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Learning to Fly

by Adam Bruns

Which of these small towns has what it takes to rise above the rest?

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A Place for Pioneers

Physicist Frank Oppenheimer, the brother of Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer, didn't say exactly that when he founded the first-of-its-kind hands-on museum the Exploratorium in the late 1960s. But you know he wanted to.

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Free Zone Advantages Are a Two-Way Street

Free zones in this Caribbean country make giving back to their communities a competitive edge in attracting investment.

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New Facilities 1989 (Charts), page 6

From Site Selection magazine, February 1990 New Facilities 1989 | 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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Food Processing Industry: New Systems, Projects On Sector’s Horizon, Site Selection Magazine, November 2003

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

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Site Selection Highlights January 1999 Issue

JANUARY 1999 COVER STORY Can Kvaerner Re-Launch U.S. Shipbuilding? Riding a wave of lofty expectations, and $430 million in incentives, European power Kvaerner has sailed into Philadelphia with the future of U.S. shipbuilding at stake, many observers insist. pg. 1103 Is a Corporate Campus Right for Your Business? pg. 1118 Congress Warms to D.C. Real […]

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Life Sciences

Reverberations

by Adam Bruns

New research on research illustrates the economic significance of IP protection, among other innovation policy measures.

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Report Cards Are Out – State Innovation Grades Are Above Average

States in this region are Innovation Champions and
Leaders, according to a recent ranking from the
Consumer Technology Association.

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Ready to Compete

There’s power, and then there’s the power of relationships.

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Letter from the Governor: Louisiana: Stronger Than Ever

How Louisiana is coming back stronger after the 1000 year flood.

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WorkSource Oregon: The Ultimate Job Matchmaker

Whether you’re an employer seeking talent or a worker seeking a job, Oregon’s one-stop shop does it all.

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Site Selection for Life Sciences Companies in Europe

The 2018 edition of KPMG’s biannual overview offers pointers for entering the market and then navigating a changing landscape.

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Life Sciences

Need Mo-99

by Adam Bruns

A new facility coming to Florida is one part of a national push to supply enough of a critical medical isotope by the time the primary supplier in Canada shuts down in 2018.

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A Natural Hub to Reach the Americas & the World

Over the last three decades, Costa Rica has taken great strides to diversify its economy. The results are paying off in a major way.

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Dreaming Big Again

A Hudson River site once home to thousands of IBMers is positioned for a reboot 60 years after its debut.

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Investors Find a Hidden Gem in Portland, Texas

Companies and workers find the best of both worlds in this Gulf Coast city.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: NEW YORK

ost people who have observed the economy of the northeast United States are familiar with the decline of manufacturing jobs in New York State. Of course, New York State had more manufacturing jobs to lose than most other states, being the leader in industrial employment beginning with the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. By the […]

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Ready and Waiting

The U.S. Midwest is neither the unemployment capital of the U.S. any longer nor a manufacturing wasteland littered with shells of businesses that moved to China. Many certainly did move operations there, but that’s changing.

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Life Sciences

New Neighborhood

by Adam Bruns

A growing Olympus division consolidates and refreshes its Minnesota operations.

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Bridges

Toledo is a city that prides itself on its global ethnic and cultural diversity, and the entrepreneurial and industrial links that accompany that heritage.

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Where FDI Drives the Bus

The data reveal some intriguing insights about who’s attracting the most FDI, and where that FDI is coming from.

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Meet the Texas Town that Competes to Win

Small community delivers big-city benefits in Lufkin.

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Trade Winds

Momentum from 2013 carries over as Ohio's project pipeline remains fuller than ever.

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Blown On Course

In January, using new employment data from 123 countries and the European Union, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said that in 2012, employment in renewable energy worldwide stood at 5.7 million with the potential for adding 11 million jobs in the years to 2030, with 2.1 million of the new jobs coming from the wind sector.

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Area Spotlights

A ‘True Game Changer’

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

No Place Like Home

Community development programs and initiatives improve the quality of life across the state’s communities.

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How Illinois Competes to Win

Intersect Illinois Chairman John Atkinson and Interim CEO Paulina San Millan shed light on the state’s competitive advantages.

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The Right Consistency

Good ingredients are essential, in cooking and industrial growth.

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How Maryland Keeps Things Moving

An ‘unmatched’ business climate and bold investments bolster transportation and logistics.

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Angola Awakens

Angola has still to catch up with being oil rich and at peace with itself. A decade has passed since its long civil war ended, and in many ways it has made remarkable progress. Yet much remains to be done – from building infrastructure to reviving agriculture and raising much of its population out of poverty.

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International Update

Safety in Numbers

By several measures, Minnesota’s economy is firing on all cylinders.

A Watershed Moment

The ink from Gov. Rick Snyder’s signature on House Bill 4003 and Senate Bill 116 was barely dry when reaction started pouring in to the legislation that will make Michigan the 24th right-to-work state on April 1, 2013.

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Actions Speak Loudest

Governors continued to advance renewable energy, energy efficiency and other forms of clean energy during their 2013 state legislative sessions, according to a report released Oct. 21 by the National Governors Association (NGA).

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Boston-Washington Corridor

Technology means more here. Just ask the folks behind chip and quantum projects up and down the corridor.

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‘One Heck of An Advantage’

Comprehensive logistics assets and a desirable work force are two criteria common to most site selectors’ wish lists.

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How Small Businesses in the Heartland Are Coping

Panelists at a recent Brookings Institution event discuss how Main Street businesses are reinventing themselves in rural Virginia and Michigan.

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Area Spotlights

Climate Change

Northeast states grapple with perceptions, and reality, concerning tax structure.

Highlights – October Site Selection magazine

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Warp Speed

From Haas Automation to Virgin Hyperloop to aerospace, southern Nevada’s manufacturing leadership is leaping forward fast.

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Central Virginia Workforce Fuels Nuclear Firm’s Growth

Lynchburg-based BWXT is expanding on multiple fronts, with part of that growth designed to one day propel astronauts to Mars.

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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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Patchwork Precision

Johnson County encompasses 20 municipalities, with Overland Park and Lenexa leading the way in recent corporate facility development. The county itself has no economic development agency. What it does have is a reputation for wealth, and for a wealth of education excellence.

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Investment Profile

Success In Short Order

A still-new business creation program is already making a big impact.

INVESTMENT PROFILE: TERRELL, TEXAS: Long-term Success Starts in Terrell

While other cities see businesses come and go, the City of Terrell offers something different, a community where companies find lasting success. In a world where relocation and rapid growth often seem like the key to business survival, Terrell has become a rare example of a place where staying put is the winning strategy.

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Patrimony and Progress

Part of an organizational and civic transformation, the largest hospital move in Canadian history makes record time in Montreal.

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How Shale Gas Is Redefining the U.S. Energy Landscape

Game-changing increases in natural gas supply require pipeline networks of game-changing reach and new facilities from which to export much of it to high-demand regions globally. In 2009, the United States passed Russia to become the world’s leader in natural gas production.

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Why Amazon’s Building Binge Has Just Begun

Amazon, which began 2020 as a mere juggernaut, enters 2021 a monolith.

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The State of SMART

Colorado boasts a standout workforce steeped in tech.

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Gateways for Growth

Like clockwork, clouds threaten nearly every sunny afternoon in some parts of Florida. But cloud services — and mission-critical facilities in general — are an opportunity shining continually on the state.

Real Estate 1997 and the Art of War: Strategic Planning Pushes Global Expansion

Strategic planning-fueled growth will be a big part of real estate?s new year, judging from a recent Site Selection survey of top corporate real estate professionals. A whopping 87 percent of SS survey respondents? firms, for example, plan to ?locate new facilities or expand existing ones during 1997.? Strategic planning?s expandability is fast supplanting downsizing?s […]

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India’s New Auto Cluster

India’s western state of Gujarat has long been an industrial nexus, specializing in petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and textiles.

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Where Startups Are Stakeholders

“We looked from Arizona to Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Texas. After full analysis, we ended up in Greenville.”

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Workforce Scores Big in Southern Nevada

Southern Nevada is stepping up its workforce game with key partnerships and initiatives.

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Where the Waters Meet

Only Hampton Roads enjoys connectivity like this.

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Corridor Conversation

by Adam Bruns

An impromptu talk with the head of Canada’s national rail service provides insights that are anything but off-the-cuff.

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Strongest Job Recovery Market Resides In Nebraska

Rebounding from the pandemic, the Cornhusker State flexes its muscle.

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Fast, Diverse and Equitable: A Visioning Process for Future Biologics Manufacturing

Could speed to market and speed to crisis have a few things in common? They very well might, when it comes to addressing targeted medical needs around the world.

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Manufacturing?s New Deal Demands ?Lean Portfolios?

?Any color is fine as long as it?s black.? That was Henry Ford?s take on how consumer demands affected model T manufacturing: They didn?t. A relic of the long-gone days of total market control, Ford?s one-size-fits-all standard is now a prescription for disaster — and so are the real estate strategies that supported it. Consider […]

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Unconventional Wisdom: Regardless of One’s Politics

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

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Sink or Swim

Come to southwestern Indiana and you’ll find an 8,000-acre megasite with all the bells and whistles and a rock-solid workforce ready to help their region and nation bounce back.

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Area Spotlights

Bridges To the World

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

May 29, 2025: Is Your Country Carrying Dead Weight?

UK-based TMF Group yesterday released the latest edition of its Global Business Complexity Index (GBCI), which studies the layers of bureaucracy that can form “a dead-weight burden on business that stifles local innovation and deters foreign direct investment with no obvious societal benefit.”

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Changing Minds

Greater Fort Lauderdale alters perceptions of business executives around the world. Payoff comes in headquarters, plants and other expansions including a British tobacco company.

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Utah: Got Minerals?

Miners head beneath Utah’s natural wonders to strike gold (among other critical minerals).

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TRIED AND TRUE

Illinois’ strengths prove invaluable to growing businesses.

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In Pursuit of the Summit

Virginia, Maryland and Delaware constitute the core of a region where you truly get what you pay for.

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Area Spotlights

Uniquely Positioned

Even with oil prices plunging, energy drives this region toward new opportunities.

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: TOP BUSINESS PARK LOCATIONS

o you and the client have finished touring several suburban business parks and you begin the process of triaging the best sites for your client’s needs. The one consistent theme on the tours is the amount of time spent evaluating factors outside of the space versus how the interior layout worked. While the space itself […]

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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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The Sky’s the Limit

TexasEDConnection communities are an important part of the workforce development fabric set to receive $5 billion in state higher education funding over the next two years.

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World Reports: Robust Times For Robotics

From Site Selection magazine, January 2005 WORLD REPORTS Robust Times For Robotics Automakers, New Applications Boost Demand by JOHN W. McCURRY Craig Jennings has a problem most presidents of manufacturing companies would love to have: Market growth for his products is so great that he’s constantly looking at ways to boost capacity around the globe. […]

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Mississippi Will Fund Your Shovel-Ready Site

How do you put a price tag on speed to market?

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Area Spotlights

A Catalyst for Change

The power of ideas moves New Mexico forward.

Where Brain Meets Brawn

Huntington Ingalls expands in Hampton Roads on a pioneering mission for the Navy.

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IAMC Insider: Take the High Road

IAMC Chair Colleen Caravati on taking the high road; and insights on getting back to work from trucking firm Werner Enterprises, Hershey Company and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.

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IAMC INSIDER

May 2006 The Knowledge Team (cover) Meet a Member Incentives: The Devil’s in the Details Developer: Be Flexible, Global and Political A Sleeper Project Request Information

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Why LEGO Chose Virginia

Brick by brick, LEGO is building a global business empire centered on the meaning of its original name in Danish — “Play well.”

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IAMC INSIDER

MARCH 2009 So, What Is Your Board Up To? (cover) People & Projects Request Information

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Investment Profile

Poised to Grow

Corporate occupiers find Griffin Land’s shovel-ready developments in Connecticut and Pennsylvania perfectly timed and primed to deliver.

Exceeding Workforce Expectations

A greater emphasis on workforce development results in impressive job creation.

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Going the Distance

Apparently, even with the government’s shades drawn, the sun still rises.

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Top Service Providers 2002: Site Selection Names Eight Client Service Award Winners, Site Selection Magazine, January 2003

E ight corporate real estate service provider companies have won Site Selection/ William Dorsey Service Provider Awards for work they did in 2002 that exceeded the expectations of their clients. These awards, now in their fourth year, recognize those companies that are helping evolve the definition of client service in the corporate real estate context. […]

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Will AeroNexus Take Anchorage’s Cargo Might to New Heights?

We look into the more than $700 million in projects at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Alaska, and explores the location options for New York's airport city.

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LA is Back & Chicago Still Rules

Capital investments surged in 2021, especially into Tier 1 Metros, with Chicago breaking its own record for qualifying projects accumulated over a calendar year.

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Features

Something Ventured

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

EADS SPECIAL REPORT

ne company’s scandal is another company’s opportunity. Last year, the U.S. Air Force had a preliminary US$23-billion dollar deal with Boeing to lease and buy 100 aerial refueling tankers. But the deal fell apart amid a growing procurement scandal. Last May, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld returned the process to square one by […]

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California Ports Play Role in National Recovery & Future Competitiveness

More than 20% of the 158 major projects in California tracked by the Conway Data Projects Database in 2019 had a logistics component, and port connections are a big reason why.

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A Commitment to Carbon Neutrality

Michigan’s proactive approach to curbing climate change

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Down on the Farm

The Rochester, N.Y., area may soon be a significant center of biofuels innovation and production.

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2023 Prosperity Cup

North Carolina Expands Its Winning Streak

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Investment Profile

People of Precision

Advanced manufacturers in San Bernardino County rely on continuously improving educational and training systems to deliver globally competitive workers.

TOP METROS

or the past 40 years, Pier 1 Imports has made its home in Fort Worth, Texas. If Chairman and CEO Marvin Girouard has his way, the US$2-billion company will call Fort Worth home for at least the next 40. In 2004, Pier 1 moved into its new $90-million corporate headquarters in the […]

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In Fast-Growing Fort Worth, The Business Climate Remains HOT

When innovation meets opportunity, the possibilities are endless.

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Where Foreign Investors’ Value Projects Go

Successful investment by foreign firms even has domestic US firms looking inward.

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Blame Canada?

A global consultancy issues two new reports on global biopharma competitiveness, finding the US tops and its northern neighbor wanting.

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Business Parks: Beijing’s Science Cities

I BM and Cisco Systems call Beijing home. Now the plan for the Beijing Science and Technology Park Construction Company Ltd. is to recruit even more big names from the West to establish operations around China’s capital city. The lure? Brand new, high-tech corporate campuses that are virtual “Science Cities” — […]

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International Update

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.

Cardinal Location

An exclusive look at how one university is seeking to connect groundbreaking energy research with future company groundbreakings.

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Expedition Leader

Paul Allen and his city take the reins in pursuing global life sciences frontiers.

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Book Your Room Now, Lock in the Fun at TrustBelt 2019 in Louisville

In addition to TrustBelt’s high-quality programming content and unparalleled networking opportunities, this year’s Forum will give attendees the opportunity to experience some of the most unique and memorable venues in Louisville.

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Top Groups: On Solid Ground, Site Selection Magazine, May 2004

T he top economic development groups in the U.S. for 2003 know how to strike the ideal balance – between confidentiality and telling your story; blockbuster corporate deals and incremental company growth; new development and the infrastructure and redevelopment to go with it; simple processes and sophisticated methods of obtaining them. […]

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Startup Masters

University of Utah launches master’s degree for entrepreneurs.

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International Update

Finland Adapts to a New Technology Landscape

ICT hubs like Tampere offer a unique mix of skills, research and innovation.

Making Real Estate Pull Its Corporate Weight

D uring the closing months of 2001, activity in the real estate sale-leaseback market surged as more and more corporations sought to raise cash in a declining economic environment. W. P. Carey & Co., LLC, completed US$185 million worth of transactions in the fourth quarter of 2001, nearly half of the […]

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First Impressions Matter

Fast-growing Nashville International Airport (BNA) seeks to connect more people, businesses and countries through its BNA Vision expansion plan.

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Colombia Price Reduction on Novartis’ Glivec highlights a Universal Tug of War

Colombia's decision to force a price reduction on a major moneymaker from Novartis is a tough pill to swallow.

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About Face

In early 2014, Maryland state legislators convened a private-sector task force to study the state’s business climate.

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No Doubting ‘Thomas’

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

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Energy Report

Slow Burn

by Adam Bruns

Thousands of landfills nationwide contain mountains of methane that could be turned into energy.

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Going Up

Skyscraper is not a commonly used term in Switzerland. Few buildings earn that moniker in a country that has mostly eschewed anything high-rise other than the Alps.

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Lookout Towers

Southeastern states aren’t usually on the short list of wind energy equipment builders looking for new manufacturing sites, but a German firm has ambitious plans to make Chattanooga a leading center for wind tower development.

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Industries of the Future will be Right at Home in Kentucky

Governor Andy Beshear is determined to make Kentucky a global leader in the fast-emerging agritech industry.

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Kentucky Horsepower

Major announcements by manufacturers and suppliers demonstrate the strength of the Bluegrass State’s automotive industry.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION – EMERGING LOGISTICS HUBS

ENVER, Colo. — Lower leasing rates have contributed to a rebounding industrial market in severalmajor American cities, according to a new report by the ProLogis Research Group. The new market “leaders” in the distribution-warehouse sector, according to the Denver-based company,are the Los Angeles Basin, New Jersey, Las Vegas, Reno, Seattle and St. […]

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International Update

Urban Legends

If your company needs talent in Western Canada, there are only nine cities where you’ll find it.

Area Spotlights

State of Contradictions

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

Drive South … of the Border

Mexico states its FDI case $1 billion at a time. But the industry’s birthplace still has something to say too.

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Unicorns Are Everywhere

Contenders for Silicon Valley’s Top Ranking Abound in Global Startup Ecosystems Report 2022

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EDITORS’S VIEW

opefully, this issue will get to you before you head to the polls on November 7th to vote in a congressional and/or gubernatorial election. That’s because you can use this issue to bone up on whether those in power in your area helped or hurt your state’s business climate. Our annual round-up of state legislative […]

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Maryland: It Starts With The Man in Charge

But climate tech is totally Maryland.

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IAMC Insider: Honored to Serve

The first letter from new IAMC Chair Mark Eichkorn; insights into leveraging data analytics; and tips on successful environmental assessments at sites.

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Features

New Generation

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

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

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

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Places for Discovery: Institutions With Energy’s Future On Their Minds Saturate TVA Territory

Institutions With Energy’s Future On Their Minds Saturate TVA Territory

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Going Big? Go to Asia.

For the second straight year, chemical/pharmaceutical facility investment has outpaced transportation equipment.

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The American Dream Reimagined

The American Dream Composite Index lays out a better blueprint for measuring economic development achievement.

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The Law of Unintended Consequences

Recent analysis from Brookings makes the case that the federal government is finally putting its money where its mouth is with respect to investing in domestic industrial development and local...

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Features

Thoughts on the Renewable Energy Internet

Economic and cultural theorist Jeremy Rifkin published his seminal work “Entropy” 35 years ago. His ideas about the future, however, are not winding down at all.