Life Sciences
In the fall of 2012, VSP Global, an eyewear and ophthalmic technology and benefits company that employs more than 2,000 people in the Greater Sacramento community of Rancho Cordova, had just about had it with California.
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Life Sciences
Australia’s Lend Lease participated last week in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ new Healthcare Center in Kernersville, N.C., part of the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point metro area.
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Life Sciences
Does workplace wellness correspond to the economic vitality of a company or an area? If so, then the new 2014 Healthiest Workplaces in America rankings tell us the Midwest is fit as a fiddle.
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International Update
Why is a Mexico manufacturing presence important to automotive suppliers hoping to reach markets beyond North America and Europe?
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Creative types don’t need tailor-made environments and amenities, just the freedom to build that ecosystem themselves.
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Indiana boasts the best business climate in the Midwest, say consultants who read Site Selection, but plenty of executives are voting for Chicago with their pocketbooks.
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2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the granddaddy of them all when it comes to large site certification for industrial development. Tennessee Valley Authority’s Megasites Program was created in 2004.
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“We’re healthy enough. We’re beautiful enough. We’re smart enough. And doggone it, people like us.”
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Investment Profile
When Apple iPhone manufacturer Foxconn announced recently that it would invest $30 million in a new robotics plant in Harrisburg, Pa., the industrial site selection called into question whether cheap labor and tax breaks are still paramount in corporate location decision-making.
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Governor Rick Snyder had a big economic development win in 2013 when Michigan became the nation’s 24th right-to-work state, but he’s not resting on his laurels.
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Leading-edge green building policy in Greater Seattle pushes the envelope further.
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Two years ago, after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan and a successful ramp-up of renewable energy subsidies, the German government decided to permanently shut down eight of its 17 nuclear power plants and pledged to gradually close the remaining nine by 2022.
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The World Economic Forum is busy this week prepping for next week’s annual get-together of the world’s elite in Davos, Switzerland.
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Toledo is a city that prides itself on its global ethnic and cultural diversity, and the entrepreneurial and industrial links that accompany that heritage.
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Gone are the days when corporate investors divided Latin America into three categories: Brazil, Mexico and “everywhere else.
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North American Reports
Apple Inc. announced the opening of a new plant in Mesa, Ariz., that will create 700 jobs, as well as 1,300 construction jobs, for a region hard hit during the recession.
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Features
The National Association of Manufacturers on Dec. 3 unveiled a report it commissioned by former World Trade Organization Appellate Body Chairman James Bacchus asserting that permits to export liquefied natural gas and coal are being delayed unnecessarily by the federal government.
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“Thanks to this vote by our employees, the future of Boeing in the Puget Sound region has never looked brighter,” read a statement from Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner on January 4th.
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Imagine not one, but two commercial aircraft manufacturers announcing new jetliner assembly plants in your state within a year.
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The three most pressing barriers to continuing US leadership are globalization, talent shortfalls and innovation challenges.
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Silver State officials explain the significance of being a winning site; 25 proposals from 24 states were in competition
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Chinese shirt and yarn company Luthai Textile announced this week it is opening a New York City office.
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Investment Profile
Rocket science and rental cars may not appear to have a lot in common.
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Which Asia-Pacific cities deserve a spot on site selectors’ short lists of potential international headquarters locations?
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