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Big Sites, Big Opportunities

Certified industrial real estate is primed for development near Toledo, thanks to layers of infrastructure and collaboration.

How to Keep the Skills Pond Stocked

Ask any corporate site selector or location consultant what their chief location requirement is, and it will have to do with availability of skills.

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State of Contradictions

Tax credits, infrastructure projects and funding, and innovation top the news from the Golden State.

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Scaling New Heights

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.

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Kentucky Aluminum

Kentucky is already known for its horses and bourbon. Now there’s another industry that’s making waves in the Commonwealth: aluminum.

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The Right Consistency

Good ingredients are essential, in cooking and industrial growth.

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World Reports

Africa, Torslanda, Volvo, China and more.

According to a report by London-based global recruiting firm Hydrogen Group, the likelihood is very good that members of Generation Y, those people born in the 1980s and 1990s, are prepared to leave their home countries in order to make the most of the investment into their careers.

Project Bulletin: March 18, 2024

AstraZeneca plans to build upon its operations in China’s Jiangsu province with a $475 million investment.

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Editor’s View: Reshoring Analysis Points To Better Days Ahead

Editor in Chief Mark Arend says the 2021 State of North American Manufacturing Annual Report from Thomas and the Reshoring Initiative’s 2020 Data Report both indicate things are trending in the right direction.

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‘Make it Less Murky’

Workforce credentials are the new currency of site location success.

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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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Major Projects Snapshot

Looking at the biggest spenders in the most active industry sectors offers insight into the flow of worldwide commerce and investment.

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Area Spotlights

A Tax-Free State of Mind

No state income tax is a big lure for a high-tech company sourcing talent in Rochester.

Departments

Unconventional Wisdom: Raise the Visa Cap Already!

In 2013, 10,000 high tech positions at five high tech companies — IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Qualcomm — went unfilled due to a lack of qualified US candidates.

How Texas Hooks ‘Em

Elon Musk and Tesla join the march to the Lone Star State.

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FIREARMS & AMMUNITION

Dozens of firearms and ammunition manufacturers have operations in Arkansas, because they know a firearms-friendly state when they see one. Governor Sarah

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Look At the Data

When a former U.S. Attorney in New Jersey is elected governor, and teams up with a lieutenant governor who fought corruption and crime as a federal prosecutor and sheriff, chances are they won’t back down

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I’m in Micanopy. On Purpose.

I come to Micanopy for vacation. How many people can make that claim?

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Welcome to the Hospitality State

SEVEN REASONS LIFE IS BETTER IN MISSISSIPPI

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Online Insider

Look Homeward

by Adam Bruns

The co-chair of Transportation for America offers a small-town perspective on transport hubs as economic development drivers.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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High

W hen Concept Inc. went looking in 1988 for a site to manufacture arthroscopic medical devices, the company found what it needed in Largo, Fla., a town in the Tampa Bay Area on the Gulf of Mexico. Today, the US$256 million-a-year company known as Linvatec employs 1,100 workers and occupies 235,000 […]

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Plumbing China’s Real Estate Puzzle Box

Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 Plumbing China’s Real Estate Puzzle Box Fast-changing China presents an intricate puzzle box of real estate challenges. Here are some of the big issues, derived from Site Selection research and interviews: Corruption: Hong Kong scorns it. C.Y. Leung, the No. 2 man in Hong Kong’s provisional government, pointedly […]

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What’s for Dinner?

In Northwest Ohio, certified sites cook up a recipe for food plant investment.

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What’s Old is New

Washington’s forestry industry keeps evolving
and leading.

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Tide’s Churning

A project in the East River snares the first license from FERC.

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Texas Close ’em

Incentives help seal the deals.

A Peachy Economy

Georgia sets records for economic development during a global pandemic.

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A Day to Remember, a Future to Create

Eighty years after a signature moment in history, a Tennessee-based company is honoring the past while helping forge a visionary future in Normandy.

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Grading the States on Logistics Health

The lead author of an annual scorecard says logistics is in a very good place as an industry.

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Bridges To the World

Florida is nothing if not globally connected. It’s about to get more so.

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Utilities: Big Fish In a Murky Pond

H ow can you help your region grow when you’re busy managing your own growth? That is one of several questions facing the economic development arms of utilities big and small around the United States. As a recent benchmarking and best practices survey by the Utility Economic Development Association found, utilities […]

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Take Me to Your Leader

by Patty Rasmussen

Texas corners the market on corporate HQs.

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Vroom, Vroom

An emerging company picks a re-emerging site in a resurgent metro area.

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The $117 Billion Region

‘Big’ is a relative term in Southwest Louisiana, as industrial plant investors from around the world converge on a 5-parish area rich in resources and infrastructure.

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Digital Diversity

The art of storytelling is providing some global fame for Louisiana’s blossoming digital media sector.

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Future Bio-Spaces, Same Bio-Places

As facilities grow more flexible, so too do the boundaries of their old favorite locations.

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Economist: Barriers to Trade and Immigration Hurt Rural Communities in U.S.

The Midwest will suffer if proposed U.S. trade barriers with other nations remain in place for long, says a noted economist with considerable experience in global trade.

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The Perfect Climate for Dreamers

by Ron Starner

Texas rolls out the welcome mat for corporate growth.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Hoosier Hospitality: True Americana

Indiana’s tourist hot spots and genuine people make the state a must for travelers.

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New Jersey: Major Drugmaker Makes Morristown Corporate Home

Sanofi makes Morristown the home of its $130 million U.S. headquarters.

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TOP DEALS 2006

North American Top Deals of 2006 North American Honorable Mentions International Top Deals of 2006 International Honorable Mentions TOP DEALS 2006 From Site Selection magazine, May 2007 The Extra Mile Health, high tech and transport drive the Top Deals of 2006. Emilio Rivera, vice president, manufacturing for Amgen Manufacturing Ltd. in Puerto Rico, leads […]

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Creature Comforts

Ruffwear leads a pack of Oregon outfitters.

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Record Reforms Improve Region’s Business Climate

The World Bank Group’s Doing Business 2020 study finds a number of improvements across 16 Caribbean country economies.

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Singing Their Praises

A vibrant arts scene shapes quality of life throughout the state.

Ruins to Riches

Abandoned auto plants need not always meet the bulldozers.

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A One-Stop Shop Like No Other

Texas Workforce Commission leaders and their 28 regional partners provide wide-ranging infrastructure for career and business success.

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COVER STORY

COVER STORY From Site Selection magazine, July 2007 Get in Line A regional economy may set sail behind an expanding fleet of nuclear plants. T by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com Southern Co.’s Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, located in Waynesboro, Ga., is one of more than a dozen nuclear sites in the Southeast […]

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Where the Top BPO Performers Go to Perform

Every year, pre-eminent business process outsourcing authority HfS Research publishes its list of Top 50 BPO companies by revenue. The names are familiar.

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Circulatory System For the Fiber Basket

A deepwater terminal in Pascagoula is a linchpin for one bioenergy company’s global business plan.

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Growing Iowa’s Innovative Economy

Iowa is investing in original thinkers, entrepreneurs and startups.

Everything’s Better with Lime

Mexican restaurants in America give you free chips and salsa before you even order. In Mexico they give you limes. Mexico’s way is better.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: THE MILITARY ECONOMY

s Commander in Chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend the American people, which is why we’ve increased funding for the best military in the history of the world. We’ll make new investments in 21st century capabilities to meet new strategic challenges, and we will always give our men and women in uniform […]

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A Mission of Innovation

Oregon launches a plan to spur innovation economy.

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The 2011 Governor’s Cups: Ohio Victorious in 2011 Facilities Race

A re-engineered approach to business development with a return-on-investment focus is already bearing fruit in Ohio Governor John Kasich’s new administration

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Making Room for Making Things

Energy businesses such as Norway’s Aker Solutions and U.S. firm FMC Technologies are landing more jobs on Scottish shores, as well as in London. Food companies such as Kraft are growing from Ballymena to York. Car companies Jaguar Land Rover, Lear and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars (a unit of BMW) are growing and steel is rolling.

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Gov. Branstad: We Are Lowering Your Tax Bill

by Ron Starner

Nation’s longest-serving governor outlines his plan for improving Iowa’s business climate.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Follow the Science

Key innovations and new technologies point back to Georgia universities.

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How BASF Navigates China – Cover Story, Site Selection Magazine, July 2004

When BASF AG’s first quarter numbers came in, its chemical division’s sales volume had boosted net income by 17 percent. BASF Chairman Juergen Hambrecht said, “We are seeing synchronized growth in the global economy, driven by the dynamically growing economies in the Far East – especially in China – and by solid growth in North […]

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IAMC Report: Farm-to-Factory-to-Table

A group of disruptive trends will alter the locate-design-build-operate calculus for food processors as they consider the nature of future facilities.

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THE 2006 COMPETITIVENESS AWARD

THE 2006 COMPETITIVENESS AWARD From Site Selection magazine, May 2007 Take Two The Alabama Development Office claims its second Competitiveness Award. by MARK AREND mark.arend bounce@conway.com E ven as the Alabama Development Office (ADO) was battling its counterpart in Louisiana for the giant ThyssenKrupp steel plant project this spring, the agency paused in April to […]

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Round Rock: Where quality of life and opportunity meet.

Home to some 133,000 people and a growing cluster of leading tech companies, Round Rock has proved ideal for families and corporations alike.

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The Shape of the Cloud

A business-friendly climate continues to attract major data centers to Iowa.

Where Big Tech Companies Make Big Investments

Ohio helps it technology startups grow.

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Meet the New Motor City

Just as the Big Three built Detroit, 21st century companies like Tesla, Google, Apple and Uber are building the new ‘motor city’ in California.

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A City To Live In

The Texas mystique is real, but its economic dynamism could just as easily be said to come from the distinct characters of its many successful cities.

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Universities Across Kansas

A glance at the value found on the campuses of the state’s seven public four-year universities.

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New Generation

Who’s chasing the wind, who’s catching it, and where is it taking us next?

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Making the Business Case for Iowa

by Ron Starner

Most of what you need to know about Iowa’s rapidly improving business climate can be summed up in three performance measures

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Campus Housing

Sprawling corporate campuses in Upstate New York that were formerly associated with two industry icons will soon be home to an array of young high-tech companies.

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Turner Properties’ Full Plate: $1.2 Billion in Atlanta Expansions

The workplace plate just got very, very full for Turner Properties, which manages the multifaceted real estate empire of Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting System (TBS at www.turner.com). TBS has announced that it’s spend US$1.2 billion over the next five years on Atlanta projects that will accommodate 3,800 new employees. Those 3,800 new jobs represent a whopping […]

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Seeking First Light

It’s not every day a billion-dollar project comes to Hawaii. After all, whatever you produce there has to be transported everywhere else. But the 50th state is part of a very select global club of locations whose conditions produce a rare commodity: transporting views of our planet and of the known universe it occupies.

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High Energy

Duke Energy was one player in a record year for economic development in North Carolina.

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Live Your Best Life Working in Life Science

It’s a simple proposition, says group heading up state’s talent attraction effort.

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Why You Should Think Kentucky

Rather than tell you why you should consider Kentucky for your next business expansion, Kentucky would rather just show you.

Clean Numbers

A trio of studies attempts to put some flesh on the bones of clean-energy claims in North Carolina.

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The Rx for a Thriving Life Sciences Sector

Bolstered by higher education, diversity and talent, New Jersey’s robust life sciences sector is healthy and growing.

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Leading by Example

The mayors of Knoxville and Knox County show what can happen when political leaders unite for a common cause.

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ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: Building on a Foundation Of Success

Record numbers in projects, capital investment and job creation have placed Kentucky on a path of sustainable success.

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Something Ventured

New data show which companies and locations in the United States are attracting the big money.

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Kentucky: A Driving Force

How Kentucky became home to some of the world’s largest automakers.

Report: The Future Is Data Analytics & Computing

The Natural State drafts a plan for its companies’ future competitiveness.

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Use It or Lose It?

The LNG question continues to be considered and reconsidered.

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Missile Plant to Launch Expansion

Springtime in Paris means an aero-defense industry project back home.

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Camden Welcomes Another HQ

When Subaru of America opened a new headquarters in Camden it represented the evolution of a Camden redevelopment story begun by Campbell Soup Company 12 years ago.

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2007 GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT

2007 GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT From Site Selection magazine, September 2007 The Infrastructure Dilemma Will the U.S. follow the world’s lead in turning to private-sector investment? by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com and ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com A ssessing the world’s infrastructure needs is a daunting task. Even more daunting for governments is developing formulas […]

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Smart Solutions In Composites … and Workforce, Too!

For decades Saxony-Anhalt enjoyed a reputation for excellence in a number of industries, including a thriving chemical manufacturing sector.

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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Gulf Coast Ports: How LNG Energized the South’s Industrial Base

Gulf Coast ports usher in an era of resiliency and record-setting deals.

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‘The Box That Must Be Checked’

As this issue went to press in February, site selectors in the U.S. and globally were busy recasting their lists of finalist locations for manufacturing projects to include Indiana. The state may well have ranked high on some of those lists already — its business climate is considered robust by many evaluators of Midwest states, given its record of fiscal conservatism that includes a predictable and competitive tax structure among other measures.
But becoming the 23rd right-to-work state has energized Hoosier State efforts to escape the stigma, or at least perception, of Midwestern locations being less than business friendly to companies hoping to cultivate a work force free of union requirements their workers don’t embrace.

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How Colorado Became a Research Juggernaut

From life-saving medical breakthroughs to everyday items we take for granted, Colorado innovation has been changing lives for the better for many decades.

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WORLD REPORTS

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, March 2008 Are You Good at GIE? Embraer Grows at Home All in One Visionary projects aim to protect environment and protect us from it. by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com I n late January, William McDonough, co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, […]

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Area Spotlights

Made in Montana

Entrepreneurs are building innovative companies in Big Sky Country.

What’s Your Vector?

By special arrangement with Site Selection, Von Hatley, managing director of Jones Walker Consulting, an affiliate of the prominent law firm that assists clients considering expansion, relocation or consolidation of business operations, recently sat down to interview longtime colleague Jerry Lundquist, the former head of the Global Aerospace and Defense practice at McKinsey & Co.

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Down Time May Be Investment Time in South America

“I ‘m very optimistic about the economy and about what’s happening here in Mexico,” says Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO. The software giant announced in August that it plans to invest US$60 million to train 20,000 Mexican software developers. The company will team up with 3,000 computer and technology professors to help Mexico develop a software […]

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CHINA Slowing Down? Not Really.

The rising number of middle-class households in the developing world should support increased investment.

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What Do Foreign Companies Know That U.S. Companies Don’t?

Even after the November 2012 election results were known, non-US-based companies looked forward to investing capital in US facilities in 2013.

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Puerto Rico

Sun, Sand and Life Sciences

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Area Spotlights

Brains and Brawn

The Big Three river cities continue to apply their considerable economic muscle.

To Get the Right Answers, Ask the Right Questions

Better information up front makes for better location decisions.

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Cleared for Take Off

The sky’s the limit for Oklahoma’s aeronautic industries.

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More Actions Demand More Options

Midwest organizations adopt various strategies to take land from available to occupied.

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You Can’t Save If You Don’t Measure

W hen is the last time you quantified your company’s entire real estate portfolio and its performance? If you haven’t done that in the past 12 months, then more than likely you are throwing money away. That was the conclusion of Ronald P. Zappile, one of 15 presenters at a recent […]

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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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International Update

China Adjusts Course

Foreign direct investment headwinds prompt welcome reform measures.

Ready for Growth

Latin America is poised to grow, with Brazil — the 9th largest economy in the world — leading the way. After the economic downturn, Latin America seems to be recovering faster than more developed countries.

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Location Tax Incentives: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times

Periods of economic crisis are the worst of times and the best of times for state and local business location tax incentives. These tax expenditures, like all expenditures, face an uphill battle when revenues have collapsed and the number of needy residents requiring assistance has increased. At the same time, economic stringency and lack of revenue sharpen government appreciation for business development and job creation. If a crisis combines danger and opportunity, the current downturn could offer an opportunity to improve these incentive programs.

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Made in Memphis

Legacy institutions and startups fuel a top location for medical device manufacturing.

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STRONG CURRENT: TRENDS IN ASIAN CORPORATE INVESTMENT IN THE SOUTH

Trends in Asian Corporate Investment in The South

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1997?s Occupancy Cost Outlook: Tightening Markets, Rising Rents

It?s enough to make your accountant cry — now it?s the landlords who?re smiling. Particularly in the USA, long gone are the days of the late ?80s and early ?90s, when many markets were awash in surplus office and other space, and landlords were practically begging corporate tenants to sign on the dotted line. In […]

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Life Sciences

‘You Can’t Get Married to Stuff’

by Adam Bruns

A visit with Youssef Bennani of Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Québec

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Where Foreign-Born Residents and Foreign-Sourced Investment Coincide

The people come from different points of origin than the corporate investment. But are there states where high numbers of foreign-born individuals coincide with high numbers of foreign-sourced corporate facility investment?

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Logistics and Distribution: Speed Rules

Site selection is critical as fast delivery becomes more important in the B-to-B market.

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Power Points

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

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The Dynamic Duo: Chemicals and Plastics

Creating plastics from chicken feathers, and other manufacturing marvels.

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Next Level

Cambodia’s Minister of Commerce moves fast with reforms so that new FDI will move faster to his homeland.

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Life Sciences

Splitting the Difference

by Adam Bruns

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

Adam Bruns
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Firm Foundation

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

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Safe at Home

Expanding firms find access to capital, knowledge workers and pro-growth incentives in Greater Philadelphia.

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Look At the Data

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What Goes Around Comes Around; Carolinas Grow Finer; Whatever You Do, Don’t Compare These Numbers; Inside and Outside Indicators Stoke Optimism, Caveats

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The Future’s Up in the Air

From airplanes that run on renewable power to sharkskin-like material that blocks airborne bacteria, new technology is giving Colorado a lift.

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Life Sciences

Follow the Demand

by Adam Bruns

Whether the territory is emerging or at the top of the heap, GE’s recent investments have it covered.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Here We Go

The Mid-Atlantic is seeing an uptick in location-related activity, much of it with existing buildings rather than greenfield development.

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The Human Network

Business, Trade and Diplomacy Expertise Blankets the State of Illinois

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Editor’s View: Only You Can Do Something About the Talent ‘Shortage’

Editor in Chief Mark Arend says corporate leaders have a marquee role to play in building the talent base they need.

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Consumers Energy: ‘Let’s Move Some Dirt’

Michigan takes another road to industrial site development.

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Real Estate and the Networked Economy: Big Changes in When, Where and How Business Works

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 Real Estate and the Networked Economy: Big Changes in When, Where and How Business Works by Jack Lyne “The future has already arrived; it’s just not evenly distributed yet,” Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future, told a record-setting gathering of more than 2,000 at the […]

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Where Top Talent Goes To Work

Malaysia’s increasingly value-added electronics industry is a key driver of national economic prosperity.

Channels on the Rise

Frac sand is quarried in Wisconsin, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois, making the Mississippi River an important mode of transport by barge. The Port of Natchez has announced a US$34-million expansion for trans-loading and storing sand and resin-coated sand. Blain Sand and Gravel and Fores Frac Sand are investing $7 million and $27 million, respectively, to add new processing and handling facilities and upgrade the rail at the port, creating 60 jobs. The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is now home to GNS Frac’s new $10-million sand drying and sorting facility at the Inland Rivers Marine Terminal in Port Allen, La.

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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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NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, November 2008 Clean Energy In, Clean Energy Out Québec Lands Billion-Dollar Plant from REC Silicon The clean hydropower available at Bécancour Industrial Park helped lure REC to choose the site for the manufacture of polysilicon (inset) for the solar and semiconductor industries. Image courtesy of Bécancour Industrial […]

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On the Move

Two years after its initial vision, DMC is now taking shape in MN.

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Illuminations

The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) recently released a study of the 2010 lighting market, finding that lighting across all sectors became more energy-efficient since a study of the 2001 lighting market.

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International Update

Worth Savoring

by Adam Jones-Kelley

Like their resurrected winemaking tradition, Slovenians win over investors with a blend that is both complex and delightful.

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