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Why Clusters Matter

by Adam Bruns

The St. Louis area’s focus on plants is an inherited trait of global proportions.

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Cutting Through the Hype

What’s Really Going on in Central America?

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Property Priorities

Alcoa’s CSO says if you’re not uncomfortable yet, the goal isn’t high enough.

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Amazon for Atlanta?

The Georgia capital’s candidacy for HQ2 is just one of many windows onto a vibrant state economy.

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ig incentive packages have received a lot of media attention recently, and have been a major discussion topic around the water cooler in the economic development community. But, in the big picture, are incentives good or bad? The axiom, “Incentives never made a bad deal good, only a good deal better,” is absolutely correct.   […]

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Global Savvy

The reach of Israel’s professional services sector enhances multinationals’ entire portfolios.

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Life Sciences

The Cellular Approach

by Adam Bruns

GE and partners establish a new stem-cell therapies center in Toronto.

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The Global Best to Invest Report

Site Selection is pleased to present its sixth annual Best to Invest rankings of nations and metro areas for investment-attraction activity in 2013.

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A Healthy Revolution

Consumers want healthier food choices and the industry is responding.

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Creature Comforts

Ruffwear leads a pack of Oregon outfitters.

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Building a Clean Energy Future

An Interview with PGE President & CEO Maria Pope

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Locations Report: Oman

The Sultanate of Oman lies at the eastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, boasting a stunning landscape combing the desert, the mountains, plains and sea.

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Life Sciences

East-West All Star

by Adam Bruns

A specialist pharmaceutical firm founded in Buffalo hits its stride as a multinational with major investments in the US and China.

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

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

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Boarding Pass to a Brighter Future

O'Hare's big project is just one aspect of the state's multifaceted role in international commerce.

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Real Estate Executives Are Getting Web

 W hen they turn their attention to the Internet, corporate real estate departments have been mainly concerned with improving communications, customer service applications and Web site development. But a Corporate Real Estate Technology Benchmaking Survey conducted in August 2001 by Ernst & Young (E&Y) and the National Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives (NACORE) suggests […]

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The College Connection

Higher education aims to take people and communities across Texas to higher ground.

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San Joaquin County, California: Connected.

California sites mainly make today’s site-location short lists if the companies looking for space simply must be in California.

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Online Insider

Half a World Away

by Adam Bruns

Three reports released in Davos paint a landscape of global risk and opportunity.

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WORLD REPORTS

JULY 2006 Bulgaria Gains As EU Accession Nears (cover) Singapore Attracts New High-Tech, Logistics Investment Cargill Expanding In Africa and Europe ThyssenKrupp Plans $2.4B Brazil Steel Mill Give Us Your Opinion! WORLD REPORTS Edited by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com Bulgaria Gains As EU Accession Nears I n the run-up to Bulgaria’s accession to the European […]

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Survey Reveals Manufacturers’ Post-Pandemic Plans

Supply chain managers are recalibrating a moving target like never before.

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Site Selection April 1997 Issue

Let’s Make a Strategic Deal: 1996’s Top 10, pgs. 220-238 Strategic Expansion’s Consummate Collaborators: 1996’s Top 10 Development Groups, pgs. 240-255 Strategic Alliances: Shaky, but Steady Steps Up the Value-Added Staircase, pgs. 256-261 The High Tech Edge: Whether Bleeding or Leading, It’s Transforming Business Expansion Best Practices Award: CLW Realty Group, Real Estate Service Delivery, […]

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‘Home … Is Where I Want to Be’

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate the share of fully home-based jobs nearly doubled from 11% of all jobs in 2019 to around 21% in 2021.

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Success In Short Order

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

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Pennsylvania by the Numbers

All the information you could want on Pennsylvania.

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Minnesota: The Fuel of the Future

Major projects show why SAF is the fuel of the future for the aviation sector.

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Military & Defense: Support Is Mission No. 1 in 2023 Great American Defense Communities

The Association of Defense Communities and USAA in March announced the 2023 Great American Defense Communities. The five communities highlighted...

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Rating Best Places: Going Beyond Real Estate in Making Location Decisions

A fter a period of rapid growth, company managers may step back and ask if their current facilities structure — often haphazardly cobbled together through mergers and acquisitions and building on existing operations — can be rationalized in a strategic manner to more efficiently and cost-effectively meet the needs of the integrated firm.     […]

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Well-Being, Meet WELL Buildings

The next wave of health tech aims to improve health building by building.

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Annoying Pop-Up!

Sudden digital advertising tax prompts lawsuit by big tech and friends.

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Knowing Better Business

NEPIRC serves as a goldmine of knowledge and a helping hand for business throughout the state.

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Why Amazon’s Building Binge Has Just Begun

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

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Buyer Beware: Expect Urges Tactical, Not Pervasive, Systems Integration

Buyer Beware: Expert Urges Tactical, Not Pervasive, Systems Integration b y     M A R K     A R E N D This report begins a short series on how real estate managers can implement integrated systems without purchasing and installing too much technology. Knowing the difference is a valuable asset. The recent date change […]

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Drilling Down on Main Streets

We comb through the data from Cushman & Wakefield’s report on the world’s priciest retail avenues. This year a European shopping district beat out New York’s Upper Fifth Avenue for the first time as Via Montenapoleone in Milan, Italy, was declared the world’s most expensive retail street.Photo by Andrei Domanin: Getty Images If you associate […]

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Come Together

A city in coastal Turkey cashes back-to-back winning tickets on major industrial projects.

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How Lockheed Martin Grows Its Talent Base

When a company employs 110,000 people around the world, it better have a plan for keeping its workforce pond well stocked.

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Emerging from the Lion’s Den

PACT serves entrepreneurs and investors in the tri-state area of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Southern New Jersey, producing 30 programs and events each year.

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A BEAVER WITH BITE

I’ll never forget the first time I visited a Buc-ee’s.
It was in May of 2021 just off an exit on Interstate 75 in Warner Robins, Georgia.

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Patchwork Precision

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

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Editor’s View: Complex Calculus Simplified

Editor in Chief Mark Arend ponders the math behind recent predictions of recession.

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Free Zone Advantages Are a Two-Way Street

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

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Red Hot Locations Report: Seminar Puts a Finer Point on Marketing and Communications for Investment Promotion Agencies

How can investment promotion agencies differentiate themselves from their competitors? What tools can they use — should they use — to achieve this goal? What are considered best practices today in communicating to potential investors an area’s strategic value? These were among the topics covered in a September Red Hot Locations event in London, the FDI International Marketing & Communications Seminar.

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The GOLD Standard

The award-winning Ben Franklin Technology Partners sets the bar for technology-based economic development.

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Site Selection: Congratulations on your new assignment at Cushman & Wakefield. How do you envision your role and that of the new Advisory Services unit going forward? Arnold C. Thomas: Advisory Services is a function that has been ongoing at several Cushman & Wakefield offices in the U.S. But the firm did not have an […]

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Cybersecurity Talent Gives Locations an Edge

No longer relegated to the sidelines, cybersecurity moves front and center in corporate strategic planning.

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Sectors on a Mission

Three “catalytic” industries are charged with boosting Malaysia’s industrial ecosystems

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Machinery Still Revs the Economy, But Logistics and Life Sciences Are Where the Growth Is

Leading sectors, featuring a global map with the biggest projects in each.

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2003 Top Small Towns, The Road to Boomtown, Site Selection Magazine, March 2004

T he road to boomtown travels up through the heartland of America and arrives at a place called Traverse City, Mich.         Ranked for the second year in a row by Site Selection as the No. 1 small town in America for new and expanded corporate facilities, Traverse City exemplifies a community […]

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Area Spotlights

We Can’t Wait!

by Mark Arend

The next train to Clarksville will include a new Google data center.

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Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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Quantum Prairie

The capital of the computing revolution

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World View

As foreign investment pours in, personal and professional ties with other nations only strengthen Turkey’s business case.

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Atlantic Canada: Got Hydrogen? Canada Does.

One province hopes to come out on top in the Canadian push to advance green hydrogen production.

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Glimpse HTTP Search

Glimpse HTTP Search (directory: /sshighlites) directory. The text of the file is simply inserted in place of this field. If there is no .description file, none is used.> This directory contains the following sub-directories. A search here will include all of them. If you wish to search only one of them follow the appropriate link: […]

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FOOD & BEVERAGE: A Bountiful Spring

Chobani and Ferrero Group break ground on multiple sites at once.

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Features

The Main Ingredient

by Patty Rasmussen

When it comes to customer contact centers, workforce matters.

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VISITORS FLOCK TO OREGON IN RECORD NUMBERS

From overnight stays to total spending, tourism is hitting new heights.

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New Facilities 1992 (Charts)

From Site Selection magazine, February 1993 New Facilities Index & Forecast 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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Anderson Grows in Gilbert

The planned Sept. 26 opening of the Banner M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert could be the impetus for development of a major regional and national life sciences industry, city officials say. The city is also poised to become a major center of stem cell research.

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A Promising Approach to Real-World Workforce Development

Kansas City’s change-making strategy has implications for other regions seeking to build a skilled, diverse workforce.

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Shifting Gears

After a production volume recovery in 2015, what’s next?

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Online Insider

Time = Money

by Adam Bruns

While policy wonks debate its worth, logistics companies are pouncing on the ‘New Silk Road’ opportunity.

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Sectors on a Mission

Three “catalytic” industries are charged with boosting Malaysia’s industrial ecosystems

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New Facilities 1993 (Charts), page 9

From Site Selection magazine, February 1994 Regional Distribution of New Facilities 1993 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 FINANCE

PROJECT FINANCE From Site Selection magazine, January 2008   A Score for Songdo by ADAM BRUNSadam.bruns bounce@conway.com Songdo City is a study in urban planning, sustainable development and how to finance a complex blend of commercial and residential properties. O n Nov. 19, Jonathan Thorpe, the Boston-based executive vice president of New York-based developer Gale […]

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SOUTHWEST REGION

ttracting aviation projects is one of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s economic development goals. That plan received a significant boost in October 2004 with the announcement that American Utilicraft will build a cargo plane assembly plant in Albuquerque. The move adds to the state’s burgeoning cluster at the Double Eagle II Aviation Park.     […]

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WORLD REPORTS

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, July 2007   France Attracts Engineering Firm, Roche Opens Basel Biotech Center Fiber Firms Form India JV, Announce Plant Near Mumbai by JOHN W. McCurry john.mccurry bounce@conway.com  Thomas Fahnemann, chairman of Lenzing’s management board, (right), shakes hands with Satish Modi, chairman of India’s Modi Group, following a joint venture agreement […]

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