Area Spotlights

Mountain Air Boosts Longevity

Nashville in central Tennessee, Union City in the state’s far northwest and several other communities have claimed important new capital investment projects in 2013.

Pennsylvania: 4 Reasons Companies Are Expanding in the Lehigh Valley

Population growth is helping meet a growing demand for labor in the Lehigh Valley.

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Starting Anew

The Silver Eagle Bus Co., whose manufacturing history traces to Belgium and Germany before a run of several decades in the U.S., has embarked on a new chapter in its twist-and-turn history as it ramps up production in the Nashville suburb of Gallatin.

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1998’s Top 10 Deals: Dovetailing Development Excellence with Corporate Strategy

From Site Selection magazine, May 1999 1 9 9 8 ‘ s T O P 1 0 D E A L S Dovetailing Development Excellence with Corporate Strategy b y J A C K L Y N E From Boeing to UPS, 1998’s top 10 deals cut a wide industry […]

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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.

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Big Tent

When PharmaCline CEO Steve Keough needed a location to develop and commercialize his promising new pharmaceutical technology, he analyzed all 50 states. “When I arrived in South Dakota I was immediately embraced,” said Keough, who recalls how he met with the governor’s office, the South Dakota Biotech Association and venture captiatlist in his first day in the state.

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Life Sciences

Both Sides Now

What do poet Ezra Pound, Garfield assassin Charles Guiteau, silent film actress Mary Claire Fuller, original Oxford English Dictionary contributor Dr. William Chester Minor and LSD champion and manufacturer Augustus Stanley Owsley III have in common?

Numbers Tell Story in Chicago, Boston

I t’s no secret that two of the hottest corporate real estate markets in America are Chicago and Boston. What you may not know is why. After nearly a decade of record US economic expansion, why do these two diverse and yet similar metropolitan markets continue to top the charts for corporate users of industrial […]

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Tulsa Is Reinventing Itself

From advanced mobility to solar, investments by the federal government are hitting home.

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Watch and Learn

How has North Carolina managed to rank No. 1 in Site Selection’s annual business climate rankings eight times in the past nine years? It may have something to do with its infrastructure of higher learning.

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Africa, Torslanda, Volvo, China and more.

According to a report by London-based global recruiting firm Hydrogen Group, the likelihood is very good that members of Generation Y, those people born in the 1980s and 1990s, are prepared to leave their home countries in order to make the most of the investment into their careers.

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Top Competitive States: Georgia’s On Investors’ Minds

Georgia has now unseated regulars North Carolina and Texas from first place in Site Selection’s key measures of state economic development success. That’s no easy feat.

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Life Sciences

One for All

It was a few years ago that global healthcare information software and analytics firm Cerner Corp. was about to invest $1 billion at the blighted Bannister Mall site in southeast Kansas City, Mo., when it was suddenly pulled over to Kansas City, Kan., and Wyandotte County with its 4,000-job campus and expansion.

Health Care Hotbed Heats Up

Michigan companies make their mark in life sciences and medical devices.

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Battery Powered

A flurry of new projects highlights the importance of storage to the smart grid.

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Scaling New Heights

For San Bernardino County, the conditions for industrial growth have never been stronger.

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Locations of the Future

Site Selection’s recent Locations of the Future survey respondents project the future.

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‘Albuquerque or Denver?’

Gov. Susana Martinez’ background has more to do with courtrooms than boardrooms. Until her November 2010 election, she served as District Attorney for the 3rd Judicial District in Doña Ana County on the border with Mexico.

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Life Sciences

Regeneron Set to Regenerate

Even as New York’s largest biotech company keeps reinvesting at two locations in its native New York, it’s also looking abroad to the Emerald Isle. And it’s planning to reignite a once-hot Dell manufacturing site in the process.

Best Practices Award

IDRC?s Best Practices Research Award recognizes excellence in the practice of corporate real estate in selected areas identified by the International Development Research Council. The objective? To identify and promote best-in-class examples of how firms are meeting the major challenges facing corporate real estate practitioners today. Best Practices Award CLW Realty Group Real Estate Service […]

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Chicago’s Biohub Boom

Why the Windy City’s life sciences sector is on the rise.

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Economic Diversity Drives Success

Arkansas offers a potent mixture of talent and resources.

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In Case You Missed It

A round-up of what’s on the minds of the four governors in this key region.

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BUSINESS CLIMATE RANKINGS

aving forfeited its three-year claim to the Top Business Climate ranking in 2004, North Carolina is back on top. And Texas, which unseated the Tar Heel State in last year’s contest, finished a more than respectable second. Texans should find some consolation in placing first in the survey of corporate site seekers, which counts for […]

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International Update

The Rise of the ‘Multilatinas’

The term Multilatina might have been coined very recently, but the formation and evolution of these companies has been going on for years.

Changing Minds About Utah

State makes a big impression on site selectors, wins major investments

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IDRC Best Practices: Australia Post; Leadership

APRIL/MAY 1998 IDRC?s Best Practices Award: Australia Post — Leadership by Jack Lyne When market-driven pressures transfigured Australia?s national mail system, its real estate arm took a decidedly proactive turn. In two short years, the group has forcefully made the case for cost-effective strategic space utilization. Australia Post Property Division?s designation as 1997?s winner of […]

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Subnational Innovation Rankings & Perspectives

The Truman Center for National Policy’s “City and State Diplomacy Toolkit” will show you: There are plenty of strong examples of regions not waiting around for their parent states or nations to make connections for them that they could make themselves instead.

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Downtown Atlanta: City Within a City

Centennial Yards sets the tone for Atlanta’s future.

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Tradition Addition

Construction is set to begin this month on Mann Research Center’s first phase in the Tradition Center for Innovation (TCI), reflecting the high demand for space within the planned 44,000-sq.-ft. (4,088-sq.-m.) Mann Medical Office Building (Mann Medical One).

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Online Insider

Complexity Simplified

by Ron Starner

Nine years after selecting Tampa over Atlanta to open its first-ever Southern Business Center, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. announced this spring that it will expand its Florida operation by up to 255 jobs with total average compensation of nearly $100,000.

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Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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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.

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Biologics Bonanza

China’s Wuxi Apptec Group is on a facility investment binge. Try to keep up.

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Welcome to a New Way of Doing Business

An overhauled agency and a governor’s personal touch bring change to Kansas.

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2003 Competitiveness Award: ‘WINdiana’

Y ears of championing his state as a top location for business and industry have paid off for Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan in the form of Site Selection magazine’s 2003 Competitiveness Award. As Lieutenant Governor until 2003 – when he took over as governor following the sudden death of Gov. Frank O’Bannon – Kernan personally […]

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The Steel Behind India’s Economic Surge

The steel behind India’s economic surge.

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Investment Profile

The Right Chemistry

The industrial cradle of Central Germany provides the lifeblood of manufacturing – the critical ingredients of chemistry and plastics – that keeps factories around the world humming.

A Nuclear Power Player Expands in Virginia

Framatome’s CEO tells Site Selection what’s behind the company’s $49.4 million, 515-job investment in Lynchburg.

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Where the Stars Align

Tucson, Arizona: Where the Stars Align

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Baltimore Bets on The New Economy

E-commerce, life sciences, cybersecurity and more are discovering the advantages of locating at Tradepoint Atlantic and Port Covington.

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TOP TEN GROUPS OF 2008

TOP TEN GROUPS OF 2008 From Site Selection magazine, May 2009 The Center Holds From Houston to Chicago, communities in Middle America rank among top-performing economic development groups. by RON STARNERron.starner bounce@conway.com Willis Group Holdings recently signed a long-term lease at Chicago’s signature skyscraper, the Sears Tower. As part of the deal, the building […]

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In Pursuit of the Summit

Virginia, Maryland and Delaware constitute the core of a region where you truly get what you pay for.

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Area Spotlights

Certifiably Ready

Jasper County, Mo., is the nation’s first Certified Work Ready Community (CWRC) – a designation of American College Testing (ACT), the Iowa-based nonprofit organization that administers the ACT college admissions exam taken by more than 1.6 million high school students each year.

The 2016 Sustainability Rankings Redefine Ecosystems

The 2016 Sustainability Rankings reflect where the action is, and where the dirty work of cleaner living is taking place.

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Who’s Winning — and Losing — Corporate Headquarters

Some fascinating analysis of corporate relocation activity appeared in my inbox just as we were completing work on this issue.

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FLAP-D and Beyond

Since January 2015, Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database has qualified 58 major data center investments in the Europe’s “FLAP-D” markets: Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin.

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How Illinois Became the King of Midwest Commerce

From project rankings to higher education, scorecards tell a convincing story.

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A Model of Modern Infrastructure

Quickly move goods from the heart of America to the rest of the world through Kansas’ newest intermodal hub.

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Area Spotlights

Grow If You Want To

Led by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Business Person of the Year for 2012, and picked as Montana’s Innovation Company of the Year in August 2012, Simms Fishing Products, captained by President K.C. Walsh, moved into a new 60,000-sq.-ft. (5,574-sq.-m.) headquarters, production and distribution facility in Bozeman last year.

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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How Springfield Became the Stainless Steel Capital of the U.S.

Springfield sparkles with more than two dozen companies supplying everything that’s made of stainless steel.

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Where to Fill ‘Er Up

Where’s a biodiesel pump when you really need one? And what good’s an electric vehicle if you can’t find a place to plug in?

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EDITORS’S VIEW

ince 60 percent of our readers are chief executives or comparable, it’s likely you also subscribe to Chief Executive magazine. If so, you may recall coverage recently of their “Chief Executive CEO Confidence Index,” which revealed a healthy optimism where the U.S.’s economic prospects are concerned. For example, 55 percent of CEOs expect hiring to […]

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Diverse Opportunities and Vibrant Communities

Why Illinois is the right place for you.

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Energy Report

New Standard

Last week the EPA finalized the 2013 percentage standards for four fuel categories that are part of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program established by Congress. Most of these fuels are produced by American farmers and growers domestically and help reduce carbon pollution.

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.

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UAE Free Zones Hone Their Competitive Edge

New legislation in 2013 could overhaul financial regulation of free zones in the United Arab Emirates, making them even more desirable locations for capital investors.

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Putting Drivers into Park: How Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Our World

“In the future, when we buy a car, it will be a much more emotionally exciting car. There will be no need to own a boring car.”

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US, Global Locations Ranked For Manufacturing Attractiveness

Business costs, talent availability are key metrics to watch.

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Talent, Business Climate Drive Headquarters Expansions

Amazon, Starbucks, Costco and Microsoft are household names in the Seattle metro’s corporate headquarters community.

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Energy Report

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.

Question and Insight: Operation Sea Change

T ony Miele’s job could be compared to that of the captain of a supertanker making a U-turn in a swiftly moving river. Ontario Realty Corporation (ORC) for generations has served as the Canadian province’s property asset management arm, an agency charged with owning and operating facilities in which government ministries […]

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Meet the Dean of Hemp

Murray State University’s Tony Brannon was way ahead on how to grow hemp. Now he’s a man in demand.

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The Right Blend

Kansas and its capital city, Topeka, are showing up on some lists that plenty of bigger cities and states wish they were on.

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Charlotte Is Trending Young, Diverse and Next-Level

Young people want to move there.” Those are the words of Durham, North Carolina–based entrepreneur Leigh-Kathryn Bonner, founder of Bee Downtown.

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The Green Machine

How California is using renewable energy and other sustainable practices to grow its economy.

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Energy Report

Turbine Tally

Last week the US Dept. of Energy released two new reports showcasing record growth across the U.S. wind power market. According to the DOE, in 2012 wind energy became the number one source of new U.S. electricity generation capacity for the first time – representing 43 percent of all new electric additions and accounting for $25 billion in U.S. investment.

Piping Hot Talent

OSUIT prepares Oklahoma’s students for lucrative careers in energy-related fields.

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First Investments Add Lift To New Airport City

A key component of the Iskandar Malaysia project in Johor took a key step forward earlier this year when the Senai Hi-Tech Park (Senai HTP) signed its first tenants.

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Brand Awareness

Yuengling, which promotes itself as America’s oldest brewery, began brewing its beer in Pottsville, Pa., in 1829. In

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Platform for Performance

Already serving a growing range of commercial and industrial firms, FPL continues to help Florida uncover new opportunities.

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Upstate New York: Power Is the Name of the Game

Upstate New York’s burgeoning semiconductor sector is poised for a welcome jolt.

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Investment Profile

Seal of Approval

Rapidly escalating demand for new data centers puts added pressure on site selectors to find qualified locations.

A Tree Company Grows in Charleston

N early eight years ago, a biotech startup selected the Charleston, S.C., area for its new headquarters. ArborGen

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, March 2008 Bayer Buffers Churn How one pharmaceutical company simplifies big moves. by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com W orkplace churn can present major headaches for corporate managers. That’s particularly true with firms in industries in flux such as the pharmaceutical sector, whether it’s movement brought on by […]

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Global Site Selection Is Going Virtual

Decades into its development and still in search of a footing, virtual reality owns a somewhat suspect place in the mind of the general public, pre-millennials in particular.

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Taking Time with Census Data Makes Business Sense

It’s time for another chapter in Site Selection Snapshot’s occasional series on U.S. Census Bureau data sets useful to location decision-making.

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In Terrell, the Road to Success Starts Early

Students are garnering industry skills, experience and certifications before they graduate high school.

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Online Insider

The Human Touch

by Adam Bruns

If our long-running Technology InSITE series has taught us anything, it’s that tech products for sound corporate real estate management and decision-making are only as good as the people who create, wield and improve them.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Looming Market Glut May Remake European Property Management

Like an approaching storm front, a looming market glut promises to shake up the European real estate management landscape. Already, a broad range of continental firms is shedding real estate to concentrate on core businesses. And heated competition is sparking a Europe-wide binge of restructuring and consolidations that promise to dump a mountain of property […]

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Get Out, and Come Back Soon

Late last month, for only the second time ever, a sitting U.S. president formally blocked a foreign acquisition, due to purported security concerns involving the foreign firm’s deployment of wind turbine technologies near a 47,000-acre (19,021-hectare) U.S. Navy test and training site in Oregon.

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They’d Rather Be In Colorado

From EV battery manufacturing to biotechnology, Colorado’s workforce is enticing industry expansion.

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R&D, Ecosystems and VC Prove Central to Innovation

Businesses account for the lion’s share of R&D spending, an accelerating trend across leading nations.

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Feeding Québec’s Future

Vertical farming introduces a sustainable and locally sourced substitution for imported produce.

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International Update

As East As It Gets

Early June saw the release of the 2013 Major Projects Inventory by the Moncton, N.B.-based Atlantic Provinces Economic Council. A major project is defined as any capital project, including public-sector, valued at $25 million or more ($10 million or more in Prince Edward Island). The 2012 MPI identified 357 major investment projects across Atlantic Canada with a value of $100 billion. This year those numbers totaled 388 projects valued at a record $115 billion.

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, March 2009 German Firms Increase U.S. Holdings by ADAM BRUNSadam.bruns bounce@conway.com W hile Asian and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds garner their share of attention, good old corporate FDI is still flowing to the U.S., even from good old Europe. If it keeps up with a recent […]

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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.

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Bahrain? Bank on It

Bahrain and banking used to go together. That is not so much the case now. The "bank king" of the Gulf has been dethroned. Before the global financial crisis and the Arab Spring, Bahrain was the banking and finance centre for the Gulf and the wider Middle East. The United Arab Emirates has now become the go-to location for many activities in this sector.

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How Ohio Rebuilt its Factory Base

If you’re looking for lessons on how Ohio rebuilt its factory base, Dayton is a good place to start. Convincing younger workers to relocate has played a big role.

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Virginia Smashes Project Records

From Reston to Roanoke, capital investments reach all-time highs across the state.

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International Update

Guinea: Small Country, Huge Potential

African success stories may start with Botswana and end – a long time later – with Guinea. So once you establish where it is (on the continent’s northwest coast), get over its past and look to the future, there may be a reason to spend more time on the conversation.

Look At the Data

When a former U.S. Attorney in New Jersey is elected governor, and teams up with a lieutenant governor who fought corruption and crime as a federal prosecutor and sheriff, chances are they won’t back down

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Making Room for Making Things

Energy businesses such as Norway’s Aker Solutions and U.S. firm FMC Technologies are landing more jobs on Scottish shores, as well as in London. Food companies such as Kraft are growing from Ballymena to York. Car companies Jaguar Land Rover, Lear and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars (a unit of BMW) are growing and steel is rolling.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

iotech is big, big business, and cities, counties, and states across the United States are vying to attract what is believed to be the most dynamic economic growth industry of the 21st century. A new study by the Battelle Memorial Institute and the State Science and Technology Institute (SSTI) for the Biotechnology […]

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SeaTac City Emerges As an Epicenter for Economic Activity

With its unmatched connectivity and transit-connected housing, this could be the home of your new headquarters in the state of Washington.

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, September 2008 Web Site Do’s and Don’ts Some economic development Web sites offer too much information, others not enough. John Warden is executive vice president of The Walker Companies. by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com W eb-based research has become a critical part of the site selection process […]

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Investment Profile

No Assembly Required

Dozens of projects engaged with moving goods have recently made good moves to Greater Toledo.

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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How Illinois Became the King of Midwest Commerce

From project rankings to higher education, scorecards tell a convincing story.

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Bright Horizon

Financial Services: Bright Horizon

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Boston by the Numbers

BIO International Convention organizers are hoping for the usual surge in attendance provided by the Boston biotech community at the event scheduled for June 18-21 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. While it may not reach the 22,000 level achieved at the last Boston BIO in 2007, it should surpass the 15,600 who came to last year’s event in Washington, D.C. Exhibitors will occupy more than 215,000 sq. ft of exhibit space.

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FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED

Sites along the new I-69 Corridor in southwest Indiana won’t stay vacant for long.

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Area Spotlights

Infrastructure Team Will Expedite Northwest Energy Projects

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell signed a Declaration of Cooperation with Oregon and Washington on May 24th to expedite the review and permitting of energy generation, power transmission and other vital infrastructure development in the Pacific Northwest.

Project Bulletin, Jan. 20, 2025: Fort Worth, Texas; Grand Forks, North Dakota; Columbus, Ohio

Bell Textron increases its range in Texas; Agristo plants roots in North Dakota; Anduril makes single largest job creation investment in Ohio.

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IDRC Survey Measures Corporate Real Estate Practices

T he International Development Research Council’s Annual Survey of Corporate Real Estate Practices is a one-of-a-kind resource for tracking corporate real estate and facility management trends. Since first conducted in 1993, the survey has provided insights into how these corporate functions and their service providers operate. Here’s a survey nugget for […]

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Young People Are Choosing Charlotte

A great city needs a great university, and a great university can propel a great city.

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MANAGEMENT STRATEGY

orporate real estate executives like the impact that Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) is having on the reporting Bob Zane and management of facility performance. They just wish that compliance with the law cost less time and money. That’s the bottom line of a new research study conducted by the Atlanta-based Industrial Asset Management Council. […]

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Dreaming Big Again

A Hudson River site once home to thousands of IBMers is positioned for a reboot 60 years after its debut.

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International Update

A Very Busy Two-Way Street

President Obama’s visit to Mexico City in May had an interesting and surprisingly novel focus on the two nations’ very positive economic relations, now at an amazing $536 billion dollars in two-way goods and services trade for 2012.

New Facilities 1995, page 5 (Charts)

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 U.S. Facilities 1995 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.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: THE ROLE OF LENDING INSTITUTIONS IN CORPORATE REAL ESTATE

Finance Partners Supply the Package Behind the Project P ublic and private development finance agencies and partnering lending institutions play a critical role in the corporate real estate process. In most communities, the economic development marketing, attraction and business retention efforts are led by groups, agencies and other entities that represent both the business and public side […]

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