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Shovel-Ready Is a Requirement.

by Adam Bruns

Novus International’s headquarters in St. Charles, Missouri, is one of 56 projects certified by the Sustainable SITES Initiative.

Photo courtesy of Novus

Is your site environment- and wellness-ready too?

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Welcome to the Hospitality State

SEVEN REASONS LIFE IS BETTER IN MISSISSIPPI

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Georgia Has A Sweet Tooth For Food Processing

Stuckey’s buys a pecan candy maker and joins a cadre of bullish investors.

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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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Molecular Magic

Identified most closely with the discovery work of the late Centocor co-founder and Philadelphia-area life sciences leader Hubert J.P. Schoemaker, therapeutic monoclonal antibodies have given rise to a

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Big Data, Big Moves, Big Merger

All those data plans the world is using require some physical plans for processing and storing that data.

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Welcome to the $50-Billion Region

by Ron Starner

With $50 billion in capital investment since 2010, the Corpus Christi region ranks as one of the largest industrial and energy-related project magnets in the world.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Shopping for a Bargain in Europe

T he American dream came to Europe and created its teenage information technology (IT) millionaires. Up went property prices, property availability and the cost of hiring. Europe had its very own IT hot spots. Next came dot.com gloom: tech stock exchanges were on their knees, and the hot spots turned warm. But silver linings are […]

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European Location Trends: Growing Cultures, Site Selection Magazine, July 2003

I t’s less than a year before 10 new countries join the European Union, as the accession votes succeed like so many dominoes falling in a line. But they are not the only places active in attracting corporations: heretofore undervalued E.U. nations and the group of nations slated to arrive next are all making a […]

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History in the Making

Automotive, tech and tourism drive Alabama’s future.

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Beyond Bells & Whistles

What’s Smartest? Systems That Help Humans.

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Taking Flight: Military Installations Drive Economic Growth in Arkansas

Pilots from five nations friendly to the United States are beginning to arrive at Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

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Almost, But Not Quite

by Adam Bruns

Online Insider: Almost, But Not Quite

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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High-Wage Tinder

Tired of playing the field? Data may help your city or company find the best match.

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The UnitedHealth Alliance: Leadership Writ Large

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there,” humorist Will Rogers once observed. That says a lot about leadership, an eternally discussed but skimpily understood business success factor. When it comes to real estate leadership, though, a case study is at hand: the alliance between UnitedHealth Group […]

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Pflugerville, Texas: On the Road to Save Lives and Build Careers

Career prep goes mobile in Pflugerville high schools.

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Quick-Fill Capability; Honda Diversifies; Northeast Aces ACT; Looking West;Where’s the Building?; New Digs for Novo

North American Reports: Quick-Fill Capability; Honda Diversifies; Northeast Aces ACT; Looking West;Where’s the Building?; New Digs for Novo

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Manufacturing in the Sun? No Sweat

Sarasota-based Tervis builds on a 75-year legacy of innovation.

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Area Spotlights

From Idle to Active

by Adam Bruns

Macy’s and New York-Presbyterian committed to filling the remaining space at The JACX, Tishman Speyer’s 1.2 million-sq.-ft. creative office development currently under construction in the Queens Plaza district of Long Island City, New York.

Photo by Jesse David Harris courtesy of Tishman Speyer

Places once thought fossils — including two fossil-fuel power plants — welcome renewal from investors.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Let’s Get Cracking

Fifty-six counties and parishes define the U.S. shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico, simultaneously dishing up the Gulf’s bounty and taking what it dishes out. Between October 2009 and October 2011, Greater Houston’s Harris County showed the most new plant and expansion activity among those jurisdictions by a very long shot, followed by Baldwin County, Ala., a slew of Louisiana parishes, and Pinellas County in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla.

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Where Big Tech Companies Make Big Investments

Ohio helps it technology startups grow.

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Arab Youth: A ‘Wellspring of Untapped Potential’

Firms want to employ the region's potential workforce, but these youth's may have bigger plans.

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Texas Hold’em

Guess which state has an ace in the hole in corporate recruiting.

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The Biggest Economic Engine You Haven’t Heard of

Climb aboard the Grain Belt Express, a multi-billion-dollar transmission project that will connect Kansas wind energy with power consumers throughout the Midwest and beyond.

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Features

Will TrustBelt Land Fisker Auto Plant?

by Ron Starner

Electric car maker says sites in 11 states being considered for large factory investment.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Full of Energy

Gov. Tom Corbett laid out Pennsylvania’s most ambitious energy plan ever on Jan. 21. The bottom line? Expanding companies will find even more cost savings when they invest in the Keystone State.

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Congestion Capitals

Congestion can really get you down. No, we’re not talking about the sniffles going around. More like the cargo and people who aren’t.

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Green Crude

Projects aimed at producing fuel from algae continue to advance around the globe with the help of private and government funding. If and when algae-based fuels become commercially viable on a large scale, New Mexico could be one of the major centers of production. Sapphire Energy has built a large research and development center in Las Cruces and plans to commission a 100-acre algae field this spring near the southern New Mexico town of Columbus.

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Urbanize This

In late April a joint-venture partnership of Advance Realty and Boston-based CrossHarbor Capital Partners, LLC, announced that it had acquired the former Sanofi U.S. Research and Development Campus in Bridgewater, N.J., located on U.S. Highway 202/206 in Bridgewater Township.

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New Center of American Energy

From household brand names like Westinghouse Electric Co., U.S. Steel and Alcoa to emerging energy technology leaders like Aquion Energy, BPL Global and kWantera, Pittsburgh is well on its way to being known as the new center of American energy.

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TrustBelt

Calling All Chefs: Indiana City Launches Test Kitchen Accelerator

The City of Fishers, Indiana, has launched a search for chefs who will become the first occupants of its restaurant accelerator, the Fishers Test Kitchen.

Top Micropolitans: Ohio Delivers A Fab Five

Findlay leads the way, closing the loop on 10 years of dominance among smaller towns.

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Battery Wars

Competition in the EV space is intense. Could this mega-project in Georgia fall victim?

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The Phoenix of Québec

NEOMED brings instant pain relief to life sciences R&D in Greater Montréal.

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Still Sweet Home

It’s the dead of winter. Where would you rather be: in Chicago with the wind biting off the Great Lakes and the snow piling up faster than Illinois taxes? Or in Atlanta, where there might be sun, and maybe lower taxes?

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The 2019 Global Groundwork Index

Looking for places where major employers and major populations both have a strong chance of being served by continuing infrastructure investment?

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TrustBelt

Are Tariffs Inviting Global Instability?

by Mark Arend

How current trade policies may be ushering in trouble.

Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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Northeast U.S.: The Commute Matters

The hot-button issue of congestion pricing in New York City highlights a larger regional conversation about commuting and transit options.

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Dreaming Big Again

A Hudson River site once home to thousands of IBMers is positioned for a reboot 60 years after its debut.

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Power Game

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

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Bi-National Region Tackles Water Use, NAFTA & More

A conversation with Council of the Great Lakes Region President and CEO Mark Fisher.

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How Corporate Location Decision-Makers Choose Smart Cities for Facility Investment

Smart cities harness technology to improve their urban efficiency.

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TrustBelt

From the Mailbag: A Frank Discussion on Cleveland

by Ron Starner

This month, we introduce a new TrustBelt Report feature called From the Mailbag.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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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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Road to Redemption

Around mid-afternoon on April 27, 2011, Gregg Kennedy, part-time mayor of Smithville, Miss., completed his shift at his full-time job at the True Temper Sports golf club shaft manufacturing facility in nearby Amory. He drove straight to the Smithville Town Hall because of the threatening weather.

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Tigers in the Tank

In 2009, Columbia, Mo., home to the University of Missouri’s flagship campus, was a runner-up in the race to land a major technology service delivery center from IBM

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A Rush of Talent

How Wichita Falls is winning the race for
high-tech facility expansions.

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Western Canada: Acknowledging Progress

Tribes and provinces work to realize megaprojects against a backdrop of reconciliation.

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Features

Whole Lotta Building Going On

by Adam Bruns

This year’s tallies of the top industries of 2018 show machinery, equipment & construction leading the way. For most countries, that’s a good sign.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Destination Scorecard

A report from the United Nations documents where tourists come from, and where they're going.

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Safe Harbor

Three rankings shed light on the power of economic zones to catalyze industrial growth and commerce.

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Segue Under Way

Michigan is incrementally converting pockets of its once vast automotive manufacturing engine into the green economy.

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Play To Your Strengths

Cincinnati-area natives increasingly appreciate their region’s advantages and the global arena in which the city competes for new investment — and jobs.

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INTERVIEW WITH THE GOVERNOR: How a Governor Engineered a State TURNAROUND

Five years into his tenure, Gov. Tate Reeves has turned Mississippi into an economic juggernaut.

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Features

Expansion to Canada Hones Location Strategy

by Adam Bruns

Listen and learn from the president and CEO of a fast-growing wholesale data center company.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Solar Rising

New investments power Mississippi’s solar evolution.

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Behind the Cape

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

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West Virginia: Paving the Way for Progress

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Taking Flight: Military Installations Drive Economic Growth in Arkansas

Pilots from five nations friendly to the United States are beginning to arrive at Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

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Could Inclusion Be the New Yardstick?

The thought leaders at The Brookings Institution pull no punches: It's time to change economic development metrics.

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Departments

IAMC Insider: We’ve Worked Hard to Stack the Deck

Remember the elevator speech principle? You know, a short capsule on what you do, or why you want a job, or why a relationship is important to you.

Real Estate’s Cream of the Crop: IDRC Best Practices

Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 Real Estate’s Cream of the Crop: IDRC Best Practices Excellence. It’s something all firms strive for — to be the best. Many companies today are working hard to make their real estate operations the best they can be. The International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent […]

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MEDICAL DEVICES & TECHNOLOGY: Japanese Project Helps Grow A North Carolina Cluster

The first North American investment from Japan’s Nipro Medical Corporation helps fuel a cluster in eastern North Carolina.

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Agtech is a natural for Missouri.

Agtech & Food: Agtech is a natural for Missouri

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Multipurpose Ports Enter a New Era Of Industrial Innovation and Activity

Nearly 800 miles of commercially navigable waterways — the Mississippi River to the west, the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway to the east and the Gulf of Mexico to the south — give Mississippi a unique transportation advantage, says the Mississippi Development Authority.

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Catching Some Rays in Chernobyl

A Chinese solar power giant and its state-owned partner endeavor to make power from the sun at the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster.

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International Update

Ready, Aim, Hire

by Adam Bruns

A new asset mapping tool for eastern Ontario goes way beyond a parlor trick.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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Quick-Fill Capability; Honda Diversifies; Northeast Aces ACT; Looking West;Where’s the Building?; New Digs for Novo

North American Reports: Quick-Fill Capability; Honda Diversifies; Northeast Aces ACT; Looking West;Where’s the Building?; New Digs for Novo

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IAMC Insider: Our Industry Transformation Continues

From the vantage point of October 2022, it seems that the past two years of upheaval, driven by a worldwide pandemic and global supply chain disruptions, might at last be easing, albeit more slowly than anyone would wish. As I take on this excellent challenge of the IAMC chair, I have to begin by thanking […]

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R&D, Ecosystems and VC Prove Central to Innovation

Businesses account for the lion’s share of R&D spending, an accelerating trend across leading nations.

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AI Challenges Traditional Site Selection

Could AI help you pick your next major facility location or expansion?

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Top Micropolitans: A Dynasty of Deals

A decade of dominance culminates in another Top Micropolitan ranking for Statesville-Mooresville, N.C. From the Blue Ridge Mountains to Brazil, companies from across the Western Hemisphere are descending upon North Carolina’s Iredell County at a pace unprecedented in the modern history of America.

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Features

Between the Barley & the Beer

by Adam Bruns

Photos by Guillaume Czerw courtesy of Groupe Vivescia.

Follow the malt-shopping footprint of a little-known global giant.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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OFFSHORE WIND: Dominating International Breezeways

The global wind energy industry set new installation records in 2024 despite economic and policy challenges.

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The Future is Texas

The imminent global impact of innovative activity conducted in the state will be one to watch.

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Take a Closer Look at Small Towns

L ocation searches frequently focus on the larger metropolitan areas, and for good reason. Data sources are more readily available for these locations, and they represent the largest labor markets, airports, developed properties and other resources. However, there is a whole other layer of locations the small towns — that represent communities with populations of […]

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Can the UK Buck the EU Trend?: The United Kingdom and one of its key metros demonstrate economic resiliency.

The United Kingdom is enjoying a significant uptick in its core economic indicators that give it a first glimmer of hope for an economic turn-around.

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How the Good Life Found An Affordable Home in Southern California

Looking for tech talent and access to capital? Your search may end in San Bernardino County.

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Area Spotlights

The South’s Magnet for Foreign Direct Investment

by Mark Arend

South Carolina leads the nation in percentage of jobs linked to non-U.S.-based enterprises.

Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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Muscling Its Way to the Top

How Kentucky lapped the field to become an automotive champion.

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Billions Banking on The Bayou

Louisiana cleans up while helping the world meet its clean energy goals.

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High Rate of Conversion

Fronius converts momentum into new sites in Indiana, Ontario and beyond.

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Tenth Anniversary of The WORLD FORUM for Foreign Direct Investment 2013 Forum Fever

As August holidaymakers return from vacation, fully energised and ready for the next busy months, preparations for the Tenth Anniversary edition of The WORLD FORUM for Foreign Direct Investment 2013 are being cranked up another notch in the London and Shanghai offices of Red Hot Locations.

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Remarkable Growth in a Remarkable Time

Exclusive insights from the author of Cushman & Wakefield’s 2022 Global Data Center Market Comparison

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Area Spotlights

Is Minnesota Making the Grade?

by Gary Daughters

A new report highlights progress, challenges.

Gary Daughters
Senior Editor of Site Selection Magazine

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Sky Roots

Sky Roots: Looking deep into the universe requires a rather large earthbound footprint, and a whole lot of quiet.

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COVER STORY: RESEARCH & SCIENCE PARKS

COVER STORY: RESEARCH & SCIENCE PARKS From Site Selection magazine, July 2008 Reservations for Research High-profile partnerships support high-flying visions. by JOHN W. McCURRYjohn.mccurry bounce@conway.com The Hong Kong Science Park is being developed in three phases. The second phase’s layout is dominated by a unique ovoid auditorium. Douglas Muzyka, president – DuPont Greater China […]

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Leadership Forum Tackles Bandwidth, Valuation Issues

J ones Lang LaSalle’s (JLL) Global Consulting division recently gave clients and prospects another opportunity to step out of the corporate real estate management fray and put the rapid change they are enduring in context. Dozens of real estate managers joined a team of JLL executives at the firm’s latest Real Estate Leadership Roundtable, in […]

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Flinging food in Beijing

My new definition for a successful meal is one in which I do not fling food across the room with my chopsticks.

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Farm Food and Feed

How agriculture and the cowboy lifestyle flourish in Wyoming

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Features

Istanbul Opens New Airport with Plans for an Airport City

by Mark Arend

The new airport complex, launched in 2013, is built to compete with Dubai and Abu Dhabi as major East-West linking points, much as Istanbul has done for many centuries.

Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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Programs that Work for People Who Work

A peek into the latest data shows where certified logistics skills are most plentiful.

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Riverside County Offers ‘Powerhouse’ Ecosystem Driven by Diversity of Endeavors and Cultures

You can’t be an empire without leaders. The Inland Empire region of Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, California, continues to demonstrate leadership in a number of areas — and attract global industry leaders because of it.

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All In

As acronyms go, they don’t come much grander than MGM.

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Clean Economy

New investments keep Pennsylvania green.

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Finland Adapts to a New Technology Landscape

ICT hubs like Tampere offer a unique mix of skills, research and innovation.

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A Lasting Impression: 7 Things I Learned in Sarasota County, Florida

by Ron Starner

What do a new baseball stadium, the Fountain of Youth and the Ringling Brothers have in common? If you answered the Florida Gulf Coast, you’d be right.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Texas by the Numbers

Get a clear picture of the state in charts, graphs, fast facts and infographics.

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GULF COAST PORTS: A Maritime Rite in Texas

Port Houston’s Project 11 will reduce congestion and enable growth.

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The Perfect Climate for Dreamers

Texas rolls out the welcome mat for corporate growth.

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Green Growth

Garden State projects focus on sustainability and clean technologies. BASF’s new headquarters in Florham Park, N.J., just west of Newark, was built as a model for sustainability.

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Where Brain Meets Brawn

Huntington Ingalls expands in Hampton Roads on a pioneering mission for the Navy.

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Area Spotlights

Straight from the Source:

by Mark Arend

What state manufacturing experts want you to know.

Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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Top 20 U.S. Facilities, 1999

1999’s U.S. Location Leviathans b y J A C K L Y N E The very big U.S. business expansion equaled very big facilities: That’s the nutshell tale of the 20 largest corporate facility deals announced in the United States in 1999, as the nation edged toward its longest sustained economic expansion. 1999’s […]

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Are They Buying What You’re Selling?

Two reports highlight where the most solar power is being produced, and where companies are procuring the most clean energy.

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Lighter Could Make Brown Stronger

Piece by piece, composite materials have inched their way into products formerly monopolized by metals. But how is their performance from an energy efficiency and carbon footprint perspective? New results from United Parcel Service provide some guidance.

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3 Cities Bucking the Tide of Midwest Talent and Population Loss

Where jobs and people are growing, you’ll find 7 things these locations have in common.

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The Rich Get Richer in JLL’s Latest Outlook Report

But suburban, second-tier and submarket options beckon with opportunity.

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International Update

As Brexit Countdown Continues, Scotland Stands Up to Be Counted

by Adam Bruns

Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on the dangers of leaving the EU and the continuing allure of Scotland for global firms and talent.

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Startup Launchpad Opens in Booming Big Apple Cluster

As the 2016 Life Sciences Outlook from JLL reported in December, the Big Apple's life sciences cluster is growing rapidly.

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Bright Horizons for Renewables

Texas leads the way in wind, branches out in biofuels and continues to diversify its dominant oil and gas portfolio.

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ASIA: Investment Insomnia

APAC Executives' Mixed Perceptions of U.S. Investment Climate

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The Headquarters Of Headquarters

When Caterpillar announced publicly last year that it was moving its corporate headquarters operations from Illinois to Texas, the world took notice.

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Reaching a Higher Gear

Advanced transportation R&D propels California into a new state of mobility.

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SRP Focuses on the Future

by Ron Starner

Electric utility engineers a more sustainable future for Arizona.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Doors of Opportunity Are Wide Open in Kansas

A KC suburb and college towns are the Sunflower State’s hot spots in 2016.

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Aerospace & Defense: Starships & Troopers

A sector that generated $391 billion in value and accounted for 2.1 million employees in the U.S. alone in 2021 is a sector worth paying attention to.

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An Electric Atmosphere

Low energy costs, manufacturing legacy combine to form the industrial hub of the Great Plains.

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Conditional Tense

Shell Chemical LP on March 15 signed a land option agreement with Horsehead Corporation to evaluate a site in western Pennsylvania for a potential $2-billion petrochemical complex. The complex would include an ethane cracker that would upgrade locally produced ethane from Marcellus Shale gas production. The site is located in Potter and Center Townships in Beaver County near Monaca, Pa.

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Project Bulletin: April 22, 2024

A $250 million investment by Apple will look to promote collaboration between the company’s teams housed in Singapore’s northeast Ang Mo Kio district.

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Area Spotlights

Go Small or Go Home

by Ron Starner

Photo courtesy of Indy Chamber

You don’t have to be a juggernaut to make it big in the Hoosier State.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Tradition Addition

Construction is set to begin this month on Mann Research Center’s first phase in the Tradition Center for Innovation (TCI), reflecting the high demand for space within the planned 44,000-sq.-ft. (4,088-sq.-m.) Mann Medical Office Building (Mann Medical One).

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All In Good Time

In 1995, Sanford Orkin, former president of Atlanta-based Orkin Pest Control and son of its founder, purchased 922 acres (373 hectares) of land near Athens, Ga., home to the flagship campus of his beloved University of Georgia, for $7 million. Since then the “Orkin tract” has experienced several close misses with major prospects, including an initial prospect in 2000, a never-built Daimler vehicle plant in 2002 and a Novartis vaccine plant that chose Holly Springs, N.C., over the site in 2006.

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