University System Has Big Plans For a Former Pill Plant

When one door closes, another one opens, goes the saying.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: ECONOMIC INCENTIVES PROGRAMS

ob retention efforts are important on different levels, not the least of which is that job loss is devastating for both individuals and communities. While it may be too early to evaluate the effectiveness of certain job retention programs, the states’ efforts have provided policies that may affect positive change.    To put the issue in […]

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Carbon in Norway; Logistics Projects; Automotive in China, Apollo Tyres

The world’s largest facility for testing and developing carbon capture technologies was inaugurated in Mongstad, Norway, in early May. Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) is a joint venture between the government of Norway, Statoil, Shell and Sasol.

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New Frontiers for Facility Planners

 MARCH 2000  SITE SELECTION  NEW FRONTIERS FOR FACILITY PLANNERS • Cover Page •  Industrial Super     Projects •  Air Transport    Rails    Highways    Water Transport •  Intermodal Systems    Fresh Water Projects    Power Generation     Projects •  Hydro Power    Oil & Gas Projects    Alternate Energy     Sources •  Developing a Global     Power Grid    Environmental     Projects    Global Comm. •  Global Venues    Urban Development    High-Rise Projects    New Urban Forms •  Rapid Transit Systems    New Towns,    Redevelopment,    Mixed-Used Projects    Project Data Base […]

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European Industry Clusters Form in 1999’s Top 10

Editor’s note: This feature is a follow-up report on “Europe’s 1999 Facility Race,” which appeared in the July 2000 Site Selection. This article goes beyond the ranking and looks at which industries are hot and which are not in the top European markets. To be or not to be — in the European Monetary Union […]

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The True Cost of Low Cost

Globalization has brought about enormous opportunities for businesses to become more competitive by reaching new work forces and new markets. The practice of moving production and even R&D to low-cost environments is no longer new and is fairly common.

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High-Tech Executives Ponder The Brave, New World of Corporate Real Estate, Site Selection Magazine, November 2002

C orporate real estate executives from most of Silicon Valley’s high-tech companies gathered in early June in Redwood City, Calif., to participate in one of two Jones Lang LaSalle Leading Edge Series 2002 events to take place this year. Besides high-level presentations on economic forces influencing business decisions, the impact of changes in accounting rules […]

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The Shape Of Things To Come

Infrastructure investments drive momentum in the Midwest.

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Firm Foundation

CSL Behring continues to expand its four-site global network.

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TOP TEN COMPETITIVE STATES

TOP TEN COMPETITIVE STATES From Site Selection magazine, May 2009   King of the Hill Ohio chalks up another key capital investment win for luring new businesses in 2008 and helping existing companies expand. by MARK ARENDmark.arend bounce@conway.com T he Ohio Department of Development (ODOD) joins Gov. Ted Strickland’s office in claiming a key economic […]

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Building On a Firm Foundation

All across the Commonwealth of Virginia, biomedical innovators are pursuing a shared passion to help their fellow citizens live longer, healthier lives.

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Moving Cheese

Portion control has become a big business for cheese manufacturing company Bel Brands USA. Sales have more than doubled over the past four years and sales of the company’s Mini Babybel products have tripled during that time period. Bel Brands USA also has plants in Leitchfield, Ky., and Little Chute, Wis.

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Foreign Investment Travels Nonstop to Georgia

Foreign investment is big business in Georgia.

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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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A Massive New Project from Walmart Lands in Mississippi

One week in January 2022 told you all you need to know about the attractiveness of Mississippi for logistics, distribution and e-commerce fulfillment operations.

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Project Bulletin, Feb. 17, 2025: Greenville, South Carolina; Texas City, Texas; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Isuzu Motors expands EV capabilities in South Carolina; New JV addresses energy infrastructure needs in Texas; Lenovo brings its tech to Saudi Arabia.

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Texas Hold’em

Guess which state has an ace in the hole in corporate recruiting.

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Where They’re All There

A new report from Gallup finds a new part of the world has displaced the United States and Canada as the region with the most engaged employees in the world — but there are caveats.

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Analysis: China, Not the U.S., Will Lead Electric Vehicle Markets

Advances in internal combustion engines will blunt the impact of rising electric-vehicle market share in the world’s major economies, and the U.S. will not be the top EV market, according to a recent report.

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New Jersey Grows a Garden Full of World-Changing Ideas

Edison started it, but he wasn’t alone. Individuals and companies have cultivated the state’s innovation tradition for generations.

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How Mississippi Keeps America Safe on the High Seas

Shipbuilders for the Navy and Coast Guard embark on large expansion projects.

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Fast & Furious In Kentucky

Business moves at swift speeds in the Bluegrass State.

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Perspectives from Europe on Business Resilience in Pandemic Times

Communities and companies are demonstrating novel solutions to dealing with the novel coronavirus, and some companies are indeed finding themselves busier even as they look to reposition and recover.

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The Math Adds Up in Missouri

“More Missouri” means more opportunity, advantages and growth for businesses in the Show Me State

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Food Processing Industry: New Systems, Projects On Sector’s Horizon, Site Selection Magazine, November 2003

T he opening of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Food Processing Technology Research Facility in 2004 may well trigger a boost in high-tech investment in the metro Atlanta area. Obvious beneficiaries of the US$9.4 million center are commercial food processors that adopt systems developed by the Food Processing Technology Division of the Georgia Tech Research […]

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Poised for Flight

Georgia’s vaunted aerospace industry is moving at the speed of sound.

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Ripe for an Upswing?

With the fall of the Iron Curtain a quarter century ago, previously closed nations in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) welcomed an immense influx of foreign direct investment (FDI), helping it become one of the world’s fastest growing regions.

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Alternative Protein Facilities Gain Traction

“Alternative protein facilities will become their own category of corporate real estate,” says one expert about a market expected to reach $27 billion by 2027.

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Uncaged

New statistics from the International Federation of Robotics illustrate converging patterns of data, efficiency and demand.

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From Copenhagen and Stockholm to Oslo to as far out as Helsinki, Nordic markets are bubbling towards a top. After several years of rapid growth in available space, the market tune has changed. As a result, corporate denizens are scrambling to reposition themselves to control occupancy costs, which, for the average firm, make up 20-30 […]

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2025 Prosperity Cup

You can add or subtract all the metrics and data sets you want. Any way you slice it, Texas keeps coming out on top.

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Solidifying Seattle

Two massive projects target the city’s vulnerability to earthquakes. The 1950s-era viaduct was showing signs of age and deterioration before the 2001 earthquake further weakened the structure, but the earthquake heightened the need for its replacement. corporate real estate, economic development

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The Time Machine

From automotive manufacturing to the chemicals and life-sciences sectors, few factors are more important to global competitiveness than speed to market. In fact, for some industrial companies, the presence of a superior transportation and logistics network is the most critical component of all. In Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, logistics is at the heart of the state’s business growth strategy — and a world-class transportation network is the driver.

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Ohio River Corridor

Site Selection’s annual examination of corporate facility projects locating over an 18-month period in counties abutting the Ohio River found 301 projects that cumulatively accounted for more than US$8.1 billion in corporate investment between July 2011 and August 2012.

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Real Estate Services

Service Providers On the Move … Edward C. Lubieniecki has been appointed executive vice president for the Western Region Consulting Services of Grubb & Ellis Co., based in New York City. Lubieniecki will bring more than 20 years of industry experience to the firm’s San Francisco office. In addition to being selected to manage the […]

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Fresh University R&D Data Reveal California Is No. 1

Home to institutions such as the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, the University of California San Francisco is part of the 10-campus University of California.

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IAMC Insider: IAMC Working Hard on Diversity in An Industry with a Ways to Go

The topics of diversity and inclusion are big in the news today but have been explicit in IAMC’s strategic plan for over two years now.

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Crowded Skies

There is nothing like new competition to keep a player on his game. And there are new kids on the aviation services block in Southeast Asia that other contenders in the region will want to keep an eye on.

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Mesa Cures Space Need for Medical Device Firm

A high-growth medical device company is finding the right prescription for expansion in Mesa, Ariz. Ulthera, which makes ultrasound devices for face-lifts and neck-lifts, is moving from 12,000 sq. ft. (1,115 sq. m.) of space into a new 32,000-sq.-ft. (2,973-sq.-m.) headquarters in Mesa, a booming Phoenix suburb.

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China Adjusts Course

Foreign direct investment headwinds prompt welcome reform measures.

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