International Update

The Lithium Race in South America Is an Adventure

by Gary Daughters

Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni salt flats is brimming with lithium.

Photo: Getty Images

Those Bolivian bureaucrats sure are sticklers.

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Automakers Slide Into Electric Future

Tennessee’s signature industry sees substantial investments over the last year, with an emphasis on electric vehicles.

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The Survey Says …

Building size has outpaced the growth in the number of buildings over the past decade, according to the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey.

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Peruvian firm Li3 Energy, Inc., in May closed on its acquisition of 60-percent ownership in a group of six private companies that own the Maricunga Project in northern Chile, believed to be one of the top 10 lithium projects in the world.

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SITE VISIT

SITE VISIT From Site Selection magazine, May 2008 Highly skilled technicians tend to the production line, above, at G24i’s new plant and headquarters in Cardiff, Wales. Welsh Gambit A California solar entrepreneur chooses Walesas a launch pad to the developing world. by ADAM BRUNSadam.bruns bounce@conway.com N eed to charge your mobile phone in Kenya? G24i‘s […]

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Will the Appalachian Basin Be the World’s Next Energy Hub?

According to the Appalachian Regional Commission, over 40 percent of the retired coal-fired capacity can be found in Appalachia.

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Attracting Innovation Is the Name of the Game For these Forward-Thinking Parks

by Adam Bruns

Korea Innovation Foundation (INNOPOLIS) in South Korea took home the top prize in the 2022 IASP Inspiring Solutions awards from IASP in September.

Map image courtesy of IASP

Already known for its industry/university partnerships, scientific institutes and expanding Technology Campus, the 148-acre Potsdam Science..

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PROJECT FINANCE

PROJECT FINANCE From Site Selection magazine, November 2007 Interest High in No-Interest Option Islamic finance achieves a higher profile in the industrial world. by ADAM BRUNS,adam.bruns bounce@conway.com T hrough the second quarter of 2007, the global issuance of Islamic bonds, or sukuk, had reached a record level of US$24.5 billion, and showed no signs […]

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Push and Pull

Driven by its innovation ecosystem, California is golden again.

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The Right Climate for Startups

How a move across state lines changed everything for the founder of Banjo

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Who’s Keeping Score?

I f you’re not keeping score, then you’re just practicing, goes the adage. More and more economic development groups are realizing how true that is as they evaluate their performance relative to other locations. The heated Governor’s Cup contest covered in our March issue is testament to that. But other measures are emerging that can […]

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World Class Standard

A flurry of new projects in Trinidad and Tobago brings jobs, and validation.

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Short Line Rail Leaders Catalyze Opportunities Like They Always Have

by Adam Bruns

These photos made circa 1900-1910 show operations of the Allegheny Valley Railroad, originally incorporated in 1837 and completed in 1854 and traveling from Pittsburgh to Oil City along the Allegheny River.

Photo courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh Archives of Industrial Society

The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association represents around 600 owners and operators.

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Rio Rancho: The New Company Town

R IO RANCHO, N.M. – Driving along the highway from Albuquerque, N.M., to suburban Rio Rancho to the north, the first thing one notices hovering over the town is the giant corporate edifice of the Intel Corp. Dominating the city landscape like the majestic Sandia Mountains to the east, Intel’s sprawling, […]

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New Facilities 1992 (Charts), page 2

From Site Selection magazine, February 1993 New & Expanded Corporate Facilities 1992 Continue to next page | 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.

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Trading Goals For Pathways

The top places for sustainability don’t talk about finding solutions. They go out and find them.

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STARTUP & INNOVATION HUBS: WEST COAST INNOVATION DOMINANCE: Will It Remain?

An index of indices produces a list of top global startup ecosystems, plus Alexis Elmore reports from the 2025 Global Entrepreneurship Congress.

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Omaha: The Next Financial Capital

When a metro area has accounted for nearly half of its entire state’s corporate facility locations and expansions since the beginning of 2008, it’s hard to ignore.

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Micron Megadeal Makes New York Chipper

by Gary Daughters

For New York’s political leaders, no amount of hyperbole seemed over the top as they trumpeted Micron’s selection of a 1,200-acre site north of Syracuse for a $100 billion semiconductor plant.

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Project Bulletin Oct. 14, 2024: Brazil; South Carolina; India;

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. Brazil’s Got BioFuel […]

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A Vision for Talent

Oklahoma’s Commerce Secretary, Deby Snodgrass, works to grow a base of highly educated workers in the Sooner State.

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Big Wheels Keep On Turning

Will a farm equipment manufacturer have to recalibrate its property portfolio in 2017?

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GOVERNOR POWER PARTNERSHIPS: Mississippi’s Power Play

Gov. Reeves makes a bold Power Play for more energy in Mississippi.

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Battery JV Sapped by Rift

Demand for lithium-ion batteries is growing. So why does Johnson Controls want out of its joint venture with Saft?

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The Carbon Capture Race Is Heating Up In Nebraska

by Ron Starner

Navigator CO2 is moving its corporate headquarters from Dallas to this building in west Omaha. Courtesy of Navigator CO2

Image courtesy of Navigator CO2

The builder of a $2.5 billion pipeline moves from Dallas to Omaha to oversee the project.

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Tech Blossoms

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.

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MIPIM: Watch Out, Europe, The Americans Coming

Cannes, France: It looks like a second Normandy landing here in the south of France: As Europe’s recovery settles into a long upward leg, U.S. investors are invading, grabbing buildings and real estate securities like they’re going out of style. And that surge will likely multiply the shares of real estate investment companies beginning to […]

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There’s Something In the Air

Perhaps it's the incentives directed specifically at aerospace company investment. Perhaps it's the presence of three national laboratories and dozens of others, three Air Force bases and three test facilities.

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Amenities & Priorities

Alexandria’s clusters showcase where campus lifestyle and corporate responsibility meet.

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Meet the New Logistics Capital of the Caribbean

Container ships are ‘cool running’ to ports of call in Jamaica.

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America Is Moving To Arkansas

by Ron Starner

The numbers prove it, and here’s why.

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Great Works in the Works

Interested in investing in or benefiting from new South American infrastructure? Here’s the lowdown on the first half of what will be $23 billion in projects aiming for completion by 2027.

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Pflugerville, Texas: The Critical Connection

PFlugerville, Texas: vision is giving new meaning to quality of life.

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Historic Past, Exciting Future

Formerly a central hub in the civilized world, Magdeburg is ready to rise once more.

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The South’s Magnet for Foreign Direct Investment

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

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New Facilities Avoid Congestion & Enable Confluence Instead

Investment into new logistics facilities is happening all over the state.

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The Whole World is Watching Qatar

by Ron Starner

The nation hopes hosting 2022 World Cup leads to even more FDI projects.

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Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Kings of the Sea

Mississippi flexes its maritime muscle.

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IAMC REPORT

hen a profession’s top achievers stake out a position of leadership through their actions, others soon follow. by RON STARNER That’s exactly what happened three years ago this month when about 50 corporate real estate executives organized themselves into the Industrial Asset Management Council. Today, some 350 corporate real estate executives, […]

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Talent Accelerator Program is a Welcome Mat for Foreign Investors

Korea’s Navien and the United Kingdom’s GSK are among the bevy of foreign companies expanding in the Commonwealth.

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Floatin’ Down the Highway

Projects across the 12,000 miles of the U.S. inland waterway system spotlight the impact of the U.S. Marine Highway Program.

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Big Sites, Big Opportunities

Certified industrial real estate is primed for development near Toledo, thanks to layers of infrastructure and collaboration.

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Features

Huge Opportunities Begin to Turn Real in Opportunity Zones

by Gary Daughters

Galen Robotics moved from Silicon Valley to a Baltimore Opportunity Zone.

Courtesy of Baltimore Development Corporation

The dollar amount invested in Federal Opportunity Zones climbed to another high in the third quarter of 2022, according to figures released in late October by Novogradac.

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Return on Investment

To accurately measure an incentive’s results, states need to consider whether businesses receiving benefits would have made the same investments had the tax break not existed. When the Minnesota Legislative Auditor’s office studied the state’s Job Opportunity Building Zones program, for example, it found that about 80 percent of the jobs created by companies receiving incentives would have been created even without the help.

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Industry Alliance Hammers Out a New Portfolio Management Model

A team of corporate real estate executives, leading academics and service providers met regularly through late 1998 and much of 1999 to craft a new portfolio management model that recognizes corporate real estate as a strategic organizational asset. What exactly is portfolio management in the corporate real estate context? Unless the concept is given some […]

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Where Location Data Becomes Location Intelligence

There is more to Missouri’s geospatial technology industry than the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s $1.7 billion NGA West Headquarters

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KLIA Aeropolis To Join The Global Airport Cities Club

Malaysia’s main air transport hub has far-reaching aspirations.

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Cities 4.0: Where Smart Solutions Meet Sustainability

Experts from ESI ThoughtLab share an exclusive adaptation from “Smart City Solutions for a Riskier World,” their study of 167 metros around the world that finds 20 cities worthy of the 4.0 designation.

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Make Room for ESG: A ‘Must-Have’ Factor in Industrial Site Selection

A ‘Must-Have’ Factor in Industrial Site Selection

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Editor’s View: Are Your Business Climate Requirements Shifting?

by Mark Arend

The U.S. Southeast, Midwest and Southwest are about to see even more capital investment than these booming regions are used to.

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Road Show

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

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Deregulation Drives Spate of Pilot Programs

Plenty of brainpower is being applied to the merits of electric utility industry deregulation, or restructuring to be more accurate. But the jury is still out in most US states that have deregulation plans in place as to whether the effort was worth it to consumers of electricity. After all, the airline industry — certainly […]

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Project Bulletin – July 15, 2024

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Agtech Central

Led by St. Louis, Missouri is boosting its profile as a hub of innovation.

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Made In America, But Not In My Backyard

I’ve been in the room when a company’s leaders met with a state’s economic developers to plan a flashy, scripted news conference announcing the latest and greatest manufacturing project.

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Area Spotlights

Why LEGO Chose Virginia

by Ron Starner

Digital illustration by Bob Gravlee, Lego images courtesy of LEGO Group

Brick by brick, LEGO is building a global business empire centered on the meaning of its original name in Danish — “Play well.”

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Top Metros: Strength in Diversity

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.

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Crowning Achievement

Findlay makes it a four-peat as Batavia closes in.

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Regeneron Set to Regenerate

Even as New York's largest biotech company keeps reinvesting at two locations in its native New York, it's also looking abroad to the Emerald Isle. And it's planning to reignite a once-hot Dell manufacturing site in the process.

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A Good Mix

A beneficial tax climate helps grow Washington’s diverse economy.

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Statewide Options Await Distribution Center Investors

Proximity to the giant FedEx air cargo facility in Memphis, Tennessee, makes northern Mississippi a winning location for warehouse and distribution facilities.

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Upskilling the Future of Mississippi’s Workforce

by Alexis Elmore

Photo rendering of The Concourse, expected to be fully operational by 2026.

Courtesy of Panola Partnership

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

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Associate Editor of Site Selection Magazine

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How to Select an Optimal Distribution Site

Common business wisdom used to hold that if you built a better mousetrap, the world would beat a path to your doorstep. But that was before people started shopping over the Internet and expecting almost instantaneous delivery of the products they ordered. Today, a growing number of customers demand exceptional logistics service from their vendors. […]

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A Vision for Talent

Oklahoma’s Commerce Secretary, Deby Snodgrass, works to grow a base of highly educated workers in the Sooner State.

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Wide Open Spaces for Wanders

When's the last time you went boot-scootin' in Texas?

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Unconventional Wisdom: Raise the Visa Cap Already!

In 2013, 10,000 high tech positions at five high tech companies — IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Qualcomm — went unfilled due to a lack of qualified US candidates.

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Feels Like Home to Me

The towns of Dyersburg, Newbern and Trimble in Dyer County, Tenn., have produced a lot of goods in their history, from Sylvania flash bulbs in the 1970s to utility transformers from Ermco today.

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Features

A Decision With Precision:

by Alexis Elmore

The da Vinci XI is one of many robotic surgery systems developed by Intuitive and used around the world.

Photo courtesy of Intuitive Surgical

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

Alexis Elmore
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New Facilities 1992 (Charts)

From Site Selection magazine, February 1993 Top Metros 1992 Continue to next page | 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.

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World Class Standard

A flurry of new projects in Trinidad and Tobago brings jobs, and validation.

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Project Bulletin: August 19, 2024

In early August, a new joint venture between PT Indonesia and China-based BTR New Material Group welcomed the opening of its new lithium-ion battery anode facility in Central Java province.

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SHOW ME THE SITES!

Mississippi’s making space for your business.

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The Recruiter In Chief

Texas’ ultimate deal closer resides in the Governor’s Mansion.

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Area Spotlights

EV Battery Plant Keeps Kansas’ Foreign Investment Cred Charged

by Mark Arend

Downtown Wichita, Kansas

Photo: Getty Images

Not that it needed it, but Kansas’ foreign direct investment (FDI) cap just gained a really big feather.

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Why a U.S. Recession May Be Farther Away Than You Think

Leading indicators point to continued growth, says Stewart Title economist.

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Why Foreign Investment in the U.S. Is Surging

Geopolitical unrest and U.S. industrial policy are driving foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States.

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Editor’s View: It Just Might Work

Analysis in this issue of the Trump win is guardedly optimistic

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Drooling with Dignity

My day began at 4:30 am, the unhappy hour at which I had to wake to catch a train from Mumbai to Pune.

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Project Bulletin, Jan. 6, 2025: Manassas, Virginia; Jackson, Tennessee; Fayette County, Ohio

Micron remains future focused in Virginia; ALUKO Group establishes first U.S. site in Tennessee; Amazon Web Services increases data center investments throughout Ohio.

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Investment Profile

How to Keep the Skills Pond Stocked

by Mark Arend

California’s most inland port and a key regional logistics asset — and the Stockton Marina and Joan Darrah Promenade.

Photo courtesy of Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce

Ask any corporate site selector or location consultant what their chief location requirement is, and it will have to do with availability of skills.

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CRE Leadership Awards: Maximizing Real Estate’s Value

S EATTLE — Operating in the “post-New Economy” era of corporate downsizing and declining profits, real estate executives face a huge challenge — maximizing real estate’s value while contributing to next quarter’s bottom line. And, oh, by the way, their bosses declare by edict, do this while keeping space commitments at […]

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Small Town Packs Big Logistics Punch

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

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How to Future-Proof Your Workforce

Employers partner with schools to provide career training via apprenticeships, internships and incubators in San Bernardino County.

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New York

NEW YORK: SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION From Site Selection magazine, May 2009 Investing in Infrastructure Bolsters Empire State Business Climate D espite steep job losses on Wall Street and a challenging economic environment, New York continues to add jobs and industry in several key sectors. During a recent e-mail interview with Site Selection, Dennis Mullen, Upstate President […]

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Illinois: How Kankakee County Secured the Largest EV Battery Investment in Illinois to Date

A small town in Kankakee County, located less than an hour outside of Chicago, last fall secured the largest electric vehicle battery investment...

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Investment Profile

How the Good Life Found An Affordable Home in Southern California

by Ron Starner

The Lewis Group of Companies is one of the largest developers in Southern California. These projects are indicative of their work.

Courtesy of Lewis Group

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

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Living in the Land of Lincoln

Illinois’ high quality of life offers something for everyone.

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Intellectual Energy

Baton Rouge, Lafayette and New Orleans bolster Louisiana’s vision of a technology ecosystem.

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Question & Insight: Lucid Strategy

T hey say misery loves company. When everybody is having a bad year, then one company’s troubles don’t look so bad. But even in relative terms, Lucent Technologies, along with its telecom equipment and networking rivals, has endured more than most. Lucent’s challenge of spinning off non-core businesses would have been […]

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World Reports, Site Selection Magazine, November 2002

From Site Selection magazine, November 2002 WORLD REPORTS edited by ADAM BRUNS Alcoa Moving Forward on Icelandic Mega-Project In a deal worth an estimated US$1 billion, Alcoa Executive Vice President G. John Pizzey, Iceland Minister of Industry Valgerdur Sverrisd?ttir and national power company Landsvirkjun‘s Managing Director Fridrik Sophusson signed a memorandum of understanding in July […]

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TrustBelt Speaker Lineup to be Star-Studded

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.

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LIGHTS, CAMERA, ARKANSAS

by Alexis Elmore

Arkansas offers a unique and beautiful setting for a growing number of film and TV productions

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Associate Editor of Site Selection Magazine

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The Anomaly

Hungry for a juicy story line, some of the nation’s top scribes are suggesting that Larry Hogan is the Republican answer to Donald Trump. Larry who?

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Open to Growth

Think RTP is aging? Bayer CropScience's investments indicate it's in the flower of youth.

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Refreshed Links

The 25th U.S. Secretary of Defense calls for a restoration of productive ties between the military and industry.

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Creature Comforts

Ruffwear leads a pack of Oregon outfitters.

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The Perfect Storm?

As if mergers and acquisitions weren’t keeping biopharma-sector real estate managers busy enough, the ground is shifting beneath their feet

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From Classroom To Career

by Anna Reuter

How Arkansas universities are tackling nationwide workforce challenges.

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A Leader in Cybersecurity

New laws, innovative programs and higher learning institutions are all part of Texas’ pivotal role in combating cyber-crime.

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Dialing for Dollars

How companies are winning the battle for the best call center talent.

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A League of Their Own

The 2014 Governors Cups recognize the top performing states for capital investment attraction in a season that lasts all year.

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Can Developers Breathe New Life into Dead Malls?

Retail experts share their prescription for curing dying properties.

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Where Sports Fans Are Loud & Proud

What do sports and earthquakes have in common?

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Smart Mobility Leaders Converge in Arkansas

by Anna Reuter

Hundreds of companies flocked to the UP.Summit for the chance to win over big investors.

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Ontario: AI Applications Expand With Recent Investments

Unilever Canada opened an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab called “Horizon3 Labs” in Toronto in November to expedite work the global consumer products company already is involved...

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Clean Energy Manufacturing, The Sequel

The virtual ink had barely dried on last week’s Site Selection Snapshot about promising clean energy project and job data when First Solar and Maxeon Solar Technologies the very next day each announced billion-dollar manufacturing projects in Louisiana and New Mexico, respectively.

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Let the Summiteering Begin

The latest FDI numbers show reason for optimism in the United States.

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Quality of Life: Locations Are Working Harder to Deliver Today’s Workforce

What does quality of life mean today vs. 10 years ago? Site consultants weigh in on this and other questions about this hard-to-measure but crucial location factor.

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The Champion of Pet Foods

The growing trend toward organic food and the increasing need to understand where food comes from isn’t just for humans anymore.

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Talent Attraction Study Shows Workers Heading South and West

by Ron Starner

Pandemic accelerates movement of degreed professionals to Sunbelt suburbs.

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Health Care As Incubator

Expanding health care environments offer growth and attraction opportunities for science.

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Governing Like a CEO

Meet Mark Parkinson, CEO of Kansas.

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Hiring Harmony

Some tech companies are eschewing Silicon Valley for the quality of life a few miles north. Newly hired software engineers are already busy crafting code for the “Industrial Internet” in GE’s new Global Software Center in San Ramon, Calif. When GE announced its plans for the center late last year, it planned to hire 400 software professionals. The project is going so well that the iconic company is considering doubling that number in the coming years.

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