Life Sciences

Learning Environments

by Adam Bruns

Two announcements from one company show the power of university partnerships to further company and area competitiveness.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Unprecedented Investment Unfolds in Semiconductor Giants’ Homeland

Samsung isn’t the only Korean corporate giant inching its way into its home country’s infrastructure in innovative fashion.

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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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Project Bulletin, Apr. 14, 2025: London, England; Beijing, China; Lawton, Oklahoma

Fresh JV to deliver new London data center; AstraZeneca builds collaboration in Beijing; Goodyear's production capacity soars in Oklahoma.

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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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Roundtable Delivers New Solutions To Today’s Real Estate Challenges

A s if their plates weren’t full enough already, economic conditions are mandating that corporate real estate managers figure out how to do more with less. More what? They must now demonstrate more of an ability to contain, if not reduce, costs where property assets are concerned, because shareholders and real estate investors are less […]

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Life Sciences

Freeze It!

by Adam Bruns

Cold-chain improvements are afoot on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Question & Insight: The Green Team, Site Selection Magazine, January 2003

D evelopers of new facilities have a very basic decision to make at the outset of a project, be it a new manufacturing plant, a distribution center or any other facility. Will its impact on the environment be negative or positive in the long term? Those who choose to design and build a project that […]

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When Disaster Strikes . . .How to Manage a Successful Comeback

by Douglas G. Karpiloff, CPP When a deadly car bomb exploded beneath the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, Douglas Karpiloff was General Manager of Tenant Services. His experiences during the disaster recovery offer valuable lessons for facility managers everywhere. The commercial real estate world changed forever on Feb. 26, 1993, with the […]

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NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, May 2008 Write the Check, Get a Green Card by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com T hat’s what the U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services’ Immigrant Investor Pilot Program, known as EB-5, did for 779 foreign individuals and their 2,227 dependents in the most recently concluded fiscal year. All told, […]

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To Get the Right Answers, Ask the Right Questions

Better information up front makes for better location decisions.

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Made in Montana

Entrepreneurs are building innovative companies in Big Sky Country.

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Life Sciences

Repeat Customer

by Adam Bruns

Novo Nordisk’s ‘Bright Sky’ will help North Carolina continue to shine.

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Coke Sews Silver Lining Into Plant Design

Rain reuse via syphonic drainage is among this new facility’s LEED attributes.

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The Math Adds Up Here

In the Madison Region, computer and life science skills form the foundation of a globally competitive cluster in biotech and healthcare IT.

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European Industry Clusters Form in 1999’s Top 10

Editor’s note: This feature is a follow-up report on “Europe’s 1999 Facility Race,” which appeared in the July 2000 Site Selection. This article goes beyond the ranking and looks at which industries are hot and which are not in the top European markets. To be or not to be — in the European Monetary Union […]

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South Australia Charts a Course to Statewide Connectivity

S outh Australia plans to introduce itself to the world as an “Information Economy” success story, and it has just under a year in which to put the necessary pieces in place. Adelaide, the Australian state’s capital city, will be the site of the 2002 WITSA World Congress, a biennial conference of the World Information […]

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One for the Ages

While over-the-top and in-your-face as only an Amazon could pull off, HQ2 is very much in sync with the heightened trend of corporate headquarters mobility.

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Industry Review

What’s for Dinner In The Rockies?

by Mark Arend

Following are snapshots of recent F&B projects that landed — or expanded — in the Rocky Mountain region

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Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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Squarely In the Middle

The community of Russell offers the perfect blend of industrial opportunity with a high quality of life.

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New York and the Regional EnergyInnovation Cluster (E-RIC)

This article is the second in a two-part series detailing two proposed regional innovation clusters whose collaborators remain committed to the goals and objectives outlined in their E-RIC proposals.

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

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

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Unconventional Wisdom: Good State or Bad State?

Site selectors offer their thoughts to companies and states navigating the dicey waters of economic development and social legislation.

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UTILITIES SNAPSHOT

tilities don’t just help lure other companies’ facility investments. They create their own, either directly or via spinoff effects. And the project portfolio goes well beyond power plants. In Atlanta, multi-utility holding company Southern Company will be moving into a new corporate headquarters in 2005. Developed by Barry Real Estate Companies, the […]

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A Concierge for the Innovation Ecosystem

by Mark Arend

The Iowa Innovation Corporation makes the right connections for start-ups in The Hawkeye State.

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The Building Blocks of the Future

With the Strati and the Olli, Local Motors is changing the way people travel.

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Durable Skills Are Todays Human Resources Currency

Editor in Chief Mark Arend takes a close look at the Portrait of a Graduate visioning process developed by North Carolina and Battelle for Kids to ensure high school graduates...

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Change Is Refreshing. Predictability Is Too.

The latest edition of our annual 50-state guide updates you on economic development laws, leaders, policies, incentives and projects.

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5 Things to Know About Louisiana

The state’s new leader of economic development is here to ‘blow it up.’

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The Next Tech Startup Hub Is Everywhere

Everyone wants to run a startup — even the big boys and girls.

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Linking Communities

by Ron Starner

How economically connected regions lead to growing industry clusters.

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Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Real Estate Planning in the Financial Services Arena

Real estate and corporate resources executives from several leading financial companies gathered in New York City in mid-December 1998 to discuss ways in which they are helping drive change in their organizations. Unless an organization changes, it stops growing, becomes less competitive — even non-competitive — and will be left behind by more nimble players. […]

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“If everything is so good, why do we feel so bad?” was the working title of a presentation made at a recent gathering of the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE), a Chicago-based association of corporate real estate consultants. The presenter was Phil Ward, senior managing director, real estate investments, at CIGNA Investment Management, Hartford, Conn. […]

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New Facilities 1992 (Charts)

From Site Selection magazine, February 1993 Regional Distribution of New Plants by SIC Code Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1993 Conway Data, Inc. All rights reserved. SiteNet data is from many sources and is not warranted to be accurate or current.

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Citicorp’s Tampa Real Estate Prototype

Merger-contemplating executive No. 1: “Can anybody stop us?” Merger-contemplating executive No. 2: “Hmmm . . . NATO?” Citigroup does things big, as boldfaced by that humorous exchange, reported during 1998’s Travelers-Citicorp merger discussions. Just how big is obvious in Tampa. “We have 9,400 employees in Florida, 2,500 in the Tampa area and 2,200 […]

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RUNNING ON ALL CYLINDERS

Arkansas is winning through specialization and diversification.

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Area Spotlights

The New Land Rush

by Ron Starner

A retooled approach to business development and renewed investment into infrastructure are winning corporate facility projects in Oklahoma.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Asian Call Centers: Dialing New Delhi, Site Selection Magazine, November 2003

O rdering a computer, making an airline reservation or inquiring about a credit card bill increasingly involves talking with someone 12 time zones away. Outsourcing of customer service functions by U.S. companies to the Asian subcontinent and to the Philippines is transforming the call center industry as firms move jobs from […]

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Move Along Now

Rail Parks and Inland Ports: Move Along Now: Railport Momentum Builds Across the Nation: A new project in West Lafayette continues a long tradition of innovation and industry collaboration at Purdue University.

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Gaining Traction

The growing automotive sector drives manufacturing growth.

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Good Sports: Big Leases in The Big Apple

Two of the nation’s leading professional sports leagues are deepening their roots in Manhattan with major office leases in Midtown.

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The Mighty Middle

There’s more to Pennsylvania than Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

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One Community at a Time

by Crystal Villarreal

It started as a search to find the healthiest communities, but Blue Zones are becoming a movement.

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New Facilities 1993 (Charts), page 2

From Site Selection magazine, February 1994 New & Expanded Facilities 1991-93 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1994 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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Project Bulletin: August 22, 2023

Last week, San Diego–based DNA sequencing pioneer Illumina Inc. announced the opening of a new office and Illumina Solutions Center in Bengaluru, India. Senior executives from the company and its longtime channel partner Premas Life Sciences cut the ribbon together.

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Put Me In, Coach

These 10 cities are ready for the big time. They just need to act like it.

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How Does Your Garden State Grow?

Fresh incentives create fertile economic development soil in New Jersey.

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EDITOR’S VIEW

EDITOR’S VIEW From Site Selection magazine, November 2007 by MARK AREND mark.arend bounce@conway.com Business Climate Change O ne way to look at the results of two recent corporate-real-estate-executive pulse-taking exercises is in terms of “before” and “after.” Our annual survey of executives’ picks for the best state business climates included a new question this […]

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Cutting a Wide Swath

by Patty Rasmussen

Iowa boasts deep roots in the transportation equipment manufacturing sector.

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2003 Top Deals: The Tex

H ungering for some good Tex-Mex cuisine? Well, you’re not alone. Some of the world’s largest companies soon will be buying a lot of food in Texas and Mexico, which together captured four of Site Selection’s Top Ten Deals of 2003. From Texas Instruments and Toyota in […]

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Test Case

Renewables play a major role in the progressive climate policies of California — and of its companies too.

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New Canvas

A search of Halliburton's 2,100 current job openings shows a bit over 1 percent of them (29) are in Colorado. Sixteen of those are in the company's Brighton district, where Halliburton this spring has brought online the world's largest frac sand terminal at Great Western Industrial Park in Windsor.

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Local Solutions And Caring Communities Tip the Scales In IMPA Territory

When bedding products maker Tempur Sealy International in 2020 committed to achieving carbon neutrality in its global operations by 2040

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Entek Finds a Home in Terre Haute

A region with shovel-ready property meets an Oregon company ready to engage with a community.

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Through the Lens of Economic Development

by Crystal Villarreal

Gov. Terry Branstad shares his dynamic plan to bring even more success to the state of Iowa.

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Beyond US Borders

Exports from Oklahoma reach farther than ever before.

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Project Bulletin, Apr. 21, 2025: San Diego, California; Lynchburg, Virginia; Middleton Township, Ohio

Pharmaceutical manufacturer is all in on U.S. portfolio growth; Delta Star returns to Lynchburg for new expansion; Meta announces latest data center investment.

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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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Ripples, Then Waves

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

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Tariff Pause Shines Spotlight on Southeast Asia’s Solar Industry

In June, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation declaring a supply chain emergency and allowing the U.S. Department of Commerce to help shore up domestic solar power equipment

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Online Insider

Finding the Sweet Spot

by Ron Starner

A wave of capital investment transforms Sugarloaf Corridor in Gwinnett County, Ga.

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Editor’s View: It’s Time to Rethink ‘Quality of Life’

North Carolina unseated Georgia and its eight-year hold on first place in our annual ranking of state business climates this year.

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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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IAMC Insider, Site Selection magazine, September 2003

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

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Massive Factory Opens in Brazil;JTI Finds Geneva To Be Good Match; plus four more stories.

CNH Global, a division of the Fiat Group, says its new factory in Soracaba, Brazil, is the largest single machine industry investment in that country’s history.

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Not To Be Outdone

Move over, automotive industry. You’ve got company. The entire Southeast is home to a thriving aviation industry, and Mississippi is no exception.

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Area Spotlights

Firing on All Cylinders

by Patty Rasmussen

Missouri makes creating an automotive hub look easy.

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Other Top Development Organizations: Honorable Mentions from 1998

From Site Selection magazine, May 1999 Other Top Development Organizations: Honorable Mentions from 1998 TTaken from the many nominations received for this year’s Site Selection list of top 10 development groups, here are profiles of other worthy organizations from 1998: Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce, Bowling Green, Ky.: Played a key role in attracting […]

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COVER STORY: THE GULF COAST RECOVERY

n the parish of Iberia, La., not far from the rookeries and gardens of McIlhenny-founded Avery Island, a small alternative energy company is doing its part to rebuild a region’s energy infrastructure — and simultaneously rebuild a hurricane-ravaged economy — using the same natural force that has wrought so much destruction. After securing a 30-year […]

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INTERVIEW WITH THE GOVERNOR: How a Governor Engineered a State TURNAROUND

Five years into his tenure, Gov. Tate Reeves has turned Mississippi into an economic juggernaut.

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Site Selection Snapshot – July 11, 2024

SkillsUSA Competitors Make News by Making Things Photos courtesy of SkillsUSA A presidential debate and a Copa America match were taking place at the same time and mere yards away in downtown Atlanta in June, with results that some would rather forget. But the memorable achievements […]

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Project Bulletin: July 1, 2024

Denmark-based global health company Novo Nordisk broke North Carolina’s record for the single largest life sciences investment in the state when it announced this week it would invest in a $4.1 billion production site in Clayton, North Carolina.

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Area Spotlights

Road Show

by Mark Arend

Gov. Asa Hutchinson spent a week in Europe recruiting aerospace companies to his state at the Paris Air Show.

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No Time Like the Present

State reaches new Amazon deal; automotive cluster grows.

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The Ocean State’s Enduring Location Ace

Rhode Island can punch above its weight — and win — thanks to business location assets like the Quonset Business Park.

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Can Developers Breathe New Life into Dead Malls?

Retail experts share their prescription for curing dying properties.

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From Hoop Dreams to Workforce Reality

How a highly decorated coach is transforming cradle-to-career prep in Kentucky

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Editor’s View: Know When to Hold ’Em

You read it here first: Another North America headquarters for a global company is coming to Atlanta, and I’m not referring to Amazon’s HQ2

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Greener Pastures

by Adam Bruns

The EB-5 immigrant investor program is surrounded by questions. Some see it as one of the answers.

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Greener Pastures

The EB-5 immigrant investor program is surrounded by questions. Some see it as one of the answers.

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Project Bulletin: August 08, 2023

Currently based in Concord in the Vaughan region with distribution centers in Brampton, Ontario; Illinois and New Jersey and a U.S. head office in California, Highlight Motor Group plans to move its HQ to a new development in Bradford West Gwillimbury (BWG), located in Simcoe County just to the north of the primary Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: SERVICE PROVIDER SHOWCASE

ndustry Expertise.” “Global Breadth.” “Client Focused.” You hear these descriptions often, but what do they mean? More importantly, are these true qualities in a top- notch service provider? Is a global provider superior to a smaller boutique shop? These days, qualifying corporate real estate service providers is a different ballgame. The players are new, and […]

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Decades in the Making

The Monterrey region’s rich educational resources did not appear overnight, and they are growing.

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FDI Wave Hits Gulf Coast

Christopher Prentice represents exactly the kind of company that increasingly is finding a home along U.S. Gulf Coast — high-tech, international and rapidly growing.

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Energy Report

Fetching a Future

by Adam Bruns

Will Ghana be able to reel in economic development success from a resource just offshore?

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In The (Free Economic) Zone? Probably.

Much of South Korea is a free economic zone, if going right to China isn’t in the cards.

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New North Turnaround

Long-time Paper Mill Avoids Closure Through Pivot to Brown Paper Market.

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Lights, Camera, Illinois!

Behind the camera, production crews like what they’re finding in the Prairie State.

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The Race is On

A billion-dollar fund and a gigantic conglomerate drive biopharma investment in South Korea.

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Columbus, Ohio: How the Columbus Region Became the Talent Factory of the Midwest

The secret sauce behind big wins from Intel, AWS and Honda? Workforce Development.

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Energy Report

Power Propositions

by Adam Bruns

Events in Pennsylvania and California highlight models for talent development.

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Southeast Michigan Builds an Aerotropolis

Southeast Michigan Builds an Aerotropolis: Most regions have one airport from which to launch an Airport City. Advocates of the Detroit Region Aerotropolis hope its two airports and other infrastructure attributes will help the initiative take off.

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Hot High

M ONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — Can the building blocks of life become the foundation of a new economy? They can if the companies mapping the human genome happen to be in your own backyard. In Rockville, Md., Celera Genomics Group captivated the attention of the scientific world on Feb. 12 when […]

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A to Zed, Part Two

A chat with AstraZeneca's head of real estate and asset strategies offers a glimpse into the company's global growth strategy and focus on quality workplaces.

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Power Play

Move over, banking. The Charlotte region’s energy sector is on a roll, coalescing into an economic force with a critical mass large enough to attract new players of all sizes.

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Project Arrow Combines Ontario Ingenuity & Canadian Heart

Ontario-based global parts manufacturer Magna International has enough in-house capabilities around the world to manufacture a complete vehicle.

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Energy Report

Changing the Landscape

by Adam Bruns

Welspun’s trail of investments in its home country is more than a well-spun tale.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Rare Earth Operations: The Critical Minerals Supply Chain Is Coming Home

Processing critical minerals domestically is ramping up as companies invest in facilities designed to bring the supply chain home from overseas.

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Terminal Marks New Beginning

A landmark eminent domain victory in Jacksonville two years ago is finally moving toward imminent imports of Colombian coal.

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Data Centers: Site Selection 101

In today's data center conversation, there is considerable discussion of ideal topology, clean power, cost per MW, network connectivity (latency) and a myriad of "flavor of the month" issues. The dialog is wide ranging because data center facilities are complex, technology changes rapidly and owners/operators have disparate needs

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Focused on Relationships

For Hoosier Energy and its rural electric distribution partners, accolades are welcome. Making connections is even better.

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Flexing Global Muscle

Organizing trade missions to Asia and setting up rural economic development programs around Texas are all just part of a normal day’s work for Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos.

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International Update

The US-Mexico Border Economy In Transition

From small rural agricultural and ranching communities to large urban centers of innovation and advanced manufacturing, the border is based in both tradition and the crossing of boundaries.

Headquarters For the World

The founder of AutoNation, Extended Stay America and Waste Management Inc. enjoys his daily commute. He likes the view from his South Florida office even better.

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West Virginia Builds Life Sciences Cluster

When Mylan Pharmaceuticals merged with Pfizer’s Upjohn division to form Viatris in 2021,

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The Nation’s Top-Performing Micropolitan Areas Unmask Opportunities In Tough Times

Micropolitan areas were socially distanced before it became a thing.

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Where to THRIVE in More Ways Than One

As a new economic development vision is unveiled in St. Tammany Parish, the action is already well under way.

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High

We live in an age of e-commerce, fiber optics, information systems and infrastructure, and ideas and initiatives moving at the speed of light through a network of silicon and wiring. And that prompts one to ask, why do so many good ideas go bad? Could it be that we have forgotten in this gizmo-oriented age […]

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