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The ‘Rust Belt’ No More

by Mark Arend

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Data centers and microchip plants are today’s economic drivers.

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From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 New & Expanded Facilities 1993-95 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1996 Conway Data, Inc. All rights reserved. SiteNet data is from many sources and is not warranted to be accurate or current.

ENERGY EVOLUTION: When All Economic Pistons Fire, All Energy Sources Need to Fire Too

Powering the grid requires a constantly growing mix of energy sources. Texas is up to the task.

Follow the Science

Key innovations and new technologies point back to Georgia universities.

Atlanta Area Airport Ramps Up for the World Cup — and What Comes After

As Atlanta gets ready to host eight matches during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Fulton County Executive Airport is preparing with some major upgrades not just for the event, but also to support the county’s longer-term economic growth.

How Lockheed Martin Grows Its Talent Base

When a company employs 110,000 people around the world, it better have a plan for keeping its workforce pond well stocked.

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WILL A SHIFT PROVIDE A LIFT?

by Adam Bruns

Specialized skills forged at Saugus Iron Works in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the 1600s dispersed to other iron-producing centers across Colonial America.

Photo courtesy of Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site and the National Park Service

A Boston Fed economist’s examination of sectoral mobility may hold lessons for the post-COVID-19 labor shuffle.

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Durable Skills Are Todays Human Resources Currency

Editor in Chief Mark Arend takes a close look at the Portrait of a Graduate visioning process developed by North Carolina and Battelle for Kids to ensure high school graduates...

‘The Domino Effect Has Only Begun’

Tech migration tidal wave swells across Florida.

The U.S. South: Population Boom Ignites Facilities Explosion

If there?s one thing a company needs, it?s people. People to work, run and operate the business — and people who?ll buy its products and services. That simple fact is one of the big reasons facilities are flocking to the U.S. South. Strong population growth across much of the region translates into an abundant work […]

Feeding the World: Food and Beverage Industry Growing in Arkansas

For a uniquely American success story, look no further than Helena, Arkansas, and Delta Dirt Distillery.

Forward Thinking

ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston’s new sweet potato processing plant in Delhi, La., has hit a sweet spot in terms of sustainability.

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Station to Station

by Adam Bruns

Photos courtesy of Ford

Snapshots of projects across the continent capture an EV revolution in full power drive.

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Arkansas: Coffee Producer Brews Major Expansion Plans

Reinvestment plans by companies already in the Natural State show they’re here to stay.

Flying High

With aerospace and autos leading the way, Morocco is poised for a breakout.

Hybrid Solution

Last week Princeton, N.J.–based Bristol-Myers Squibb became the latest to latch on to a life sciences wave striking Florida.

‘One Heck of An Advantage’

Comprehensive logistics assets and a desirable work force are two criteria common to most site selectors’ wish lists.

Farm to Table

Food and beverage is one of Virginia’s top industry sectors, with more than 33,000 people working at PepsiCo, Tyson, Boar’s Head Provisions, Lipton Tea and well over 500 other companies.

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U.S. R&D Lab Space Is Getting Harder to Find

by Mark Arend

A rendering of Alexandria Point in San Diego, where Bristol Myers Squibb will base its newest R&D facility.

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Whatever is behind the boom in recent investment in U.S. life sciences R&D space, demand is off the chart.

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Sector Update: Oil & Gas Services

Malaysia’s Oil & Gas Machinery and Equipment sector gained new momentum in August with the opening of the expansion of Halliburton’s Malaysia Manufacturing and Technology Centre in Senai, in the southern state of Johor Bahru.

China’s Site Selection Challenges: How One Company Hopped the Wall

by Robert Gaudreau, Regus Frankly, people thought we were crazy when we began considering going to China. It was 1990, only a short time after the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Fears of political backlash and international trade sanctions against China certainly weren’t unwarranted. In addition, there were China’s sky-high real estate prices, labyrinthine bureaucracy and Third […]

Over the Line

The flagship universities of Kansas and Missouri are no longer in the same athletic conference, but the two states continue to slug it out on the economic development battlefield. One of the latest examples is Teva North America’s plans to move its Teva Neuroscience headquarters from Kansas City, Mo., to Overland Park, Kan., a Kansas City suburb just across the border.

Kentucky Puts Your Project on the Fast Track

When Danimer Scientific needed a location for its biodegradable bioplastics business in the Eastern U.S., it chose Winchester, Kentucky, for a major investment.

Illinois Is Data Central

Illinois’ new program encourages slew of new investments.

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Governor Andy Beshear Makes The Case for Kentucky

by Gary Daughters

Andy Beshear has plenty to boast about.

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Johns Hopkins Tops List Again

Notwithstanding current executive and legal maneuvers over continued federal funding to universities, data continue to be crunched (for now) by federal agencies charged with doing so.

Road Show

Gov. Asa Hutchinson spent a week in Europe recruiting aerospace companies to his state at the Paris Air Show.

New Directions

The Federal State of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany — the birthplace of the automobile — is ready to disrupt its own industry.

Transit-Oriented Development: Federal Program Targets Local Efforts to Improve Transit Options

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced in August the availability of approximately $13.4 million in competitive grant funds...

IAMC Insider: An Action Orientation Is Not Enough

IAMC Chair Colleen Caravati says an action orientation is not enough. Concern counts too. And We learn from IAMC corporate end user members about COVID-19 supply chain solutions.

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Small Town Packs Big Logistics Punch

by Ron Starner

New Medline distribution center in Wilmer.

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From Medline to Amazon, large end-users like what they find in Wilmer.

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New Mexico: All About Albuquerque

There’s a lot of movement happening within the borders of New Mexico and that movement appears to come from opportunities — job opportunities, to be specific.

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.

Innovation Nation

Malaysia is becoming Southeast Asia's most compelling example of how to transform a manufacturing economy into one excelling in Research & Development.

Site Selection Honors Corporate Real Estate’s Elite Service Providers

R epresentatives of 10 corporate real estate service provider companies left the International Development Research Council’s Florida World Congress in November with at least one item with which they did not arrive in Orlando. These people accepted the 2000 Site Selection/William Dorsey Service Provider Award on behalf of their organizations. This awards program, now in […]

1998’s Business Climate Rankings: The Playing Field Levels

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1998 1998’s Business Climate Rankings: The Playing Field Levels by Jack Lyne North Carolina and Ohio top U.S. state rankings, while the USA and the UK lead the global pack. Above all, though, 1998’s rankings underscore pronounced geographic balance. Location, location, location, goes the old site selection saw. Call it Freud does business location […]

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Simple Math: Greater Richmond Adds Up

by Ron Starner

CoStar Group expansion rendering

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Greater Richmond Adds Up

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Two Leaders

Government, business, academic and NGO officials from the 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere and beyond came to Atlanta in November for the fourth Americas Competitiveness Forum.

World View

As foreign investment pours in, personal and professional ties with other nations only strengthen Turkey’s business case.

New Reports Demonstrate Project Traction and Attraction in Solar and Other Renewable Energy Sectors

A number of new reports shed light on where clean energy projects and jobs are landing. The scope of one ongoing database in particular goes well beyond solar and wind farm installation and operation.

The Formula Changes

A mid-December search of the comprehensive industrial facilities database maintained by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Corp. (PRIDCO) showed approximately 57 pharmaceutical-related plants

A Network of Resources Across the State

ACM is situated on the Willow Run site in Ypsilanti, covering an area of over 500 acres in Southeast Michigan.

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A Smarter Global Platform

by Adam Bruns

Already home to a number of successful manufacturing operations, Green Valley Advanced Manufacturing Hub’s next chapter will be growth in life sciences.

Two advanced developments in Honduras connect forward-thinking companies to worldwide markets.

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Beyond Bells & Whistles

What’s Smartest? Systems That Help Humans.

Splitting the Difference

Baxter's new center in Cambridge will draw talent from Austria and California.

Nowhere Tops Texas

Opportunities unlike anywhere else.

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

Return to Nature

Washington’s natural attractions and cultural amenities propel the tourism sector’s rebound.

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Philadelphia Is Leading a Biotech Revolution

by Gary Daughters

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Kymriah is an advanced therapy medicine that fights leukemia.

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Gold Dust in the Wind

Will wind energy bring big profits in Kansas? Investors think so.

Taking the Plunge

Kentucky’s state and local resources help entrepreneurs gain traction.

Five To Thrive

If you like challenges, here’s one: Pick up today’s Wall Street Journal and highlight companies that don’t depend on technology.

Twist of Fate

Four years after choosing a site in Florida, Coquí Pharma’s CEO explains why a crucial medical isotope project is now landing in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

New Jersey’s Foreign Accent

Companies from France and Ireland add further ballast to an already strong bioscience ecosystem.

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Bottom Line: Florida’s Financial Services Sector Is Humming

by Adam Bruns

Tampa has welcomed a host of financial services investments over the past two decades, including longtime investor DTCC and recent fintech arrival Branch.

Photo by Sam Eddinger-May courtesy of Visit Florida and Visit Tampa Bay

Florida’s Financial Services Sector Is Humming

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Machinery, Electronics Sizzle in ?96

Manufacturing execs looking to boost capacity were never busier than last year: The number of new and expanding plants reported in Conway Data?s New Plant database soared by 22 percent. ?Where to grow?? was the big question facing a reengineered, ?rightsized? industrial sector in 1996. For many industry chiefs planning billion-dollar investments, locations outside the […]

Site Selection Highlights August/September 1998 Issue

Highlights from August/September 1998 COVER STORY AOL’s Balancing Act: The Need for Nearness vs. ‘Virtual Space’ When AOL hit cyberspace hell in 1996, it’s problems were rooted in old-fashioned physical space. But the online king has come back, centralizing brainpower and technology to fuel rapid global expansion. pg. 638 Corporate Real Estate Can Be a […]

Strategic Reserve: That’s Canada’s Way of Competing

Ontario again tops all provinces, and we name our Top 20 Canadian regions.

50 Million Reasons

Near-shoring, infrastructure and a surging middle class are the active ingredients for Colombia’s next-generation economy.

EDITORS’S VIEW

ur New Plant Database tallies are complete, and this issue of Site Selection is brimming with related rankings of Top Metros, Industries and States (see the Governor’s Cup cover story on page 146). by MARK AREND My congratulations to all of the areas mentioned in the rankings, because they would not appear if they hadn’t […]

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Going Clean?

by Ron Starner

Chevy Bolt.

Photos courtesy of Consumers Energy

Michigan Delivers Energy Advantages and More

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Supporting The Hands of Innovation

Entering a new era of early-stage business
funding, KY Innovation prioritizes startup funding and entrepreneurial success.

Turn for the Better

Louisiana’s energy-driven economic health has never been more robust. Now may be the time to bring human health — and the life sciences, medical tourism and healthcare sectors — along for the ride.

Power-Packed Lineup

Mississippi Power, Cooperative Energy, TVA And Entergy Mississippi Keep Businesses on The Move.

Growing Iowa’s Innovative Economy

Iowa is investing in original thinkers, entrepreneurs and startups.

Talent Factories

The 12 public universities in Illinois form the backbone of a higher education roster that knows few peers.

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Governor Kim Reynolds On Iowa’s Next Chapter

by Mark Arend

Governor Kim Reynolds is determined to make Iowa the go-to state for businesses reshoring their operations and for those seeking low taxes and fiscal predictability.

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Living History

Museums and historic sites across the heartland have historic ties to industry, but their neighborhoods aren't living in the past.

Natural Allure

Healthy employees are happy employees, and happy employees are found in Colorado.

There’s Fast, and There’s Quantum Fast

When even supercomputers aren’t up to the job, it’s time for quantum computing, and Colorado is rapidly becoming home to a quantum computing cluster.

East-West All Star

A specialist pharmaceutical firm founded in Buffalo hits its stride as a multinational with major investments in the US and China.

Baltimore’s New Front Door

Under Armour’s new headquarters campus is just one of the new Maryland’s millennial magnets.

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‘Unique in the United States’

by Adam Bruns

The Higher Education Community Makes Greater Charlotte Even Greater

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HOSPITALITY & TOURISM: Dealer’s Choice

A growing number of places in Texas are being certified as Tourism Friendly Texas Communities. Film, digital media and music get their day in the Texas sun too.

Drones ‘R’ Us

While public perception of drone aircraft is driven by accounts of their military use in bombings and spying, legitimate public safety and agriculture are recognized as the primary markets for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the commercial marketplace.

Top Deals of 2023

Like flickering lights, intermittent doubts put some folks on edge about the viability of the EV revolution. Judged by the capital investment, job creation, turning dirt and rising steel at projects around the world, however, the current is strong and steady. Continuing a trend from the year before, investments in the industry dominate this year’s […]

Sooner Rather Than Later

Hard work is paying off in Oklahoma.

NY Loves Knowledge

And companies adore the state’s infrastructure for talent, R&D and expertise. Overlay a map of the Empire State’s vast reserves of higher education and institutional firepower with a map of corporate and industrial R&D, and chances are you’ll see two things: a legacy of innovation, and an interwoven network ripe with opportunities for more.

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Where to Find the Future

by Adam Bruns

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After 60 years as the medicine cabinet of the United States, Puerto Rico’s life sciences ecosystem has entered new dimensions.

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OZs: Is a Sequel in the Works?

Updated insights from Novogradac offer evidence of the OZ incentive’s success.

Family Ties

Family Ties: North America’s easternmost corner aligns its assets and its megaprojects.

The Long View

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

1997?s Occupancy Cost Outlook: Tightening Markets, Rising Rents

It?s enough to make your accountant cry — now it?s the landlords who?re smiling. Particularly in the USA, long gone are the days of the late ?80s and early ?90s, when many markets were awash in surplus office and other space, and landlords were practically begging corporate tenants to sign on the dotted line. In […]

Europe Calling: Was it Too Much Too Soon?

T he heat created by the North American push into Europe for new call centers has turned desirable locations into no-go areas for some U.S. corporates. But while some locations have become victims of their own success, others are emerging as new winners in the current cooler environment for new call center operations — especially […]

International Update

Trust — It Does an Economy Good

by Mark Arend

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A new report from the Inter-American Development Bank finds that mistrust is an acute problem that limits socioeconomic development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Behind the Big Data Rush to Montréal

Hydropower and brainpower combine to lure Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

An Ecosystem Evolves

At the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C., this fall, a panel discussion on partnering with US universities featured Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson and University of Maryland Vice President and Chief Research Officer Patrick O'Shea, who set the stage.

How States Can Avoid Costly Pitfalls While Rebuilding Their Economies

Three ways to increase the effectiveness of economic development incentives and control spending

Taking it to the Next Level

A state already known for its automotive industry is gearing up at an unprecedented pace and scale.

Wind Power

Kansas’ renewable energy sector is growing fast.

Online Insider

‘It’s Not Like They Need the Money’

by Adam Bruns

An accountability watchdog says some of Site Selection’s Top Deals belong at the bottom instead.

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Wind Demonstrates

How Growth and Sustainability Can Coincide in New Jersey

TOP MICROPOLITANS OF 2024: Bow Down Before Ohio

Steadfast Findlay, Ohio, is No. 1 again. Wait ’til you see how many other Ohio micropolitan areas are crowding the top of the rankings.

Higher Tech

Colorado continues to embrace a leadership role in renewable energy.

Power Deregulation: A Bumpy Road Begins the Free-Market Ride

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1998 Power Deregulation: A Bumpy Road Begins the Free-Market Ride by Jack Lyne Early brownouts have partially dimmed the luster on electric utility deregulation. Some firms, however are capitalizing, orchestrating lower facility rates and cutting costs through advanced demand-side management. Make no mistake. The global electricity deregulation revolution has not been unplugged. But that […]

1998 Top 10 Utility Companies

SEPTEMBER 1999 SITE SELECTION 1998 TOP 10 UTILITY COMPANIES • COVER PAGE • CINERGY/PSI • DETROIT EDISON • ENTERGY’S TEAMWORK ARKANSAS • GEORGIA POWER COMPANY • MEMPHIS LIGHT, GAS & WATER DIVISION • MIDAMERICAN ENERGY COMPANY • NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT • OMAHA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT • PP&L • […]

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Discovery Hub Adds Clout to University’s Research Ecosystem

by Mark Arend

Photo courtesy of University of Delaware’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus

Chemours, a global producer of fluoroproducts, chemical solutions and titanium technologies.

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Amazonian Oasis?

The Windsor-Essex joint bid with Detroit for Amazon’s HQ2 offers access and advantages no other city can match.

Elsewhere in South Carolina

Video Test Page

In India Hybrid is the New Back to Work

How the world’s offshoring hub responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Search for Savings

Manufacturing and distribution plants aren’t the only operations being placed under the microscope of cost containment these days.

E-commerce Companies Find ‘Prime’ Locations in the Show-Me State

Amazon must like what it sees in the Show-Me State, because it has made several new investments in recent months.

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Coming Out Party

by Adam Bruns

BestCo in February announced a $177 million, 394-job expansion project at its plant in Mooresville in Iredell County, which makes tablets, capsules, gummies and other pharmaceutical and nutraceutical dosage forms.

Photo courtesy of BestCo

A $1 billion blockbuster from Eli Lilly and Co. headlines a regional biosciences economy on the rise.

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Project Bulletin: September 23, 2024

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. Buttering Up New […]

Arena for Success

According to these referrals, Indy comes highly recommended.

India’s New Auto Cluster

India’s western state of Gujarat has long been an industrial nexus, specializing in petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and textiles.

Digital Talent Comes of Age in PUERTO RICO

A look at three growing institutions tells you why.

New Study Assesses Key Business Location Factors

Housing and transportation in Greater Boston are key challenges to overcome. But talent always wins.

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Bank On It

by Adam Bruns

Arrival’s arrival in the Charlotte region has featured four separate investment projects.

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Tech and Manufacturing Combine to Diversify Charlotte’s Economy

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Triangle? What Triangle?

The latest investments in North Carolina are proof of life (sciences) beyond RTP.

Cleared for Take Off

The sky’s the limit for Oklahoma’s aeronautic industries.

Smart Space

Senior lecturer in property at the University of Melbourne in Australia, explores how big data improves a building’s operational efficiencies, and how landlords can use big data effectively to attract and retain tenants.

On the Make

Northwest Ohio is a mecca for manufacturing.

Foundations for the Future

Santa Clarita Valley is proving itself the lower-cost, high-quality option for businesses in Southern California.

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Charlotte Is Trending Young, Diverse and Next-Level

by Adam Bruns

Youth in action: Tommy Zula warms up for the UCI Pump Track world championships qualifier in Gaston County, North Carolina, in May 2021.

Photo by Brian Hall courtesy of Red Bull Content Pool

Young people want to move there.” Those are the words of Durham, North Carolina–based entrepreneur Leigh-Kathryn Bonner, founder of Bee Downtown.

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Surveying the Landscape

Quick Updates on Selected Site Certification Programs

Editor’s View: It Just Might Work

Analysis in this issue of the Trump win is guardedly optimistic

Smarter by the Day

More transportation options mean more opportunity for moving the Colorado economy.

Unmanned Outposts

Geographic clustering data on global UAV firm locations is scarce, but we found some. Next time, maybe we’ll use a UAV.

IAMC Insider, Site Selection magazine, March 2004

Dear IAMC members and prospective members: This month I am pleased to welcome many of you to the IAMC Professional Forum in Tucson, Ariz., March 13-17, 2004. Our focus is top-notch professional education and executive networking exclusively for the industrial and manufacturing corporate real estate community. We strive to present […]

Departments

Embracing the Future: IAMC Sets Sights on Reinvigorating Industry Professional Development

Signs of the Times

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Report: Tonnage Volumes Are Bouncing Back

by Mark Arend

First Place: The Gardno anchored outside the Duluth ship canal. These photo contest winners appear courtesy of the Great Lakes Seaway Partnership.

Photo by Adam Bjornberg

That’s the shipping news from the Great Lakes Seaway Partnership.

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Welcome to the Amazon Games

Hear an echo? That’s the world’s largest e-commerce company doing to economic development what it did to shopping malls.

How Michigan Engineered a Lightning-Fast Turnaround in its Talent Pool

How Michigan engineered a lightning-fast turnaround in its talent pool.

The Greenhouse Effect

Everyone has to live somewhere. You might as well live someplace nice.

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.

Columbus, Ohio: How the Columbus Region Became the Talent Factory of the Midwest

The secret sauce behind big wins from Intel, AWS and Honda? Workforce Development.

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DAYLIGHT COME AND WE WANT TO GROW MORE

by Adam Bruns

An already healthy biomaterials sector in Costa Rica only figures to grow more robust.

Photo: Getty Images

Biomaterials Case Study Yellow Pallet: Yellow Pallet’s use of waste banana plant fiber is just one niche in a diverse biomaterials economy. Hemp and medical cannabis will be another.

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Top 10

A road trip through the region’s recent expansion projects.

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: TOP BUSINESS PARK LOCATIONS

ompanies seeking sites typically use similar lists of criteria. It’s the ranking of the criteria that varies, depending on the type of company and management’s priorities. While the preferred alternatives are historically stable, they are now changing rapidly, and an ideal location today may not be ideal tomorrow due to changing markets and globalization, and […]

Let It Be

Creative types don’t need tailor-made environments and amenities, just the freedom to build that ecosystem themselves.

Middlesex County, New Jersey: Innovation Destination

A yearning to discover and connect is at the heart of Middlesex Countiy's success.

World Reports: Manchester Carving Niche As Euro Financial Base — Site Selection Magazine, January 2006

From Site Selection magazine, January 2006 WORLD REPORTS Manchester Carving Niche As Euro Financial Base by John W. McCurry M anchester, England, likely rings best in American ears as home to a renowned soccer team — Manchester United — or as a launching pad for rock bands — Oasis, The Smiths, Herman’s Hermits and The […]

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‘Quality Human Capital’ Includes a Growing Cohort of Remote Workers

by Adam Bruns

Akamai’s location in San José’s Roble Corporate Center is one of the company’s Global Centers of Excellence.

Photo courtesy of Akamai

In the 13 years since Costa Rica opened up its telecommunications market.

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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.

Ceiling Unlimited

A Blueprint for Airport & Regional Growth

Upskilling the Future of Mississippi’s Workforce

Dig beneath the surface and you’ll find innovation popping up all over the state.

Where Vertical Farming Is ‘Smart’

Bowery Farming, a leading vertical farming company based in New York City, plans to open smart indoor vertical farms in Locust Grove, Georgia, and Arlington, Texas, it announced in January.

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 […]