International Update

Movers & Shakers

by Adam Bruns

The World Bank’s latest scorecard shows where progress is being achieved, and where it’s not.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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2024 Business Climate Rankings: Growth Mindset

Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and other top states know what’s good for the Goliaths can be good for the Davids too.

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What Makes for a Good Fit

States that know what they're good at make a stronger case for corporate investment than those that don't.

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Mapping the Ocean Floor from the Mountains

The Seabed 2030 Project aims to compile a map of the entire seafloor by the year 2030. The detail work starts at the coasts, but a company driving the project is in Colorado.

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Workforce development programs make San Bernardino County a manufacturing magnet in Southern California. When California Steel Industries’ Brett Guge explains why his company invested nearly a billion dollars into operations in San Bernardino County, he attributes his firm’s strategic direction to one primary factor.

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‘Staggering’ Amount of Venture Capital Drives Leading U.S. Clusters

But watch for emerging areas driven by institutions more focused on commercialization, says CBRE report.

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Area Spotlights

They Know How To Work It

by Adam Bruns

Metals are central to dozens of the corporate projects to land in the Yellowhammer State over the past two years.

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The Quality Location For the Shooting Set

Mississippi’s top industry recruiter — Governor Tate Reeves — used his visit to the SHOT Show 2023 convention in Las Vegas in January to make the case that the state’s firearm and ammunition industry is on fire.

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Where to Get Vertical

The American public may be familiar with the two most heavily used U.S. government-owned launch complexes: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida (located on the same piece of land as NASA's Kennedy Space Center, from where the Space Shuttle launched) and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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More Than Dots On a Map

Value chain analysis will sharpen your site selection strategy in Europe — and anywhere else.

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Georgia Holds On To First Place

The right foundation for new capital investment includes a workforce with the skills in demand by industry and making state government as non-intrusive as possible, says Governor Nathan Deal.

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QUESTION & INSIGHT

ased in Windlesham, in the affluent borough of Surrey Heath, U.K., that is known for its knowledge-intensive companies and pharmaceutical expertise, industrial gas company The BOC Group employs more than 44,500 people and had 2003 sales of over US$7.4 billion. It also serves almost any industry you can think of: glass to steel, semiconductors to […]

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International Update

Decades in the Making

by Mark Arend

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

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Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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INCENTIVES

INCENTIVES From Site Selection magazine, November 2008 Not Your Father’s Work Force New work-force phenomena require new thinking in job-creation incentives programs. by JAY C. BIGGINS editor bounce@conway.com I n today’s work force, jobs are being accomplished in different ways. Job-sharing, flex-time, freelance, contract workers, Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) – all illustrate newly relevant arrangements […]

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Value Added

An Enhanced Use Lease strategy proves key to growth and to the mission at Falcon Hill in Utah.

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Passageways To Prosperity

DTZ in July released its Global Occupancy Costs Logistics 2013 report, not long after Prologis released its own close look at European logistics.

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Helping Businesses Take The Next Step

Community tax credits incite the entrepreneurial spirit in Pennsylvania.

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Whole Lotta Makin’ Goin’ On

In Tupelo, it’s always manufacturing season.

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Area Spotlights

MORE Than a Feeling

by Patty Rasmussen

How a new tax incentive is attracting and keeping companies in the Gem State.

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Exponential Enterprises

The global market for plastics and chemicals is going through the roof.

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Eccentric Arkansas Climbing Festival Reaches New Heights

A how-to guide for discovering a new kind of outdoor adventure.

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Six-State Region Packs a Punch

A roundup of economic development happenings in some former colonies.

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Gentlemen, Start Your Economic Engines

Hendricks County, Ind., just west of Indianapolis, is growing two of its signature industry sectors – motor sports and life sciences

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GEORGIA’S OPEN DOOR

Despite an ongoing global pandemic, Georgia remains “Open for Business.”

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Features

NOT PLAYING GAMES

by Patty Rasmussen

Higher education has become a critical workforce partner for video game development companies.

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How Indiana Shook Off Its Rust Belt Label

From biomedical R&D to rocket science, this isn’t your parents’ Midwest.

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Drawing a Crowd

Each November in Dusseldorf, Germany, more than 135,000 visitors from more than 100 countries attend Medica, the world’s largest gathering for the medical industry. That sea of participants includes an array of state agencies from the U.S. seeking new business for existing companies and recruiting investment from firms based around the globe.

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‘Gold Mine’ Or Flash In The Pan?

The number of practical applications developed thus far for graphene can fit on the head of a pin … a very tiny pin.

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Asia: Which Port In the Storm?

While Thailand usually wins the beauty contest, Vietnam has stronger port fundamentals.

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Once Lost, Now Found

Industry reports and the experts make it clear: A new world order is in the making, with the United States essentially redrawing the world’s energy map.

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International Update

Gathering Place

by Adam Bruns

Dubai in general, and DMCC in particular, seem to be the right places at the right time.

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Southwest Louisiana: Welcome to America’s Power Plant

The energy infrastructure of Southwest Louisiana’s five ports fuels industrial growth.

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California Climbs to No. 1 Slot in Site Selection?s Business Climate Rankings

It?s official, already: The glow is back on the Golden State?s business climate. That?s the scoop from the top of Site Selection?s business climate rankings for 2000. California this year moved all the way up to No. 1 from 1999?s No. 5 finish. The Golden State ranks as a perennial business location powerhouse, of course, […]

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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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Put Me In, Coach

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

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I n this 21st century world of virtual reality, virtual learning, virtual tourism — virtual everything, it’s entirely logical that site selection should have been transformed into a virtual activity. The hard-pressed corporate executive seeking new international facilities in far-flung overseas destinations need surely look no further than a mouse button and modem. […]

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Area Spotlights

Solving the Workforce Puzzle

by Patty Rasmussen

Midwest states are finding solutions to ongoing workforce challenges.

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Editor’s View: How States Lure the Big Fish

Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Laura Kelly of Kansas are covered extensively in this issue as the winners of the 2021 Governors’ Cups the former for total qualified capital investment projects

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Guide to State Incentives Programs

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For a Brighter Future

Arkansas is stepping up workforce development with “Future Fit.”

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2025 Prosperity Cup

You can add or subtract all the metrics and data sets you want. Any way you slice it, Texas keeps coming out on top.

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Victoria’s Vow: ‘To Support the Science’

BioMedical R D

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Area Spotlights

Pyramid Power

by Ron Starner

A real estate deal was the precursor to Switch’s $5-billion investment in the Grand Rapids area.

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A Higher Gear

Tesla is coming to Texas, and it’s hardly alone.

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Rocky Mountains: Places for Fresh Beginnings

The sense of adventure conjured by the mere thought of the Rocky Mountains has real traction in the world of business.

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INVESTMENT PROFILE: CONSUMERS ENERGY: ‘Let’s Move Some Dirt’

With speed to market an increasingly crucial consideration for global manufacturers, having a deep portfolio of ready industrial sites has gone from being a competitive advantage to a strategic imperative for states pursuing transformative economic development projects.

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TOP GLOBAL PROJECTS

MARCH 2006 Where the Biggest of the Big Went in 2005 (cover) Biggest Global Projects Request Information TOP GLOBAL PROJECTS Where the Biggest of the Big Went in 2005 by MARK AREND mark.arend bounce@conway.com A sia’s booming industrial centers are exerting an enormous pull on global capital investment, and it should come as no surprise that […]

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MAGS GAMMA AWARDS

ite Selection has won two prestigious awards from the Magazine Association of the Southeast – the Gold Award for Best Magazine Website (www.siteselection.com) and the Bronze Award for Best Custom Publishing for business-to-business magazines. Both awards represent the top prizes awarded in each category. The association announces the winners of these and other awards at […]

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Energy Report

Are You On the Bus or Off the Bus?

by Adam Bruns

Proterra launches two new locations in California at a watershed moment in global transportation innovation.

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Icebreakers

Between $45 billion and $65 billion.
That’s the attention-snaring amount BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and TransCanada plan to invest in a comprehensive Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) project.

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ADVANCED MANUFACTURING: A NATION We Now Get to Build

Findings and state rankings from the Hamilton Index of Advanced-Technology Performance are showcased, with particular attention to manufacturing.

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Two-Wheeling in Southeast Asia; European Auto Plants Rev Up; Color for Scandinavia; Tunnel-to-Tunnel Bridge Debuts In China

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Where R&D Translates to Growth

Reports from the State Science and Technology Institute, The University Financing Foundation (TUFF) and Milken Institute paint a clear picture of the good things that can happen when university research and metropolitan ecosystems coalesce.

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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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Energy Report

Future Zone

by Adam Bruns

Faraday’s billion-dollar project in Nevada is just the latest star in a fast-developing galaxy of mobility solutions taking shape in the western United States.

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Incentives and the Interstate Competition for Jobs

Despite overwhelming evidence that state and local tax incentives are having little to no positive effect on promoting real economic growth anywhere in the country

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Battleground USA

“The World Is Flat” author Tom Friedman noted in a June column that the world is also quite fat:

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The Future is Texas

The imminent global impact of innovative activity conducted in the state will be one to watch.

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Agtech is a natural for Missouri.

Agtech & Food: Agtech is a natural for Missouri

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PLASTICS AND CHEMICALS

he U.S. and Canadian plastics industry was generally flat in 2003. Resin sales and production each fell by half a percent, according to figures from the American Plastics Council (APC). End-use manufacturers continue their drift to East Asia and other low-cost regions with their suppliers often tagging along. This continues a trend […]

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Online Insider

Utah Finds Gold in Steel

by Ron Starner

Pacific Steel & Recycling brings a prized investment project to the Ogden area.

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Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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PROJECT FINANCE

PROJECT FINANCE From Site Selection magazine, May 2008 Setting Sail in Hamburg A leading publisher brings its efforts aboard a single vessel for the first time. The $165-million building that will house Spiegel Verlag’s newly consolidated head office was one of the biggest leases of 2007 in Hamburg. Images courtesy of Henning Larsen Architects […]

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Down on the Farm, a Simple Retail Formula Still Works

How Tractor Supply thrives and multiplies in rural America.

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Life Science flourishes in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis supports life sciences, innovation.

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Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

Not all buildings in use today can be LEED-certified or smart or even efficient from an energy perspective. But even older buildings have a shot at being “high-performance,” maintains a leading HVAC provider.

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Brick by Brick, Leaders Build A Better State

Firms from LEGO to Agilent work with MassEcon to find new homes. MassEcon Executive Director Peter Abair tells us how and why.

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Energy Report

Crude Solutions

by Adam Bruns

North America’s energy hubs show there’s more than one kind of pipeline.

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Norway’s Trump Card

Statoil’s busy in more than 30 countries (including the US), but its main pipeline of oil, gas and wind projects continues to churn between the North Sea and the Arctic Circle.

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ROCKY MOUNTAINS: Building the Nuclear Backbone Of the U.S. Economy

Utah, Idaho and Wyoming are betting that nuclear energy will define the next era of industrial competitiveness.

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Let the Catalysts Connect

Add biopharma to the long list of robust economic sectors in Texas. It's nearly enough to rekindle talk of secession … if it weren't for that instrusive federal funding helping drive some of the momentum.

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The Rx for a Thriving Life Sciences Sector

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

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Workforce Training Becomes an Economic Catalyst

Off The Grid Brewery is a 10-year-old family-owned business based at the heart of Southern California in San Bernardino County, that had long been able to meet its hiring needs on its own.

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Features

Choice Parcels … Again

by Adam Bruns

Reuse is the sincerest form of flattery to areas ready for resurgent industry.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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2015 Top Metropolitans

These regions know how to connect the dots, bridge the gaps and cultivate talent.

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Illinois REVs Up Development with New Incentive Program

DCEO Director shares insights into how the state has improved its business appeal.

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IAMC Insider: Two Halves Make a Whole

Iwork for a wonderful company. One of the reasons I think of PepsiCo that way is the way it empowers women — you know, those people who make up half the world’s population. It’s why the company signed the White House Equal Pay Pledge in 2016. More recently, during Women’s History Month this spring, the […]

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Legislatures on a Roll

Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 Legislatures on a RollThird Straight Tax Cut Adds $2.6 Billion Shine To Already-Bright State Business Climates by Audrey Pennington State governments found themselves awash with surplus funds in 1997, relatively speaking, more than they’ve seen since 1980. As a result, lawmakers spent much of their legislative sessions figuring […]

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Trifecta

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

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Investment Profile

Front Door to The Silicon Valley

by Ron Starner

The ‘Sustainability Corridor’ of Greater Sacramento provides the highly skilled talent coveted by Apple, Oracle, HP, Intel and other tier-one employers in Northern California.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Powerhouse

IBM’s 2011 Global Location Trends report, released in November, sheds light on how Mexico remains the leading recipient of foreign investment in Latin America.

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Origin and Destination

Interstate highway access — check. Commercial airport site — check. Quick proximity to 50 percent of Florida’s population — check. Abundant and growing workforce — check. Foreign Trade Zone — check.

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Editor’s View: What Matters Most, Site Selection Magazine, January 2003

I f you haven’t heard by now, the inaugural conference of the Industrial Asset Management Council (IAMC) in October was an unqualified success – highlights of the meeting in Savannah can be found in this issue’s IAMC Insider. Attendees, who included corporate real estate executives and service providers, participated in a […]

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Agritech Rises in Kentucky

Emerging industry combines Kentucky’s strengths to address a global food shortage and create careers at home.

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A Complete Business Cycle

Iowa investments from one corner to the other cover every link of the food chain.

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International Update

Make in South Asia?

The time for an investment and manufacturing renaissance has arrived.

The New Land of Opportunity

Colleges and universities produce life-saving and world-changing innovation in Ohio.

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New Transport Infrastructure Enhances Cross-Border Commerce

CBX is one of many projects making cross-border movement easier, and thereby aiding and abetting commerce, trade, economic development … even shopping.

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New Jersey’s Foreign Accent

Companies from France and Ireland add further ballast to an already strong bioscience ecosystem.

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Interconnection Brings Central Arizona Economy to Life

For SRP, the concept supports sustainability and prosperity all at once.

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2007 GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT

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

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Investment Profile

Eyes On The Prize

by Ron Starner

How Greater Philadelphia is positioning itself to become the next global energy hub.

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Gone to Texas

3 reasons why so many firms are choosing to relocate to the Lone Star State.

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Material Legacies Converge

Pennsylvania-based stainless steel and premium alloy manufacturer Carpenter Technology Corp. in October chose a 230-acre (93-hectare) site near the Limestone County, Alabama, municipality of Athens, in the Huntsville metro area, for a US$500-million new plant that will make premium alloy products.

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Editor’s View: Your Credentials, Please

All content in this issue will give you food for thought as your location discernment for 2016 gets underway.

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Aerospace Company Sierra Nevada Corp. is Poised for Growth in Colorado

The Nevada-based company is investing at its Colorado locations in Louisville and Colorado Springs.

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Western Europe: And Then There Were Six

Eli Lilly will plant its sixth European flag with a $2.5 billion manufacturing site in Germany.

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Features

Eye on the Target

Site Selection’s annual consultant survey shows changes and unchanging truths.

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

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

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2018 Top Investment Promotion Agencies

Politics and economic development often make awkward bedfellows. Ideally, they would be, in principle, entirely divorced from one another, but in practice they’re wed.

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DIVERSE GEOGRAPHY, DIVERSE STRENGTHS

From urban metropolis to rural farming towns, Illinois offers everything in between.

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China’s Site Selection Challenges: How One Company Hopped the Wall

by Robert Gaudreau, Regus Frankly, people thought we were crazy when we began considering going to China. It was 1990, only a short time after the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Fears of political backlash and international trade sanctions against China certainly weren’t unwarranted. In addition, there were China’s sky-high real estate prices, labyrinthine bureaucracy and Third […]

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The Lives of Buildings

It wasn’t enough to help prevent partial federal government shutdown, but it was impressive nonetheless.

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Features

FIRST and LAST

The two most important miles in global logistics location decisions.

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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Washington’s Innovation-Economy Edge Widens

The state leads the nation in percentage growth of new tech positions, with employment in the sector having grown by nearly 34% in the past decade.

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Should It Stay or Should It Go?

The National Association of Manufacturers on Dec. 3 unveiled a report it commissioned by former World Trade Organization Appellate Body Chairman James Bacchus asserting that permits to export liquefied natural gas and coal are being delayed unnecessarily by the federal government.

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Real Brains, Real Work

Israel’s ‘Innovation Box’ builds on a longstanding heritage of superior innovation.

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On the Make

Northwest Ohio is a mecca for manufacturing.

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Food on the Move

In Oklahoma, that scrumptious choice of food is on the move as the food truck craze has taken hold.

Clean Numbers

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

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The 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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Tech Conference Takes the Real Estate Industry’s Digital Pulse

D ALLAS — Visitors to the Adam’s Mark Hotel in mid-June couldn’t be faulted for wondering if a new baby boom was under way in the commercial real estate industry. Most of the speakers at the Realcomm conference held here had something to say about the importance of adoption. They were referring, of course, to […]

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From Farm to Table, Safety Rules in the New Food Supply Chain

Food safety in all its iterations is the most important issue facing food and beverage manufacturers.

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Nowhere Tops Texas

Opportunities unlike anywhere else.

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Beyond US Borders

Exports from Oklahoma reach farther than ever before.

Managing Cultural Differences: Challenges for Americans Doing Business in Europe

Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 Managing Cultural Differences: Challenges for Americans Doing Business in Europe by Gary M. Wederspahn With the powerful lure of the European Union’s 374 million-strong market and the continued opening of Eastern Europe to commerce with the West, the number of American business travelers going to Europe has […]

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New Facilities 1988 (Charts), page 2

From Site Selection magazine, February 1989 New Facilities 1988 | Site Selection Online ©1989 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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Getting From Here to There – A Blueprint for Economic Prosperity

An ambitious economic development plan called Vision 2040 was finalized in March 2021

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Top U.S. Giants of 2009

Top U.S. Giants Of 2009: Lists of largest U.S. projects ranked by investment, job creation and square footage

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World Reports: ‘New Europe’ Beckons — Site Selection Magazine, March 2005

From Site Selection magazine, March 2005 WORLD REPORTS ‘New Europe’ Beckons Foreign direct investment increasingly is shifting to the European Union’s eastern sector. by JULIA COX In years to come, 2004 may well be viewed by analysts of inward investment trends as the year that the map of FDI activity in Europe was fundamentally re-drawn. […]

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Piping Hot Talent

by Ron Starner

OSUIT prepares Oklahoma’s students for lucrative careers in energy-related fields.

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Certified Sites: Class I Railroads Continue to Roll Out Sites and Results

If railroads are the industrial circulatory system, ready-to-develop locations along their routes are the vital cells of the national economy. The past year has seen those...

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Getting Schooled

Forging new collaborations between universities and corporate investors is the linchpin behind the new business growth strategy of the desert Southwest.

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Hubs & Outposts

INSEAD’s Global Talent Competitiveness Index offers food for thought.

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Region on the Rise

Birmingham’s city center revs the growth engine of an area leading the UK in startups, FDI and talent.

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New Facilities 1993 (Charts), page 7

From Site Selection magazine, February 1994 New 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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The STEM Movement

by Crystal Villarreal

Communities in Oklahoma rally behind diversifying education and building a better workforce.

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If You Believe

Theme park designer ITEC Entertainment is the ultimate show runner, bringing its proven brand of storytelling to the exploding universe of mixed-use destinations.

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Global or Bust

Paris-based healthcare and pharmaceutical giant Sanofi last month announced an expansion of its partnership with GDF SUEZ energy services subsidiary Cofely that will implement primarily renewable energy production and distribution systems worth up to €80 million at Sanofi industrial sites around the world over the next five years.

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IAMC Insider: High Priorities, High Performance

New IAMC Chair Colleen Caravati of Corning outlines her outlook for the association, and we sample insights from the recent IAMC Professional Forum in Milwaukee.

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NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

f the US$18.3 billion that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had obligated itself to spend as of mid-October, $6.6 billion was targeted at housing, including a sizable amount meant for the purchase of manufactured housing. By late October some $2 billion in orders had been placed by FEMA for approximately 125,000 mobile homes, including […]

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Workforce Within Reach

Oregon’s institutions of higher education keep the talent pipeline flowing.

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Online Insider

Gaining Access

How the TPP drives investment location decisions through trade.

Where They’re All There

A new report from Gallup finds a new part of the world has displaced the United States and Canada as the region with the most engaged employees in the world — but there are caveats.

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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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Power of Persuasion

Backed by Hoosier Energy, Indiana launches a bid to bring in data centers.

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White Gold: Arkansas’ Lithium Industry Making Global Impact

Could Smackover become a name as affiliated with the Arkansas lithium boom as it was with the Arkansas oil boom when prospectors struck oil in 1921 in El Dorado?

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When Being Small Is a Big Advantage

Here’s why folks are fleeing the bright lights of the big city and loving it.

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Departments

Editor’s View: Your Credentials, Please

by Mark Arend

All content in this issue will give you food for thought as your location discernment for 2016 gets underway.

Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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Food Producers Plant Roots In the Lone Star State

As authentic as Texas BBQ, the Lone Star State takes its food and beverage industry seriously.

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Latin America’s Next Big Thing

Gone are the days when corporate investors divided Latin America into three categories: Brazil, Mexico and “everywhere else.

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Our Mission: To Analyze, Interpret, Educate and Lead

D o you sometimes think that you receive too much information? In his excellent 1999 book, How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society, historian C. John Sommerville laments the loss of truly wise people in an era in which meaningless daily news consumes us, and in which we […]

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Look At the Data

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

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Joplin: A Portrait in Resilience

Joplin is more than back. It is better than ever.

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