“Truth is stranger than fiction,” Mark Twain once said. Especially when it happens for the first time.
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The Anatomy of a Deal
Life Sciences
Comfort Zone
Comfort Zone: A peek inside a Philadelphia public health nonprofit’s shift in culture, location and workspace design offers a glimpse into its employees’ and its city’s future.
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View from The Top
Northwest Georgia’s industrial development reputation aims to be as multifaceted as its landscape, and as rich as its history. But if one thread continues to run through the region, it’s thread itself.
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10 Countries. 10 Challenges.
The following is a compilation highlighting unique initiatives taking place in every South American country, each with its own unique approach to common challenges faced by investment promotion agencies. Examples range from tactical — such as the Peruvian approach to place branding — to strategic, such as Colombia’s effort to improve its image.
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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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Urbanize This
In late April a joint-venture partnership of Advance Realty and Boston-based CrossHarbor Capital Partners, LLC, announced that it had acquired the former Sanofi U.S. Research and Development Campus in Bridgewater, N.J., located on U.S. Highway 202/206 in Bridgewater Township.
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Turnaround is Fairest Play
A burgeoning life-sciences cluster in Cobb County, Ga., grew even larger in recent months as two rapidly expanding bio-medical companies moved into new addresses just north of Atlanta.
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Accelerated Production
Powering one of America’s most important automotive manufacturing regions is just one of the many tasks of Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative.
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FB’s Bay Area Home to Expand Across Street, Double Shot of Growth From GlobalFoundries, and more
The Menlo Park City Council in late March approved all requested land use entitlements and agreements for the Facebook West Campus Project, and introduced ordinances approving the development agreement and rezoning the property to accommodate design requirements surpassing existing height limits.
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Features
Let the Catalysts Connect
Add biopharma to the long list of robust economic sectors in Texas. It’s nearly enough to rekindle talk of secession … if it weren’t for that instrusive federal funding helping drive some of the momentum.
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Aerospace Executive Champions Regional Airport City Ambitions
Two large motor coaches were required to transport Airport City Conference and Exhibition (ACE) delegates from the conference site in Ekurhuleni, South Africa, to the Denel Campus in Kempton Park on April 24th.
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Two More Projects for Brazil’s Aerospace Cluster
Boeing announced this spring that it will locate its Brazilian research and technology center at the hub of Brazil’s aerospace industry – in the city of São José dos Campos’ Technological Park.
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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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All Business
Elected the 59th mayor of the City of Atlanta on January 4, 2010, Kasim Reed wasted little time in elevating the stature of Georgia’s capital city.
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International Update
Middle Class, Development Zones Drive FDI to China
Of the five countries attending March’s BRICS summit in South Africa, only one could boast a growth rate significantly higher than 5 percent.
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Where Europe Gets It Right: Seven European markets are among the 10 most competitive for travel and tourism.
Switzerland, Germany and Austria lead the world in terms of their travel and tourism industry competitiveness with Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Canada, Sweden and Singapore completing the top 10, according to the fifth Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report, released in March by the World Economic Forum.
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International Update
Industrial Strength
Add the importance of the Mexican market itself to companies’ lists of reasons to open operations in Mexico.
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No Fanfare Please
Equatorial Guinea remains one of the lesser known destinations for investment in West Africa.
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Imagine
A vision many years in the making aims to take both sides of the River Mersey’s waterfront from myopia to utopia.
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‘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.
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Old Places See New Faces
In Site Selection’s annual sustainability rankings in 2012, Ohio ranked in the top dozen states in the country for federal brownfield funding.
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Self Starters
Energy efficiency tweaks such as new HVAC systems and long-life light bulbs offer tremendous and quick gains, but they only get you so far.
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The New England Challenge
Despite many benefits of locating businesses in New England such as proximity to a huge customer base, the relatively high cost of utilities can act as a damper to business growth, even if prices last year hit a record low.
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Sudden Gust
Not knowing whether the wind production tax credit would be renewed or not, a megaload of wind farm projects and expansions came online just before the finish line in 2012.
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