Project Bulletin

Project Bulletin: October 31, 2023

Yesterday, Ontario-based solar manufacturer Canadian Solar Inc. announced plans for an $800 million solar photovoltaic cell facility in Jeffersonville, Indiana

Automation is One Thing, AI is Another

New Brookings analysis shows which areas of the country are most and least exposed.

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Sustainability Rankings: Green’s on the Move

For these ranked territories and the companies operating in them, prosperity and sustainability are not mutually exclusive.

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Middlesex County, New Jersey: Innovation Destination

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

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The Nation’s Breadbasket, Pantry and Refrigerator

While most operations are clustered in the Kansas City metro, food and beverage producers can be found across the state.

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, January 2007 Software Speeds Lease Analysis by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com I ntuit, the Mountain View, Calif., developer of familiar accounting and tax preparation software such as Quicken and TurboTax, has a real estate portfolio of about 2 million square feet (185,800 sq. m.) spread across about […]

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Area Spotlights

Ohio River Corridor: Metro Louisville Tops Them All

by Adam Bruns

Operators Norma Morin, left, and Kossiwa Eggenam complete door assembly for dishwashers on the new assembly line inside the dishwasher plant at GE Appliances’ headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky.

Photo courtesy of GE Appliances, a Haier company

After tying with its regional rival Cincinnati last year, metro Louisville, Kentucky, has taken the crown as top metro in this year’s Ohio River Corridor rankings.

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Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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California Dreamin’

Rod Colwell has a big plan to leverage lithium.

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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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IAMC INSIDER

July 2006 Best-Case Scenario (cover) IAMC Year in Review 2006 Nike, Kimball LEED the Way By Starting at Home Request Information

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WESTERN CANADA: Technology Grows Here Too

A senior manager at Siemens in Saskatoon is among those who see a horizon full of promise on Canada’s western tech frontier.

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Movers and Shakers

How a business-friendly tax climate and transportation infrastructure lure companies to Broward County, Fla.

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Features

Top Free Zones: Gulf States and California Lead in Impact of U.S. Foreign Trade Zones

The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) is Malaysia’s busiest transshipment hub with the capacity to handle 13 million TEU annually.

Photo courtesy of PTP

Global measures see commerce momentum shifting to Asian ports, with efficiency leaders also found in the Middle East and Africa.

Illinois Hits the Spot

Leading U.S. food brands continue to select the state for business reach and growth.

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Brains and Brawn

The Big Three river cities continue to apply their considerable economic muscle.

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SITE Visit: Clear Signals

ESPN’s campus in Bristol, Conn., has been expanding ever since the network started 30 years ago. The latest new building, the $100-million Digital Center 2, was announced in August.

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Small Ponds Will Soon Be Home to Some Big Fish

Two projects announced in recent weeks will generate approximately 1,150 new jobs in the two Arkansas towns that won them.

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Why They Come, and Why They Stay

Texas firms will hire 1.4 million new workers by 2026. Here’s how the state does it.

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Cover

Business Climate Rankings: Texas Corrals Enough Points to Leave Trailing States in the Dust

by Mark Arend

Photo: Getty Images

Fresh from winning its 11th consecutive Governor’s Cup for total capital investment projects earlier this year, Texas is finishing 2023 …

Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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Site Selectors: It’s Time for Midwest Communities to Change

If the Midwest needed a wake-up call, it was delivered in a big way on Nov. 26 when General Motors announced that it would schedule five automotive plants for closure and lay off 14,500 workers.

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World Reports, Site Selection Magazine, July 2002

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Gone to Texas

7 Reasons to Move to the Lone Star State

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1997 Expansion Forecast: More Go-Go Global Growth

1997 will be earmarked by go-go global corporate facility growth, perhaps on a gargantuan scale. Site Selection?s New Facilities Index clearly indicates 1997?s strong expansionist drift, projecting a substantial 10 percent increase in the number of worldwide new facilities and expansions. Based on a global survey of expansion plans at some of the world?s business […]

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GLOBAL R&D HUBS

GLOBAL R&D HUBS From Site Selection magazine, July 2009 Australia’s Biotech Hub Victoria lays the groundwork for life sciences. by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com T he Australian State of Victoria has invested heavily in recent years to provide the infrastructure for its growing research and development cluster in biotechnology. That investment, about A$3 billion […]

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Quantum Prairie

by Lindsay Lopp

The capital of the computing revolution

Lindsay Lopp
Associate Editor of Site Selection Magazine

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IDRC Abstracts

From Site Selection magazine, March 2002 IDRC ABSTRACTS Following are abstracts of major presentations of the International Development Research Council, which this year is merging with NACORE to form CoreNet Global — the world’s pre-eminent corporate real estate association. “Corporate Energy Strategies: Corporate Real Estate and Economic Development Perspectives,” Texas World Congress, Oct. 22, 2001: […]

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McKinley Conway Remembered

On May 29, 2011, a little shudder shot through the roots of economic development and corporate real estate. That was the day that H. McKinley “Mac” Conway passed away at his home in Shiloh, Fla. The founder and chairman of Conway Data Inc. and founder and publisher of Site Selection was 90 years old; and […]

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TOP METROS

or the past 40 years, Pier 1 Imports has made its home in Fort Worth, Texas. If Chairman and CEO Marvin Girouard has his way, the US$2-billion company will call Fort Worth home for at least the next 40. In 2004, Pier 1 moved into its new $90-million corporate headquarters in the […]

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Competitiveness Award: Who’s Afraid of Virginia?

A top-10 finish in Site Selection’s Governor’s Cup facilities race helped the Commonwealth of Virginia secure its first-ever Competitiveness Award

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2016 Prosperity Cup

North Carolina and Texas grab hold of the first Prosperity Cup. They’re not likely to let go without a fight.

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Building Out for the Future

by Gary Daughters

Investments in innovation are paying off.

Gary Daughters
Senior Editor of Site Selection Magazine

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Europe’s Best Rev Up Investments

W hen Japanese automaker Toyota needed to increase its share of the European marketplace in the late 1990s, it went in search of the automaker’s Holy Grail — the perfect site for a new manufacturing plant. After heated competition, the Nord-Pas de Calais region in Northern France offered the most tempting of sites. […]

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Manufacturing and Logistics Growth in Texas

Ecommerce growth means plenty of new warehouses in Texas.

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TTIP: Looking Out For the Little Guys

Small to mid-size companies hope for best from the US/EU trade agreement.

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Telling the Distribution Center Story

It's a fact. Communities would rather have manufacturers and corporate headquarters than distribution centers.

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SIDEBAR: A Checklist for Corporate Campus Planners

PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSOR ? CLICK ABOVE JANUARY 1999 THE FOLLOWING IS A SIDEBAR TO THE ARTICLE Is a Corporate Campus Right for Your Business? A Checklist for Corporate Campus Planners When planning a corporate campus, it is important to define exactly what you wish to achieve. Here are the recommended steps: 1. Using the […]

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The Middle Of Everything

by Lindsay Lopp

A boost in funding continues to support Illinois’ legacy as a top tier tourist destination.

Lindsay Lopp
Associate Editor of Site Selection Magazine

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Stupid Tourist Questions While Bare-assed on The Bridge

Today I dropped our pants and walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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Networking

Fisker Automotive is in bankruptcy. Coda's story has reached its own bankruptcy coda. And Better Place's vision for an electric car network has gone to a better place.

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Boom Times for Bourbon: The taste of Kentucky is winning over the world

The making of bourbon brings economic development and tourism together in a happy and lasting marriage in Kentucky.

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Can Infrastructure Keep America Competitive?

Obsolete infrastructure poses a real obstacle to attracting and retaining business, writes Henry Petroski.

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WORKFORCE: Many Workforce Players, ONE TEAM KENTUCKY

There are many players in the Kentucky workforce development ecosystem, but they are all part of Team Kentucky.

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Snapshot

Home Field Advantage: Ballpark Figures From Two World Series Cities On the Rise

Only four of the 30 teams in Major League Baseball are named for their states and not their home cities. Two of them — the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks — will meet in this year’s World Series.

Best to Invest

Site Selection is pleased to present its seventh annual Global Best to Invest rankings for success in attracting capital investment projects in 2014.

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UPSKILLING EXISTING EMPLOYEES

Retraining the American workforce is job one for the fastest-growing industry sectors.

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The 2018 Regional Workforce Development Rankings

It is difficult to overstate how crucial workforce development is to a state’s economic health.

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EXECUTIVE VOICES

Arkansas has a long history of producing notable business leaders. Names like Sam Walton, William T. Dillard, J.B. Hunt, Don Tyson and Jack Stephens come to mind. They built companies into household names during their time in Arkansas.

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Seal of Approval

Rapidly escalating demand for new data centers puts added pressure on site selectors to find qualified locations.

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Project Bulletin

Project Bulletin: October 24, 2023

Last week, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and other state officials announced that Louis Dreyfus Company would be investing $500 million in a new soybean processing facility in Wyandot County.

High-Tech Industry Review, Site Selection Magazine, November 2003

F orward-thinking companies in the IT, software and telecommunications sectors know that clustering – locating in (or being closely connected to) geographic hotbeds of innovation with concentrations of other similar and related companies, skilled knowledge workers, universities and technology centers and advanced physical infrastructure – is a key way to gain competitive advantage. The regions […]

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Union Pacific’s Big Utah Stake

The railroad observes 150 years as an economic engine.

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View from Space

The University of Oklahoma was awarded a $166-million grant from NASA that could change the agriculture industry in the US.

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Industries of the Future will be Right at Home in Kentucky

Governor Andy Beshear is determined to make Kentucky a global leader in the fast-emerging agritech industry.

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Southwest Louisiana Out in Front and Not Looking Back

Southwest Louisiana continues to improve a business climate that is already a national leader.

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How Illinois Boosts Its Future Workforce

by Alexis Elmore

The state remains steadfast in workforce development investments.

Alexis Elmore
Associate Editor of Site Selection Magazine

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Mapping the Ocean Floor from the Mountains

The Seabed 2030 Project aims to compile a map of the entire seafloor by the year 2030. The detail work starts at the coasts, but a company driving the project is in Colorado.

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The Road to the Rest of America

Major infrastructure investments are fueling logistics projects.

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How to Grow an Aerospace Cluster

An Innovation Campus at Wichita State University will keep the region’s aerospace sector well stocked with talent.

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High-Tech Executives Ponder The Brave, New World of Corporate Real Estate, Site Selection Magazine, November 2002

C orporate real estate executives from most of Silicon Valley’s high-tech companies gathered in early June in Redwood City, Calif., to participate in one of two Jones Lang LaSalle Leading Edge Series 2002 events to take place this year. Besides high-level presentations on economic forces influencing business decisions, the impact of changes in accounting rules […]

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The Middle Of Everything

A boost in funding continues to support Illinois’ legacy as a top tier tourist destination.

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Illinois: Where Great Ideas Come to Life

by Lindsay Lopp

Groundbreaking discoveries are a dime a dozen in Illinois.

Lindsay Lopp
Associate Editor of Site Selection Magazine

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A Web Solution That Defies Gravity

D espite the prolonged shakeout among occupants of commercial real estate Internet “space,” not all Web services catering to the industry are floundering. Indeed, observers of the market at its height all predicted the shakeout, and the economic slowdown has underscored its impact. It’s not that there isn’t a role for the Internet in the […]

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TOP MICROPOLITANS

f having one Top Small Town is great for a county, then having two is better. Just ask the folks in Iredell County, N.C. By registering 24 new and expanded corporate facility projects in 2004, the Statesville- Mooresville, N.C., Micro-politan Statistical Area claimed Site Selection’s Top Micropolitan of the Year award. […]

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Could a Post-Pandemic National Industrial Strategy Advance the Cause of Advanced Manufacturing?

A new report urges the U.S. government to develop a national industrial strategy.

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Show Me the Workforce

Site Selectors say job skillsets are the driving factor in location decisions.

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Kansas’ Secret Weapon: Its People

Do the math, and one factor trumps all: the workforce of Kansas.

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Need a Site? Illinois Has Cash

by Ron Starner

Gov. Pritzker unveils $40 million grant program to develop megasites.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Where Foreign Investors’ Value Projects Go

Successful investment by foreign firms even has domestic US firms looking inward.

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Growing Iowa’s Innovative Economy

Iowa is investing in original thinkers, entrepreneurs and startups.

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Question & Insight: David Hirsch, Site Selection Magazine, July 2003

S ite Selection: Describe the scope of your responsibilities as Masco’s Director of Property Management. David Hirsch: It means I’m responsible for 44,075,436 square feet [4.1 million sq. m.] of buildings in the world. That’s 32,935,061 square feet [3.06 million sq. m.] domestic and 11,140,375 square feet [1.03 million sq. m.] non-U.S. That’s 149 manufacturing […]

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Ad In: Indiana’s Logistics Advantage

Only a handful of Midwestern states offer companies the logistics advantage of a northern water route via the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and a southern water route via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to the Gulf of Mexico.

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A Balanced Approach to Business

Missouri Department of Economic Development works to improve the state’s business climate through key measures.

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Snapshot

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.

WELCOME TO THE BEAUTIFUL BARGAIN

The best quality of life at the lowest price? Here’s how Mississippi does it.

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Evidence Mounts

Evaluation of tax incentives is good for business and good for taxpayers.

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Cultivating Growth

A rundown of some of the major projects creating jobs in Greater Tucson, including investments from WOW Studios, Sandvik, Bayer and self-driving truck innovator TuSimple.

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What Down Year? Kansas Outperformed in 2020

Back to basics approach fueled resurgent effort
in economic development.

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New Premier Primes Quebec for Powerhouse Status

I s Bernard Landry, Quebec’s new Premier, controversial? Of course he is. A separatist? Definitely. But in his radio address heard around the world about Canada’s “uselessness” in terms of Quebec’s economic development, there was an underlying message that should be music to the ears of corporate investors. Landry (right), the […]

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Project Bulletin

Project Bulletin: October 17, 2023

In a signing ceremony held in Seoul, South Korea, last week oil refiner GS Caltex and trading company Posco International Corporation announced their new $193 million bio feedstock refinery joint venture.

Silent Scourge

If drugs are the lifeblood of the life sciences, their abuse and misuse by the workforce is a health crisis.

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Kansas Connections

State workforce services ensure businesses and talent reach
new heights.

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Shovel-Ready Is a Requirement.

Is your site environment- and wellness-ready too?

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How BASF Navigates China – Cover Story, Site Selection Magazine, July 2004

When BASF AG’s first quarter numbers came in, its chemical division’s sales volume had boosted net income by 17 percent. BASF Chairman Juergen Hambrecht said, “We are seeing synchronized growth in the global economy, driven by the dynamically growing economies in the Far East – especially in China – and by solid growth in North […]

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Grabbing a Tiger by the Tail

By most accounts, China in this the “Year of the Tiger” has eclipsed Japan to become the world’s second largest economy.

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Bridges to Prosperity

by Adam Bruns

By ship, railcar or truck, Illinois gets the job done.

Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine

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IAMC INSIDER

MARCH 2009 So, What Is Your Board Up To? (cover) People & Projects Request Information

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Buyer Beware: Expect Urges Tactical, Not Pervasive, Systems Integration

Buyer Beware: Expert Urges Tactical, Not Pervasive, Systems Integration b y M A R K A R E N D This report begins a short series on how real estate managers can implement integrated systems without purchasing and installing too much technology. Knowing the difference is a valuable asset. The recent date change […]

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Need Mo-99

A new facility coming to Florida is one part of a national push to supply enough of a critical medical isotope by the time the primary supplier in Canada shuts down in 2018.

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Governor Laura Kelly

In word and deed, Gov. Kelly delivers a pro-business message.

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Real Connections

There's more to making a zone work than just drawing a line around it and calling it special.

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Illinois Beats Out Over 58 Competitors for Highly Coveted Project

by Lindsay Lopp

Why did the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative choose Chicago for its new biohub?

Lindsay Lopp
Associate Editor of Site Selection Magazine

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Green Crude

Projects aimed at producing fuel from algae continue to advance around the globe with the help of private and government funding. If and when algae-based fuels become commercially viable on a large scale, New Mexico could be one of the major centers of production. Sapphire Energy has built a large research and development center in Las Cruces and plans to commission a 100-acre algae field this spring near the southern New Mexico town of Columbus.

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Auto Exec: Taming the Property Tax Management Tiger

Most owners of diverse real estate holdings would jump at the chance to organize their property tax records and be able to access tax-related information for specific properties easily. And all owners of real estate would want to reduce their property tax burden wherever possible. Users of Property Tax Office (PTO), a software program from […]

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: BELGIUM

hen Google announced plans to invest up to €300 million in a new European data center, competition between various European regions was fierce. The project would create up to 300 construction jobs, and 120 new jobs in programming, security and maintenance. In addition, attracting one of the world’s leading IT companies offered significant marketing power. […]

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The Toughest 10K Ever

Breakthrough moments are a dime a dozen. Breakthroughs involving the world’s largest tunnel boring machine and Niagara Falls will run you about $1 billion a pop

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Biotech Location Strategies

cientists, scientists and more scientists. Or, simply put, you need lots of smart people in your community to be successful in attracting biotech research and development facilities. Creating a skilled work force is central to the mission of the Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Companies engaged […]

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Online Insider

Sports On the Move: How Atlanta and Miami Became the Kings of U.S. Soccer

by Ron Starner

Meanwhile, the commissioner of a prominent collegiate athletic conference tells us why D.C. attracted the organization’s headquarters.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Now Hiring

Employment events for veterans add value to Oklahoma’s economy.

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21st Century College, 21st Century City

University of Missouri – Kansas City is educating the workforce of tomorrow in one of America’s smartest cities.

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Ecosystems for Innovation

NIH and its partners double down on commercializing university research.

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NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

eptember 2004 saw hurricanes on two coasts and a major earthquake on another, but it was a federal appeals court decision in the U.S. heartland that packed an economic development wallop still awaiting measurement. On Sept. 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit —whose jurisdiction encompasses automotive corridor states […]

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NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS : May 2025

Fiserv in metro Kansas City; Fermaca Dreams in Durango, Mexico; GE Aerospace in North Carolina; a $4 billion ammonia JV in Louisiana; a $23 billion U.S. investment plan from Novartis; the Top 10 most innovative states (No. 1 is not a state).

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Global EV Investors Pick Illinois Sites

by Mark Arend

Italy’s Prysmian Group and Canada’s Lion Electric are just two of the more than 2,000 international companies employing more than 375,000 workers in the state.

Mark Arend
Editor Emeritus of Site Selection Magazine

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What’s In a Name?

What's In a Name?: As census designations for metro and micro areas change from year to year, some communities are left to deal with the aftermath.

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Management Incubator

Ole Miss has a new way to prepare business students for more satisfying careers in the manufacturing sector — and for manufacturers to access engineers, accountants and other business majors with an actual understanding of manufacturing.

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Made in Columbus

When DuPont needed to make a plant location decision between Luxembourg and Circleville, Ohio, in the Columbus Region, the site selection ultimately came down to one factor — who wanted it more.

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Valley of the Sun

A Case Study in High-Tech Cluster Formation

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World Reports: Energy City is Qatar’s Latest Leap Forward — Site Selection Magazine, May 2006

From Site Selection magazine, May 2006 WORLD REPORTS Energy City is Qatar’s Latest Leap Forward by John W. McCurry john.mccurry bounce@conway.com Esam Janahi, chairman of Gulf Energy and Energy City Qatar, center, wearing the red headdress, discusses a model of Energy City Qatar with, to his immediate right, Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Qatar’s prime […]

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It’s Prime Time in Illinois

by Ron Starner

How a new tax incentive is driving data center investment in the Prairie State.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Red Hot Locations Report: Seminar Puts a Finer Point on Marketing and Communications for Investment Promotion Agencies

How can investment promotion agencies differentiate themselves from their competitors? What tools can they use — should they use — to achieve this goal? What are considered best practices today in communicating to potential investors an area’s strategic value? These were among the topics covered in a September Red Hot Locations event in London, the FDI International Marketing & Communications Seminar.

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Surviving the Demographic Disruption

By 2050, global demographics will look very different — older and wiser, mostly.

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Site Selection Competitiveness Award Debuts

Matt Kisber

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Critical Mass

Massachusetts’ dense life sciences ecosystem continues to be a driving force in the state’s economy — even out west.

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Global Infrastructure Report: Smoothing Out the Rough Spots

A dossier of data on the ports, roads, railways, airports and broadband byways of the United States and the world

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Area Spotlights

Upstate New York: IBM Goes All In on Chips

by Ron Starner

Niagara Falls does more than attract tourists to Upstate New York. The natural wonder anchors a quality-of-life ecosystem that is drawing talent and employers to Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and everywhere in between.

Image courtesy of Invest Buffalo-Niagara

Big Blue’s $20 billion investment is transformative for Upstate New York.

Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Round Rock:

The High-Tech Hub of Central Texas

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The Five Key Mistakes Amazon Made

While some have gleefully heaped criticism on New York over the demise of the Amazon HQ2 deal on Long Island, the world’s largest Everything Store might consider something new.

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Artificial Intelligence is Disrupting Another Industry: Site Selection

Over the next several years as new technologies like AI take hold, there are concerns that many jobs will be lost.

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Real Estate Services Update

T he corporate real estate industry’s service provider community is in the midst of a heightened state of “convergence” if the past few months are any indication. Late 2000 saw numerous alliances and acquisitions that support a theory put forward in the Site Selection January 2001 cover story, “E-Business Levels the Real Estate Playing Field”. […]

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Speedo found the perfect fit, as well as projects from Hitachi Appliance in India, Evergreen Solar in China, Cargotec in Estonia, Pfizer in Sweden and Sandoz in Germany.

Global swimwear firm Speedo has elected to stay in Nottingham, England, where the company has had a presence for 50 years. Speedo will move into a new high-tech office building in the city’s center near the end of 2010.

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Snapshot

Where $5 Billion in New New Markets Tax Credits Are Going

Five years ago Site Selection documented how Williams Sausage’s $44 million, 200-plus-job expansion into a second manufacturing complex and new corporate office in Northwest Tennessee was enabled in part by New Markets Tax Credits (NMTCs).

Open Arms

Ernst & Young’s 2012 attractiveness survey found that Germany is the sixth most attractive country in the entire world for investment, and the first by far in Europe. Just as attractive is its global reputation for industrial ingenuity, from top-shelf automotive and high-tech machinery manufacturing to the latest techniques in tracking the carbon footprint of that activity.

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Site Selectors Survey: Why Site Selectors Love the South

Georgia claims top spot in annual consultants’ poll, followed by the Carolinas.

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One Big Greenhouse

Iroko Pharmaceuticals was little more than a seed five years ago. But it planted itself in two of the most fertile growth media for life sciences: Greater Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Regional Hub Status Clearly Within Reach

Sectors succeed when industry and government are on the same page.

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Tide’s Churning

A project in the East River snares the first license from FERC.

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Project Bulletin

Project Bulletin: October 10, 2023

Under the name “Project Lion,” Slovakia-based energy equipment company InoBat is bringing its second Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) facility to Cuprija, Serbia.

Breakthrough Deals: New Trend

Breakthrough Deals: New Trend-Setting Corporate Locationsb y T I M V E N A B L E Auto plants in Detroit. Financial services offices in New York City. Distribution centers in Chicago. Those cities and facility types go together like bread and butter, the result of decades of business success. But the world […]

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Site Selection Debuts Leading Occupancy Costs Index

The Johnson Controls USA Office Costs Index [See Tables One, Two, Three and Chart A for data] The Johnson Controls USA Office Occupancy Costs Index is based on a detailed model of a medium grade air-conditioned office building, which operates reasonably efficiently with no unusually high service standards or demands. The building is 160,000 rentable […]

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Motown Rebound Reaps a ‘Threepeat’

“Last one out, turn off the lights.” A few years ago, that was the rueful joke in Detroit. Even personable Mayor Dennis Archer joshed at a mid-1990s’ blue-ribbon gathering of corporate real estate executives, “I’ve got a lot of empty lots and boarded-over storefronts that I can really get you a good price on.” But […]

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Hyperscalers Take Data Center Absorption to New Levels

In a world where commerce increasingly is moving to the cloud, it’s only fitting that one of the biggest data center campuses in America is being built right now by a company called CloudHQ.

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Food & Beverage Processing: How to Find America’s Best Cities for Food Manufacturing

Experts say many factors changed following the advent of the pandemic.

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Where the TDL Talent Pipeline Is Full

by Mark Arend

More than 20,500 transportation, distribution and logistics (TDL) companies employ more than 331,000 people in Illinois and contribute nearly $39 billion in economic output.

Mark Arend
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Sites in Demand

Kentucky programs prepare sites for influx of business locations.

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Rexburg: The Millennial Hot Spot of Idaho

Innovative firms find motivated, highly educated workers in this rapidly growing college town.

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Strategic Expansion’s Consummate Collaborators: Site Selection?s 1996 Top 10 Development Groups

Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov and other international chess champions usually don?t ask for advice on their next move. Veritable lone wolves, they stand or fall on their own wits, skill and strategy. Companies, though, needn?t operate that way in crafting real estate strategies involving multimillion-dollar facilities. In fact, more and more firms are relying on […]

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‘Strategically, the Right Location’

For a state with a population of about 4.5 million, Kentucky is home to an astonishing number of international employers.

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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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Area Spotlights

Arkansas: Coffee Producer Brews Major Expansion Plans

by Alexis Elmore

Westrock Coffee Company has set out to create an equitable, sustainable and transparent coffee industry.

Photo Courtesy of Westrock Coffee Company

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

Alexis Elmore
Associate Editor of Site Selection Magazine

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