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Read MoreAfter surveying its global prospects and fielding offers almost too good to be true, closely held Arctic Circle-based multinational S.C. Unlimited (SCL) has decided to keep the home fires burning at the North Pole.
Looking at the biggest spenders in the most active industry sectors offers insight into the flow of worldwide commerce and investment.
by Gary Daughters
Illinois’ esteemed universities join forces for the future.
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Senior Editor of Site Selection Magazine
Greater Cincinnati leads the way in welcoming company growth, whether it’s a new arrival from abroad or a hometown legend.
To understand where the United States Public-Private Partnership (P3) market is going, you have to review where it came from.
“Isolation will kill any company's chance of success,” says the founder of a firm studying hybrid workspace strategies worldwide.
Site Selection’s newly minted Mac Conway Award for Excellence in Economic Development applauds the Top Economic Development Agencies of the previous year.
by Gary Daughters
By investing in infrastructure, Illinois is playing to its strength.
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Senior Editor of Site Selection Magazine
When PharmaCline CEO Steve Keough needed a location to develop and commercialize his promising new pharmaceutical technology, he analyzed all 50 states. “When I arrived in South Dakota I was immediately embraced,” said Keough, who recalls how he met with the governor’s office, the South Dakota Biotech Association and venture captiatlist in his first day in the state.
“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.
Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 Case Study: Nortel Builds a New HQ — and a ‘New City’ Global power Nortel shattered the mold with its new headquarters, moving 3,000 key knowledge workers from Class A high-rises to a reconverted, one-story, 1960s’ factory in Brampton, a Toronto suburb. What’s more, it created a workplace […]
From Site Selection magazine, July 2004 NORTH AMERICAN BORDER CORRIDORS Two Stripes Not so parallel U.S. borders present different sets of opportunities and challenges. by ADAM BRUNS T en years ago, said Mexico’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Luis Ernesto Derbez at the Business of the Americas conference in Atlanta in May 2004, trade constituted 20 […]
From Site Selection magazine, May 2004 WORLD REPORTS Edited by JOHN W. McCURRY Heineken Brews Expansion Plans Thirst for good suds knows no geographic boundaries. Increased demand has Amsterdam-based Heineken, the world’s second largest brewer, contemplating several major expansion projects. Heineken plans to increase its capacity by more than 50 percent […]
by Savannah King
Intersect Illinois is the go-to resource for business attraction, relocations and expansions.
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While Opportunity Zones are very young, four tactics will drive them to be a source of economic development growth in 2019.
Say what you will about intermodal freight’s ability to help regional economies. One thing’s for sure: It helps railroads’ economies.
Energy is an issue that is critical across the nation, superseding competitive issues of cities and regions. As states — and as a nation — we may rise and fall on the way we innovate and build this essential part of our economic development foundation.
California nips at New England's heels in the latest energy efficiency scorecard.
Pressed by a sense of urgency among scientists and the wider public, and by governments and investors who must fulfil promises made at COP (Conference of the Parties) summits
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by Ron Starner
Tervis HQ and products
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Sarasota-based Tervis builds on a 75-year legacy of innovation.
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Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.
Manufacturers can produce more for less in Central Kansas.
Site Selection’s newly minted Mac Conway Award for Excellence in Economic Development applauds the Top Economic Development Agencies of the previous year.
Two thousand nine was a difficult year for the economies of Latin America, especially Mexico.
While Thailand usually wins the beauty contest, Vietnam has stronger port fundamentals.
Russell Burton Past Chair, IAMC Board of Directors Professional associations such as IAMC can play many roles for their members, including bringing them together at conferences, delivering information through their websites, sponsoring publications, conducting research, recognizing professional excellence, influencing industry standards, brokering information sharing and bringing in inspirational speakers. But arguably one of the most […]
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Duke is one of six utilities that earlier this year formed the Electric Highway Coalition to ensure electric vehicle drivers have access to a seamless network of charging stations connecting major highways across the South.
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Read MoreThe rankings on these pages are high-level measures of states’ workforce development climates.
MARCH 2009 So, What Is Your Board Up To? (cover) People & Projects Request Information
Power provision is vying with workforce as the most pressing issue for industrial companies nationwide amid a glut of major industrial facility projects (data centers, semiconductor fabs, EV/battery supply chain, etc.). How is your utility’s economic development team working with operations and external stakeholders to address these concerns?
CBRE’s U.S. Life Sciences Research Talent 2023 report named not one but two Ohio cities among the top emerging hubs for researchers. Out of the nine clusters ranked, Columbus and Cincinnati, No.1 and No.2, were the only cities included from the same state. Both represent robust research institution networks that have received significant support through […]
NASA’s space program contributed to countless inventions, including the lithium battery, the artificial heart pump and even the cordless vacuum. It also helped to demonstrate America’s technological prowess to the world — an element that contributes in building the U.S.
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Duke Energy was one player in a record year for economic development in North Carolina.
Read MoreFinding a certified, shovel-ready tract in the Sunflower State has never been easier.
Denver makes a case for TOD in a world of DOTs, says a global transit expert based in the city. Other cities, not so much.
The state that invented the Model T Ford, HP printer and Gerber baby food is now reinventing itself.
More analysis, cloud computing and smarter buildings are among industry trends. Mobility of corporate real estate technology is a top priority these days as software developers rush to meet demand. Industry observers say there is still reluctance by corporate IT types to embrace the technology, but it will be widely deployed within a few years.
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The team led by Erin Schneider (above), director of economic development for Duke Energy Indiana, played a role in attracting a $400 million investment by Stellantis that will bring new jobs to Kokomo, Indiana.
Rendering courtesy of Stellantis
Before the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and Groupe PSA was officially completed to create Stellantis in January 2021, company leaders
Read MoreThe evolution of economic gardening, and what it means for big business.
As the infrastructure requirements for customer contact centers increase, so do the requirements for the workers at these operations and the facilities that house them.
Airbus adds Mobile, Ala., to its global network of passenger aircraft assembly plants, adding velocity to the northern Gulf Coast’s aerospace sector. On July 2, 2012 Airbus announced that the Brookley Aeroplex on Mobile Bay would be the site of the European aerospace giant’s newest final assembly plant — and its first in the United States — for production of the A320 family of passenger aircraft.
onsultant: We need to check and see if you are located in any Economic Development Zones. Client: We aren’t. I already checked the federal Enterprise Zone maps. Consultant: Federal Maps. Do you mean Enterprise Communities? Client: Maybe it’s Empowerment Communities? Consultant: That’s Empowerment Zones. Client: Back to Enterprise Zones … Taxadvantagegroup llc maintains a database […]
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Georgia Quick Start helps companies with workforce training needs across sectors.
Reform School Showdown: When it comes to corporate tax reform, Washington wonks differ on who needs to clean up their act.
W hen the Intel Corp. started searching two years ago for a place to build a new wafer fabrication plant for manufacturing semiconductor chips, the world’s largest chip-maker found exactly what it needed in Chandler, Ariz. When WorldCom needed to expand its international telecommunications empire in December 2001, it announced a […]
Aerospace and aviation multinationals find their center of gravity in more than one location around the state.
Dallas snares a major win months after launching a campaign to attract more biotech companies.
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Until its recent commitment with Rauch and Ball Corp. to a billion-dollar complex in Concord, Red Bull was known in the region for its high-octane events and athletes such as slackline expert Alex Mason
Photo by Brian Hall courtesy of Red Bull Content Pool
Duke Energy was one player in a record year for economic development in North Carolina.
Read MoreA new report offers smart site selection guidance for companies amid a roiling regulatory climate in Europe.
Twenty-five years later, Germans remember when the Berlin Wall fell, reflect on how far a unified Germany has come, and ponder how far it has yet to go.
Just because your state has the No. 1-ranked business climate, it doesn’t mean you’re going to escape the consequences of COVID-19 and its corresponding economic earthquake.
Fuel, power and health were the driving forces behind top industrial categories for corporate facility investment in 2009.
Major Projects Break Through Sour Economy to Pursue Innovation and Restart Global Commerce
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by Adam Bruns
Tokyo Olympian and Red Bull athlete Evy Leibfarth trains at the U.S. National Whitewater Center near Charlotte in May 2021. Duke Energy is working with HDR and S2O Design & Engineering to develop another whitewater recreation area in the Charlotte region at its Great Falls-Dearborn development in South Carolina.
Photo by Brian Hall courtesy of Red Bull Content Pool
There’s power, and then there’s the power of relationships.
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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Abstracts of recent major presentations of the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent corporate real estate association. “Technology and the Future Workplace,” IDRC Tennessee World Congress, Oct. 18-19, 1999: Jim Keane, Steelcase vice president of corporate strategy and R&D, provided this workshop audience with an insightful look at the workplace/technology intersection. “Advances in […]
Rand McNally reports that Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri, holds the title of America’s Most Beautiful Small Town.
Brinksmanship reaches a fever pitch in Georgia over a megaproject that comes with mega-costs.
The Bay Area leads the way for No. 1 California when evaluating HQ locations of high-performing companies in the American Opportunity Index.
by Savannah King
On the banks of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers, the Kansas City region has grown
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Exports to global markets fuel a surge in Kentucky's aerospace sector.
Infrastructure: The 2022 Global Groundwork Index: Drive any American highway, especially at night, and you see them: Long lines of truckers who, if not backed up for miles by construction or an incident, cover every inch at rest areas...
Editor in Chief Mark Arend says the 2021 State of North American Manufacturing Annual Report from Thomas and the Reshoring Initiative’s 2020 Data Report both indicate things are trending in the right direction.
In April Dominion Energy said it is confident that its existing agreement with the Sierra Club and the Maryland Conservation Council permits the company to build a natural gas liquefaction plant proposed for its Cove Point facility in Lusby, Md.
Hendricks County, Ind., just west of Indianapolis, is growing two of its signature industry sectors – motor sports and life sciences
by Ron Starner
How the University of Missouri in Columbia propels the entire state to new heights.
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Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.
The latest UPS Healthcare Logistics Survey shows your company may need a targeted therapy to reduce its supply chain pain.
Kansas hubs are proving grounds for world-changing innovation.
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.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Fall 2020 – Fall 2021 Chair Jennifer Roth Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. Vice Chair Scott Cameron Sonoco Secretary/Treasurer Karen Shchuka Penske Truck Leasing Past Chair Colleen Caravati Corning Inc. Matt Boehlke Xcel Energy Michael Connors CORT Business Services Corp. James Eckert Owens Corning Jim Hazard, SIOR esrp Gregory Hitchin, CEcD City of […]
by Adam Bruns
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING: From Model T’s to E-Transits to Trackers, Missouri Suits the Future of Manufacturing to a ‘T’
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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Over-extended and overly risky supply chains are no longer tolerable.
Lumina Foundation’s refreshed Stronger Nation online tool shows progress — and continuing gaps — across the country when it comes to the post-high school education needed for success today.
As the self-proclaimed “Air Capital of the World,” Wichita, Kansas needs no introduction to the world of advanced manufacturing.
A n increasing number of executives in the property market across Europe are convinced high tech will reconfigure relationships in the entire real estate community, from users and providers to contractors and owners. The recession, many feel, will even accelerate the use of technology to help companies downsize, and real estate may be among the […]
In the face of climate change, Michigan has the infrastructure, critical natural resources, and legislative policies to offer businesses support and stability.
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by Gary Daughters
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How a member-led utility in Indiana is reaching out to the future.
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Senior Editor of Site Selection Magazine
‘This is no time to become complacent,’ says Commerce Secretary David Toland.
As Gov. John Kitzhaber was finishing out his two previous terms as the state’s governor from 1994 to 2002, he helped recruit the relocation from Palm Springs, Calif., to Portland of the North American headquarters for wind energy giant Vestas, bringing 75 jobs to the state.
A survey of global energy projects provides these snapshots of new solutions to age-old challenges. Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL) demolished the twin striped stacks and 7,500-ton boilers at its nearly 50-year-old power plant to make way for construction of FPL’s US$1.3-billion Riviera Beach Next Generation Clean Energy Center.
Major corporate takeovers that allow for the ‘enhanced access to cash’ that comes with moving abroad draw scrutiny, but might also drive growth.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Fall 2020 – Fall 2021 Chair Jennifer Roth Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. Vice Chair Scott Cameron Sonoco Secretary/Treasurer Karen Shchuka Penske Truck Leasing Past Chair Colleen Caravati Corning Inc. Matt Boehlke Xcel Energy Michael Connors CORT Business Services Corp. James Eckert Owens Corning Jim Hazard, SIOR esrp Gregory Hitchin, CEcD City of […]
Read MoreEconomic 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.
verybody in this room has something to do with the rebound since 9/11. That’s how Jim Dieter, executive managing director for CB Richard Ellis, greeted a full house of continuous learners at the IAMC Professional Forum on Monday morning, March 21, as he prepared to explore with them the “Dynamics of the […]
A greater emphasis on workforce development results in impressive job creation.
The adage of ‘location, location, location’ rings true in Illinois.
The world’s largest facility for testing and developing carbon capture technologies was inaugurated in Mongstad, Norway, in early May. Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) is a joint venture between the government of Norway, Statoil, Shell and Sasol.
by Savannah King
In the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, South Central Missouri is made up of 12 counties
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A game-changing trade case, a watershed agreement and promises kept all mean good things for Oregon.
If one didn’t know exactly where on Fazeley Street Fazeley Studios are located, they would be easy to miss.
Arizona is the first state in the nation to issue an open invitation to financial technology pioneers.
The fertile soil of the Delta yields a bumper crop of business expansions.
by Savannah King
Nestled in the northeast corner of the state, Missouri Northeast is home to a highly trained and affordable labor force
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When Mylan Pharmaceuticals merged with Pfizer’s Upjohn division to form Viatris in 2021,
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. Critical Expansions A […]
A ppropriately, the University of Washington Husky Marching Band played “Tequila.” That 1958 oldie reflected the giddy buzz rippling through the gala toasting Boeing’s decision to bring its US$900-million 7E7 assembly plant to Everett, Wash. Both Boeing and Washington had similar reasons to celebrate. Each had mounted a bold gamble aiming […]
Site Selection’s analysis of the Top Industries for corporate facility investment in 2014 reveals the Top 10 projects by capital investment in each of the five leading sectors.
by Ron Starner
Businesses keep more money in their pockets thanks to recent reforms.
Read MoreRon Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.
Y2OK: SSI Projects Bullish 20 Percent Expansion b y J A C K L Y N E We have survived Y2K, the millennial-turning Chicken Little equivalent of Comet Kahoutek’s similarly fizzling hysteria in the 1970s. So, since there’s going to be a future, what does it hold in 2000 for corporate expansion? 2000 […]
The 140-turbine Macarthur Wind Farm site near Hamilton, 290 kilometers (180 miles) west of Melbourne, in the Shire of Moyne in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, sits not far from several state and national parks, and just a long stone's throw inland from the coast at Port Fairy.
Knowledge capital and a pro-business climate drove AAA to Oklahoma City. Now, the giant auto club is expanding its reach from a city growing as quickly as its top employers.
An electric corridor project in January was selected to receive $63.8 million for the buildout.
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by Adam Bruns
Cross Winds Energy Park in Tuscola County has been generating power for Consumers Energy’s millions of customers since 2014.
Photos courtesy of Consumers Energy
Consumers Energy and Michigan communities leave coal behind on the road to a net-zero future.
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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Greater Fort Lauderdale alters perceptions of business executives around the world. Payoff comes in headquarters, plants and other expansions including a British tobacco company.
The Feb. 15-17 Leadership Development Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz., marked the beginning of an important new organizational initiative and membership benefit for the International Development Research Council (IDRC). Fifty-three leaders from the Executive Committee, Board of Directors, policy boards, committees and chapters took part in the program. “Leadership development is becoming integral to the strategic […]
Can a former automotive assembly plant drive technology transfer and economic development transformation throughout an entire state and region?
D ennis Cuneo may be one of the most sought-after site seekers in the world. But enter “Cuneo” in a search engine, and you’re likely to read a lot about a province in northern Italy or an Arizona feng shui master before you find any trace of the Senior Vice President of Toyota Motor Manufacturing […]
eptember 2004 saw hurricanes on two coasts and a major earthquake on another, but it was a federal appeals court decision in the U.S. heartland that packed an economic development wallop still awaiting measurement. On Sept. 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit —whose jurisdiction encompasses automotive corridor states […]
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Thermo Fisher announced in May it will build and operate a cell therapy development, manufacturing and collaboration center in leased space on the University of California, San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus, which includes biomedical research facilities and hospitals. UCSF is a crucial catalyst for the Bay Area’s world-leading life sciences cluster.
Photo by Matt Beardsley
Joanne Pizzo, co-founder of Planning Plus, offers insights into eds & meds connectivity, and 10 timely strategies for colleges looking to leverage their real estate.
Read MoreAn excerpt from a new report by KPMG and Venture Valuation provides insight into where and how companies go public in Asia amid a shifting life sciences landscape.
A chartreuse ray of optimism is shining through Southern California these days in the form of an array of high-tech jobs classified as green.
The Upper Midwest is not the first region of the U.S. that comes to mind when looking at the burgeoning solar-energy sector, but significant projects are happening across the region.
Low taxes, high business support, worker training and world-class infrastructure combine to make Mississippi 'a place that makes things.'
by Savannah King
Illinois’ new cannabis industry is on track to revolutionize the state’s agribusiness sector.
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P&G chooses a busy corner in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle for a next-gen manufacturing complex.
How Gov. Phil Bryant moved the Mississippi economy to unprecedented heights.
By 2050, global demographics will look very different — older and wiser, mostly.
Sites along the new I-69 Corridor in southwest Indiana won’t stay vacant for long.
by Adam Bruns
Pioneering workforce development programs aim to be right on time for tomorrow’s technologies.
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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
For advanced transportation technology, California is leading the way.
How Kentucky furthered its place as a national manufacturing leader in multiple sectors in 2024.
Greater Phoenix takes the lead in the growing Internet of Things industry.
Show me a governor who doesn’t take advantage of every opportunity to invest in the next generation workforce in his or her state, and I’ll show you a state that won’t be competitive in a few years’ time.
As real estate professionals, we typically share a common challenge.
by Mark Arend
Only three states are home to more major corporate headquarters than Illinois
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Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine
Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov and other international chess champions usually don?t ask for advice on their next move. Veritable lone wolves, they stand or fall on their own wits, skill and strategy. Companies, though, needn?t operate that way in crafting real estate strategies involving multimillion-dollar facilities. In fact, more and more firms are relying on […]
The road to riding out the COVID recession leads beyond the Strip.
From Site Selection magazine, February 1994 Top 20 Facilities 1993 | Site Selection Online ©1994 Conway Data, Inc. All rights reserved. SiteNet data is from many sources and is not warranted to be accurate or current.