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How to Fast Track Logistics

by Mark Arend

Detroit Metro Airport

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Airside or landside, this ‘Aerotropolis’ delivers logistics assets like no other location.

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Pennsylvania Overhauls Its Web Site To Help Businesses Grow

Economic development groups are among those likely to participate in the Keystone State’s newly designed Web site, PA PowerPort, an Internet portal for business development. Pennsylvania is broadening its efforts to be recognized as a technologically savvy place in which to grow a business. The Keystone State’s various public-private technology partnerships and healthy business climate […]

Why Top Performers Continue To Choose Mexico

Mexico Advantage: Why Top Performers Continue To Choose Mexico

SELECTUSA WORKFORCE PANEL

Three trailblazing CEOs tell it like it is when it comes to opportunities for women in today’s manufacturing environment.

Project Bulletin: November 21, 2023

To prepare to better serve local and global markets, DHL Express has completed a $400 million expansion at its nearly 20-year-old Central Asia Hub (CAH) in Hong Kong.

Which States Have the Most Energy-Efficient Buildings?

Last week the EPA recognized 103 U.S. manufacturing plants that earned the agency’s ENERGY STAR certification in 2023, designated for plants in the top 25% of energy efficiency in their sector.

International Update

Why Batteries Matter

Northvolt’s lithium-ion battery manufacturing complex in Skellefteå, Sweden, is expected to employ up to 2,500 and receive a construction investment north of US$4.7 billion.

Images courtesy of Northvolt

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

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Rothwell Leads Team Effort as Michigan Bags GM’s $1 Billion Investment

Michigan’s banner years under Doug Rothwell’s leadership just got a major exclamation point: General Motors (www.gm.com) has decided to invest US$1 billion to build two plants just outside Lansing that will add 2,800 jobs. And Rothwell, president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp. (MEDC at www.michigan.org), did a lot of the heavyweight deal’s […]

SeaTac City is Poised for Flight

With its unmatched connectivity, this could be your new headquarters location.

UTAH: WORKFORCE DEVELOPED

Utah Builds Its Workforce Better than Most

Lessons from Canadian Carbon Capture Are There for the Taking

In its first 10 months of operation, the Quest carbon captured and safely stored one million metric tons of CO2 ahead of schedule.

Asian Call Centers: Dialing New Delhi, Site Selection Magazine, November 2003

O rdering a computer, making an airline reservation or inquiring about a credit card bill increasingly involves talking with someone 12 time zones away. Outsourcing of customer service functions by U.S. companies to the Asian subcontinent and to the Philippines is transforming the call center industry as firms move jobs from […]

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Raising the Roof

by Adam Bruns

Automotive company SEAT in 2017 continued work on what will be the tallest logistics complex in Spain.

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In the drive to optimize cubage, automation and e-commerce drive the stacks and the ceilings ever higher.

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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.

A Sharper Image

Governor Rick Snyder had a big economic development win in 2013 when Michigan became the nation’s 24th right-to-work state, but he’s not resting on his laurels.

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.

Oregon Plays to its Strengths

WEST COAST LEADER HAS A LOT TO OFFER BESIDES A LOWER-COST LOCATION.

Will COVID-19 Kill Globalization? What You Need to Know

Globalization is not dying. Rather, it’s evolving, and existing trends are accelerating. American companies and workers would be wise to prepare for what’s ahead.

Energy Report

The Pipeline Promise

by Adam Bruns

Projects in Alberta and Pennsylvania illustrate the present benefits and future potential of petrochemical development.

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Site Selectors: It’s Time for Midwest Communities to Change

If the Midwest needed a wake-up call, it was delivered in a big way on Nov. 26 when General Motors announced that it would schedule five automotive plants for closure and lay off 14,500 workers.

Project Bulletin: September 19, 2023

Last week, the California city of Riverbank, located in Stanislaus County on the outskirts of Modesto, gained a long-awaited boost to its green economy, according to Riverbank Mayor Richard O’Brien.

End Game

In his book “Delivering Happiness,” Tony Hsieh, the young, energetic and imaginative CEO of the online clothing retailer Zappos.com, tells about the decision to move corporate headquarters out of his hometown of San Francisco.

The Green Machine

How California is using renewable energy and other sustainable practices to grow its economy.

No Speed Bumps

Mississippi tire production gains some serious traction.

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Moving Mountains

by Adam Bruns

EnerBlü’s two-pronged investment in Kentucky gets its power from a university town and a company town, both of which seek to diversify their economies.

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The 2024 Mac Conway Awards for Excellence in Economic Development

The economic development organizations profiled in the following pages are being recognized for contributing significantly to their locations’ investment attraction and job creation success

How Colorado Forms Governance, Employment & Energy Policy

Named America’s fourth best state for business by CNBC in 2022, Colorado has been implementing measures in recent years that should keep it near the top of that ranking and others in the future.

IDRC Abstracts

Abstracts of major presentations of the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s pre-eminent corporate real estate association. “Leveraging Technologies in an Internetworked Economy,” Seattle World Congress, May 14, 2001: “The power of the chip has doubled about every 18 months,” said Robert J. Herbold, executive vice president and chief […]

Checkup Time

Have you gone in for your annual fiscal yet? Even as US citizens do exactly that while filing their tax returns, US states and the companies they covet are undergoing scrutiny of their own fiscal health.

Take Me to Your Leader

Texas corners the market on corporate HQs.

Energy Report

Norway’s Trump Card

by Adam Bruns

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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A Dragon Roars.

by Adam Jones-Kelley

Those paying attention to US President Donald’s Trump’s visit to China in November will recall that while there he signed trade agreements, and the biggest share of those deals went to the port city of Longkou.

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New Projects, New Data Provide Fresh Insights into AESAN Growth Prospects

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations issued its annual investment report, which declared FDI into the 10-country region reached an all-time high.

HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE: A Higher Focus On Skills Development

How AIM UP, Talent Solutions and Career Coaches add up to a pathway to workforce success.

Science Park Powers a Solar System

Kulim Hi-Tech Park (KHTP), Malaysia’s first high-tech industrial park, opened in 1996 as a key component in the nation’s plan to be fully industrialized by 2020.

The Human Smart Grid

Electricity signaled progress a century ago. Broadband sparks it today.

The Connected

Forty percent of the world’s mobile traffic goes through the networks of Sweden-based telecommunications and network company Ericsson, and the company supports customers’ networks servicing more than 2.5 billion subscriptions.

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The 2018 Regional Workforce Development Rankings

by Mark Arend

It is difficult to overstate how crucial workforce development is to a state’s economic health.

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More Packers Are Heading to Green Bay

Wisconsin Paper mills gain new leases on life.

Follow the Leader

Malaysia has long been a haven for high-tech companies, with several maintaining operations there for decades. They are staying in Malaysia to take advantage of the country’s forward-thinking approach to keeping these companies from relocating elsewhere in the region.

Finding Value in Surplus Real Estate

U.S. firms have become very good at planning, designing and operating their plants, offices, and other corporate facilities for optimal results. But there are still many unrealized opportunities for capturing value over the lifetime of these resources. When business or industrial properties are no longer actively needed, for instance, some of them go on to […]

A.T. Kearney: European High-Tech Industry Becomes Increasingly Marginalized

The high-tech industry in Europe is experiencing declining figures in all key segments, according to a 2012 study from A.T. Kearney.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES & CORPORATE OPERATIONS

How Texas became the Headquarters of Headquarters and home to the all-new Texas Stock Exchange.

International Update

Making Waves

by Gary Daughters

Led by Jamaica, the Caribbean is witnessing “explosive” growth in the business process outsourcing sector.

Photo: Getty Images

The Caribbean rides the crest of rising call center and BPO activity.

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Beyond China and India

Tips on building an effective resource allocation strategy for investing in ASEAN provinces and states

Editor’s View: Location With an Edge, Site Selection Magazine, July 2003

D alian, China; Tallinn, Estonia; Porto Alegre, Brazil. If these far-flung cities are not on your location radar screen right now, they may soon be. They are among 24 potential city winners identified in a recently released research report, Rising Urban Stars — Uncovering Future Winners from Jones Lang LaSalle and LaSalle Investment Management. The […]

How the Video Game Industry Drives DC Location Decisions

Just as e-commerce and streamed meetings are driving data center capacity expansion, so too are the world’s 2.7 billion video gamers.

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...

Jobs on the Fly

Aerospace firms are investing and creating jobs across the south-central United States.

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‘Sweet Home Alabama’ Is No. 1 Again

by Gary Daughters

In an encore to a championship season in Tuscaloosa, Huntsville gets its own trophy in Toyota-Mazda’s $1.6-billion project.

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Tennessee Two-Step

How a global auto giant and a Bay Area fintech firm fell in love with the Nashville region.

More pellets, please!: EU subsidies for biomass will generate more investments in the US wood industry and intensify the search for favorable wood pellet plant sites.

Thinking about renewable energy, the first things that come to mind are usually large fields of solar panels facing the sun, wind farms with revolving blades or turbines behind dams producing hydropower. But another source of renewable-energy already accounts for about half of Europe's renewable-energy consumption - biomass.

From Peru to Normal, Spotlight Shines on Advanced Manufacturing

When people think of Peruvians, north-central Illinois does not immediately come to mind. But for North America’s largest roofing manufacturer, it will now.

New Facilities 1990 (Charts), page 5

From Site Selection magazine, February 1991 New Facilities 1988-90 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.

Waste Naught

Nexterra's innovative bioenergy plant is one solution helping the University of British Columbia achieve its lofty sustainability goals.

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Old and In the Way

by Adam Bruns

Companies don’t pay nearly enough attention to the cost of holding onto shuttered sites as a first-ever benchmarking report shows.

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IDRC’s Cannes Conference: Infrastructure Integration In the New Europe

C annes, France: Integration of a new and different sort is advancing on the new Europe: Like their U.S. corporate counterparts, European companies are feeling the pressure to maximize the synergies of their corporate infrastructure resources (CIR). Responding to the accelerated pace of workplace change generated by rapidly evolving technology, European firms are looking for […]

Site Selection Online

ne reason you don’t find many labor lockouts in the Southeast U.S. is because global manufacturers are locked in on the region’s right-to-work status. Even as governors in the Northeast and Midwest bemoan the loss of manufacturing jobs to overseas locations, the American South reaps a whirlwind of factory activity. Experts who […]

Michigan: Consumers Energy

Michigan is Putting Chips On the Table

Meanwhile, Morocco

In the past two years, the dramatic changes in Arab countries have been a primary focus of attention.

Energy Engineered

With economic impacts accounting for 1.3 percent of all Idaho personal income, Idaho National Laboratory is a linchpin partner for the state
and its companies.

Investment Profile

The ‘Great Human’ Theory

by Adam Bruns

In its design, the new Thomson Reuters Technology Centre in Toronto shows the promise of the future even as it reflects decades of innovation already past.

Photo courtesy of Thomson Reuters

In Ontario, the technology is nearly as astounding as the people who create it.

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Where the Scientists Go

A detailed talent migration study by a division of the NIH is more than an academic exercise.

Pieces of the Pie

Snapshots of logistics intelligence and solutions show where the sector is going next.

Finding the Sweet Spot

A wave of capital investment transforms Sugarloaf Corridor in Gwinnett County, Ga.

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.

To the Stars and Closer to Home

Kansas Tourism builds momentum for one of the state’s most vital sectors.

International Update

Vietnam Journey

As in other emerging markets, Vietnam’s opportunities grow clearer when viewed at the regional level.

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New Facilities 1992 (Charts)

From Site Selection magazine, February 1993 Global Facilities 1988-92 | 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.

Risk Management

Companies like eBay, Adobe, IM Flash and FireEye are building their facilities in the Beehive State because that's where their honey is — a strong supply of skilled workers, a business climate that encourages and rewards high-tech enterprise growth and the technical infrastructure statewide that is critical to their businesses.

Go Outside and Play

Utah expands a diverse manufacturing base.

Droning On and On

An in-between time is the right time to cultivate one state’s growing UAS industry cluster.

Georgia: Court Ruling Poses No Delay To Rivian Project

“I take umbrage at the judge’s thoughts,” says one top state official.

Area Spotlights

Alabama a Case Study in Japan-Southeast Relations

by Adam Bruns

The Japanese Gardens at Birmingham Botanical Gardens were officially opened by the Japanese Ambassador to the United States in 1967.

Photo courtesy of Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Whether it gets the Toyota-Mazda plant or not, the state’s long-running string of Japanese FDI shows no signs of slowing.

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A Year of High Definition

Factory fever breaks out all over in a record-setting year for Wisconsin.

Conduits for Change

To attendees of the 30th Summer Olympic Games in London (not to mention Londoners themselves), the most important underground asset is the city’s venerable Tube, operated by Transport for London. Due to celebrate its 150th anniversary next year, the system carries more than 1 billion passengers a year (more than the entire National Railway Network), and is in the midst of a major upgrade of all its lines.

Editor’s View: OLYMPIC-LEVEL EXCELLENCE

MEMORIALS TO TOMORROW

Sustainability Is Accelerating Business In Michigan

It starts with a nation-leading commitment to go net-zero.

How Texas Trains Workers for Today and Tomorrow

It starts with solid leadership and a multi-faceted approach.

Features

Where Dreamers Become Doers

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Who’s achieving the American Dream and who’s not? A unique survey sheds light on both.

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Right in Tune?

The state and provincial governments of the Pacific Northwest already are known for their strong environmental positions when it comes to development and permitting.

Technology InSITE: Regeneron Upgrades Technology During Huge Campus Expansion

Biotech firm Regeneron decided it needed a modern facility management system at a busy time for the Tarrytown, N.Y., company.

Swiss textile machine manufacturers pick China sites; a Swiss coffee concern finds a location closer to home for a 400-job production facility

Swiss textile machine manufacturers pick China sites; a Swiss coffee concern finds a location closer to home for a 400-job production facility

A Papered-Over Paradise

How a much-maligned country plans to push back against fake news and a slowing economy.

Lower Cost of Living Means More Prosperity

An in-depth look at how wages and costs work together to build wealth in Ohio.

OnSite Travel Blog

Oktoberfest in Munich

by Adam Jones-Kelley

Munich, Germany is the only city which can lay claim to having the original Oktoberfest, and boy do they do it right!

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UNITED KINGDOM: Data Centers Bet Big On UK’s ‘Stability Dividend’

A flurry of investments announced at a recent summit is led by a number of major data centers.

Software Upgrade Reflects User Demands, Site Selection Magazine, May 2004

A myriad of property management software is available today to handle account and reporting needs of industrial sites. One product that has been around awhile and continues to draw favorable reviews for its latest version is Skyline II. SS&C, a Windsor, Conn.-based software developer for a variety of applications, is the creator of Skyline. […]

IAMC Insider, Site Selection magazine, November 2002

Dear Colleague: The Industrial Asset Management Council (IAMC) was founded this year to better meet the professional development needs of executives with corporate real estate and asset management responsibilities. As the organization’s first chairman, I am proud to be a part of the IAMC and to be associated with an extremely talented and dedicated […]

When the Economy Is Sick, Look to Healthcare for the Cure

Technology has blurred the lines among sectors, jobs and gigs, and redrawn the map when it comes to weathering an economic downturn.

Project Bulletin Oct. 14, 2024: Brazil; South Carolina; India;

EDITOR’S NOTE: The project records appearing every week in the Site Selection Project Bulletin are pulled from the Conway Projects Database, a proprietary resource with tens of thousands of records of corporate end-user facility investments across all industry sectors and all world geographies. Want to look for our projects yourself? Look here. Brazil’s Got BioFuel […]

OnSite Travel Blog

Everything’s Better with Lime

by Adam Jones-Kelley

Mexican restaurants in America give you free chips and salsa before you even order. In Mexico they give you limes. Mexico’s way is better.

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Execs Rank California, Texas Tops for Labor

Polled corporate executives pinpoint today’s top 10 U.S. labor markets Today’s drum-tight U.S. labor evokes James Marshall’s 1848 wisdom. Building a sawmill near Coloma, Calif, Marshall spied glittering flecks. He dipped his hand into the icy American River and then roared, “By God, boys, I believe I’ve found a gold mine!” The California Gold Rush […]

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.

The Big Apple and Greater Provo Host the Most Fast-Growing Firms

Today we examine which metro areas and cities have the most fast-growing companies. These Top 10 correspond closely with the most recent Census Bureau list of the most populated metro areas — only the Bay Area and Greater Boston are not also among the nation’s 10 most populous metros:

Locations Roll Out the Red Carpet for Netflix Investment

Entertainment may be a replication of real life, but its production supports actual livelihoods across a range of professions.

GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE: ‘Eclectic, NOT Electric’

South American powerhouse Brazil is more eclectic than electric, says one insider. Plus a look at how Europe and the United States are responding to growing Chinese EV companies.

OnSite Travel Blog

One Night in Bangkok

by Adam Jones-Kelley

The line from the famous song says “One night in Bangkok makes a hard man crumble.” That’s not true. It takes three nights.

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What Is Ohio?

From grilled cheese to Craigslist, Ohioans are changing the way we interact with the world.

Why Expanding Mid-Atlantic Firms Are Staying Put

The Mid-Atlantic region — Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Washington, DC, and West Virginia — is having a bit of a moment right now.

Power Game

In addition to parkland and housing, some closed golf courses are turning into solar power plants.

Could Rwanda Be the Next Singapore?

Certain countries — like Taiwan, South Korea, or Singapore — have famously risen out of poverty thanks to capitalism.

Unconventional Wisdom: Good State or Bad State?

Site selectors offer their thoughts to companies and states navigating the dicey waters of economic development and social legislation.

OnSite Travel Blog

A Very Thai Massage

by Adam Jones-Kelley

After more than 24 hours of violently emptying my stomach in Singapore, my body was in quite a state, so my first order of business upon arriving in Bangkok was to indulge in a traditional Thai massage.

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Project Bulletin: December 12, 2023

Just weeks after Amkor Technologies announced its $2 billion semiconductor packaging and testing facility in Peoria, Arizona, yet another industry investment has been made in the state.

The Key to Successful Biotech Clusters in Switzerland and Sweden

The European biotechnology industry developed significantly over the past 10 years and contributed to the development of all of Europe’s industry sectors.

Fresh University R&D Data Reveal California Is No. 1

Home to institutions such as the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, the University of California San Francisco is part of the 10-campus University of California.

Workforce Within Reach

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

Building a Sustainable Future: Food & Beverage and Agritech in Kentucky

When you think of the food and beverage industry in Kentucky you should see is a booming industry.

Coming of Age

by Gary Daughters

Mississippi’s Craft Beer Industry is Set to Take Off.

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Earth Imagery Comes Down to Earth

Corporate site evaluators may consider satellite imagery an unnecessary extravagance in routine site searches, a nice-to-have tool but not a need-to-have one. But Space Imaging (www.spaceimaging.com), a Denver, Colo.-based provider of satellite imagery and aerial photography, hopes to change that perception. ABOVE: an IKONOS image of Thornton, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. In September 1999, […]

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 […]

Serious Business

Beef bolsters a muscular agriculture industry.

Help When It’s Needed

With a variety of incentives and programs to support businesses, Illinois is there for every step.

Data Centers Moving South

Massive Meta project ‘changes the narrative’ for Louisiana.

Mississippi’s Manufacturing Corner

by Savannah King

A crash course in workforce skills is helping drive job growth in Tishomingo County.

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Talent Is the Key to Sustaining Cybersecurity Leadership in Atlantic Canada

Capital spending on major projects in Atlantic Canada...

Safety in San Antonio

Port San Antonio expands for next wave of cybersecurity, tech growth.

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

T he shipbreaking business can stir up a tsunami of knee- jerk NIMBY- ism. Precious few communities greet proposed ship- disposal operations with open arms. That’s not altogether surprising, by JACK LYNE jack.lyne bounce@conway.com This is an aerial view of ISL’s shipbreaking operation in Brownsville, the largest in the U.S. given Third World shipbreaking’s abysmal […]

Birmingham Airport Adds Runway Length For Longer-Haul Flights

Birmingham Airport (BHX) officially marked the start of its runway extension development November 28th. The project will see the existing runway length increase 405 metres (1,328 ft.) to 3,003 metres (9,850 ft.), giving aircraft unlimited range from the Midlands. Aircraft will be able to take off from Birmingham with more fuel and fly direct to destinations currently out of reach, such as China, South America, South Africa and the West Coast of the US.

Serious Business

Beef bolsters a muscular agriculture industry.

Flight Path

by Adam Bruns

It’s not everywhere you can find space to fly next door to young talent ready to soar.

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Open Invitation

Is there any business more Canadian than Tim Hortons?

COVER STORY — GOVERNOR’S CUP

NEW PLANT SCOREBOARD From Site Selection magazine, March 2005 C H A R T New Corporate Facilities and Expansions 2002-2004 PDF Format, 536 KB C H A R T 20 Giants: 2004’s Biggest U.S Corporate Facilities PDF Format, 58 KB TOP OF PAGE Top of Page | Cover | Letter to Editor | Site Selection […]

Shenzhen: The world’s hardware capital gets a software upgrade

Many western companies with international expansion ambitions are looking to expand their operations in Asia and considering where to focus.

Follow the Demand

Whether the territory is emerging or at the top of the heap, GE's recent investments have it covered.

WORKFORCE: How One Globally Minded Student Navigated the ‘Translation Chasm’ from Degree to Fulfilling Career

An adapted book excerpt explores how a college student was able to “hack college” to find a pathway to a fulfilling and unique career.

The Way Back Home

by Savannah King

Millennials return to plant roots, grow in the Magnolia State.

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Anatomy of a FinTech Project Growing in the Heartland

Shifts in consumer behavior to digital financial and insurance services is creating a new generation of companies.

Clean & Green: How One County is Taking the Lead

With major investments, San Bernardino County has
become a hotbed of cleantech and renewable energy.

Meeting of the Minds

MindMixer finds talent its needs in Kansas City; Gov. Nixon says Missouri has only just begun.

TOYOTA TRIPLES DOWN IN KENTUCKY

The world’s largest car company is making waves in workforce development in Kentucky.

Why the World Comes to Oregon

A Globally diverse population calls the Beaver State home.

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More Than Some Like It Hot

by Ron Starner

‘We gotta go where it’s warm,’ say respondents in annual Site Selectors Survey.

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Outsourcing Case Studies, Special Advertising Section, Site Selection Magazine, November 2003

A s companies focus on their core competencies to remain in the black, there is greater incentive to turn to commercial real estate service providers to handle the real estate and facilities management functions. Companies outsource projects to reduce costs while simultaneously gaining special niche skills and services such as lease […]

New Facilities 1988 (Charts), page 2

From Site Selection magazine, February 1989 New Facilities 1988 Continue to next page | 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.

Clean Energy Manufacturing, The Sequel

The virtual ink had barely dried on last week’s Site Selection Snapshot about promising clean energy project and job data when First Solar and Maxeon Solar Technologies the very next day each announced billion-dollar manufacturing projects in Louisiana and New Mexico, respectively.

2021 Top Markets for STEM Job Growth

RCLCO, partnering with CapRidge Partners, recently produced the fifth annual STEM Job Growth Index (“STEMdex”)

Bahrain? Bank on It

Bahrain and banking used to go together. That is not so much the case now. The "bank king" of the Gulf has been dethroned. Before the global financial crisis and the Arab Spring, Bahrain was the banking and finance centre for the Gulf and the wider Middle East. The United Arab Emirates has now become the go-to location for many activities in this sector.