Site Selection is pleased to present its sixth annual Best to Invest rankings of nations and metro areas for investment-attraction activity in 2013.
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Site Selection is pleased to present its sixth annual Best to Invest rankings of nations and metro areas for investment-attraction activity in 2013.
Read MoreA new facility coming to Florida is one part of a national push to supply enough of a critical medical isotope by the time the primary supplier in Canada shuts down in 2018.
When it comes to a growth economy, the name of the game these days is IT, ICT or the IoT— even in an industrial plant in the countryside.
Springfield, Missouri, is known as the nation’s “capital of stainless steel,” making it a shining example of how a single individual can bend the arc of history.
Life Sciences
by Adam Bruns
Since 2000, the UPS healthcare logistics network has grown from 10 fully-compliant healthcare-dedicated facilities in North America to 46 facilities in strategic locations around the world employing 5,000 people and dealing daily with hundreds of licensing, customs and other protocols in trying to speed critical medicines, devices and equipment to the patients who need them.
Read MoreAdam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Technology has blurred the lines among sectors, jobs and gigs, and redrawn the map when it comes to weathering an economic downturn.
The Braves project alone will generate 5,200 new jobs, and the organization, was delighted with the Cobb team’s ability to keep the discussions utterly confidential.
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.
Roaring back from a near-death experience, newly profitable Euro Disney is now expanding, creating Val d?Europe, a strikingly different new town. ?We?ve moved from restructuring to reconquest,? says Bourguignon. After years of being looked at like some sort of animal, it is very good to feel normal.? The Park Opens, Critics Swarm Euro Disney?s rocky […]
Before the international banking crisis, the European Union represented a promised land for European outsiders looking in. Balkan countries, seeing a path to prosperity, scrambled to join. The lure was particularly strong for sovereign states emerging from war-torn Yugoslavia.
Life Sciences
by Patty Rasmussen
Though Intel stunned Costa Rica with the recent decision to lay off 1,500 workers and send the company’s microprocessor assembly and test work to Asia, the news was tempered by the fact that, even if Intel had stayed, the medical devices sector was still on pace to become the country’s No. 1 exporter in 2015.
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Trust in the state’s semiconductor industry
comes with a $600 million payday.
“W e really haven’t started to see the entire impact from the NAFTA agreement,” says Jim Bruce, a consultant with Flur Daniel in Atlanta. The NAFTA agreement is eight years old, but there are new components of the trade agreement equation that have business on all sides of the U.S. and […]
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Three food concepts led by chef-entrepreneurs announced for Fishers Test Kitchen, located at Sun King Fishers Innovation Brewery at The Yard at Fishers District.
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Read MoreA search of Halliburton's 2,100 current job openings shows a bit over 1 percent of them (29) are in Colorado. Sixteen of those are in the company's Brighton district, where Halliburton this spring has brought online the world's largest frac sand terminal at Great Western Industrial Park in Windsor.
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 […]
Siemens Canada pursues new R&D campus in Ontario; Vishay Intertechnology increases production capacity in Wales; Kingspan Group gains project approval in Ukraine.
In the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, South Central Missouri is made up of 12 counties
Life Sciences
A US manufacturer of televisions used to promote its product with the saying, “The quality goes in before the name goes on.”
Read MoreThe rich,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “are not like you and me.” Similarly, Fitzgerald might’ve added, fast-growth firms are not like you and me — or most of our businesses. Very few of us can claim status as one of today’s fabled “gazelle” firms, who’ve become something like the business world’s Furbies. Everyone wants to […]
In October 2018, Governor Mike Parson underscored Missouri’s commitment to attracting foreign investment by signing the state’s first Open Investment Policy statement.
Asian nations and Germany are among the leaders blending automation and human beings into a new manufacturing mindset.
Geopolitical unrest and U.S. industrial policy are driving foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States.
Six distinct regions offer business advantages and quality of life to boot.
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by Adam Bruns
Any horse racing or baseball fan will tell you spring means it’s time to compete. So will a recent blossoming of reports and initiatives focused on competitiveness itself.
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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
If you like challenges, here’s one: Pick up today’s Wall Street Journal and highlight companies that don’t depend on technology.
Peruvian firm Li3 Energy, Inc., in May closed on its acquisition of 60-percent ownership in a group of six private companies that own the Maricunga Project in northern Chile, believed to be one of the top 10 lithium projects in the world.
Xcel Energy’s economic development vision is as clear as its power portfolio is clean.
New Alliance to Foster Technology-Based Economic Development Communities seeking to implement technology-based economic development strategies will likely benefit from a recently announced alliance between the Milken Institute, a demographics and economic research organization based in Santa Monica, Calif., and New Economy Strategies (www.regional-strategies.com), an economic development consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. The two organizations […]
Area Spotlights
The state and provincial governments of the Pacific Northwest already are known for their strong environmental positions when it comes to development and permitting.
Read MoreOccidental CEO Hollub describes how her global firm is built for the long haul.
A look inMaryland’s bid to lure global startups is hitting paydirt. Just ask executives with entrepreneurial firms coming from places such as Seoul and London.
With major overcapacity still in place across Europe, major new investment in the automotive sector is rare.
Energy Ministers: Stricter Emissions Target Will Trigger Low-Carbon Economy
Area Spotlights
In 2013 Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton and the state legislature demonstrated a financial commitment to future economic development by allocating $86.6 million in funding for business incentives in the state’s biennium, the two year budget cycle covering fiscal years 2013-2014 and 2014-2015
Read MoreBeaches aren’t the only draw for entrepreneurs in the Sunshine State.
Move over, automotive industry. You’ve got company. The entire Southeast is home to a thriving aviation industry, and Mississippi is no exception.
Only five years after accession to the European Union, Poland was the only EU nation to show GDP growth in 2009, as the rest of the EU and most of the world faltered.
Saudi Arabia’s most dynamic research ecosystem is at KAUST’s campus on the Red Sea.
Today, at a site near the Mississippi River in Tunica County, Miss., just south of Memphis, Tenn., the company is gaining its first manufacturing perch in North America
Area Spotlights
An overhauled tax code, a revamped incentives package and a reinvigorated energy plan are making the Northeast U.S. one of the most closely watched regions of the country.
Read MoreHydrogen is one more area of innovation in a TVA portfolio that includes new nuclear, renewable energy, electric vehicles and energy storage.
WorldSkills Brings France’s Summer of Global Competitions to a Close Attendees from Japan and Hong Kong share a jubilant moment at WorldSkills 2024 in Lyon, France. Photo courtesy of WorldSkills How do you get 100,000 visitors to your city because of vocational education? Put your city in France, for starters. […]
The last few weeks have been filled with news of major data center investments touching down in the U.S., among them Google’s $845 million Fort Wayne, Indiana, project and Meta’s $800 million Jeffersonville, Indiana, announcement.
Entertainment may be a replication of real life, but its production supports actual livelihoods across a range of professions.
At a time when workforce housing is sorely needed, last month the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded $3.17 billion in Public Housing Repair funding to 2,756 public housing authorities (PHAs) in all 50 states, D.C. and several U.S. territories to make capital investments to their public housing stock.
Investment Profile
Interstate highway access — check. Commercial airport site — check. Quick proximity to 50 percent of Florida’s population — check. Abundant and growing workforce — check. Foreign Trade Zone — check.
Read MoreFrom household brand names like Westinghouse Electric Co., U.S. Steel and Alcoa to emerging energy technology leaders like Aquion Energy, BPL Global and kWantera, Pittsburgh is well on its way to being known as the new center of American energy.
WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, January 2009 Tire Plants Gain Traction In China Korea-based Kumho Tire has opened a new tire plant in Nanjing, China. by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com G lobal tire manufacturers continue to site production facilities in China to serve that country’s growing demand for tires. Two major names […]
IAMC members are preparing to gather in April for our next Forum in Greenville, South Carolina.
With a “standing army of 4,000 of the smartest people on the planet” the US Department of Energy’s largest open science lab is solving the world’s problems.
A letter from the chair and a report on the impact of disruptive events on corporate real estate strategy.
Area Spotlights
Wyoming is the best state in the US for taxes on businesses, and its capital, Cheyenne, is the best city in which to find a job, according to recent analysis.
Read MoreGovernor Michael Parson reflects on state’s Bicentennial and building momentum.
The Mid-Atlantic region — Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Washington, DC, and West Virginia — is having a bit of a moment right now.
“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.”
According to new research on clean energy financing in G-20 nations released by The Pew Charitable Trusts earlier this month, The United States attracted $48 billion in clean energy investment in 2011, a 42-percent increase over 2010, and just beating out China’s $45.5 billion to claim the No. 1 ranking.
Is social engineering good for business? Across the world’s markets, “economic empowerment” initiatives are emerging to help disenfranchised locals in the community contribute. Each market is different, but any business looking to establish in one of these markets needs to understand the impact on their business. In the United Arab Emirates, this is “Emiratisation,” and other markets in the region have similar mechanisms.
Area Spotlights
Energy is big business in Eddy County, N.M., the busiest community currently drilling in the oil-and-gas-rich Permian Basin.
Read MoreHint: They’re getting cleaner, greener and bigger.
Oklahoma launches new programs to spur economic recovery across the state.
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.
How a quartet of leaders is transforming Pflugerville into an economic juggernaut.
"Since Northwest Georgia is our home, it matters a lot to us to expand here.”
Area Spotlights
Chicago, like many cities, is seeing a return to the city center from corporations and regular folks alike. But Chicagoland by definition encompasses 15 Illinois counties other than Cook County (21 if you count northwest Indiana and southeast Wisconsin).
Read MoreThe center of a tornado is characterized by a dramatic drop in pressure. It’s the twister’s aftermath that brings high pressure to bear.
As corporations look at investing in the United States more closely than ever before, their leaders will look at these key economic development indicators.
Eastman Kodak?s Corporate Real Estate strategy focuses on maximizing shareholder value through continuous, financially oriented, business process improvements, which are designed to optimally align the company?s existing and future investments in real estate with business strategies. Best Practices: Eastman Kodak An army of innovative strategies relentlessly links Eastman Kodak?s corporate real estate program with its […]
Features
It’s not a one-way street entirely, but it seems more companies relocate their headquarters out of Illinois than into Illinois.
Read MoreIn San Bernardino County, Calif., access to skilled labor leads to multiple company expansions.
s Congress mulls giving its nod to the 2005 round of BRAC (Base Realignment & Closing), which targets 33 major U.S. military bases for closure and 29 others for realignment, many communities affected by previous BRAC rounds are doing quite well in their redevelopment efforts. BRAC communities have created more than 100,000 jobs so far, […]
The Blue Economy is a driver for the Gulf Coast and a magnet for foreign firms.
Editor in Chief Mark Arend walks us through what’s changed and what has not changed in this issue of Site Selection and in the world around us.
Energy Report
Budget changes to the United Kingdom’s oil and gas tax regime are expected to support billions of pounds of new investment and the creation of more than 700 new jobs, with close to 8,000 more sustained along the supply chain.
Read MoreCollectively, the four Arkansas companies featured in the 2024 Fortune 500 saw more than $733 billion in revenue in 2023 and employed more than 2.2 million people — that’s more than 7.3% of the entire Fortune 500’s employment base.
hen Google announced plans to invest up to €300 million in a new European data center, competition between various European regions was fierce. The project would create up to 300 construction jobs, and 120 new jobs in programming, security and maintenance. In addition, attracting one of the world’s leading IT companies offered significant marketing power. […]
We examine state workforce climates (not programs) across four U.S. regions, with exclusive insights from Emsi on what’s attracting people to top counties for talent.
Changes to tax laws and regulations improve the Mississippi business environment.
Abstracts of major presentations of the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent corporate real estate association. “Service Models for the New Economy,” Florida World Congress, Nov. 6, 2000: Attendees in a theme program heard about how two corporations – ExxonMobil Corp. and Lucent Technologies – structure their corporate real […]
Energy Report
Last Thursday, not long after saluting dozens of Energy Star champion organizations earlier in the month, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced its sixth annual list of the top 25 U.S. metropolitan areas with the most Energy Star certified buildings.
Read MoreThe Feb. 15-17 Leadership Development Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz., marked the beginning of an important new organizational initiative and membership benefit for the International Development Research Council (IDRC). Fifty-three leaders from the Executive Committee, Board of Directors, policy boards, committees and chapters took part in the program. “Leadership development is becoming integral to the strategic […]
A chartreuse ray of optimism is shining through Southern California these days in the form of an array of high-tech jobs classified as green.
Ideal geographic location positions the commonwealth for continued logistics growth.
LEGO prepares for future operations in Virginia; Kimberly-Clark enhances U.S. portfolio; ODATA welcomes QR03's first data center facility in Mexico.
Top U.S. Giants Of 2009: Lists of largest U.S. projects ranked by investment, job creation and square footage
Energy Report
They could be … the most interesting men in the world.
Read MoreThe Seabed 2030 Project aims to compile a map of the entire seafloor by the year 2030. The detail work starts at the coasts, but a company driving the project is in Colorado.
Oakridge Global Energy Solutions hopes to create 1,000 jobs on Florida's Atlantic Coast. Living that dream is no day at the beach.
Pfizer has announced that it invested $743 million to expand its four-year-old Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) plant at Singapore’s Tuas Biomedical Park. At 429,000 sq. ft., the upgraded facility will begin production of small molecule APIs used in the pharmaceutical manufacturer’s oncology, pain and antibiotic medicines.
Just because your state has the No. 1-ranked business climate, it doesn’t mean you’re going to escape the consequences of COVID-19 and its corresponding economic earthquake.
Karl Pischke, Principal, RCLCO RCLCO Real Estate Consulting this month released its annual report on the top 50 master-planned communities in the United States, ranked by sales the previous calendar year.
Online Insider
“Now that Russia has invaded the Ukraine and annexed the Crimea, many readers may call into question the idea that there can be such a thing as a good partnership with Russia,” says Glenn Williamson, author of “Inside Out: Building a Glass House in Russia.”
Read MoreIf you didn’t know any better, you might think every plant or life sciences project in Canada is being driven by cannabis legalization.
There really is no place like Kansas. Find out why so many companies and people call it home.
Maryland companies navigate the commercial space race.
According to JLL’s newest Life Sciences Outlook, the favorites are still winning the race despite rising costs.
Why would a company locate its business in a small town, far from the economic activity of large cities? Such a decision doesn’t make sense for every company. But for some it makes perfect sense.
Investment Profile
Cincinnati-area natives increasingly appreciate their region’s advantages and the global arena in which the city competes for new investment — and jobs.
Read MoreThe Geography of Genius The Johnson Museum sits atop East Hill on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, one of several institutions frequently associated with MacArthur grant recipients from New York. 2019 photo by Jason Koski (UREL) © Cornell University This week’s announcement of 22 new MacArthur Fellows brings […]
From Jifiti to Chute Gerdeman, the new wizards of retail call Ohio’s capital region home.
The most critical factor in your decision on where to set up shop in 2021 should be talent production,” Startup Genome Founder JF Gauthier wrote in the pages of Site Selection magazine in July 2021.
More than 20% of the 158 major projects in California tracked by the Conway Data Projects Database in 2019 had a logistics component, and port connections are a big reason why.
The state leads the nation in percentage growth of new tech positions, with employment in the sector having grown by nearly 34% in the past decade.
Features
Recent biopharma project news, policy evolution and research offer some ideas on the way forward for industry executives facing location decisions.
Read MoreAs the birthplace of flight, Ohio’s aerospace and aviation industries are reaching new heights.
NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, January 2009 Atomic Energy Components Float U.S. Boat The nuclear reactor business is one powerful alternative. by ADAM BRUNSadam.bruns bounce@conway.com T he manufacturing infrastructure for a rejuvenated nuclear energy industry continues to sprout plum projects across the U.S. In late October, French multinational AREVA announced it would […]
O ut of the old. Into the new. Despite rising vacancy rates in the industrial property sector from 8.3 percent in 2001 to more than 10 percent at the end of 2002 corporations are bypassing existing space and ordering new built-to-suit warehouses. At First Industrial […]
Meta, the social technology company that operates Facebook, broke ground on an $800-million data center in Mesa, Arizona.
Can a world-class aerotropolis be developed in less than 10 years providing the most modern aviation-oriented manufacturing, logistics and information-based business services? The answer must be no.
Area Spotlights
Marjorie Taylor had a challenge. She needed to find a way to communicate to high school students the importance of taking the ACT WorkKeys assessment seriously.
Read MoreAbstracts of major presentations of the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent corporate real estate association. “Service Models for the New Economy,” Florida World Congress, Nov. 6, 2000: Attendees in a theme program heard about how two corporations – ExxonMobil Corp. and Lucent Technologies – structure their corporate real […]
How big is California’s biotech and life sciences sector? Really big, a new report reveals.
NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, May 2009 De-Conversion Means Jobs in the Land of Enchantment by ADAM BRUNSadam.bruns bounce@conway.com N These gas systems comprise a portion of the germanium tetrafluoride FEP (Fluorine Extraction Process) system patented by International Isotopes. Photo courtesy of INIS orth-central New Mexico may appear to have a corner […]
These 10 cities are ready for the big time. They just need to act like it.
Features
Forty percent of the world’s mobile traffic goes through the networks of Sweden-based telecommunications and network company Ericsson, and the company supports customers’ networks servicing more than 2.5 billion subscriptions.
Read MoreFilm credit expansion seeks to answer competition from New Jersey, Georgia
The High Desert region of San Bernardino County is proving to be an oasis of business opportunity for companies seeking to expand their manufacturing and distribution operations in Southern California.
Clean energy investments encourage new energy workforce programs across the U.S.
In the May 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review, Anne Marie Knott, a former Hughes Aircraft engineer who serves as professor of strategy at Washington University’s Olin Business School in St. Louis, has published “The Trillion-Dollar R&D Fix.”
Jonathan Webb and Kentucky’s AppHarvest show how it’s done at scale.Appalachia is coming true, one mega-greenhouse at a time.