the consultancy Oxford Analytica (www.oxan.com), “Financial Power Shifts Away From U.S.,” makes the case that the U.S. is at risk of losing its preeminence as a financial-services center to markets in Asia and Europe, particularly the United Kingdom. But it’s for different reasons than why the U.S. allegedly lost its manufacturing sector […]

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Features

Pictures of the Wind

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) in February announced that global installed wind energy capacity increased by 19 percent in 2012 to 282,000 MW.

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