The Building Blocks of the Future

by Ron Starner

With the Strati and the Olli, Local Motors is changing the way people travel.

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COVER STORY

n December 22, 2004, Dell Inc. and North Carolina officials were gathering at a podium in Winston-Salem to announce the company’s investment of more than $100 million in a new assembly plant. State transportation workers at that moment were on the ground at Alliance Science and Technology Park staking rights-of-way for the project, in preparation […]

Querétaro Data Center Investment Central to Digitizing Mexican Industry

A wave of North American reshoring has Mexican exports to the U.S. on the rise.

Higher Ground

UPS sets new sustainability goals that include vehicle innovations and more renewable power.

New Facilities 1995, page 6 (Charts)

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That’s The Spirit

A recent investment by Spirit AeroSystems at the North Carolina Global TransPark in Kinston is paving the way for a local aerospace cluster that could soon number in the thousands of workers. No other location had GTP’s blend of logistics and work-force attributes, says a Spirit executive central to the location decision.

The Building Blocks of the Future

by Ron Starner

Unique resources make Innovation Valley the new Composites Coalition.

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Business Parks: Beijing’s Science Cities

I BM and Cisco Systems call Beijing home. Now the plan for the Beijing Science and Technology Park Construction Company Ltd. is to recruit even more big names from the West to establish operations around China’s capital city. The lure? Brand new, high-tech corporate campuses that are virtual “Science Cities” — […]

Ready to Move

Defiance County boasts a mighty confluence of quality labor and logistics. Always has.

New Facilities 1991 (Charts), page 4

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Ten More Cities Join the City Energy Project

Mayors from 10 US cities on November 15 announced that they are joining 10 previously named cities in the City Energy Project (CEP), an effort to address energy use and climate pollution caused by buildings.

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Urban Wilderness Packs Economic Punch

by Ron Starner

Knoxville’s outdoor amenities lure recreational enthusiasts and the firms that cater to them.

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Road Grading:

An Examination of Scores and Progress Across Illinois Infrastructure

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.

Top Metros Tier 2: Get On Board

North Carolina takes the top spot this year in the Tier-2 metro category, with Greensboro-High Point moving up three spots from its fourth-place finish in 2013. Elkhart-Goshen, Ind., was the biggest mover, climbing up six spots from No. 9 in 2013.

Outsourcing That’s Out of This World

Aerospace companies are key beneficiaries of the federal government’s transition from the NASA-run Space Shuttle program to the next generation in space travel.

Lessons from the Neverending Winter

Experts urge customers to lock in rates as 2018 energy prices increase.

Leading by Example

by Ron Starner

The mayors of Knoxville and Knox County show what can happen when political leaders unite for a common cause.

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Offshore Platform

Command Medical Products, an Ormond Beach, Fla., manufacturer of disposable medical tubing, needed a new low-cost manufacturing platform to accommodate its growth in business.

Behind the Cape

With Wilmington leading, Cape Fear steps out of the shadows.

Big Fish or Small, Delaware Has Your Back

More than 1,000 people work at the Wilmington headquarters of Incyte

The Cellular Approach

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

BUILDING A TECH HUB ON THE WEST COAST

From cybersecurity to fintech, an alternative to Silicon Valley is emerging.

Online Insider

A Tale of Two Governors

by Gary Daughters

One fights to rescue his economic development agency. The other is making needed reforms.

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Tracking Down a Monster

The International Diabetes Federation says one in 10 people across the world's population are forecast to have diabetes by 2035, signifying a looming pandemic.

How Illinois Builds a Diverse Workforce

Can an old dog learn new tricks? With a workforce training metamorphosis, and a few million dollars
in aid, absolutely, and Illinois is all the better for it.

Project Bulletin: August 01, 2023

The Deccan Herald reported yesterday that Foxconn Technology Group subsidiary Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) would make this 6,000 job investment in the Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu, near Chennai, to produce electronic components for mobile phones.

How Energy Parks Can Energize Economic Development

Energy Parks are a smart and sustainable asset for areas with surplus industrial property. A Charlotte park under development is leading by example.

Meeting of the Minds

In late May, Intel announced the launch of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities in partnership with Imperial College London, University College London and the emerging Tech City cluster of East London.

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Big Wheels Keep On Turning

by Gary Daughters

Will a farm equipment manufacturer have to recalibrate its property portfolio in 2017?

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The State of Mobility

For advanced transportation technology, California is leading the way.

Taking Care of Business

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.

Maryland: A Ticket to the Game

A look inMaryland’s bid to lure global startups is hitting paydirt. Just ask executives with entrepreneurial firms coming from places such as Seoul and London.

Feeling Better?

Two new rankings assess US states by overall well-being and by healthcare system flexibility. See where they overlap, and where they don't.

Unconventional Wisdom: Social Media

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Vine, Instagram … the list goes on. Social media is everywhere, and it seems as if everyone is using it, including economic developers.

Area Spotlights

Facebook’s Multiplier Effect

by Mark Arend

Projects requiring hundreds of workers per site are increasingly common in The Land of Enchantment.

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SUNNY DAY IN GEORGIA

No longer a bridesmaid, Georgia claims the limelight in 2013 as the state with the best business climate, according to Site Selection’s annual ranking of states’ attractiveness to corporate facility investors.

The $117 Billion Region

‘Big’ is a relative term in Southwest Louisiana, as industrial plant investors from around the world converge on a 5-parish area rich in resources and infrastructure.

The Road to the Rest of America

Major infrastructure investments are fueling logistics projects.

New Show in Town

If you think you know West Central Ohio because you used to watch the hit TV program “Glee,” think again.

Prime Movers

Auto manufacturing in Durban is pivotal to South Africa’s economic growth.

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Lacrosse Rules

by Adam Bruns

In Maryland, ‘lax’ is code for their favorite sport, played in places where the attitude is anything but.

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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.

Can ‘Airport Cities’ Close the Deal?

Airport Cities are developing rapidly into office locations for non-aviation related companies.

Both Sides Now

What do poet Ezra Pound, Garfield assassin Charles Guiteau, silent film actress Mary Claire Fuller, original Oxford English Dictionary contributor Dr. William Chester Minor and LSD champion and manufacturer Augustus Stanley Owsley III have in common?

3,000 Jobs and Counting

How two Arizona locations enhance high-growth corporations’ global property portfolios.

An Oasis of Opportunity

With six consecutive Top Business Climate wins to his credit, Gov. Nathan Deal reflects on overcoming state transportation challenges, how to invest wisely in education and workforce resources, and his hope that Georgia’s business climate benefits businesses and their workers long after he’s gone.

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A New Top 10 List

by Adam Bruns

The growing portfolio of BNSF Certified Sites helps customers and communities bridge the gaps.

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Sink or Swim

Come to southwestern Indiana and you’ll find an 8,000-acre megasite with all the bells and whistles and a rock-solid workforce ready to help their region and nation bounce back.

Singing Their Praises

A vibrant arts scene shapes quality of life throughout the state.

Higher Learning and Higher Earning; GM Halfway Home; Brazil-Mexico JV Advances in Veracruz

College students are no different from the companies that one day will hire them in looking for their own best return on investment, which is why the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) this fall released its 2012 AIER College Destinations Index (CDI), which examined a dozen factors in evaluating the 227 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) with student populations of 15,000 or more.

Soft Landing in Thailand

A CEO talks through his global fiber company's location choice in an evolving Asian marketplace.

The Multiplier Effect

The Phoenix East Valley awaits the implications of landing Apple’s $2-billion command center; Boeing uses cost competitiveness to thread the sequestration needle.

Records Made to Be Broken

by Ron Starner

In Innovation Valley, setting new benchmarks of economic performance is a way of life.

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LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

Exclusive insights from a Pepsico Global Real Estate leader.

Real Estate Planning in the Financial Services Arena

Real estate and corporate resources executives from several leading financial companies gathered in New York City in mid-December 1998 to discuss ways in which they are helping drive change in their organizations. Unless an organization changes, it stops growing, becomes less competitive — even non-competitive — and will be left behind by more nimble players. […]

The Lay of the Land

Site Selection is proud to publish our fifth annual State of the States report in this, our 60th anniversary issue.

Shifting Gears

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

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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New Lease on Life

by Adam Bruns

Vireo Health is among the pioneer tenants at Tryon Technology Park in Fulton County, New York, next door to the Adirondacks.

Tryon Technology Park in Upstate New York shows what can happen when a sense of purpose meets a parcel primed for adaptive redevelopment.

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Rising to the Challenge

Consumer demand patterns are shifting rapidly, affecting shipping requirements, order cycle times, retail formats and service level requirements. Rising fuel and utilities costs, burdensome regulations, changes in tax laws and sustainability requirements, labor supply and union issues, municipal and state economic incentives and so many other cost considerations are volatile and challenging today.

Asia’s Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Will Reshape Trade

Dezan Shira & Associates walks us through the substantial opportunities RCEP delivers to a region accounting for roughly 30% of global population and global GDP.

Kansas by the Numbers

Top projects, sectoral analysis and other statistical insights into the Kansas economy.

Best Supporting Actors

The awards go to two industries — medical devices and aerospace — with long careers ahead of them.

Movers & Shakers

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

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Special Sauce

by Adam Bruns

McDonald’s is moving its HQ back to downtown Chicago from suburban Oak Brook.

Photo courtesy of McDonald’s

Chewing through the data reveals which locations in the US and abroad have the secret recipe for attracting corporate HQs.

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A New Top 10 List

The growing portfolio of BNSF Certified Sites helps customers and communities bridge the gaps.

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, March 2009 German Firms Increase U.S. Holdings by ADAM BRUNSadam.bruns bounce@conway.com W hile Asian and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds garner their share of attention, good old corporate FDI is still flowing to the U.S., even from good old Europe. If it keeps up with a recent […]

From All Over the World To All Over Illinois

Recently announced projects from companies based in Italy and Canada will add nearly 1,000 jobs to the 381,000 already associated with foreign direct investment (FDI) in Illinois.

Mega-Region Momentum

Since January 2012 the Kentucky Golden Triangle of Louisville, Lexington and Northern Kentucky has welcomed 120 corporate facility projects to the three metro areas. The triangle is neither equilateral nor Pythagorean, but it might be isosceles: Greater Lexington and Northern Kentucky tally 30 projects each, while Greater Louisville tallies 60. But each side has its points, so to speak. And each gains strength from the other communities in its ambit.

Japan, Industrial Leaders Plan New Economic Reforms

A group of leading government and industry leaders known as the Industrial Rebirth Council was formed in July 2000 to expand and support Japanese economic reform initiatives. The council, which was convened by — and is chaired by — Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, is comprised of key government ministers and CEOs of such companies as […]

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Medicine on Fast Forward

“The greatest advantage in this design is flexibility,” says Edwin Paoli Perez, DesignFlex 2030 Design Team member and Fluor biopharma process expert. “It is like the lungs: it expands and contracts as needed.”

Rendering by Todd Mion courtesy of Fluor

A top-notch design team offers its take on the flexible biopharma facility of the future.

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Old Places See New Faces

In Site Selection's annual sustainability rankings in 2012, Ohio ranked in the top dozen states in the country for federal brownfield funding.

The Hemp Gambit

New laws give green light for more growers and processors in South Carolina and other states.

TOP MICROPOLITANS

f having one Top Small Town is great for a county, then having two is better. Just ask the folks in Iredell County, N.C. By registering 24 new and expanded corporate facility projects in 2004, the Statesville- Mooresville, N.C., Micro-politan Statistical Area claimed Site Selection’s Top Micropolitan of the Year award. […]

Collaboration Across Boundaries Is Key To Wins for Twin Cities and Clinton, Iowa

As the cold winds of winter approached Iowa in late 2020, specialty fibers made residents of Clinton, Iowa, glow with warmth.

A High Degree of Confidence

When medical device and equipment supply chain organization Qmed recently named its top-tier US states for medical technology, Michigan made the Top 10, partly by virtue of the precision skills base that is a legacy of the automotive industry.