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Swinging for the Fences

by Ron Starner

In a candid talk, Atlanta Braves President John Schuerholz shares a vision 48 years in the making.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Area Spotlights

‘Most Export Intense’

The Bayou State adds firepower to its growing arsenal of business climate and economic development competitiveness.

High Plains Drifting

Logistics networks link manufacturers in Amarillo, Lubbock to major markets.

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Blurred Lines

Snapshots from the collaborative workspace craze show where co-work and real work collide.

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Hey Lolly Lollicup, Powered by Muncie, Motos and Macintoshes Rev Up in Texas, and more

While economists fret over bubbles of another kind, the leading maker of bubble drinks is stretching its wings. Lollicup USA Inc., the specialty beverage manufacturer, supplier and retailer, is moving from 140,000 sq. ft. (13,000 sq. m.) in two separate locations in Walnut and Industry, Calif., to one shiny new 300,300-sq.-ft. (27,898-sq.-m.) facility in the San Bernardino County community of Chino. The company plans to add to its payroll of 150 once the relocation is complete in mid-third quarter 2013.

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STATISTICAL PROFILE

Texas By the Numbers

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Quality of Life: Does Your State Make the Cut?

Recent WalletHub analysis reveals the best states to live in and, more specifically, the states with the best quality of life.

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Area Spotlights

How Does Your Garden State Grow?

Fresh incentives create fertile economic development soil in New Jersey.

The Nordics: How Google Warms Up a Finnish Town

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The Innovation Infrastructure You Can’t See

Windsor-Essex, Ontario, is the only major Canadian metro south of the US border; more importantly, it’s a powerhouse industrial center.

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Handle State Tax Liabilities Your Way

A new state incentive program flexes its muscle.

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World Class Standard

A flurry of new projects in Trinidad and Tobago brings jobs, and validation.

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Made in Michigan: The Next Generation Of Innovators

Michigan’s research universities are creating pipelines of high-quality, eager talent who are invested in the state.

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Area Spotlights

Meeting of the Minds

MindMixer finds talent its needs in Kansas City; Gov. Nixon says Missouri has only just begun.

Going the Extra Mile — and Then Some

W hen it comes time to deliver on a pledge to go the extra mile, service providers have lots of options, depending on the assignment and the nature of the client relationship. One that rarely gets much serious consideration is to simply give the service away. After all, service providers in the business world exist […]

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So Many Channels

Tim Searcy is CEO of the Indianapolis-based American Teleservices Association (ATA), a trade organization that represents more than 4,000 contact centers.

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Project Bulletin, Nov. 11, 2024: Greensboro, North Carolina; Rochester, England; Moorhead, Minnesota

Alexis Elmore reports on a UK-based semiconductor company’s project in North Carolina; BAE’s expansion in Rochester, Kent, UK; and a massive $5 billion sustainable aviation fuel project from DG Fuels in Moorhead, Minnesota, part of the bistate Fargo metro area.

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Springfield: Room to Grow

The third largest city in the Show-Me State, Springfield is a tried-and-true location for companies looking to locate in the Show Me State.

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QUESTION & INSIGHT

QUESTION & INSIGHT From Site Selection magazine, January 2009 Helping Us Help Ourselves NCR’s global real estate activity follows the lead of a ‘deep and wide’ corporate strategy. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (foreground, left of placard) exults at the announcement at the Georgia Capitol with NCR Senior Vice President Chris Wallace (foreground, right of […]

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Area Spotlights

What Makes for a Good Fit

States that know what they’re good at make a stronger case for corporate investment than those that don’t.

Entrepreneurs Serve Up Farm Fresh from Florida

In the innovative world of food & drink startups, a coastal town is making waves.

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Around the World in 59 Counties

How Hoosier Energy built a network of FDI projects in 2 states

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All Business

Elected the 59th mayor of the City of Atlanta on January 4, 2010, Kasim Reed wasted little time in elevating the stature of Georgia's capital city.

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Greater Phoenix: Breaking New Ground

Projects and progress stretch across multiple industries and an entire region.

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Complete Autonomy

Autonomous vehicle and mobility research projects breathe new life into yesterday’s manufacturing facilities.

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Life Sciences

Light Bulbs

by Adam Bruns

The first in a series of profiles of young life sciences leaders.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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The Made-to-Order Factory

Xcellerex: The Made-to-Order Factory

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Come On Over

No matter whose side you’re on, Ontario and Canada are on one side of an open door.

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Canada Bridges the Future with NAFTA Opportunities

“O ur government is very proud of the international trade success stories we have here in our own backyard,” says Ted Chudleigh, parliamentary assistant to the Ontario minister of economic development and trade. Ontario has a great deal to boast about. The Canadian province is the powerful engine behind Canada’s trade […]

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Ready for Relaunch

For the sixth straight year, we present in the following pages and at SiteSelection.com vital specs and contact information on dozens of land parcels measuring 1,000 acres (405 hectares) or more

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Amazon vs. Walmart

E-commerce and brick-and-mortar expansion continue their cautious dance toward one another.

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Life Sciences

The Phoenix of Québec

by Adam Bruns

NEOMED brings instant pain relief to life sciences R&D in Greater Montréal.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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EDITOR’S VIEW

EDITOR’S VIEW From Site Selection magazine, July 2008 by MARK AREND mark.arend bounce@conway.com Congress to Industry: A Bronze Will Do I f the governing bodies of the various U.S. sports teams preparing for the summer Olympics in August act quickly, they can still enact some measures that will affect those teams’ performance in the games. […]

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Made in Kentucky: How Manufacturing Drives The State’s Economy

How manufacturing drives the state’s economy.

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A Brazilian Aviation Bet: 8 Mega Airports, 800 Regional Ones

The world’s been paying attention to the mega projects that are under way in Brazil as part of the nation’s latest economic expansion and its preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Monstrous stadiums, a bullet train between Rio and São Paulo, super highways, new deep sea oil rigs, and of course, huge seaport and airport expansions all are in the works.

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2022 Top Economic Development Groups

The economic development organizations profiled in the following pages are being recognized for contributing significantly to their locations’ investment attraction and job creation success

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A ‘True Game Changer’

The Seattle region plans to be the most globally competitive in the country.

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Life Sciences

Coast to Coast

by Adam Bruns

As its partnership with Alexandria deepens, Accelerator aims to have a facilities edge in both Seattle and the Big Apple.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Agtech is a natural for Missouri.

Agtech & Food: Agtech is a natural for Missouri

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Health Tech On the Upswing in Trio of Quebec Metros

A mix of factors have put patients, physicians, researchers, institutes, business accelerators and even animal subjects in close physical proximity.

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IAMC INSIDER

NOVEMBER 2007 A Serious Passion (cover) Meet a Member IAMC Professional Forum Special Report Request Information

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Tech Talent Leads the Way Among Elite Canadian Regions

Québec as the most competitive province in a competitive nation, and metro areas from Montréal to Oakville to Regina and Vancouver fill Site Selection’s annual Canada’s Best Locations list of top Canadian economic development groups

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Two Leaders

Government, business, academic and NGO officials from the 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere and beyond came to Atlanta in November for the fourth Americas Competitiveness Forum.

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Online Insider

Open Season

by Adam Bruns

A Siemens insider walks us through what happens when 48,000 people come out from behind the desk.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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PACIFIC NORTHWEST: POWER PLAY

Hydroelectricity helps deliver the EV revolution to central Washington.

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DuPont Boosts PV Research Capabilities; Nestlé Opens Biscuit R&D Center

World Reports: DuPont Boosts PV Research Capabilities; Nestlé Opens Biscuit R&D Center

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Cooking up New Ideas in America’s Breadbasket

Kansas is home to multiple R&D operations, influencing everything from farm fields to after-school snacks.

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Lighting It Up

Why foreign investment is flowing to Portugal.

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TRAILBLAZERS

These jurisdictions top the charts in a nation already leading the way in infrastructure, sustainability and global commerce.

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Area Spotlights

Changing Perceptions

Gov. Tomblin explains how he’s remaking the West Virginia business climate.

World Reports

FDI, Africa, China, and much more!

by Patty Rasmussen

The United States maintained its strong showing in the 2014 A.T. Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Ranking, holding the top position in the index for the second straight year.

Patty Rasmussen

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2020 Mac Awards

The Mac awards recognize an elite group of economic development organizations in 20 U.S. regions based on an index of project-related job creation and investment.

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Fertile Fields

Companies large and small are betting big on an expected economic resurgence in a Florida region known more for its muck than its money.

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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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Thailand’s Dynamic Economic Corridor

The region accounts for more than $80 billion in business investments and is receiving $50 billion more from the Thai government and the private sector to make it even more business-friendly.

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World Reports: Europe, China, Australia

From Site Selection magazine, May 2004 WORLD REPORTS Edited by JOHN W. McCURRY Europe Emphasizes Other Means to Power Alternative energy continues to draw more emphasis in Europe. Two recently announced projects take aim at harnessing power from the wind and sun and a third is studying the feasibility of building a power plant based […]

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Investment Profile

Life in the Fast Lane

Malaysia is now the go-to market for automobile manufacturing in Southeast Asia.
Global investors in this key sector explain why.

Maryland: Top Projects Dot Maryland’s Top-Performing Metros

Collection of year-end data for this issue allows a closer look at high-ranking metros within the state and the projects that make them so.

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Don’t Cry for Me

Cancel the pity party. ConAgra’s move may be a blow to Omaha, but it is far from a crippling one.

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A Thanksgiving Lesson

Finding the True Meaning of Thanksgiving on a Rain-Soaked Highway

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Nevada’s Best Incentive: A Pro-Business Climate

Because Nevada’s overall tax environment is so business-friendly, the state is able to woo companies with more sensible incentive packages.

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Power Points

A rural Indiana energy cooperative is a formidable competitor for your next investment.

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Energy Report

Ripples, Then Waves

A new report from Jones Lang LaSalle documents how US shale zones reach well beyond the oil patch.

Ship to Shore: A Love Story

As a little girl, Susan Gibbs remembers visiting her grandmother’s coastline home in Rockport, Mass. There was the bronze bust of her grandfather, William Francis Gibbs, positioned as if he were staring off to sea. It would later prompt curious expeditions to the attic, where old newspaper clippings and photographs were pulled from trunks.

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Great Lakes Region: Big Dreams Take Shape

A federally funded initiative seeks to re-imagine the Great Lakes.

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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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Renewal in the Air

Snapshots of a city on the remake.

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Clean-Tech Multinationals Continue to Flood the Valley with Billions in Capital Investment

ennessee’s advanced energy industry already employs nearly 394,000 Tennesseans in more than 20,300 businesses that contribute...

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Energy Report

‘I’m Very Disappointed in You’

The United States knows it could do better, says a new report on global energy efficiency.

‘We Will Be the Crown Jewel in the Manufacturing Sector’

Gov. Matt Bevin outlines his vision for the Kentucky economy and its people.

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Life Sciences Oasis

An increasingly valuable square mile gives rise to innovation in Aurora.

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Drafting a Blueprint For Progress

Partners statewide are helping to drive the future of economic development throughout the Bluegrass State.

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Why Ohio is Losing the Trade War

The impact of trade tariffs is being debated in many corners, but a team of researchers has found evidence that Ohio is bearing the brunt of the backlash.

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A Goldmine for Startups

Known as the birthplace of fintech, Arkansas demonstrates leadership in the field.

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Energy Report

Piping Up

Facility investment and job creation might hinge on an upcoming ruling on steel pipe dumping. Or they might just keep going full steam ahead.

On the Menu:

Kansas Has the Right Ingredients

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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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Looking Wicked Good

Direct investment by more than 100 foreign companies in his state has caught the attention of Maine Governor Paul LePage. They employ more than 30,000 workers, and many of these companies are expanding.

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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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XCEL Energy: Pioneer & Partner

Xcel Energy’s economic development vision is as clear as its power portfolio is clean.

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Area Spotlights

When Catalysts Compete

As two worthy companies steel for battle, Arkansas could be the ultimate winner.

The College Connection

Higher education aims to take people and communities across Texas to higher ground.

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Healthy Heartbeat

A new HQ from AtriCure is just the latest addition to a robust cluster in Mason, Ohio.

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The more things change the more they stay the same, goes the saying. Access to a skilled work force remains the No. 1 priority of corporate site seekers, according to a recent Site Selection survey of economic development (ED) groups and service providers. This has been the case for years, and as long as unemployment […]

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IAMC Insider: Look How Far We Have Come

In the midst of our daily routine, it can be very easy to overlook what we have accomplished

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From Idle to Active

Places once thought fossils — including two fossil-fuel power plants — welcome renewal from investors.

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Area Spotlights

Sooner Rather Than Later

Hard work is paying off in Oklahoma.

Staying Power

Occidental CEO Hollub describes how her global firm is built for the long haul.

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CENTRAL AMERICA: Semiconductor Supply Chain Progress Doesn’t Pause

The region that welcomed the new U.S. Secretary of State on his first trip abroad is making headway in the semiconductor supply chain, among other areas.

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Connecticut: How One State Keeps Its Innovation Companies On Track

How one state keeps its innovation companies on track.

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Pfizer’s Post

“W e at Pfizer are here today with some good medicine: a shot in the arm for one of the greatest cities in the world,” Pfizer President and Chief Executive Officer Henry McKinnell said in May at a podium inside the drug-maker’s New York City headquarters. McKinnell and Pfizer did indeed […]

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US, Global Locations Ranked For Manufacturing Attractiveness

US, Global Locations Ranked For Manufacturing Attractiveness: Business costs, talent availability are key metrics to watch.

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