Life Sciences

Clusters & Mergers

by Adam Bruns

Medical devices are a big deal in Minnesota. The cluster’s attractiveness is central to a big $25-billion deal announced this week.

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Project Bulletin: February 26, 2024

Battery manufacturer EnerSys has plans to invest $500 million at Augusta Grove Business Park located in Greenville, South Carolina.

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COVER STORY

avid H. Murdock believes nutrition, tweaked by top scientists, may one day help cure humankind’s dreaded diseases. The California billionaire believes so much in the concept’s potential he is putting the financial nutrients into a billion-dollar gambit to create what he calls an unrivaled biotechnology research campus in North Carolina. In doing so, Murdock is […]

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‘Resilience and Ingenuity’

Mississippi is central to the nation’s advances in space exploration and aerospace technology.

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Working For You Works For Us

Workforce Development: Working For You Works For Us

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‘Line of Sight’ Drives Site Selection for Fujifilm Diosynth CEO and Global Team

What does the world of photography have to do with a pending $2 billion location decision? It all depends on having the right chemistry.

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Life Sciences

Expedition Leader

by Adam Bruns

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

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Michigan Drives For First Place In Site Readiness

Consumers Energy teams up with MEDC and Walbridge to prepare shovel-ready sites.

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IAMC Insider: LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

A Letter from the Chair; award winners; a Q&A with AI expert Zack Kass.

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Millennial Mecca

Utah’s quality of life and opportunities for advancement make it a prime place for millennials to plant their flag.

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Sustainability Rankings: Green’s on the Move

For these ranked territories and the companies operating in them, prosperity and sustainability are not mutually exclusive.

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How Wisconsin Is Tackling the Labor Shortage

Talent attraction efforts receive a big boost in the Badger State.

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Features

From Inversion to Investment

by Adam Bruns

Not one to pout after a failed merger, Allergan makes yet another wager on Waco.

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Slow Moving Power

It’s been 12 years since Dr. John A. McLachlan, director of the Center for Bioenvironmental Research (CBR) at Tulane and Xavier Universities

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AEDC OVERVIEW

When it comes to economic development, there’s a lot of momentum in Arkansas. From entrepreneurs to established companies expanding and locating new facilities, Arkansas is winning more than its fair share of economic development projects with more in the project pipeline.

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Health Tech On the Upswing in Trio of Quebec Metros

A mix of factors have put patients, physicians, researchers, institutes, business accelerators and even animal subjects in close physical proximity.

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UTAH: WORKFORCE DEVELOPED

Utah Builds Its Workforce Better than Most

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Smart Money

Foreign investment, film production and corporate R&D centers grow particularly well in the Peach State’s business climate.

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Area Spotlights

The New West Economy

by Crystal Villarreal

Wyoming’s assets are becoming as varied as its landscape.

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Outworking the Competition

Meet the new leader of the TxEDC: Aaron Demerson.

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They’d Rather Be In Colorado

From EV battery manufacturing to biotechnology, Colorado’s workforce is enticing industry expansion.

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Out in Front

The Pittsburgh coal seam discovered in 1750 was expected to have a life of about 100 years. That seam, one of the richest in the world, is still being mined today. So is Pennsylvania’s enduring streak of energy innovation and leadership.

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So Many Channels

Tim Searcy is CEO of the Indianapolis-based American Teleservices Association (ATA), a trade organization that represents more than 4,000 contact centers.

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Kentucky: A Driving Force

How Kentucky became home to some of the world's largest automakers.

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Area Spotlights

Portside

by Mark Arend

The Palmetto State’s industrial engine would sputter without the critical contributions of its three ports. A fourth is in the planning stages.

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2019 PROSPERITY CUP

Two marquee projects underscore Virginia’s claim to the cup.

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The Game Changer

The Southwest Louisiana and Acadiana region supplies energy to the world and skilled workers for expanding companies. Take the elements that are critical to community prosperity — water, transportation, energy, industrial know-how, and willing and able workers — and combine them into a strategy for economic success … that is exactly what Southwest Louisiana and Acadiana did.

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Global Perennial

How Bloom Energy's garden grows

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LA is Back & Chicago Still Rules

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

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You’ll Never Walk Alone

A successful facility expansion marks the beginning of Kentucky’s strategy to help companies thrive, not the end.

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Area Spotlights

Not So. Ill.

by Adam Bruns

A walk down Main Street reveals a downstate region upbeat about the future.

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Kentucky | A convincing case as a professional place

Offices, headquarters of companies, from local to global, find the homes they want in the Bluegrass State.

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Sun 2.0

We is the world’s largest example of solar thermal heating utilization by an office building?

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A ‘Decisive Moment’ in Paris

With $60 million in funding, French photography editing startup Meero is about to build the nation’s largest computer vision center and open more offices abroad.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION – EMERGING LOGISTICS HUBS

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

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Short Line Rail Leaders Catalyze Opportunities Like They Always Have

The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association represents around 600 owners and operators.

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Online Insider

Meet-Up in Medellín

by Adam Bruns

Looking to vanquish the informal economy? The legendary and legal informality of start-ups may be just the ticket.

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Real World

Some are forward-leaning. Some are futuristic or visionary. Some are private, others public. Some exist and thrive already. Others look pretty on paper so far. A few are outright mind-bogglers.

What a sampling of science park activity reveals most of all is a hunger for environments conducive to innovation.

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The Center of Attention

Junction City attracts global businesses seeking access to labor and growing markets.

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Double Harvest

So said Don Pottinger, CEO of Northern Plains Nitrogen (NPN) in announcing in May the choice of Grand Forks, N.D., in the famously fertile Red River Valley, as the location for a new $1.5-billion fertilizer plant that will employ 135.

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ED Agencies Up Ante in Battle for Tech Jobs

N EW YORK — Don’t be fooled by the NASDAQ. High-technology, digitally driven companies are still the crown jewel of economic development, according to a study by KPMG LLP’s Strategic Relocation and Expansion Services practice. The survey of state and local economic development agencies revealed that an overwhelming 97 percent of […]

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Thailand’s Investment Hub

A new, nine-square-mile Capital City is being developed in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor, which is at the forefront of the country’s foreign investment strategy.

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Area Spotlights

Healthy Outlook

by Adam Bruns

Connections to Asia and to collaboration fuel smart economic development in Seattle, Portland and beyond.

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Pellet Run

The past year has been filled with progressively busier project location and construction activity by biomass fuel firm Enviva, which until last year was known as Intrinergy. And there’s even more on the immediate horizon.

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Why Canada Beckons

Site Selection Managing Editor Mark Arend recently met with Canada’s new consul general in Atlanta, Astrid Pregel, who takes charge of her nation’s economic interests in an increasingly important U.S. region to Canada. The southeastern United States is in the geographic center of what may soon be a free trade zone covering all of the […]

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The New Age of Cyber Crime

According to Cybersecurity Ventures, a cyber research and market intelligence company, cybercrime costs, which totaled $3 trillion in 2015, will reach $6 trillion by 2021.

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Research Universities Establish Room and Resources for Expanding Companies

New projects and programs at the University of Kansas and Wichita State University blend with the life sciences leadership at Kansas State University to form a robust foundation for biosciences innovation and growth.

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Made in Texas

Manufacturing in Texas sets a high bar.

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Area Spotlights

Baltimore’s New Front Door

by Patty Rasmussen

Under Armour’s new headquarters campus is just one of the new Maryland’s millennial magnets.

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Boldly for Business

Mississippi’s governor successfully navigates challenging first year and builds momentum for the state’s future.

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Take Me Out to the Mixed-Use Development

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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Energizing Ohio

With the largest natural gas deposit in the U.S., Ohio’s energy sector is fueling an economic resurgence.

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Want to Grow Fast? California Wants You

From American-born Tesla to Chinese ventures, GO-Biz rolls out the welcome mat and opens the bank to fund deals that lead to a sustainable future.

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IAMC Insider: Professional Association 101: How to Make IAMC Work for You

Professional association aficionados know you get out of your membership pretty much in proportion to the time and energy you put in.

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Chasing Precipitation

by Crystal Villarreal

Universities in Oklahoma are using unmanned aerial systems to predict severe weather.

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Top Global Giants Of 2009

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

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Cold Is the New Hot

Dan Francisco says it’s no secret why rapidly growing high-tech companies enjoy life in the Rocky Mountain West.

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Out in Front

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NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

ntario Premier Dalton McGuinty wasn’t shy about supporting Ford Motor Company‘s proposed US$818-million expansion. In fact, after his province authorized $82 million in incentives for Ford in mid-April of 2004, the premier threw down the gauntlet. “We have put our money where our mouth is,” McGuinty said. “Now it’s time for the federal […]

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LAND HO!

Iowa launches a certified sites program that’s landing big projects.

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High Marks

How school districts boost their youngest students’ chances for success.

Oklahoma schools work to fill a growing need in the aerospace industry.

ATLANTIC CANADA: Prince Edward Island Touts New District Energy System

A new district energy system is underway in Prince Edward Island.

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MARCH 2006 Most Important Rx for Health Care: People (cover) World Class Medical Hub Relocating or Expanding? Companies Turn to Experts Your Business. Your Venture. Our Expertise. Rapid Growth of Life Sciences Continues in Northeast Florida Request Information SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION TOP HEALTH-CARE SERVICES LOCATIONS Most Important Rx for Health Care: People W hat’s the most important […]

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NMTCs Bring New Fuel for Growth to Low-Income Urban and Rural Areas

NMTCs Bring New Fuel for Growth to Low-Income Urban and Rural Areas Rodgers Wade Manufacturing of Paris, Texas (whose replica Eiffel Tower is pictured here), is one of hundreds of manufacturers whose expansions have benefited from NMTC financing. Photo: Getty Images Last week $5 billion in New Markets Tax Credits […]

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Incentives Update: New York Levels the Field

Film credit expansion seeks to answer competition from New Jersey, Georgia

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Be Your Own Utility

A glimpse of the latest top performers in onsite renewable power generation

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Manufacturing Blooms in the Sooner State

The State of Oklahoma offers great opportunities for manufacturers and many companies are taking advantage.

Coast to Coast HQ Watch

Alot of moves are in the works by corporate headquarters across the U.S., for reasons ranging from cost containment to Asia attainment.

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Demonstrated Value

In major urban areas, nearly 80 percent of energy is consumed by buildings. Tenant spaces account for over half of a commercial office building’s total energy use, and building owners are starting to pay attention.

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Built to Last

How Kentucky continues to grow its manufacturing empire.

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Projects & People

NIIMBL aims to help biotech move — you guessed it — faster and more effectively.

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Making an Impression

Pennsylvania leads from the front in innovative manufacturing technologies.

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Area Spotlights

In Case You Missed It

by Mark Arend

A round-up of what’s on the minds of the four governors in this key region.

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Scripted Construction

A pharmacy services provider continues to grow its corporate campus.

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Project Bulletin: February 26, 2024

Battery manufacturer EnerSys has plans to invest $500 million at Augusta Grove Business Park located in Greenville, South Carolina.

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Even the Deals are Bigger in Texas

You don’t become the eighth-largest economy in the world by doing small things. You get there by doing things that are big, bold and audacious. Consider Texas. With a $2.4 trillion economy that accounts for nearly 10% of U.S. GDP, the Lone Star State continues to outpace the nation by landing record investment deals. Over […]

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Good Thinking

University spending on research (R&D) in all fields increased 6.9 percent between FY 2009 and FY 2010 to US$61.2 billion. University of Florida Innovation Hub, Tijuana, Mexico tax incentives.

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New Facilities 1990 (Charts), page 4

From Site Selection magazine, February 1991 New Facilities 1990 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1991 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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Investment Profile

Intrinsic Industry

by Patty Rasmussen

In Loudoun County, Virginia, the data center industry boosts everything from quality of life to economic diversity.

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How the Bay State Became A Juggernaut

Investors and metrics point to a top business environment.

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UNIVERSITIES: Higher Education Makes Cyber And AI Connections

How America’s colleges and universities are supporting workforce development.

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Aviation Ambitions

Wisconsin has a history in the aviation supply chain. But it now appears poised to grow into a significant center of aviation manufacturing as two companies with ambitious plans, but only mockup aircraft thus far, hope to develop major assembly facilities

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Hoosier Energy: The Evolution of Opportunity

Unprecedented demand drives economic development modernization in Hoosier Energy territory.

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TREX CASE STUDY

Trex Company Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of high-performance composite decking and railing, cemented its long-term commitment to Arkansas on August 22, 2024 when it celebrated the topping out of its newest U.S. factory: a $400 million plant in Little Rock.

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Area Spotlights

Certifiably Successful

by Patty Rasmussen

Good things start happening when an economic development organization gets serious about workforce development.

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Shining Stars

A program focused on quality of place is yielding positive economic and wellness results in 16 small Indiana towns — with more to come.

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Power Points

A rural Indiana energy cooperative is a formidable competitor for your next investment.

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Heavy Duty

Wisconsin-based Manitowoc Cranes announced in February that it would establish its first Latin American manufacturing beachhead in Brazil.

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You Can’t Save If You Don’t Measure

W hen is the last time you quantified your company’s entire real estate portfolio and its performance? If you haven’t done that in the past 12 months, then more than likely you are throwing money away. That was the conclusion of Ronald P. Zappile, one of 15 presenters at a recent […]

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How Prologis Primes The Talent Pump

For Tomorrow’s Logistics Workforce

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Features

Staying Power

by Adam Bruns

Cluster and venture capital data show where longstanding strength provides the backbone for feisty startups.

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Logistics Park Expedites Midwest Supply Chains

NorthPoint teams up with JLL, CSX and BNSF to deliver an industrial game changer.

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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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TOP METROS

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

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Sectors Of Opportunity

The Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) is leading new efforts to facilitate foreign direct investment into key industry sectors in order to meet objectives set forth in the Economic Transformation Programme by 2020. The plan stresses increased investment in several sectors that will help transform Malaysia into a higher-income economy complete with the infrastructure and labor supply necessary to sustain the target sectors into the future.

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Blurred Lines

by Adam Bruns

Snapshots from the collaborative workspace craze show where co-work and real work collide.

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Moving the Chains

The ground game of the Ohio State Buckeyes during the 1960s and 1970s was often referred to as “three yards and a cloud of dust.” It was an affectionate way of saying that the offense might not be pretty, but more often than not it gets the job done.

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HIGHER EDUCATION: The Business of Education

From technical schools to major universities, the higher education system in Kentucky prepares and equips the workforce of tomorrow.

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MOU Aims to Demystify Bio Sector, Create Jobs and Economic Growth

The Oregon Bioscience Association and Onward Eugene, the Eugene area’s business acceleration agency, finalized a Memo of Understanding in December to jointly develop a targeted industry growth initiative that aims to create more high wage jobs in the region.

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Chinese FDI in the US and Mexico; multiple projects from Shaw Industries; the hottest US foreign trade zones; and a big treat for Tennessee from Unilever.

Chinese investors spent $12.2 billion in foreign direct investment in the first three quarters of 2013, on the way to a record-setting year, according to Rhodium Group’s Thilo Hanemann.

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FDI Sweepstakes

You load 16 tons and what do you get? A high-tech wind turbine gear box bound for Colorado.

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