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TTIP: Let’s Be Clear

by Patty Rasmussen

Misunderstanding and mistrust threaten passage of a critical trade agreement.

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Aerospace Report

Why Connecticut, United Technologies Corp. Inked a Landmark Agreement

The agreement, announced in February 2014, will lead to the construction of a new Pratt & Whitney headquarters.

Aerospace Report

How a Small State Supports A Big and Growing Aerospace Sector

Aerospace: How a Small State Supports a Big and Growing Aerospace Sector

How Illinois Builds a Diverse Workforce

Can an old dog learn new tricks? With a workforce training metamorphosis, and a few million dollars
in aid, absolutely, and Illinois is all the better for it.

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The Geography of Genius

The Geography of Genius The Johnson Museum sits atop East Hill on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, one of several institutions frequently associated with MacArthur grant recipients from New York. 2019 photo by Jason Koski (UREL) © Cornell University This week’s announcement of 22 new MacArthur Fellows brings […]

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Central America: Panama Poised to Serve Semiconductor Ecosystem

CHIPS Act funding could take the longtime U.S.-Panama relationship in an exciting new direction.

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In Case You Missed It

A round-up of what’s on the minds of the four governors in this key region.

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An Essential Place For Business

From the Port of Stockton to airport, intermodal and utility assets, companies find San Joaquin County infrastructure increasingly essential.

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Investment Profile

Platform for Performance

Already serving a growing range of commercial and industrial firms, FPL continues to help Florida uncover new opportunities.

A Place to Excel

OUC’s visionary mindset is as central as its water and power to making Metro Orlando attractive to top performers like the USTA and KPMG.

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Opportunity Abundance

Low taxes, high business support, worker training and world-class infrastructure combine to make Mississippi 'a place that makes things.'

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, March 2007 Lease System Manages Construction, Too by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com Troy Dowling is a senior systems analyst with American Airlines and is Horizon administrator. A merican Airlines’ real estate portfolio encompasses more than 300 properties around the globe, including 165 in the U.S. This includes […]

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Northwest Mississippi: North American Gateway

Mississippi’s Northwest region is a powerhouse for the logistics and distribution industry on the Mississippi River.

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MARCH 2006 Most Important Rx for Health Care: People (cover) World Class Medical Hub Relocating or Expanding? Companies Turn to Experts Your Business. Your Venture. Our Expertise. Rapid Growth of Life Sciences Continues in Northeast Florida Request Information SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION TOP HEALTH-CARE SERVICES LOCATIONS Most Important Rx for Health Care: People W hat’s the most important […]

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Area Spotlights

How To Perform

A game-changing trade case, a watershed agreement and promises kept all mean good things for Oregon.

Business Products/Services & Software Claim Highest Numbers of Fast-Growing Companies

The past two Site Selection Snapshots have examined this year’s Inc. 5000 to reveal the top states and top U.S. metros and cities by number of firms on that list.

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A Promising View

Director of the Washington State Department of Commerce shares perspective on the state’s economic vitality.

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Leading Edge Build-to-Suit Projects – Special Advertising Section, Site Selection magazine, March 2004

ith office vacancy rates low and rents high on what is available, quality office space is scarce. And, even though vacancy rates may be rising in the industrial property sector, many companies want a custom-designed facility that fits their specific needs, but they do not want to purchase the building. What’s more, lenders and developers […]

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SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY REVIEW

uild the shell and eventually the business will come. That wasn’t the original plan, but it turned out to be the path Infineon Technologies took before fina lly greenlighting its US$1-billion investment in Richmond, Va., to expand manufacturing capacity of advanced DRAM chips on 300-mm. wafers. After three years on hold, Infineon […]

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SUPERCHARGING INNOVATION

A recipe for curing economic development myopia.

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Features

Revenge of the Nerds

Location analysis in the creative and digital media sector becomes more accessible with the help of online tools.

Trimming Taxes in Arkansas

Personal, corporate income tax cuts accelerated in Arkansas.

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E^2 Equals Mass.

In the company of U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) early this month released its annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard.

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Labor Loosens Up

S uch headlines abound in the current news media, and for many the outlook is dreary. But is it really as bad as it seems? In a market that saw company growth rates skyrocket and labor wages creep higher due to increased demand on a short supply of knowledge workers, maybe it’s just what the […]

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New Facilities 1989 (Charts), page 5

From Site Selection magazine, February 1990 New Facilities 1989 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1990 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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Hoosier Energy: Complex Issues. Cooperative Solutions.

In a world where the only constant is change, Hoosier Energy and its member cooperatives demonstrate unchanging commitment to communities and customers.

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Life Sciences

Trifecta

by Adam Bruns

The odds of Louisville being a healthcare capital continue to grow more favorable.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Cradle of Cures

Greater Philadelphia is a center of excellence in cell and gene therapies.

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Turnaround is Fairest Play

A burgeoning life-sciences cluster in Cobb County, Ga., grew even larger in recent months as two rapidly expanding bio-medical companies moved into new addresses just north of Atlanta.

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States Focus on Reskilling Workforce

States use CARES Act funding to keep students on track and reskill workforce.

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Only in Australia

About 80% of Australia’s plant and animal life exists nowhere else on earth. And many are deadly.

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World Reports: Austria Touts High-Tech Contribution To Space Effort, Site Selection Magazine, March 2003

From Site Selection magazine, March 2003 WORLD REPORTS Edited by JOHN McCURRY Austria Touts High-Tech Contribution To Space Effort Work on satellite projects progresses in this clean room at Austrian Aerospace. The subsidiary of Saab Ericsson Space of Sweden is developing a navigation signal generator unit for the European Space Agency. Austria is promoting itself […]

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Life Sciences

Shot In the Arm

by Adam Bruns

A new vaccine supply chain partnership is just one sign of life sciences and healthcare progress coming out of Davos this week.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Incentives for Existing Businesses?

Are companies asking too much of state and local governments? It depends on whom you ask.

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Get On the Bus for The Best of Texas

A journey through the communities of the TexasEdConnection

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SILICON RANCH: How Communities Win In the Solar Farm Arena

Running a state’s economic development office — or the state itself — affords those officeholders valuable opportunities to hear what’s on the minds of company executives looking to invest capital in new facilities.

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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.

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The New Orleans Miracle

I thought a recent economic development tour of Greater New Orleans would offer up a book’s worth of case studies in disaster recovery. It did. But the community seems more focused on the sequel.

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Life Sciences

Inside the Outskirts

by Adam Bruns

Two healthcare-related companies find homes on the fringes of major Texas metros.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Portugal: Lab to Fab

Portugal’s innovation mindset cultivates a growing sweet spot for the global semiconductor industry.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: NEW YORK

JULY 2006 New Technology Changing New York State (cover) Chenango County, New York High Tech’s New Home for Innovation TCN Worldwide Request Information SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION NEW YORK Venture capital, R&D centers, new tax policies alter the economic landscape of the Empire State. Joining Bausch & Lomb Chairman and CEO Ronald Zarrella, at the podium, for […]

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Gloom vs. Bloom

It's just the beginning. But for some, the EPA's Clean Power Plan announced this week might as well be the end.

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China Foreign Investment Law Takes a New Direction

China’s new law addresses IP protection while remaining vague about other investment concerns.

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The Rockies’ R&D Cluster

Colorado has what manufacturers want proximity to.

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Investment Profile

Place With a View

Companies come to Portugal with the future in mind.

Through the Roof

E-Commerce Means More Roofs On the Way to Accommodate New Jersey Demand

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The Beauty of Where We Are

Compete. Invest. Grow. Three objectives, One Turnaround Plan for Michigan.

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Innovation Engine

From the Mayo Clinic to the medical device sector, Minnesotawrote the book on medical technology and bioscience.

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Toast of The Town

Pecan District brings major redevelopment to downtown Pflugerville.

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Turning the Tide

Knowledge capital and a pro-business climate drove AAA to Oklahoma City. Now, the giant auto club is expanding its reach from a city growing as quickly as its top employers.

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Features

Small Towns On the Hunt

Snapshots from the megasite family photo album.

Talent: Where Supply Meets Demand

Nanjing’s many universities and other higher education institutions are meeting and exceeding investors’ human resources requirements.

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Site Selection’s Annual State Legislative Update

S wept up by the urge to bring capital investment back to their own shores, many U.S. state legislatures in 2004 have pursued laws to either discourage or ban use of offshore facilities and workers by companies engaged in state contracts. Many of those measures languish in committee. But while that raft of measures looks […]

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Game On

Higher education meets the talent needs of the media and entertainment industry.

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Station to Station

Smart vehicle technology sets its sights on Chicago.

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Both Sides Now

What do poet Ezra Pound, Garfield assassin Charles Guiteau, silent film actress Mary Claire Fuller, original Oxford English Dictionary contributor Dr. William Chester Minor and LSD champion and manufacturer Augustus Stanley Owsley III have in common?

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Opportunity Abundance

by Ron Starner

Low taxes, high business support, worker training and world-class infrastructure combine to make Mississippi ‘a place that makes things.’

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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A Taste for Ingenuity

OREGON PROVIDES FOOD INNOVATORS AND FARMERS THE RESOURCES AND ROOM TO GROW.

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The Ideas Factory

Business collaboration and commercialized research represent the cutting edge of higher education.

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MDA LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW: ‘Mississippi’s Economic Momentum Is Real’

Executive Director Bill Cork sheds light on state economic development strategy.

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SITE Visit: Clear Signals

ESPN’s campus in Bristol, Conn., has been expanding ever since the network started 30 years ago. The latest new building, the $100-million Digital Center 2, was announced in August.

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The Five Key Mistakes Amazon Made

While some have gleefully heaped criticism on New York over the demise of the Amazon HQ2 deal on Long Island, the world’s largest Everything Store might consider something new.

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The Great Space Race

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

New Pathways

A few things have changed since the not-so-long-ago era of the million-square-foot warehouse and lines of ships waiting to get into ports.

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The View From the Top

Economic development chief sheds light on record-setting performance.

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Michigan’s Engineering, Design and Development Prowess Turn Ideas Into Innovations

Perhaps without realizing it, Michigan plays a role in many people’s everyday lives.

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Moving Mountains

EnerBlü's two-pronged investment in Kentucky gets its power from a university town and a company town, both of which seek to diversify their economies.

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Strength In Small Numbers

Micropolitan areas outperform Kansas metros in recent economic rankings.

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Bye-Bye Stereotypes

Mississippi leads in advanced manufacturing and R&D.

Meeting of the Minds

In late May, Intel announced the launch of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities in partnership with Imperial College London, University College London and the emerging Tech City cluster of East London.

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International Flights Get Breather On EU Emissions Trading Scheme

International flights into and out of European airspace have been granted a small reprieve by the European Commission, which has suspended their inclusion into the controversial EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for one more year.

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WEST VIRGINIA: Making a Microgrid Out of a Mountain

Big-budget data center developers are keeping a watchful eye on West Virginia.

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IAMC Insider: An Action Orientation Is Not Enough

IAMC Chair Colleen Caravati says an action orientation is not enough. Concern counts too. And We learn from IAMC corporate end user members about COVID-19 supply chain solutions.

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Uncommon Gazelles (cover story)

JUNE/JULY 1998 C O V E R S T O R Y Uncommon Gazelles: Unorthodox Strategies Fuel Their Fast-Track Expansions by Jack Lyne Though fast-expanding “little giants” are the stars of today’s entrepreneurial economy, their real estate strategies often buck real estate best practices, a Site Selection survey indicates. Gazelle has become the […]

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Area Spotlights

Situation Critical

State officials tell us how they’re addressing gaps in workforce development.

Nevada and five other sites are chosen for UAV development work

Silver State officials explain the significance of being a winning site; 25 proposals from 24 states were in competition

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High-Wage Tinder

Tired of playing the field? Data may help your city or company find the best match.

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On the Menu:

Kansas Has the Right Ingredients

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Message to IDRC Members: Change or Become Obsolete

O RLANDO, Fla. — Corporate real estate executives have a choice: Change in the face of the e-business revolution or risk being made extinct by it. In a nutshell, that was the overriding theme of the 76th North American IDRC World Congress, held Nov. 4-8 in the tourism capital of the world: […]

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Gaining Traction

The growing automotive sector drives manufacturing growth.

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Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones: ‘We Support Business and Industry’

Interview with
University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones

Want a Better Bottom Line?

Team Massachusetts can help.

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Tapped Ohio

A couple of Scottish “punks” choose Ohio for building their craft brew empire – complete with beer-themed hotel.

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Right On Time

E-commerce workforce demands are being met through innovative, digital logistics certifications.

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Andy Bessette: Former Olympian Brings Team Game to IDRC Presidency

Leading the world’s preeminent corporate real estate (CRE) association might seem an Olympian task. In fact, that’s how 1980 U.S. Olympic team member Andy Bessette (right) views his upcoming stint as president of the International Development Research Council (IDRC). “Team,” though, is the key word in the parallels between IDRC and the Olympics, where hammer […]

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Push and Pull

Driven by its innovation ecosystem, California is golden again.

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Online Insider

Sky’s the Limit

by Adam Bruns

Global Logistic Properties has grown up fast.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Depleted Tax Coffers Could Cause Shift in Incentive Policy

While the country battles the coronavirus, state and local governments will be squeezed financially — just like so many businesses and households.

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Bay Area Cyber Cluster Protects the World

One-third of the world’s “Hot 150 Cybersecurity Companies” are based in California, and 32 of them are in the Bay Area.

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Food & Beverage Processing: How to Find America’s Best Cities for Food Manufacturing

Experts say many factors changed following the advent of the pandemic.

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Shipbuilding, Aerospace Projects Boost Atlantic Region’s Economy

There are two stories behind this year’s investments in Atlantic Canada: strong growth in the three Maritime Provinces and a slowdown in spending in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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How Innovation Hubs Surged Despite the Pandemic

As it turns out, startups ended up surviving and even thriving, setting the stage for bolstered innovation ecosystems.

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Investment Profile

Good Works Bear Fruit

In San Bernardino County, Calif., access to skilled labor leads to multiple company expansions.

Evidence Mounts

Evaluation of tax incentives is good for business and good for taxpayers.

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Incubating Ideas

Can a former automotive assembly plant drive technology transfer and economic development transformation throughout an entire state and region?

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‘We Learned Not to Underestimate Ourselves’

AWS win showed MDA Director that Mississippi can fast-track big projects.

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Playing for Keeps

Playing for Keeps: A new video game studio marks the return of a native son to Montréal

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Incheon Airport City Is Tops

South Korea’s Incheon Aerotropolis leads the world in the combined magnitude, range and quality of commercial investment in both its airport city core and peripheral business and urban clusters. Its plan

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Features

Keep Following The Leaders

Field intelligence sheds light on global location, cost and workforce issues.

Rx for Healthcare IT: Columbus

The Columbus Region is becoming a national hub for healthcare IT innovation.

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Project Bulletin, Nov. 4, 2024: East Donegal Township, Pennsylvania; Kenilworth, New Jersey; Penang, Perak, Malaysia

A DOSE OF EXPANSION About 93 miles west of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania’s East Donegal Township, pharmaceutical and biotechnology company GSK has plans to expand its nearly 20-year-old facility. The vaccine packaging plant will welcome $800 million from GSK in a move that marks the company’s largest U.S. investment. The expansion project includes a new 270,000-sq.-ft. […]

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5,000 Points of Light

In August, Inc. Magazine revealed its annual Inc. 5000, a lineup of companies ranked by their percentage revenue growth over the last three years. Collectively, these companies have generated 874,940 jobs and $317 billion in revenue over three years and have displayed median revenue growth of 1,637%. They also generate momentum for the states and […]

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No Doubting ‘Thomas’

A new locomotive factory from GE gets the Texas fast-track treatment.

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Aiming Higher

Georgia’s highly ranked higher education systems keep the state’s talent pool primed and flowing.

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Features

Weights and Measures

Respondents to Site Selection’s seven questions reinforce some age-old truths: Unique circumstances drive site searches, and usually drive site solutions too.

How Michigan Engineered a Lightning-Fast Turnaround in its Talent Pool

How Michigan engineered a lightning-fast turnaround in its talent pool.

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Foreign investment in China is poised to take off, particularly if the Asian mega-market is permitted to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). Every sector of the Chinese economy shows signs of growth, from investments in infrastructure to renovation of state-owned firms and industries to the emergence of a major service industry. Politics aside, China […]

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An Oasis of Innovation

How one Southern California county is acting like a greenhouse for entrepreneurs.

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High-Wage Tinder

Tired of playing the field? Data may help your city or company find the best match.

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Southwest: How Clean Tech Is Turning The Southwest Desert Green

Whether it’s a byproduct of the 1960s’ earth-loving hippy caravan, or simply the recent influx of high-tech workers...

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Energy Report

Welcome to the Family

by Adam Bruns

A new solar power plant in Utah joins the global project lists of Google and Norway’s Scatec Solar.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Pipeline to Tomorrow

Today, at a site near the Mississippi River in Tunica County, Miss., just south of Memphis, Tenn., the company is gaining its first manufacturing perch in North America

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Takeoff Velocity

The aerospace industry has had a major presence in the Rockford, Ill., region for many decades, but it was only a few years ago that the industry came to the realization that a major cluster had developed.

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Learning By Doing

Next month, on Sept. 29, the the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council will lead the first ever Green Apple Day of Service, which will call on green building professionals and volunteers from across the country and internationally to participate in a service project to green a school or campus in their community.

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A New Class Brings the Number of American World War II Heritage Cities to 30

Documenting community industrial development in the United States has been a core mission of Site Selection since we launched publication 70 years ago this month.

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Agtech is a natural for Missouri.

Agtech & Food: Agtech is a natural for Missouri

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Energy Report

Back at the Ranch

by Adam Bruns

A new town is about to pop up in southwestern Florida, and energy innovation is at its heart.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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St. Louis: Center of Business

St. Louis is a powerhouse of business activity in the state.

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Business Spoken Here

The McCrory Administration and top state business recruiters are more than fluent in the language of business and commerce.

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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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Flipping the Switch in Mississippi

Proactive change leads the state to win $20 billion in deals in four years.

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Start Me Up

From Silicon Valley to San Diego, California leads the world in innovation.

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Energy Report

Coal Can’t Move

by Adam Bruns

But the power to move it is in policymakers’ hands.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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No Tech Bubble Here: WWT Bets Big on Edwardsville

Fast-rising supply chain solutions provider investing $115M in SW Illinois.

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FREE ZONES: GLOBAL AND U.S. LEADERS THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

In the USA, Foreign-trade Zones (FTZs) serve a reasonably singular purpose in their operations Reduce customs tariffs.

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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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Singapore Spin

How could a biopharma company that's only one year old employ 21,000 worldwide and have $18.8 billion in revenues?

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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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Features

It Pays To Be Out in Front

This year’s edition of State of the States, in addition to containing updated legislative, demographic and education data, includes the second installment of six Rankings That Matter.

Question & Insight: Lucid Strategy

T hey say misery loves company. When everybody is having a bad year, then one company’s troubles don’t look so bad. But even in relative terms, Lucent Technologies, along with its telecom equipment and networking rivals, has endured more than most. Lucent’s challenge of spinning off non-core businesses would have been […]

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