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Top Utilities 2024: Power Provision Is Just the Beginning

by Adam Bruns

Based on corporate end-user facility investments in their territories, these are this year’s top utilities in economic development. An online-only bonus story features their direct answers to a big question from us and their customers: “Amid a glut of heavy-load industrial projects, how is your team working with operations and external stakeholders to address power provision?”

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2024 Global Groundwork Index: REPEAT Investors

by Adam Bruns

The North Tarrant Express project in north Texas has seen rapid increase in traffic, driving revenue up for Ferrovial and allowing people to drive to work or home more quickly.

Photo courtesy of Ferrovial

Ohio and Indianapolis once again top the Global Groundwork Index rankings, while the UK leads the way abroad.

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Snapshot

Park Visitors Drive Gateway Economies

If outdoor recreation opportunities are on your company’s or family’s location matrix, new data released by the National Park Service this week is worth visiting.

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Online Insider

The Case for Cooperation

Advancing Green Technology in a De-risking Era

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Project Bulletin

Project Bulletin: August 26, 2024

Thanks to an $850 million partnership between the Australian government and Norway-based Kongsberg Defence, a new long-range missile manufacturing facility is coming to the Newcastle Airport precinct by 2027.

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Departments

IAMC Insider: Sustainability Includes Sustaining an Organization

Sustainability Includes Sustaining an Organization

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Snapshot

In the Arena: How to Keep Track of Stadium Deals

As Major League Baseball’s regular season winds down like a pitch clock and pennant races wind up like a pitcher, sports team owners, communities and entire states keep taking their best swings at new stadium proposals and deals.

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Bonus Web Content

Top Utilities Provide Exclusive Insights Into the Pressing Need for More Power

by Adam Bruns

Extending licenses for TVA’s nuclear fleet at locations such as Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama is a priority for TVA in order to meet load growth demand. The plant celebrated its 50th anniversary in August.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF TVA

Power provision is vying with workforce as the most pressing issue for industrial companies nationwide amid a glut of major industrial facility projects (data centers, semiconductor fabs, EV/battery supply chain, etc.). How is your utility’s economic development team working with operations and external stakeholders to address these concerns?

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Project Bulletin

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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Online Insider

The Harmonious Blend of Palestine

by Adam Bruns

Harmonious Blend

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Area Spotlights

Up-and-Coming Industry Hubs Across New England

by Lindsay Lopp

Ørsted and Eversource have invested approximately $100 million into the work at their ProvPort hub.

Image courtesy of Ørsted

Two Tech Hub designations recognize innovation arising where America began.

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Area Spotlights

The Garden State’s Support for Innovators Is SIC

by Mark Arend

New Jersey’s largest city, Newark, is home to the HAX Strategic Investment Center for technology startups and entrepreneurs.

Newark skyline photo by Harry Prott courtesy of Newark Happening

New Jersey: The Garden State’s Support for Innovators Is SIC

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Project Bulletin

Project Bulletin: August 12, 2024

Last week, Missouri-based construction technology company MiTek announced it would be constructing its fourth location in Florida at the North Tampa Industrial Park Ready Site.

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Features

Offshore Wind: Keeping Up with the Jones Act

by Gary Daughters

Dominion’s “jack up” ship is closer to deployment.

Rendering courtesy of Dominion Energy

OFFSHORE WIND: Keeping Up with the Jones Act:

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Advanced Manufacturing: Where Quantum Computing Is Taking Root

by Mark Arend

IonQ is a leading maker of single core quantum processors, such as Forte.

Photo courtesy of IonQ

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING: Where Quantum Computing Is Taking Root:

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International Update

ASIA: Investment Insomnia

APAC Executives’ Mixed Perceptions of U.S. Investment Climate

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Area Spotlights

How Oklahoma Stocks Its Aviation Talent Pond

by Mark Arend

American Airlines is one of Oklahoma’s largest aviation-related companies, with more than 5,000 workers at its Tech Ops – Tulsa facility.

Photo courtesy of American Airlines

OKLAHOMA: How Oklahoma Stocks Its Aviation Talent Pond

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Snapshot

FLAP-D and Beyond

Since January 2015, Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database has qualified 58 major data center investments in the Europe’s “FLAP-D” markets: Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin.

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Where’s the Beef? Not in These Facilities

by Mark Arend

A rendering depicts GEA’s New Food North America facility in Janesville, Wisconsin.

Image courtesy of GEA

Where’s the Beef? Not in These Facilities

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International Update

Africa: Digital Giants Unveil Billion-Dollar Data and Skills Plan for Kenya and East Africa

by Adam Bruns

Peng Xiao, Group CEO of G42 (l.), shook hands with President William Samoei Ruto of Kenya in March 2024.

Photo courtesy of G42

Digital Giants Unveil Billion-Dollar Data and Skills Plan for Kenya and East Africa

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Industry Review

SOARING INTO 2024

by Gary Daughters

Aerospace investments dot the U.S.

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Project Bulletin

Project Bulletin: August 5, 2024

EDITOR’S NOTE: The project records appearing every week in the Site Selection Project Bulletin are pulled from the Conway Projects Database, a proprietary resource with tens of thousands of records of corporate end-user facility investments across all industry sectors and all world geographies. Want to look for our projects yourself? Look here. PsiQuantum Goes ‘Chi-Quantum’ […]

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Snapshot

Site Selection Snapshot – August 1, 2024

        Cart Before the Horse?           If a proposed 25% tariff were to go into effect, the cost of 12 STS cranes already ordered from Chinese companies by the Port of Virginia (pictured) would balloon from $161.52 million to nearly $202 million, says the AAPA. Photo courtesy of […]

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