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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.

Tapped Ohio

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

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From Farm To Table

New Jersey’s food and beverage business grows from the ground up.

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Project Bulletin: October 10, 2023

Under the name “Project Lion,” Slovakia-based energy equipment company InoBat is bringing its second Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) facility to Cuprija, Serbia.

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Top Metros – Tier 2: Dayton Lands Back on Top

The region returns to No. 1 among medium-sized metro areas for the first time since 2021. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is No. 1 per capita.

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JobsOhio Leads From the Front

Under the leadership of J.P. Nauseef, state agency reels in a record haul.

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Area Spotlights

Revved UP!

by Crystal Villarreal

The oil and gas surge generates startups and diversified manufacturing.

Crystal Villarreal

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The 2021 Governor’s Cups

The governors of Kansas and Texas corralled enough projects in 2021 to earn their states a Governor’s Cup — the first for one and the 10th for the other.

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5 Ways You Can Win The War for Talent

Ron Starner says the global pandemic has changed the rules of talent attraction, recruitment and retention.

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Rolling Out The Red Carpet

New Jersey gives its film and media industry the star treatment.

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How Millennials Are Changing the World of Work

Want your company to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace? Throw away every stereotype you have about millennials.

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EDITOR’S VIEW From Site Selection magazine, September 2008 The Call to Excellence by MARK AREND mark.arend bounce@conway.com O ne of the many benefits of our Excellence in Corporate Real Estate Awards program is the inspiration we can gain from the winners’ achievements. Take DFW International Airport’s John Terrell, for example (see coverage of the […]

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Life Sciences

Out of Bounds on Purpose

by Adam Bruns

Cross-disciplinary collaboration is in the DNA of America’s crossroads.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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The California Connection

When Silicon Valley Bank scoured the U.S. for an information-technology and operations location, it didn’t take long for the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company to find what it needed in Tempe, Ariz.

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

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

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Pratt & Whitney To Expand Several Facilities

Increased engine production is behind much of the investment.

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Wind Power

Kansas’ renewable energy sector is growing fast.

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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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Life Sciences

The Race is On

by Adam Bruns

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

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Jack’s Final Chapter

Jack Lyne was an extraordinary writer who perfected his craft by agonizing over every word he wrote. He became the leading editorial voice of a generation of reporters covering the practice of corporate site selection.

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Companies Stay Future-Focused in Alabama

The closing out of 2023 was lucrative for the state of Alabama.

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Public Development Authority Boosts Spokane Area’s Prospects

Teamwork triggers a big win and big hopes for the future.

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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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Dakotas: By Air & By Land

A pioneering unmanned aerial vehicle program takes on in North Dakota, while an earthmoving equipment company expands in South Dakota.

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Life Sciences

Collaborative Models Needed

The latest UPS Healthcare Logistics Survey shows your company may need a targeted therapy to reduce its supply chain pain.

Site Selectors Bullish on Logistics, Manufacturing and the Sun Belt

If you need to see evidence that the American economy is on a sustained upswing, look no further than the results of Site Selection’s annual site selectors survey.

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How Undersea Cables Drive Onshore Site Decisions

An increasingly dense submarine web supports the web we’re on all the time.

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2020 Global Best to Invest

This annual report is usually a celebratory recognition of some of the world’s best performing economies, especially those most successful at attracting investment and creating jobs.

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Companies Stay Future-Focused in Alabama

The closing out of 2023 was lucrative for the state of Alabama.

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Triangle? What Triangle?

The latest investments in North Carolina are proof of life (sciences) beyond RTP.

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Area Spotlights

Look What’s Growing in Nebraska

by Mark Arend

An entrepreneurial ecosystem is rapidly taking shape.

Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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A New Business Neighborhood

Three Latin American locations have a rare combination of international air service, adjacent higher education resources and available sites – a powerful combination for the right site selector.

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Linerboard Maker Brings New Life to Old Paper Mill in Ashland, Virginia

The plant manager outlines the past, present and future of Canada’s Cascades.

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Let’s Talk

For those struggling to create jobs in their communities, it may pay to take up the art of real conversation with business leaders. By now, most economic developers have at least a cursory knowledge of a growing field within their profession called business retention and expansion, often referred to as “BR&E.” The concept or strategy behind BR&E is relatively simple: Concentrate your efforts on existing industry, as that will be where most newly created jobs and investment will occur.

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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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Three Rays of Sunlight

When you’re a US$68-billion company with more than 300,000 employees across multiple industries, it’s always possible for asset disposition to be an internal affair. It’s also possible to seek out sunnier climes when shadows are lurking at home.

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A Low-Fare Solution

Partnership raises funds to attract additional low-fare service to Knoxville.

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

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

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Drone Maker Lands $900 Million Project in Central Ohio

A nationwide search led the defense contractor to a site in Greater Columbus.

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Trimming Taxes in Arkansas

Personal, corporate income tax cuts accelerated in Arkansas.

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Silicon Valley Still On Top, Amsterdam On the Rise

Startup Genome says these leading startup hubs have a major role to play in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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The Hollywood Return

The now tripled tax credit is giving production
companies even more reasons to go back to Cali.

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Everything that Sparkles

The 24-hour jewelry network continues its legacy in Knoxville.

Biologistics Hub

Life sciences companies are choosing Belgium for regional distribution.

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Stability Boosts Nebraska Life Sciences

If all you know about Nebraska is that cattle is our biggest industry — we lead the nation in commercial red meat production — or if your knowledge relates only to the Huskers’ chase for the college football championship every year, then you may be startled to learn that the bioscience industry is one of Nebraska’s fastest growing industries.

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Biocentral

Central Texas’ Biocorridor Brings Innovations to Global Markets

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Women-Owned Businesses Making Gains in the TrustBelt

Female entrepreneurship is making solid gains across the country, with a notable surge in women-led startups taking place in the Midwest.

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Beating the Spread

Chicago, like many cities, is seeing a return to the city center from corporations and regular folks alike. But Chicagoland by definition encompasses 15 Illinois counties other than Cook County (21 if you count northwest Indiana and southeast Wisconsin).

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Writing History in a Lab

Oak Ridge National Laboratory keeps changing the world 70 years after its biggest invention.

WORLD REPORTS

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, September 2008 Port, Highway Projects Boost Honduras Logistics Dredging began in June for a $240-million expansion project at the Port of Cortes on Honduras’ Caribbean coast. by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com T he Port of Cortes, the largest of five Caribbean ports in Honduras, manages more than […]

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Strategic Expansion’s Consummate Collaborators: Site Selection?s 1996 Top 10 Development Groups

Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov and other international chess champions usually don?t ask for advice on their next move. Veritable lone wolves, they stand or fall on their own wits, skill and strategy. Companies, though, needn?t operate that way in crafting real estate strategies involving multimillion-dollar facilities. In fact, more and more firms are relying on […]

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Good Afternoon, Vietnam

Vietnam’s inexpensive and productive labor force has oftentimes earned it the title of the ‘Next China’.

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Cutting Through the Hype

What’s Really Going on in Central America?

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Middle of Somewhere

Why would a company locate its business in a small town, far from the economic activity of large cities? Such a decision doesn’t make sense for every company. But for some it makes perfect sense.

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Trendsetter on the Tube

How Knoxville became the shining star of lifestyle media.

Dual Advantage

If you’ve just launched the nation's first specialized, bundled insurance program for commercial-scale solar installations, it only makes sense to try it out yourself first.

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IDRC Abstracts, November 2000

Abstracts of recent major presentations of the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent corporate real estate association. “Using Web-Based Technologies to Manage the Corporate Infrastructure,” New York World Congress, May 2, 2000: Peregrine Systems’ Nancy Johnson Sanquist told this jam-packed workshop session, “Infrastructure management is the mortar that connects the clicks with the […]

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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 A Win for One Is A Win for All

When economic development is approached as a team sport, Texas scores.

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Decision Data: Where High-Growth Companies Are Born, Site Selection Magazine, November 2002

W estern states are proving to be a natural habitat for gazelles, according to some recent research — not zoological research, but rather location research from Cognetics (www.cogonline.com), a Waltham, Mass.-based consultancy. Gazelles are rapidly growing, publicly traded companies whose revenues have grown at an average annual compound rate of 20 […]

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Speed Racers

The company that built the world’s first 3D-printed
car has big plans in Knoxville.

How Renewables Power A State Economy

The windswept plains of Kansas harness enough energy to power the future.

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More than Foam

Wyoming brewers are producing award-winning beer.

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Comfort Zone

Comfort Zone: A peek inside a Philadelphia public health nonprofit’s shift in culture, location and workspace design offers a glimpse into its employees’ and its city’s future.

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Vitamin Enriched

Northridge, Calif.–based Pharmavite, maker of Nature Made vitamins and Soyjoy bars, produces more than 120 different kinds of supplements and fills more than 120 million bottles with 15 billion tablets, capsules, and softgels per year.

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by Peter Miscovich President, Interior Space International High-technology. Flexible work scheduling. Corporate downsizing. Teaming. Office hoteling. Reduced occupancy costs. Enhanced productivity. Work force diversification. The “learning organization.” New corporate concerns, objectives, technologies and philosophies have transformed today’s workplace. Companies planning to lease office space must recognize that buildings of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s no […]

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Area Spotlights

On the Edge

by Crystal Villarreal

A historic land transfer will help grow new business.

Crystal Villarreal

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Well Connected: Business and Telecom Networks Are This Region’s Secret Sauce

Business and telecom networks are this region's secret sauce.

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CLIENT SERVICE AWARDS: Appearance Matters — Site Selection Magazine, January 2006

CLIENT SERVICE AWARDS From Site Selection magazine, January 2006 Appearance Matters by MARK AREND “With the added pressures of new governance legislation and rules like Sarbanes-Oxley, it is clear that clients need an unprecedented degree of rigor, process orientation and transparency.” ? Equis Corp. M aking the client look good to his or her superiors […]

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Road Grading:

An Examination of Scores and Progress Across Illinois Infrastructure

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Brightest of the Bright

For talent, New Jersey occupies a universe of its own.

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Still Good Chemistry

Does the photograph on this page frighten or inspire? How a company or a country answers that question goes a long way toward explaining the maturing and increasingly integrated global role of China as a production, research, talent and market base.

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International Update

Skating Out of the Dark

by Adam Bruns

Sure it’s cold, but Ottawa’s tech connections still glow.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Define Your Therms

Rhode Island’s low energy consumption is matched by its high profile in renewables.

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Editor’s View: Leadership, Among Other Things

I ‘ve saved this space to recognize some outstanding individuals in the corporate real estate profession — the seven winners of this year’s Site Selection Corporate Real Estate Leadership Awards, which were presented at the CoreNet Global Summit this past May, in Salt Lake City. With their permission, we will spotlight the work they do […]

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Canada’s Best Locations 2022

Two major projects announced in Ontario, Canada, this summer epitomize what one might call northern composure — as in calm, serene and self-assured.

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Akron

From Tire Capital To Polymer Tech Hub Of America

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Design Experts Shed Light On Workplace Performance Measures

Ever since Michael Hammer, the guru of Business Process Re-engineering, made the observation years ago that the business world has not adequately considered the effect re-engineering has on the notion of workplace, work space design experts have struggled to understand the relationship between the two concepts. What role does workspace really play in productivity? Can […]

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Online Insider

Everything Ventured

by Adam Bruns

Oakridge Global Energy Solutions hopes to create 1,000 jobs on Florida’s Atlantic Coast. Living that dream is no day at the beach.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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New Day Dawns Electric for Greater Baltimore

Historic timelines can be telling indicators. Short timelines can be winning indicators.

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From Burger Joint to National Franchise

Set to reach 800 locations by 2026, Wichita-based Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers is one of many companies choosing to locate their headquarters in the Sunflower State.

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Findlay

Harnessing the Findlay Formula

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Helping Businesses Take The Next Step

Community tax credits incite the entrepreneurial spirit in Pennsylvania.

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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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Energy Report

Make Yourself Useful

by Adam Bruns

An update on power company–affiliated economic development around the US shows the diverse economic meanings of the word ‘utility.’

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Energizing Flint

Historic partnerships fuel renewed investment into Vehicle City.

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Peter Beattie: Queensland’s Persistent Premier Lands Virgin, Red Hat HQs

Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is on intimate terms with persistence. Just ask Richard Branson. Branson recently announced that he was shopping for an Australian headquarters site. But the Virgin Atlantic chairman already had a location short list that was truly short: It included only Sydney and Melbourne, Australia’s two largest, best known cities. Faced with […]

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Pharmony Near Philly

Craigavon, Northern Ireland-based Almac expects to fully occupy its new North American headquarters in Souderton, Pa., by the end of the year.

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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: 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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Energy Report

Hiding Place

by Adam Bruns

Construction moves forward on the world’s first permanent nuclear waste repository.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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A history of innovation drives stainless steel production and remanufacturing.

Springfield, Missouri, is known as the nation’s “capital of stainless steel,” making it a shining example of how a single individual can bend the arc of history.

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IOWA: Data Center Central

Projects in Greater Des Moines and Cedar Rapids show why the state is becoming data center central.

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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.

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From Mega to Modular?

Two glimpses of nuclear power's expensive past and possible future occurred in February within 24 hours of each other.

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Oracle Exec: E

Oracle sees blazing changes on Europe’s horizon: “Combine globalization’s thrust, the e-commerce surge and the Euro’s emergence, and you’ll see e-commerce blow through Europe like a whirlwind. The single currency has amplified the velocity of change, broadening and flattening the playing field. E-commerce is impacting our own European operations in a big way, and it’s […]

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Energy Report

Blue-Chip Solution

by Adam Bruns

Retailers top — but don’t monopolize — the list of largest corporate solar power users.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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‘Capital in Transit’

Food, pharmaceuticals, flowers and fashion are the chief industries that make up the cold chain, otherwise known as the supply chain of time-sensitive, perishable products.

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South Central: Cleaning Up On Clean Energy

The federal Inflation Reduction Act is hitting home in the south-central U.S., where states known for big employers in the oil and gas industries are generating thousands of new jobs in clean energy...

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How Florida Became a Launchpad for Small Business Growth

Entrepreneurs share their stories from the front lines of the pandemic and recession.

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The Nordics: How Google Warms Up a Finnish Town

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Energy Engineered

With economic impacts accounting for 1.3 percent of all Idaho personal income, Idaho National Laboratory is a linchpin partner for the state
and its companies.

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Special Advertising Sections

Indiana Gives Hoist a Lift

by Ron Starner

Incentives, lower taxes and cheaper insurance add up to new home for a forklift manufacturer.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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The Future Begins Where It All Began

Pioneering consortia, programs and thinking propel the Texas semiconductor manufacturing and talent ecosystem.

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How to Make $3 Billion

Iowa says it has the blueprint, and it’s in advanced manufacturing.

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Unmanned Outposts

Geographic clustering data on global UAV firm locations is scarce, but we found some. Next time, maybe we’ll use a UAV.

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Rolling Along

The Port of Mobile will build a new roll-on/roll-off facility at an ideal time for the growing automotive industry in the southeastern U.S.

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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: Airport Growth Fuels Economic Expansion

Airport-driven economic development is not just a desired outcome in San Bernardino County in Southern California; it is ingrained into the strategy and mission of those who lead the airports in this Inland Empire jurisdiction of 2.18 million people.

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Investment Profile

Bright Horizon

by Adam Bruns

A corner of Northwest Ohio meets two nations’ energy demands with a growing critical mass of projects.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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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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Ready for Growth

A biopharma firm undertakes two major expansion projects in two major metros.

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Detangling the Deregulation Web

If there?s one sure thing that you can say about utility deregulation, it?s that it?s complicated. Some states are deregulated, some aren?t, and some are in the process of deregulating. New services and products are coming online regularly, and new terms in the energy-shopping arena are popping up everyday — so many things to learn, […]

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Kentucky Makes

View a snapshot of the tens of billions of dollars’ worth of manufacturing investments around the state in the past few years.

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Barrier Removal

Dirt moving continues on a large scale near the southern New Mexico community of Santa Teresa. Here, seven miles (11 km.) from the Mexican border and within shouting distance of El Paso, is the beginning of Union Pacific’s colossal new rail facility.

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