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by Gary Daughters
Coveted young workers are making demands.
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Attracting talent means tuning in to what millennials and Gen Z have to say.
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Gary Daughters
Senior Editor of Site Selection Magazine
New Orleans, Lafayette burnish their IT center credentials.
It’s not every day a billion-dollar project comes to Hawaii. After all, whatever you produce there has to be transported everywhere else. But the 50th state is part of a very select global club of locations whose conditions produce a rare commodity: transporting views of our planet and of the known universe it occupies.
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.
What were the biggest projects by investment in New Jersey over the past two years? Which sectors dominated? How many foreign companies have invested in the state? Our charts and graphics tell the story.
Intelligence Reports
by Adam Bruns
There are so many options in Texas outside of the Golden Triangle.”
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Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
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.
Late last month, for only the second time ever, a sitting U.S. president formally blocked a foreign acquisition, due to purported security concerns involving the foreign firm’s deployment of wind turbine technologies near a 47,000-acre (19,021-hectare) U.S. Navy test and training site in Oregon.
The Louisville and Cincinnati metro areas claimed a No. 1 ranking in Site Selection’s annual analysis of Ohio River metro-area economic development in 2020 and 2021.
In late November, Merck KGaA, the Darmstadt, Germany–based pharma, chemical and life science company, made the latest in an ongoing series of investments in one of the most R&D-intensive economies in the world: Israel.
Intelligence Reports
by Adam Bruns
Laredo’s binational community enjoys robust collaboration between the private and public sectors.
Photo courtesy of Laredo EDC
Gene Lindgren adores his adopted home of Laredo, Texas.
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Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Creating plastics from chicken feathers, and other manufacturing marvels.
Over the last 20 years of American economic history, if you asked site consultants which region was the number one investment destination they’d probably have said “the Southeast.”
Alot of moves are in the works by corporate headquarters across the U.S., for reasons ranging from cost containment to Asia attainment.
Airport Cities: An Expert’s View On Airport Development Post-Pandemic
Site Selection magazine recently sought out insights from
presidential candidate Ricardo Lombana.
Intelligence Reports
by Adam Bruns
This San Angelo mosaic in Firefighter’s Memorial City Park was created by city workers and firefighters using a retired firetruck as part of Art in Uncommon Places.
Photo courtesy of San Angelo Convention & Visitors Bureau
If asked where the most distinctive art in Texas is to be found, some might point to Marfa.
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Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Backed by Hoosier Energy, Indiana launches a bid to bring in data centers.
Universities in Oklahoma are using unmanned aerial systems to predict severe weather.
The same location criteria that drove your site decisions last year still apply this year. But the textbook has changed.
Intelligence Reports
by Adam Bruns
Camfil USA is investing in Synergy Park in Kilgore, where steady infrastructure investment has occurred side by side with the warm, engaging atmosphere of Elder Lake at the park’s heart.
Photo courtesy of Kilgore EDC
With nearly 1.5 million people within 60 miles and quick access to the DFW metro area via I-20, Kilgore’s location in northeast Texas already has a lot going for it.
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Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Israel’s ‘Innovation Box’ builds on a longstanding heritage of superior innovation.
North American Reports: Quick-Fill Capability; Honda Diversifies; Northeast Aces ACT; Looking West;Where’s the Building?; New Digs for Novo
Data centers, a new bridge in Corpus Christi, multiple energy investments and a 1,900-acre technology campus in Port San Antonio are just a few of many projects breaking ground in Texas.
Even for Amazon, four big projects pledging 8,000 new jobs announced over the past 17 days is an above-average pace.
Intelligence Reports
by Adam Bruns
McPherson Cellars is one place where the “unusually friendly” people in Lubbock like to get together.
Photo courtesy of Visit Lubbock
Remember BRAC? People living in 136 communities across the nation who sure do.
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Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Two US companies announced plans in New York in early April to establish operations in Scotland.
When people talk about the future of advanced manufacturing on the West Coast, they tend to mention names like Intel, Tesla, Boeing, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman.
While Thailand usually wins the beauty contest, Vietnam has stronger port fundamentals.
In key state rankings and cost of living, the Sunflower State shines brightest.
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. New Models Head […]
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There are 44 small towns and counties across the 267,000 square miles of Texas who rallied together a few years ago as the Texas Economic Development Connection.
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Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Fostering industry activity in research and development, North Dakota and South Dakota are making all the
right moves.
A wide ranging strategic partnership announced in April between the Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler AG
Once considered a longshot, the 2026 World Cup is coming to Seattle.
The program is just one of a suite of actions to keep the state’s talent pipeline primed for the future even in the midst of economic recovery.
Online Insider
by Ron Starner
Employers and consultants gave candid advice at the World Forum for FDI.
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Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.
How a new tax incentive is attracting and keeping companies in the Gem State.
Key transport upgrades are increasingly connecting the Bayou State to global markets.
Pandemic does not slow down ABC’s approach to job training.
Led by the U.S. Small Business Administration's Business Person of the Year for 2012, and picked as Montana's Innovation Company of the Year in August 2012, Simms Fishing Products, captained by President K.C. Walsh, moved into a new 60,000-sq.-ft. (5,574-sq.-m.) headquarters, production and distribution facility in Bozeman last year.
Utah's education, industry and government collaborate to fill the state's talent pool.
by Adam Bruns
In Tupelo, it’s always manufacturing season.
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Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
In late November, Merck KGaA, the Darmstadt, Germany–based pharma, chemical and life science company, made the latest in an ongoing series of investments in one of the most R&D-intensive economies in the world: Israel.
North Carolina aims to get its share of what one consultant says will be 40 gigawatts of wind energy off the East Coast by 2035.
Hamilton is CEO of Renmatix, a young and growing producer of cellulosic sugars for the global renewable chemical and fuels markets. Working with building owner Brandywine Realty Trust, architect Pier Derrickson of KlingStubbins and contractor Hollister Construction Services, the Renmatix team just saw the completion of the headquarters fit-out.
The same location criteria that drove your site decisions last year still apply this year. But the textbook has changed.
by Mark Arend
Mississippi added itself to the list of states producing electric vehicles (EVs) in February.
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Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine
The State of Oklahoma offers great opportunities for manufacturers and many companies are taking advantage.
APRIL/MAY 1998 IDRC?s Best Practices Award: Australia Post — Leadership by Jack Lyne When market-driven pressures transfigured Australia?s national mail system, its real estate arm took a decidedly proactive turn. In two short years, the group has forcefully made the case for cost-effective strategic space utilization. Australia Post Property Division?s designation as 1997?s winner of […]
Elevator engineers may soon be among those with birds-eye views of major league baseball games.
I come to Micanopy for vacation. How many people can make that claim?
The companies growing in these towns are pursuing the right to innovate as they choose.
Area Spotlights
by Mark Arend
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Oklahoma will soon be home to the Americas’ first rare earth metal and manufacturing facility, giving it a head start in the U.S. as companies bring such operations stateside.
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Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine
ecently, Florida has become a convenient (and photogenic) poster child for America’s real estate market crash. However, this assessment is far removed from Florida’s contemporary economic reality – that of an increasingly diversified, three-quarter-trillion-dollar economy relying on multiple engines of growth. Fort Lauderdale, the anchor community of Southeast Florida’s Broward County, is rapidly making a […]
The state leads the nation in percentage growth of new tech positions, with employment in the sector having grown by nearly 34% in the past decade.
Report reinforces how your digital footprint is more important than your physical one.
Mark Twain found the Upper Mississippi otherworldly, serene and bucolic when he traveled through the region 130 years ago.
Mann hopes to break ground by early 2011 on its Mann Research Center in the Florida Center for Innovation at Tradition, a privately developed research park in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Area Spotlights
by Adam Bruns
EEW workers at South Jersey Port Corporation’s terminal in Paulsboro unload a test monopile for offshore wind.
Photo courtesy of EEW
How Growth and Sustainability Can Coincide in New Jersey
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Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Investments in Alabama and Singapore are the latest salvos from the Illinois-based life sciences giant.
Now that the last medal has been awarded, the crowds have gone home and the stadium lights have been extinguished, what will determine if the 2012 London Olympics were truly a success will be the legacy the Games leave behind for the U.K. According to market intelligence firm Euromonitor, an estimated £25 billion (US$39 billion) was spent preparing London for the Games, including stadium construction, regeneration, infrastructure projects and marketing — is this money well spent?
In the innovative world of food & drink startups, a coastal town is making waves.
State workforce services ensure businesses and talent reach
new heights.
Area Spotlights
by Gary Daughters
Merchants Bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis is to reopen in 2022
Courtesy St. Louis Regional Freightway
St. Louis is building a better platform for transport & logistics.
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Gary Daughters
Senior Editor of Site Selection Magazine
Compete. Invest. Grow. Three objectives, One Turnaround Plan for Michigan.
A spinal medical device firm stays in Leesburg, but moves to a new neighborhood aligned with its growth curve.
Ontario again tops all provinces, and we name our Top 20 Canadian regions.
Saudi Arabia’s most dynamic research ecosystem is at KAUST’s campus on the Red Sea.
Three years after a significant bioscience project announcement, Georgia takes a giant step toward creating an industry hub.
Area Spotlights
by Gary Daughters
GE Wind’s Haliade-X was tested at LM Wind in New Orleans.
Image courtesy of GE Wind
The nation’s first offshore wind farm may have been built off the coast of New England, but it came to fruition with a healthy measure of Cajun ingenuity.
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Gary Daughters
Senior Editor of Site Selection Magazine
No pun intended, but Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) on I-85 near Greenville is on a roll
The most recent edition of the Americas IT Forum took place in Guatemala, bringing together thought leaders and innovators from different fields and countries across North and South America. The discussion ranged from technological issues and marketing trends affecting business on all levels to innovation and technology-led economic development. A novel concept in intertwined topics and in blending together people from different backgrounds, the Forum proved to work.
Known for the exploits of Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great, among others, the capital city of Tatarstan now aims to make a name for itself as an international business hub. But first you have to find it on the map.
Innovation districts across the state are inspiring the next generation of new ideas and technologies.
In October, I found myself seated in an autonomous shuttle vehicle that’s part of the PAUL (Piloting Autonomous Use Locally) service launched by Site Selection
by Adam Bruns
One week in January 2022 told you all you need to know about the attractiveness of Mississippi for logistics, distribution and e-commerce fulfillment operations.
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Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
2007 GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT From Site Selection magazine, September 2007 At 1,680 ft. (512.1 meters) on July 21, 2007, the 141-story Burj Dubai, developed by Emaar Properties, attained official status as the tallest building in the world, besting Taipei 101 in Taiwan by 13 ft. (4 meters). Emaar and its 5,000-plus construction workers and […]
Missouri slashes business tax rates to improve its competitive position.
The annual TrustBelt Corporates & Consultants Forum has always featured a speaker lineup of considerable star power, but the 2019 roster in Louisville promises to be the best one yet.
Frank Sinatra once famously crooned, “My kind of town, Chicago is.” These days he would be joined by a chorus of business and industry executives who have chosen to invest in the Windy City.
The strong business climate in Kansas makes the state a hero in the heartland.
by Ron Starner
Shipbuilders for the Navy and Coast Guard embark on large expansion projects.
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Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.
"It is exciting to see South Carolina once again recognized as the 'it' place for business investment," noted Gov. Nikki Haley in January, when her Commerce Department announced the Palmetto State's first-place finish in a ranking of foreign direct investment (FDI) destination states for 2011 based on estimated jobs.
Contingency planning and global expansion are vital for the future of the healthcare industry.
Driven in part by the presence of 33 federally funded labs, Colorado is the No. 2 state for technology and science and welcomed $1.75 billion in higher education R&D in 2021.
The data show why Invest in Bogota has won a Site Selection Best to Invest Top IPA award for four years running.
Investment Profile
by Ron Starner
Kolbe Farms by InTown Homes, a Frank Liu company, in Spring Branch Management District.
Courtesy of Spring Branch Management District
Spring Branch bears fruit with a rich harvest of expanding companies.
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Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.
Federal Tech Hub status stokes Nevada’s clean energy dreams.
Major projects will improve these institutions’ already sturdy constitutions.
If you thought semiconductor investments would slow anytime soon globally, you would be wrong. While targeted investments seem to gear toward 300-millimeter chip productions, Infineon Technologies AG is making moves to expand its Malaysia site into the world’s largest 200-millimeter SiC Power Fab.
In Texas, finishing in first place is not just an annual occurrence. When it comes to measurable economic development performance, it’s a way of life.
Today we examine which metro areas and cities have the most fast-growing companies. These Top 10 correspond closely with the most recent Census Bureau list of the most populated metro areas — only the Bay Area and Greater Boston are not also among the nation’s 10 most populous metros:
Investment Profile
by Adam Bruns
Projects are afoot to improve quality of life and boost Colombian competitiveness along the Canal del Dique, first constructed in the 1600s.
Photo courtesy of Government of Colombia Adaptation Fund
Colombia’s nearshoring strategy is one of many routes to helping companies and communities reach their sustainability goals.
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Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
ncertainty is the enemy of healthy markets. This observation has been confirmed by a controversial Federal court ruling that a broad range of economic-development incentives are unconstitutional. That ruling was issued in October 2004 by a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio, and, to the surprise of many, the full […]
The United Arab Emirates in late November was awarded the 2020 World Expo, beating out Yekaterinburg in Russia, Izmir in Turkey and São Paulo in Brazil to become the first Middle Eastern territory to ever host the event.
University of Missouri – Kansas City is educating the workforce of tomorrow in one of America’s smartest cities.
Investment Profile
by Ron Starner
Patricia Bedford, Suga’s Cakery
Entrepreneurial spirit, diverse workforce fuel business success in Pflugerville.
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Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.
On Seattle’s central waterfront, fishing vessels still tie up at the dock, crews unload their catch and maritime trades move among piers, uplands and warehouses.
Google likes to use the power usage effectiveness, or PUE, metric to calculate the energy costs of housing and cooling servers on server farms such as the one located in Lenoir, N.C.
MARCH 2009 So, What Is Your Board Up To? (cover) People & Projects Request Information
An increasing number of companies are turning to the concept of “shared services” to lower operating expenses and gain competitive advantage. Briefly defined, shared services consolidates accounting, human resources (HR), real estate and other transactional operations to reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction. As a management technique, shared services falls into the process-oriented family of […]
Investment Profile
by Ron Starner
Ceres Site B at Ceres Research and Industrial Complex in Warren County.
Photo courtesy of MDA
How do you put a price tag on speed to market?
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Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.
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.
Good things start happening when an economic development organization gets serious about workforce development.
It’s the rallying cry of every scientist, researcher, policymaker, baseball general manager of the “Moneyball” school and journalist reporting out an ambitious story.
Nashville Rising: A year after devastating floodwaters struck Music City, we take a look back at a model local disaster response, and why one area company decided to rebuild instead of relocate.
Communities keep coming up with creative ways to attract talent and industry.
Investment Profile
by Gary Daughters
Outlook Company’s new studio in East Baltimore.
Courtesy of Outlook Company /Jo Stallings
With his massive, tatted arms, hulking torso and all-around swagger, Trevor Pryce might at first seem less the studio captain he is today than the NFL lineman he was for 14 seasons.
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Gary Daughters
Senior Editor of Site Selection Magazine
A pioneering unmanned aerial vehicle program takes on in North Dakota, while an earthmoving equipment company expands in South Dakota.
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 […]
R anked by Site Selection as the third-best state in the nation in attracting new and expanded corporate facilities, New York is experiencing a resurgence across its business communities. Governor George Pataki’s lower tax policies and investments in promoting high-tech, industrial, and transportation projects have tremendously helped the state recover from the devastating affects of […]
Minnesota is preparing for the workforce of the future with a variety of STEM programs.
S pearheaded by the meteoric rise of the Charlotte and the Research Triangle metro areas, North Carolina has climbed to the top spot of Site Selection‘s 2001 Business Climate Ranking. Becoming the No. 1 state for doing business wasn’t easy. The Tar Heel State barely edged out last year’s winner — […]
by Mark Arend
Mississippi is central to the nation’s advances in space exploration and aerospace technology.
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Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine
Mississippi keeps growing its site inventory thanks to new initiatives.
orest City Enterprises, a Chicago-based developer of biotech parks nationwide, would not necessarily have selected the Denver area for a new biosciences park several years ago. The company’s first park was built 20 years ago adjacent to MIT in the heart of one of the most pre-eminent biotech clusters in the country, says Michael Rosen, […]
The Deccan Herald reported yesterday that Foxconn Technology Group subsidiary Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) would make this 6,000 job investment in the Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu, near Chennai, to produce electronic components for mobile phones.
The post-election, lame duck 111th Congress got lots of things done as this issue came together in December, one of which was actually good for the U.S. as a location for business and industry.
A Hoosier’s 25-year trek in semiconductor manufacturing brings him back home to Indiana.
Investment Profile
by Adam Bruns
Tech talent in Greater New Orleans knows how to balance screen time with real-world time in beautiful places like this one in St. Tammany Parish, known for its quality of life.
Photo courtesy of St. Tammany Corp.
High-tech lifestyle, quality of life and life sciences converge in Southeast Louisiana.
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Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Decision-makers explain why they’re moving their companies downtown. Others see downtowns coming to them.
Southwest Louisiana continues to improve a business climate that is already a national leader.
lthough its name would imply otherwise, site selection is very rarely just about the site. Instead, an effective site selection process is about community selection, which includes the geographic advantages that are the best match for your business. There is no question that your company will need a building or site to develop a building, […]
Fuel, power and health were the driving forces behind top industrial categories for corporate facility investment in 2009.
When it comes to solar power, looks can be deceiving.
Features
by Gary Daughters
The cast of “Grease” at Alma, Georgia’s Beacon Theatre
Courtesy of Bacon County Development Authority
When it comes to rural economic development, Georgia’s the word.
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Gary Daughters
Senior Editor of Site Selection Magazine
The university was named among the best in the Midwest by The Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report.
A Norwegian firm's analysis says we aren't very far along on the path toward sustainable development, but some leading companies could help get us there faster.
Collaboration and regional thinking make for great slogans — but it’s tooth-and-nail competition when a company has to pick a final landing spot for a major investment.
Workforce resources support record-breaking growth in Kentucky.