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by Adam Bruns

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Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

Dollars Are Greener In Colombia

Colombia’s nearshoring strategy is one of many routes to helping companies and communities reach their sustainability goals.

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Digital Disruptors

SOUQ.com founder Ronaldo Mouchawar is among the entrepreneurs bringing e-commerce to the Middle East.

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All Things to Most People

The team members who work for the 2018 Top Utilities in Economic Development wear a lot of hats, and that’s just fine.

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Power Priorities

A new survey sheds light on the next energy frontiers for data center operators.

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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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Investment Profile

First-Class Performance

AIDT helps people and companies find the next level.

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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Kentucky’s Health Care Tech, Manufacturing Industry Key in COVID-19 Fight

Kentucky’s health care technology, service and products manufacturing industry has consistently risen to the occasion.

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The World’s Fuel Supply

Corpus Christi anchors a Coastal Bend region that keeps the world energized.

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New Premier Primes Quebec for Powerhouse Status

I s Bernard Landry, Quebec’s new Premier, controversial? Of course he is. A separatist? Definitely. But in his radio address heard around the world about Canada’s “uselessness” in terms of Quebec’s economic development, there was an underlying message that should be music to the ears of corporate investors. Landry (right), the […]

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Bright Path Forward

Today Ak-Chin Indian Community and business leaders are reclaiming land. But their eyes are on the bright path to the future, as they seek to foster enterprise instead of entitlement.

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North American Reports

Genan, ICON Aircraft, BRP, Inc., and much more!

by Patty Rasmussen

Recycling a tire used to mean turning it into a backyard swing, but not any longer.

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Perpetual Motion

An overview of New Jersey’s connective tissue for commerce.

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How Data Centers Are Reshaping Rural America

Hyperscalers are spending billions to turn farmland into fiber hubs.

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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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Project Bulletin: August 5, 2024

EDITOR’S NOTE: The project records appearing every week in the Site Selection Project Bulletin are pulled from the Conway Projects Database, a proprietary resource with tens of thousands of records of corporate end-user facility investments across all industry sectors and all world geographies. Want to look for our projects yourself? Look here. PsiQuantum Goes ‘Chi-Quantum’ […]

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Smarter by the Day

More transportation options mean more opportunity for moving the Colorado economy.

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Aerospace Report

The Aerotropolis EMEA Conference Report, Part 3:

Africa, Edge City Developments and Keys to Aerotropolis Success

$12 Billion & Counting

As California Competes, Tax Credit recipients launch record-setting investments in the Golden State.
GO-Biz Director Avdis paints a picture of Transformation.

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How Labor Trends Are Impacting Site Selection Strategies

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant disruption in the labor force, the effects of which are still with us today and will be well into 2023.

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Editor’s View: Are Your Business Climate Requirements Shifting?

The U.S. Southeast, Midwest and Southwest are about to see even more capital investment than these booming regions are used to.

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The Dynamic Duo: Chemicals and Plastics

Creating plastics from chicken feathers, and other manufacturing marvels.

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Industry Mission: Growth Management

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1998 Industry Mission: Growth Management As the corporate real estate profession evolves to include more functions and the very ground shifts from private ownership to public ownership of assets, so too must the composition of organizations seeking to serve the profession evolve. A case in point is the Chicago-based Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute […]

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Aerospace Report

The Aerotropolis EMEA Conference Report, Part 2:

Aerotropolis Development Challenges and Success Stories

Cargo Evolution

John Carver, Jones Lang LaSalle's vice president for port, airport and global infrastructure, says there will be four East Coast ports ready to receive the mammoth post-panamax ships in 2014.

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Is New Mexico’s Spaceport America Finally Taking Flight?

Recent progress from tenants Virgin Galactic and SpinLaunch suggests a path toward Spaceport America’s original promise.

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Blazing a Trail

Count on California for forward-looking energy solutions backed by real actions.

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Kettering University Provides an Experienced Talent Pipeline

A guaranteed pool of highly skilled workers, years ahead of their peers.

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Where the Future of Flight Is Unfolding

Stennis Space Center is just the beginning.

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Aerospace Report

The Aerotropolis EMEA Conference Report, Part 1:

The Aerotropolis Defined; Manchester Airports Group Case Study

More than Foam

Wyoming brewers are producing award-winning beer.

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A New Day Dawns in New York

It’s time to take a closer look at the tech world’s rising heavyweight.

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Everybody Knows This Is Somewhere

An economic development veteran makes the case for ‘Nowhere, America.’

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EDITOR’S VIEW

EDITOR’S VIEW From Site Selection magazine, September 2007 EDOs: Are You Ready for Your Close-up? O ne reason this issue of Site Selection is so large is because it contains one editorial survey and four editorial profiles. Profiles are shorter versions of a survey, but they do much the same thing, which is to […]

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Will Amazon’s HQ2 Auction be a Community Benefits Game-Changer, or a Monument to High-Tech Arrogance?

Amazon.com, Inc.’s HQ2 project is the biggest “buffalo hunt” in U.S. history, as measured in potential jobs.

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International Update

China’s Ace in the Hole

Does Hong Kong remain a predominant economic hot-spot in East Asia 17 years after ‘The Handover’?

IAMC Insider, Site Selection magazine, September 2003

Dear Colleagues: Jack BrophyIAMC Chair It’s hard to believe that is has been more than a year since we launched the Industrial Asset Management Council (IAMC) with less than 20 paid members in an uncertain economy. We have succeeded above and beyond our most optimistic projections and are on track […]

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New Jersey Cleans Up Life Sciences Talent

At a cell and gene therapy roundtable attended by Somerset County Manager of Economic Development Jessica Paolini...

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Changing Minds About Utah

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

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A Window to the World

From 2011 to 2016, more than 1,441 foreign direct investment projects made their way to Texas, translating into the creation of $212 billion in capital investment.

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EDITOR’S VIEW

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Investment Profile

Primed To Deliver

One of the youngest talent bases in the world is ready to serve and be served by Turkey’s growing ICT sector.

‘Miracle in a Cornfield’

Technology assets in southern Indiana join forces to create extraordinary potential for sustainable economic development.

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Splitting the Difference

Baxter's new center in Cambridge will draw talent from Austria and California.

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Where Water Resiliency Is at Full Pool

Billions of dollars in projects from companies are moving forward in the Phoenix region despite a 25-year megadrought.

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Better Buildings, Better Cities

Corporate actors take center stage in efforts to brighten the future as well as they brighten workspace.

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

ith more than 80 manufacturing facilities around the globe, plus thousands of retail operations, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has plenty of real estate to oversee. Looking for a way to increase efficiencies in its asset management procedures, Goodyear is now the beta test site for a new product from Intuit, the Mountain View, […]

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Features

Keep It Simple

The tools you can use abound with options, but they can’t do your thinking for you.

New Solutions

In 1859, a well was drilled in quiet farm country in northwestern Pennsylvania for the express purpose of finding and extracting rock oil from the ground. This was to be the fuel for lamps. It became much, much more.

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Open for Business

Kentucky’s recent passage of right to work law makes the state more competitive for business.

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SMART MOVES

Looking to position yourself near autonomous, smart and electrified vehicle R&D? It seems as if there’s an autonomous vehicle test bed around every corner.

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Innovation Nation

Malaysia is becoming Southeast Asia's most compelling example of how to transform a manufacturing economy into one excelling in Research & Development.

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Secret Sauce

Haven’t worked with your state’s MEP? Maybe it’s time to start.

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International Update

Optimistic Outlook

Energy and new agribusiness give Canada’s Atlantic Provinces reason to smile.

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, November 2007 Software Aids BPO Firm’s Site Search by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com S ervice Source, a San Francisco-based outsource sales organization specializing in the business of technical service contract renewals for computer hardware, Dave Dunlap, senior vice president of worldwide operations, Service Source software and healthcare […]

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Charging Ahead

With emissions crimes still in the rear-view mirror, Volkswagen ramps up its global commitment to electric vehicles and the recharging stations that feed them.

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What Recession?

Germany posted a GDP growth rate of 2.2 percent in the second quarter of 2010, the highest in 20 years.

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Skating Out of the Dark

Sure it’s cold, but Ottawa’s tech connections still glow.

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IDRC’s New Web Design Emphasizes Content, Portends Portal Development

A recognized industry leader in providing corporate real estate (CRE) information over the Internet, IDRC has unveiled its newly designed Web site. “E-business is changing everything,” commented IDRC Marketing Committee Co-chair Dennis Boles, Haworth director of global facilities. “The new IDRC home page reflects how the association recognizes that change.” A key element of the […]

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Features

It’s South of the Border Everywhere

Rising demand for Latino foods is causing a wave of new plant construction across the US.

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Siting: The Search for Space, Workers, ‘Community’ and Creative Financing

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 Pharmaceutical/Biotech Siting: The Search for Space, Workers, ‘Community’ and Creative Financing by Steve Usdin Today’s pharmaceutical/biotech site selection decisions are driven by factors both old and new. On one hand, the industry is searching for skilled labor and room to expand, traditional location concerns, but increasingly scarce resources […]

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New Facilities 1992 (Charts)

From Site Selection magazine, February 1993 Top 10 U.S. Facilities 1992 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1993 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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Building a Sustainable Future

Gov. Polis takes bold steps to ensure long-term prosperity for Colorado.

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Addressing the Digital Divide

Progress is slow, but broadband is reaching some of the country’s most remote locations.

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Playing in the Sandbox of Discovery

$1 billion initiative will provide opportunities for Hoosier innovation, entrepreneurship and technology to thrive.

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Life Sciences

Under the Microscope

by Adam Bruns

Major corporate takeovers that allow for the ‘enhanced access to cash’ that comes with moving abroad draw scrutiny, but might also drive growth.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Unmanned Outposts

Geographic clustering data on global UAV firm locations is scarce, but we found some. Next time, maybe we’ll use a UAV.

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Junctions That Function

The Twin Cities up north and Obion County down south reign supreme in this year’s rankings of top metro and micropolitan areas along the Big Muddy.

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COVER STORY

E ver- growing volumes of global trade are driving many of the world’s current great infrastructure projects. This is particularly true in some of the crossroads of commerce, such as the Panama Canal, and in the world’s burgeoning manufacturing centers, such as India. Infrastructure projects under way today in Central and South America and the […]

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Closing the Talent Gap

How one California county equips workers with skills in technology and entrepreneurship.

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Editor’s View: Find Your ‘First-Mover Advantage’ in 2011

The post-election, lame duck 111th Congress got lots of things done as this issue came together in December, one of which was actually good for the U.S. as a location for business and industry.

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Life Sciences

Smart Move

by Adam Bruns

San Diego acts fast to keep the lights on at Illumina.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Ontario Leads a Nation Ripe for Growth

Ontario once again earns Site Selection’s nod as the most competitive province in Canada.

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Turning Analytics into Action: The ‘Digital Journey’ of Novelis

For its 2021 report “The Resilience of Manufacturing: Strengthening people operations and bridging the talent gap amid crisis

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TOP INDUSTRIES

MARCH 2006 Transportation Equipment Tops Industry Ranking (cover) Arizona Refinery Moves Ahead Beleaguered Louisiana Grabs Top Projects High on the Hog Request Information TOP INDUSTRIES Transportation Equipment Tops Industry Ranking Automakers are cranking up assembly plants across the globe. by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com A lthough down somewhat in total numbers, the transportation equipment sector […]

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The Great Space Race

Mississippi supports public and private aerospace ventures at Stennis Space Center.

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Top Floor

An expanded list of Best to Invest European cities adds representative metros of Austria, Italy and Spain on the Western side and Estonia, Turkey and the Slovak Republic in the East (see charts). These metros captured enough new and expanded facility investments in 2011, and were deemed superior to other metros in their regions in the LocationSelector.com analysis from IC Associates outlined on page 28, to be recognized here for consideration when European locations are in play.

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Life Sciences

More Than a Snapshot

by Adam Bruns

Jones Lang LaSalle’s latest cluster analysis shows why digging deep is worth it.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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New Facilities 1988 (Charts), page 2

From Site Selection magazine, February 1989 New Facilities 1988 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1989 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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WORKFORCE: Many Workforce Players, ONE TEAM KENTUCKY

There are many players in the Kentucky workforce development ecosystem, but they are all part of Team Kentucky.

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Texas Goes Global

Economic development missions expand Texas’ outreach to every corner of the world.

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Time Machines

By shortening timelines, certified sites extend opportunities.

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The Right Spot for Right-Shoring

Decades of experience and craftsmanship have prepared the people and companies of Defiance County to seize the global opportunity before them.

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Bridges to Tomorrow

by Adam Bruns

Along with more manufacturing and R&D, VW brings its ‘codetermination culture’ to Tennessee.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Power of Persuasion

Backed by Hoosier Energy, Indiana launches a bid to bring in data centers.

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Best Practices Award: Bank of America: Real Estate Workplace

by Audrey Pennington When BankAmerica decided to drive down construction costs and give its business units a leg up on the competition, BAC?s corporate real estate group radically revamped its approach to designing work environments. The result: a set of award-winning, real estate workplace best practices There?s a new mantra among the corporate real estate […]

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The Path Forward for Tech Talent Diversity

Five Questions and Answers with the Executive Director of CBRE’s Tech Insights Center

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Florida Tops Sales and Houston Leads Regions in Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities

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.

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2022 Prosperity Cup

Two in row for North Carolina means something is afoot in the Tarheel State. Maybe it comes down to one word.

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Area Spotlights

Game Plan

Tennessee acts on a blueprint for future success in its automotive sector.

From Inner Harbor to Outer Space

If Maryland state leaders have their way, the aviation and aerospace sectors will blast off with new opportunities in high tech and high-paying jobs in the next few years.

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HIGHER EDUCATION: The Business of Education

From technical schools to major universities, the higher education system in Kentucky prepares and equips the workforce of tomorrow.

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Cybercrime: Just How Bad Is It Going to Get?

It’s not just about the money, says expert; it’s about regime change and altering the story.

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Cooking Up Small Business Success in Illinois

SBDCs set multiple records helping entrepreneurs in 2020.

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From Chips to Powder, Colorado Has it All

Diversity of the state economy is a harbinger of a bright future.

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Investment Profile

Supply Meets Demand

Malaysia is the next logical site for Southeast Asia data centre operations, with dedicated resources and inherent location advantages.

CORPORATE REAL ESTATE AWARDS

CORPORATE REAL ESTATE AWARDS From Site Selection magazine, January 2008 Coming Soon… Publication aims to give credit where credit is due. F or more than 50 years, Site Selection has been reporting on industrial real estate and infrastructure projects around the world, from automotive assembly to alternative fuel production, distribution centers to desalination plants […]

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Women-Owned Businesses Making Gains in the TrustBelt

Female entrepreneurship is making solid gains across the country, with a notable surge in women-led startups taking place in the Midwest.

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SITE VISIT

SITE VISIT From Site Selection magazine, March 2009 DHL Grows Gateways Luis Eraña (left), general manager, DHL Express Mexico, says the company’s newly expanded facilities in Mexico will aid DHL’s response to rising commercial activity at the domestic, North American and global levels. The company’s Mexico City investments include an expanded sorting facility (above […]

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1997?s Hot Industries: Pass the Chips

Ask economists, technology pundits and futurists to name a short list of industrial superstars for the coming years. Site Selection did, and it seems chips invariably float to the top of the pool. Computers, with a projected annual growth rate of 7.3 percent, dominate the highest-growth sectors for the near term. In fact, computer manufacturing […]

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Boeing Consolidation To Benefit Oklahoma, Missouri

Boeing announced in September it will consolidate the majority of its defense services and support-related activities from Washington State to other locations.

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Departments

Unconventional Wisdom: Regardless of One’s Politics

States are discovering the chilling effect of anti-gay-marriage legislation.

Area Spotlights

Borders Into Bridges

As the United States and Mexico focus on a number of key bilateral and domestic economic efforts, the US-Mexico border region’s economy finds itself at a time of potentially enormous transition.

Corporate Real Estate Performance Ratios: How Does Your Organization Stack Up?

M ost Fortune 1,000 companies view corporate real estate as a strategic asset. This means it plays a primary role, along with human resources, technology and information, in helping the company achieve its long-run goals and objectives. In 1993, the International Development Research Council’s (IDRC) first Corporate Real Estate 2000 Program report said, “We have […]

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Open to Growth

Think RTP is aging? Bayer CropScience's investments indicate it's in the flower of youth.

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How To Spot the Next Growth Markets

Oxford Economics forecast models show that global metros with high concentrations of advanced manufacturing tend to be the leaders in metro growth when ranked by GDP output.

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2016 Top Investment Promotion Agencies

The Best to Invest Top IPA Awards recognize the professionalism and preparedness demonstrated by the leadership and staff of the winning IPAs.

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BMW Leads the Auto Pack in European Investment

What’s the big news in the European automotive industry? BMW, the Munich-based automaker, plans to produce 650 BMW 3-series autos each day beginning in 2005 at its newly announced US$860 million, 2,500-employee plant in Leipzig. BMW Chairman Joachim Milberg says that choosing the location “wasn’t an easy decision.” The year-long search […]

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Features

Data Centers: A perspective on site selection, incentives and outsourcing.

Location selection — be it for a corporate headquarters, a manufacturing facility, a lab or a shared services center, is an important decision.

Asian Nations Continue to Lead in Robotics Innovation and Installations

Automation is always ready. Which parts of the world are most ready for it? Answers to that question and related questions can always be found in Frankfurt, Germany, home of the International Federal of Robotics (IFR). A survey of recent IFR data and business intelligence offers a clear picture of where advanced manufacturing is headed, […]

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A Malaysian Revolution

The people of Malaysia fought as one. They faced down the powerful, rejected the entrenched system. They stood together, risked all, and won their country back.

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The Greenest Locations in the World

How important is sustainability, really, to today’s global manufacturers?

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Big Science

There is a science to site selection. But rarely do the specifics of science itself so directly impact a location
choice.

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SITE Visit: Don’t Fence Me In

Companies in this part of the San Antonio metro find the business climate and land where they can grow affordably without the big city delays.

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Energy Report

Up in Arms

Is Australia about to deliver an about-face in renewable energy policy?

BUILDING A TECH HUB ON THE WEST COAST

From cybersecurity to fintech, an alternative to Silicon Valley is emerging.

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Your R&D Hub in Central and Eastern Europe

Hungary intends to become the regional leader in innovation and R&D

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Defined by Motion

Projects keep pace in counties up and down the Ohio.

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Northeast: New Talent, Meet Old Buildings

Helped by supportive policies, redevelopment projects put a new shine on landmark properties.

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High-Priced Infrastructure Proposals Set the Stage for Big-Dollar Projects

Shovel-Ready Sites: High-Priced Infrastructure Proposals Set the Stage for Big-Dollar Projects

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Energy Report

Summer Reading

Three new reports from the International Energy Agency offer global insights into future investment needs, the next shale booms and the tremendous energy wasted by our 24/7 devices.

Québectricity

Two electric mobility projects pick Québec.

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Is America’s Workforce Ready For a Tsunami of Skilled Jobs?

As America continues to emerge from the pandemic’s grip, several economists — including Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell — anticipate a wave of job creation in the second half of the year, and some expect the U.S.

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Corporate Real Estate Performance Ratios: How Does Your Organization Stack Up?

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The South’s Magnet for Foreign Direct Investment

South Carolina leads the nation in percentage of jobs linked to non-U.S.-based enterprises.

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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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Energy Report

Emissions Transformed

A biofuel/biogas project in Denmark is one of 39 projects across the EU benefiting from a unique funding program.

Celtic Future: More Tortoise Than Tiger?

Everyone loves a tiger. Powerful, elegant – yet tricky to manage. Ireland was the Celtic Tiger during the boom of the ‘zeros.

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Lead Us Not Into Recession

A president is chosen. World markets hold their breath, waiting to see what policies he will adopt that will have an impact not only domestically but in every corner of the world. It’s big news — and it’s not Barack Obama.

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