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Office and Retail Blend to Create the Bleisure Effect

by Adam Bruns

Entertainment districts and millennial playpens demonstrate the interwoven nature of value when it comes to office and retail markets.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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2024 Top Free Trade Zones

Indexing data from the 85th Annual Report of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to Congress, we name the top FTZs and top states for FTZ impact. Plus a look at the latest analysis of free zone activity abroad.

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Ontario Vintner: ‘Biodynamic’ Is Better

Better Vines. Better Wines. Better World. So reads the description of the biodynamic farming methods in place at Southbrook Vineyard

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The Clean Energy Leader

California sets the standard for the country and the world.

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Station to Station

Snapshots of projects across the continent capture an EV revolution in full power drive.

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The Waiting Game Is Over

How Amazon’s Nashville pick ended a lot of anticipation in Tennessee.

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Investment Profile

‘We Figure Out How To Make Things Better’

by Ron Starner

The Columbus Region’s expanding manufacturers laud the ingenuity and resilience of the Central Ohio workforce.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Top Industries: Energy Squared

Fuel, power and health were the driving forces behind top industrial categories for corporate facility investment in 2009.

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World Reports, Site Selection Magazine, September 2003

From Site Selection magazine, September 2003 WORLD REPORTS Edited by JOHN W. McCURRY Toyota Taps Thai, Aussie R&D Sites Ever-expanding Toyota Motor Corp. plans a Thailand-Australia research and development base to serve growing markets in Asia and Oceania. Both will begin operations in late 2004. The Thailand facility will be in […]

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The Connected City: How a New Pier is Bringing Everyone Together in St. Pete, FL

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman is passionate about a lot of things when it comes to discussing his city of 265,000 people on the Gulf Coast of West Central Florida. But he seems to get especially animated when asked about the recent opening of the new St. Pete Pier.

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LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW: GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT: Leading From the Front

America’s most ambitious governor talks about the path that delivered to Texas a record-setting 13th consecutive win in the Site Selection Governor’s Cup race.

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Montana: Livingston, I Presume

Film production projects keep discovering the Big Sky State, including a new complex in the same town where Edison made the first Montana film 127 years ago.

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Area Spotlights

Food Firms Bring Home the Bacon in Iowa

by Patty Rasmussen

Rembrandt Foods, Kraft Heinz and Seaboard Triumph invest in Iowa.

Patty Rasmussen

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Oregon Welcomes Newcomers Galore

Ever wonder why so many Californians now call Oregon home?

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The Letter and the Law

INCENTIVES From Site Selection magazine, September 2009 The Letter and the Law Tax treatment of government grants has win-win potential. by BARBARA S. de MARIGNY editor bounce@conway.com Barbara S. de Marigny is a partner in the Tax Practice Group for Houston-based law firm Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP. For more information, visit www.gardere.com. “C ongratulations. Our […]

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Born to Run Hot

”The rich,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “are not like you and me.” Similarly, Fitzgerald might’ve added, fast-growth firms are not like you and me — or most of our businesses. Very few of us can claim status as one of today’s fabled “gazelle” firms, who’ve become something like the business world’s Furbies. Everyone wants to […]

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More Than Good Signs

More Than Good Signs: Our downstairs neighbor moves on to a new worldwide headquarters.

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Trendsetter on the Tube

How Knoxville became the shining star of lifestyle media.

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Investment Profile

Fast Growing, Dynamic Economy

by Mark Arend

Turkey’s economic strengths and abundance of skilled workers deliver the confidence and predictability required by today’s global capital investors.

Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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One Big Leading Indicator

Billions of dollars and millions of residents combine to make Greater Phoenix a robust gateway for business.

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Cap One/JLL Strategy Tames Hyper

Frankly, most companies would die for problems like Capital One Financial’s (www.capital1.com): five straight years of 20 percent-plus earnings growth and a spot in Fortune‘s “100 Best Places to Work.” But Capital One’s blistering growth had burned a gaping hole in its corporate real estate (CRE) strategy. Like some steroid-fueled bullfrog, the Signet Bank spin-off […]

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Jubail Sets Example for Emerging Economies

I n the new global supply chain — reduced by globalizaton and falling trade barriers — the crunch to shrink costs is driving world-class industries to position production facilities strategically closer to raw materials sources. Low-cost development zones are emerging to accelerate the reverse migration and few industrial sectors have been […]

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Teeming with Activity

Perched on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula is the city of Yeosu. Known for its ocean ecology, the city of just under 300,000 also boasts an ocean-port economy driven by its own historic port and the nearby Port of Gwanyang, home to Korean giant POSCO’s largest steelmaking complex in the world, as well as the Gwangyang Bay Area Free Economic Zone (GFEZ).

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Global Companies Find Portugal Offers a ‘Central Place In the World’ for Business Services

If you were a North American company leader and could pick a European business services location that’s literally the closest to home, did you know Portugal would be your first landing spot across the Atlantic?

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Area Spotlights

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

by Adam Bruns

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

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Indiana: Nature Powers Beneficial Science

Primient and Sustainea Biologics partner on a novel approach to sustainability in the corn wet milling and plastics sectors. Superior Ag lands a new facility on the banks of the Ohio River in Spencer County.

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Enabling The American Dream

Economic development in the United States has historically meant job attraction, retention and expansion as the way to ensure sustainable prosperity for residents of a community.

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How Innovation Propels 3 Entrepreneurial Businesses in San Bernardino County

From an old-world industry like winemaking to new-world sectors like electric motorbikes and space exploration, innovation serves as the linchpin for three entrepreneurial businesses that aim to upset the status quo and change the world.

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Washington Wins 777X Assembly Facility

“Thanks to this vote by our employees, the future of Boeing in the Puget Sound region has never looked brighter,” read a statement from Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner on January 4th.

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Next-Gen Site Selection

A new generation of commercial transport changes the rules of where facilities supporting this bellwether industry are located. Airbus has opened a new, 650-employee facility in Broughton, Wales, where wings for the A350 XWB will be manufactured. Boeing has not yet determined where it will build its new 737 MAX airliner. Renton, Wash., has been home to 737 production for decades, but the aerospace giant is also considering other locations.

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Life Sciences

Colombia Price Reduction on Novartis’ Glivec highlights a Universal Tug of War

by Adam Bruns

Colombia’s decision to force a price reduction on a major moneymaker from Novartis is a tough pill to swallow.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Editor’s View: The Awards We Bestow – And One We Don’t

We don’t bestow awards for courage in our annual Best to Invest suite of location honors each May. So we couldn’t honor Venezuela’s Juan Guaidó with one.

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Powered Up in Southeast Texas

A key player in the global energy industry, Southeast Texas is home to the world’s largest oil refineries.

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Waste Not, Want Not

Among other factors, new regulations are helping a $4-billion project come to fruition in North Dakota.

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Are You On the Bus or Off the Bus?

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

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As Some Money Diversifies From China, Robots Surge There Like Never Before

Companies are diversifying their Asian location portfolios beyond China. Rich folks are getting out of China. But automation in China is rising at a record rate.

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Life Sciences

How a Medical Device Maker Picked its Spot

by Ron Starner

A maker of respiratory products expands in the Keystone State following a merger.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Top 10 Competitive States: Powerhouse In the Making

Since assuming office in 2008, Louisiana’s economic development team has focused on state competitiveness. It’s working.

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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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Build It Big and They Will Come: ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ Reshape the Location Landscape

Call it “physiostructure.” We might as well, since “infostructure” is now an established part of the site selection lexicon. In fact, much of this SS issue is a veritable hymn to how information infrastructure has dramatically altered where, when and how we work, transforming a 9-to-5 workplace that was as tightly defined as the facility […]

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How Kansas Built an Economic Development Dynasty

Fiscal responsibility and a new incentive program played vital roles.

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Europe’s Best Rev Up Investments

W hen Japanese automaker Toyota needed to increase its share of the European marketplace in the late 1990s, it went in search of the automaker’s Holy Grail — the perfect site for a new manufacturing plant. After heated competition, the Nord-Pas de Calais region in Northern France offered the most tempting of sites. […]

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Life Sciences

How to Future-Proof Your Value Chain in Europe

A new report offers smart site selection guidance for companies amid a roiling regulatory climate in Europe.

Greater Orlando Aviation Authority: How to Build an Airport City

Orlando International Airport and Lake Nona draft the blueprint.

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‘Up with the Sun, Gone with the Wind’

Consumers Energy and Michigan communities leave coal behind on the road to a net-zero future.

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Project Bulletin: January 9, 2024

Biotechnology company National Resilience, Inc. plans to add 440 new jobs at its West Chester, Ohio, site with a $229 million investment, announced in December 2023.

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Round Rock, Texas: On the Semiconductor Front Lines

Industry experience proves to be vital in Round Rock.

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The Road to the Rest of America

Major infrastructure investments are fueling logistics projects.

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Area Spotlights

An Ideal State

by Patty Rasmussen

In Utah it’s hard to know which comes first, the optimism or the jobs.

Patty Rasmussen

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Ports Are in a Storm,

What containerized cargo throughput in this region portends for 2017.

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A Perfect Fit

“The Tesla Killer” locates its new luxury electric automobile plant in Case

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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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QUALITY OF LIFE & OUTDOOR RECREATION

From the rugged peaks of the Ozark Mountains to the waters of Lake Ouachita, Arkansas’ natural beauty can only be described as awe-inspiring.

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Why Batteries Matter

Decisions along the battery value chain are particularly complex, as well as vital to carmakers’ future competitiveness.

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Every Step of the Way

by Mark Arend

A second top investment promotion agency award demonstrates Malaysia’s expertise in attracting new investment and helping existing projects expand.

Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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The Right Spot for Right-Shoring

Decades of experience and craftsmanship have prepared the people and companies of Defiance County to seize the global opportunity before them.

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Restocking the Medicine Chest

When New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in September signed into law the New Jersey Economic Opportunity Act, streamlining the state’s incentive programs to two, he did so on the heels of two ribbon-cuttings.

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Advanced Materials: Next-Gen Industries Invest in Next-Gen Facilities

Where companies on the cutting edge of product development are locating their new facilities.

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Trade-Off Tracker

Energy comes in many forms. It's not as simple as electricity or gas. It's electricity made from coal, nuclear, solar, biomass, hydro or wind. Vehicle fleets can be powered by electricity, gasoline, diesel or compressed natural gas. All of these energy forms provide communities and energy producers with options, and for many of these options site selection is the critical link from proposal to production.

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Duke Energy’s Community Connections Are Live and Powerful

When the Duke Energy Foundation and Duke Energy Florida’s Economic Development team awarded strategic economic development grants in November 2022...

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Area Spotlights

Talent First

by Adam Bruns

Even the Internet of Things needs clusters. Greater Boston is happy to oblige.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION — LEADERS IN INDUSTRIAL REAL ESTATE

oday’s economy is often referred to as “lukewarm” or, more creatively, the “Goldilocks” economy because it’s not-too-hot and not-too-cold. But what exactly can Goldilocks bring to the industrial real estate table? Building on strong returns from 2004, it looks like she’ll bring prosperity instead of porridge, because warehouse demand should increase this year in the […]

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Where Tech Dreams Come to Life

Chicago’s incubators help innovators shine.

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No Matter the Industry, Washington has the Workers You Need

Washington State’s Centers of Excellence secure a skilled workforce for in-demand industries.

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Whole New Level

Regeneron was a fledgling biotech firm employing four people when it moved to the Landmark at Eastview campus in Tarrytown, N.Y., a little more than 20 years ago

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AURP Chief: ‘Connect, Elevate, Enhance’

University research parks deserve more credit for their economic and market impacts.

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Investment Profile

It Could Only Be Israel

Think of a country with more startups per capita than anywhere in the world outside Silicon Valley.

Life Sciences Oasis

An increasingly valuable square mile gives rise to innovation in Aurora.

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Behind the Sun

If returning to the early darkness of standard time has you down, Hoboken and Buffalo will show you the light.

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Project Bulletin, Jan. 6, 2025: Manassas, Virginia; Jackson, Tennessee; Fayette County, Ohio

Micron remains future focused in Virginia; ALUKO Group establishes first U.S. site in Tennessee; Amazon Web Services increases data center investments throughout Ohio.

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Why You Should Think Kentucky

Rather than tell you why you should consider Kentucky for your next business expansion, Kentucky would rather just show you.

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TASTE OF TRADITION

There’s no stopping Kentucky’s bourbon boom.

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Area Spotlights

‘Thoughtful Development’

by Mark Arend

Forget what you know about commercial sprawl in the Atlanta area. It’s a whole new ballgame along the South Fulton Parkway.

Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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Powerful Partnerships

In Florida and the Carolinas, Progress Energy’s network ties various groups together to get deals done.

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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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Renewable Promises

Hydro-Québec’s clean hydropower and plans to grow its influence on both sides of the border hold vast potential for economic development in all of Atlantica, and New England in particular.

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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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2000’s Top Deals: Chip Plants Deliver Big Bucks

I t’s no secret where the big bucks migrated in last year’s economic development race for large corporate facilities. The biggest deals, by far, involved the location of semiconductor manufacturing plants for the computer chip industry. Just as processing speed and computing power continually increase with breakthroughs in wafer fabrication technology, […]

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