2016 Global Best to Invest

By almost any measure 2015 was a banner year for corporate expansion and foreign direct investment.

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Working With Business, Gatwick Diamond Looks to Shine in London Airport Debates

Jeremy Taylor has an unconventional way of opening monthly networking meetings of Gatwick Diamond Business, a 350-member group promoting the area around London’s second largest airport.

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I-75 CORRIDOR: GROWTH TRAVELS NORTH & SOUTH

Ohio leads the way in projects along this 1,786-mile route, but South Florida would like a word.

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Depth and Diversity

The mid-Atlantic states flex considerable economic muscle

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Real Projects Mean Real Progress

The most powerful utility economic development teams are backed by corporations that don’t just move power around. They wield it.

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St. Albert Could Be Your Next ‘Headroom’ Community

Sustainability and investment attraction are tandem priorities in this community of 73,000 on the northwestern outskirts of Edmonton.

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It Takes an Army

In April the U.S. Army announced plans to start development of a solar array that will provide about 25 percent of the annual installation electricity requirement of Fort Huachuca, Ariz., in the state’s southeastern corner just a stone’s throw from the Mexican border.

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Prudence in Abundance

In Tipton, Abound Solar will occupy a never-used facility built by automotive concern Getrag, and employ up to 850 in the manufacture of solar panels.

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Upper Midwest: Why a Biomanufacturer Picked Richmond, Indiana

“This is the single best site I have ever found in a search,” the CEO tells Site Selection.

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Zones of Transformation

From the elegant Far Eastern restaurant of the expansive recreation center of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA),

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Hong Kong: Business Still Dances Inside the Dragon’s Jaws

Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 C O V E R      S T O R Y Hong Kong: Business Still Dances Inside the Dragon’s Jaws by Jack Lyne Forget the hype and hysteria. Hong Kong’s turnover hasn’t dulled its legendary business buzz. Hong Kong is awash with conviction a month after becoming a […]

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Evergreen Opportunities

Washington’s universities offer diverse programs and strengths.

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FDI In America: ‘Friends & Allies’ To Thank For Gains In U.S. Investment

July 2023 data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show that foreign direct investment (FDI) into the United States grew $216.8 billion at year-end 2022 to $5.25 trillion.

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Once Lost, Now Found

Industry reports and the experts make it clear: A new world order is in the making, with the United States essentially redrawing the world’s energy map.

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More Than Just Fun & Games

A thriving sports culture is a unifying force for Charlotte.

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Top Global Projects

T wo independent sources of foreign direct investment intelligence essentially concur where business expansion and relocation in 2003 is concerned. Both Conway Data’s New Plant database, which has tracked such activity for 40 years, and IBM Business Consulting Services-Plant Location International’s (IBM-PLI) GILD (Global Investment Location Database) make the same case: Corporations are not shutting […]

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NORTH AMERICAN AUTOMOTIVE

A visit to BMW’s South Carolina plant and some choice words defending that site’s economic development impact headline Alexis Elmore’s report on a sector befuddled by tariffs but moving forward with projects nevertheless.

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The Start of a Revolution

Small businesses and startups are getting special attention, and the results have been amazing.

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Tourists Flock to the Pacific Northwest

A global sporting event is certain to bring even more visitors to Washington.

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Play Ball

Follow-through is one way Hoosier Energy helps companies stay on top of their game.

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Green Agendas Meet Reality TV

Green Agendas Meet Reality TV: In an energy efficiency battle for the ages, the biggest loser wins.

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Leading the Way

KY Innovation helps startups scale and become industry leaders.

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NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS : November 2024

Meta comes to South Carolina; Linde joins Dow’s clean hydrogen project in Alberta; Eli Lilly doubles down in Indiana; Arzyz Metals invests $650 million in Mexico; GM invests in battery cell prototype development in Michigan; Austal grows in Alabama.

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How California Is Protecting its People and its Businesses

When the global COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S. in early 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom wasted little time in organizing a comprehensive statewide response.

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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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Areas of Innovation Leave Science Parks in the Dust

Areas of Innovation are districts anchored by science parks; many are profiled in a new publication by that name from the International Association of Science Parks.

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Project Bulletin: February 26, 2024

Battery manufacturer EnerSys has plans to invest $500 million at Augusta Grove Business Park located in Greenville, South Carolina.

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Electric Owl Studios Comes In for a Landing

The film and TV production complex in metro Atlanta is the newest arrival in a fast-maturing ecosystem that welcomed $4 billion in spending last year.

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The Best Outcome? Higher Income

A new project from the Aspen Institute and Columbia University’s Community College Research Center aims to align credentials with better earnings.

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Welcome to Transaction Alley

Top innovators in digital payments choose to call Georgia home.

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Living in the Land of Lincoln

Illinois’ high quality of life offers something for everyone.

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Cathedrals of Talent

CBRE’S Colin Yasukochi talks with Senior Editor Gary Daughters about tech talent hubs to watch.

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Solidifying Seattle

Two massive projects target the city’s vulnerability to earthquakes. The 1950s-era viaduct was showing signs of age and deterioration before the 2001 earthquake further weakened the structure, but the earthquake heightened the need for its replacement. corporate real estate, economic development

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The Long View

Taking stock of Georgia’s assets, Mercedes moves south.

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Elsewhere In Louisiana

Plenty of Louisianans, especially in the economic development community, long for the days, not so long ago, when the headlines about Louisiana were about major new projects coming to the state.

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The World’s Fuel Supply

Corpus Christi anchors a Coastal Bend region that keeps the world energized.

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Trying To Build Bio-Economies, Site Selection Magazine, November 2002

S tates across America are developing strategies for cloning the biotechnology industries that have emerged in California, Massachusetts, and Maryland over the past 30 years.         In the wake of the burst high technology bubble, biotech offers them the promise of renewed economic growth.         Or does it? According […]

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IAMC INSIDER

January 2006 Relocation of Priorities (cover) Real Matter Lost in the Chatter Last Call for Alcohol Healthcare Projects Inoculate Local Economies… Nuts to You: Sara Lee Sells European Unit to PepsiCo Mobile on the Move Request Information

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Aiming Higher

Georgia’s highly ranked higher education systems keep the state’s talent pool primed and flowing.

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Rally Your Informational Forces

IAMC Chair Karen Shchuka offers guidance on rallying our informational forces, and John Salustri talks to insiders about the idea of industrial coworking.

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ASSET DISPOSITION

onday, 8 a.m. You find a note taped to your computer screen: “Sell the Pennsylvania facility ASAP.” It’s a vacant manufacturing site that has been idle for years. Perhaps the message is from the CFO, suddenly (or finally) authorizing you to sell. Or maybe you made the note to yourself, thinking it’s by JAMES HAGY […]

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GOVERNOR INTERVIEW

Gov. Andy Beshear discusses how Kentucky engineered its best five-year run in state history.

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The Silver State’s Silver Lining

Southern Nevada has been a magnet for California-based firms seeking new locations for several years.

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Eye on the Target

Site Selection’s annual consultant survey shows changes and unchanging truths.

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China’s Zhengzhou Aerotropolis Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

  On March 7, 2023, the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone (ZAEZ), crowned “China’s Aerotropolis” by the People’s Daily in May 2019, celebrated its 10th anniversary.

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The Shifting Landscape of Business Incentives in Europe

Government financial support for corporate facility investment and expansion continues to be a common practice in most parts of the world.

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Top Service Providers Gain Industry Accolades for Going the Extra Mile

 N ow in their third year, the Site Selection/William Dorsey Service Provider Awards are emerging as an important industry tool in the area of corporate real estate problem solving. The awards recognize excellence in client service, which ultimately means doing more than the client expected and delivering value that was not contracted for in the […]

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’99’s Top Deals: Case Studies in Fast

If you build it, will they dot.com? Not necessarily. More accurately, if you dot.com it, you’d better build. 1999, you see, was the year in which some of the Internet’s leading lights decided that they needed big-time bricks to make their clicks work. That concrete lesson in real estate realities is part of the story […]

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Back to the future? Tesla, DeLorean taking Texas There

Tesla, Delorean Taking Texas There

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Flight Plan

Look past the Canadian Rockies and their travel and tourism draw, and even past Alberta’s booming bituminous sands region, and you’ll find Western Canada’s next signature industry — aerospace.

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2015 Top Metropolitans

These regions know how to connect the dots, bridge the gaps and cultivate talent.

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Locations Report: Oman

The Sultanate of Oman lies at the eastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, boasting a stunning landscape combing the desert, the mountains, plains and sea.

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Amazon Delivers Record Package to Mississippi

How a $10 billion deal was put together.

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Sooner Rather Than Later

Hard work is paying off in Oklahoma.

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EMERGING TECH HUBS: A New Tech Index Emerges from the Data

Knitting together hard infrastructure and talent data sets from TeleGeography, CBRE, CompTIA and our own data, we present the inaugural North American Tech Hub Index.

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Louisiana Reboots

“Georgia has won the arms race,” says an official.

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From the Mailbag: A Frank Discussion on Cleveland

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

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Shifting Gears

With major overcapacity still in place across Europe, major new investment in the automotive sector is rare.

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What is Your Global I.Q.?

G en. Colin Powell once said, “Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent […]

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Site Selection June 1997 Issue

Toyota?s Turbocharged U.S. Drive: Life in the Car Wars? Fast Lane, pgs. 492-499 Help Wanted: Work Force With the Right Stuff, pgs. 500-503 Manufacturing?s New Deal Demands ?Lean Portfolios?, pgs. 504-507 Need Skilled Workers? Tap the Global Training Gold Mine, pgs. 508-510 Best Practices Award: Bank of America, Real Estate Workplace, pgs. 511-512 The U.S. […]

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

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

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Hugging Chengdu

Everyone has seen pictures of happy tourists hugging pandas in Chengdu. What could be better than that? We’re so glad you asked.

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Growing Iowa’s Innovative Economy

Iowa is investing in original thinkers, entrepreneurs and startups.

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Hot High

M ONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — Can the building blocks of life become the foundation of a new economy? They can if the companies mapping the human genome happen to be in your own backyard.         In Rockville, Md., Celera Genomics Group captivated the attention of the scientific world on Feb. 12 when […]

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New Solar Census, No Sunny Consensus

A new tally of solar jobs nationwide debuts just as new tariffs kick in.

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A Decision With Precision:

Despite the slowdown in elective medical procedures prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 has been a banner year for medical device manufacturers.

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Passageways To Prosperity

DTZ in July released its Global Occupancy Costs Logistics 2013 report, not long after Prologis released its own close look at European logistics.

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Johnson Controls Office Occupancy Costs Index, Q4 2000

Introduction: Information at your fingertips         Welcome to the 4th Quarter 2000 Johnson Controls USA Office Occupancy Costs Index, which provides a snapshot guide to the cost of providing and operating property and facility management services in the USA.         This cost index briefing is published twice a year […]

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Energy Industry Gets Surge of Talent

Training programs help fill workforce shortage across industry.

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Naturally

Selangor’s key industries thrive, because they belong there.

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Pilot Plant Adds Power to North Carolina’s Biofuels Industry

‘Enzymatic processing’ is key to sustainable biodiesel production, according to a Tar Heel trio of parties making inroads in emerging transportation energy systems.

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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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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: TOP BUSINESS PARK LOCATIONS

o you and the client have finished touring several suburban business parks and you begin the process of triaging the best sites for your client’s needs. The one consistent theme on the tours is the amount of time spent evaluating factors outside of the space versus how the interior layout worked. While the space itself […]

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Incentives and the Interstate Competition for Jobs

Despite overwhelming evidence that state and local tax incentives are having little to no positive effect on promoting real economic growth anywhere in the country

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Watching Where Your Money Goes

European Office Costs: Brussels a Bargain Brussels is Europe?s office bargain at US$29.62 per sq. ft. a year, while London, with comparable costs of $116.70, is the land of the big occupancy-cost spenders, according to CB Richard Ellis? (www.cbcommercial.com) recent survey. Of 17 major European cities, Rome and Vienna respectively ranked Nos. 2 and 3 […]

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Why Connecticut, United Technologies Corp. Inked a Landmark Agreement

The agreement, announced in February 2014, will lead to the construction of a new Pratt & Whitney headquarters.

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State of Service

Revering its heroes, Ohio bolsters a legacy built on national defense.

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Governor Sarah Sanders: Hitting the Ground Running to Win in Education, Economic Development

Governor Sarah Sanders: Hitting the Ground Running to Win in Education, Economic Development

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Straight from the Source:

What state manufacturing experts want you to know.

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History in the Making

SC Ports Sees Record Numbers, Opens First U.S. Container Terminal in 12 Years

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COVER STORY

sset disposition is hardly a plum assignment at most corporate real estate organizations, especially industrial ones. A new coat of paint on the front door does little to make industrial assets more attractive to potential buyers, and most corporations are loathe to spend money on the paint in the first place. So sites are unloaded […]

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Capitalizing On Coastlines

A wave of economic opportunity crashes into Mississippi’s shores.

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San Bernardino County, California: Passing the Spark Of Imagination to The Next Generation

From drones to animatronics, the future is here today in San Bernardino County.

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From Inversion to Investment

Not one to pout after a failed merger, Allergan makes yet another wager on Waco.

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Roadmap for Change

The Flexible Industrial Distribution Facilities Network of the Future

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: MARITIME INDUSTRIES From Site Selection magazine, March 2009   Terminals Are Not the End Port Development Strategy in Challenging Times by MICHIEL de JONG editor bounce@conway.com  P orts around the world have geared up for tremendous expansion in the past decade. Large ports – such as those in Rotterdam, Port Saïd and […]

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Missile Plant to Launch Expansion

Springtime in Paris means an aero-defense industry project back home.

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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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The Right Blend

Kansas and its capital city, Topeka, are showing up on some lists that plenty of bigger cities and states wish they were on.

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Pre-Cambrian Origins

Seventy years ago Stanley Davis purchased St. Peter Creamery, in the eponymous town located just north of Mankato and about an hour southwest of Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul.

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Where to Find the Green in Germany

Where will corporate occupiers find the greenest buildings once they land within Germany’s borders?

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Get Your Kicks on Oklahoma’s Route 66

Enjoy the scenic route on the historic Mother Rode through Oklahoma.

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Demonstrated Value

In major urban areas, nearly 80 percent of energy is consumed by buildings. Tenant spaces account for over half of a commercial office building’s total energy use, and building owners are starting to pay attention.

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Easier Decisions

One fertilizer plant project, in the southwest corner of Indiana, made news in late 2012 because it will happen. Another made news in early 2013, in the same part of the state, because it will not happen.

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Project Bulletin: January 2, 2024

In December 2023, an hour northwest of Richmond, Virginia, Culpeper County officials approved plans for Cielo Digital Infrastructure to construct a $5.4 billion data center.

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Where the Waters Meet

Only Hampton Roads enjoys connectivity like this.

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Powering Up to Meet Demand in 82 Counties

3 large electric utility companies cater to the needs of growing businesses.

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Offshore Wind Sector Gains an Offshore Supplier Project

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy held a launch ceremony October 25th

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Flight Plan

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says the state his family has called home for five generations has a “unique marriage of assets.” Some of them just need a second honeymoon.

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Top Ten Deals of 2001

 T here’s a reason why Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Ford and General Motors all call the Southeastern U.S. home for some of the country’s largest automotive assembly plants. It’s because the South knows how to get the blockbuster economic development deals done.         Last year, the South accounted for three of […]

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The Shale Revolution

The abundance of shale gas in Pennsylvania is reducing energy costs across the state and lending a hand to the already robust manufacturing sector.

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Visible Difference

“Push the infrastructure,” said Scott Condra, president of Jacoby Development, during a panel discussion at Brownfields 2013 in Atlanta this summer.

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A View from the Microscope

In laboratories around the world, researchers are racing to find cures that will drive business. Driven by the implications of patent loss, rising research and development costs and declining return on investment, downward pricing pressure and other factors, the lief sciences industry is regrouping to increase productivity and business performance.

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Europe’s New IT Hub

Two of Europe’s most significant IT capital investment projects just landed in the same region — the federal German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

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The Midwest FinTech Epicenter

Chicago has long been home to key commodities exchanges and leading financial institutions. Now, it’s also home to a slew of new fintech companies. 

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