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EDITOR’S VIEW: The Waiting Was The Hardest Part

by Adam Bruns

In 1983 when our founder Mac Conway launched SiteNet, he had already helmed the magazine and Conway Data for 29 years and published tens of thousands of pages of reports and directories. I can see them on our office shelves, bound in books. I was 19 years old then, a sophomore in college and bound […]

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Dig Deeper

Does workplace wellness correspond to the economic vitality of a company or an area? If so, then the new 2014 Healthiest Workplaces in America rankings tell us the Midwest is fit as a fiddle.

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, […]

First-Class Performance

AIDT helps people and companies find the next level.

A Window to the World

From 2011 to 2016, more than 1,441 foreign direct investment projects made their way to Texas, translating into the creation of $212 billion in capital investment.

2022 Prosperity Cup

Two in row for North Carolina means something is afoot in the Tarheel State. Maybe it comes down to one word.

Snapshot

Slicing and Dicing the Academy

Slicing and Dicing the Academy Oxford University is No. 1 in the world for the ninth consecutive year. Photo by Chinyup Wong: Getty Images Earlier this month at Times Higher Education’s World Academic Summit in Manchester, UK, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 were unveiled. A total of […]

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Mumblings of Reform

Is the end of the economic development incentive war at hand?

What Goes Around Comes Around; Carolinas Grow Finer; Whatever You Do, Don’t Compare These Numbers; Inside and Outside Indicators Stoke Optimism, Caveats

What Goes Around Comes Around; Carolinas Grow Finer; Whatever You Do, Don’t Compare These Numbers; Inside and Outside Indicators Stoke Optimism, Caveats

Aerospace & Defense- By the Numbers: Big Stats and Big Dollars

Big numbers in a new industry report are borne out by big projects. Plus insights from two A&D experts at JLL.

Laser Focus, Global Opportunities

A Conversation with Ontario's Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade.

Good Prognosis

Korea’s economy is exhibiting encouraging signs as 2009 draws to a close. FDI announcements for the first nine months reached US$8 billion, up 8 percent from 2008.

Online Insider

Fender Stays in Tune with Greater Phoenix

by Ron Starner

Legendary guitar firm picks redeveloped mall site for new HQ2.

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High

We live in an age of e-commerce, fiber optics, information systems and infrastructure, and ideas and initiatives moving at the speed of light through a network of silicon and wiring. And that prompts one to ask, why do so many good ideas go bad? Could it be that we have forgotten in this gizmo-oriented age […]

Peak Performance

High-tech firms striving for growth in California scale new heights in San Bernardino County.

Cashing In On Collaboration

Colorado’s startup ecosystem gives life to budding fintech companies.

Driven to Texas

Tesla’s decision to park a billion-dollar-plant near Austin revs up an already humming sector.

Foundations for the Future

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

Diverse Opportunities and Vibrant Communities

by Lindsay Lopp

Sam Vadalabene Bike Trail, Alton.
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Why Illinois is the right place for you.

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How Kansas Supports the Climate and the Business Climate All At Once

Alive-action model of the clean energy economy’s circularity can be found in Kansas, where common-sense, middle-of-the-road policy and costs complement the state’s middle-of-the-country location and sensibility. They also complement the goals of a $4 billion megaproject.

Jackson: Central Mississippi’s Crossroads

Drop your finger in the middle of a map of the Southeast U.S., and you’ll point to Jackson, Mississippi.

Testing the Waters

For any company that plans to open a new facility, or expand an existing one, the decision must make financial sense.

Arena for Success

According to these referrals, Indy comes highly recommended.

Creating Economic Opportunity In Michigan

What role does Consumers Energy play in economic development?

Tourism Grants Make All of Illinois a Destination

by Mark Arend

Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, Illinois, is a popular racetrack for drivers and motorsports fans alike.
Photo courtesy of Illinois Office of Tourism

The Middle of Everything campaign has delivered huge returns.

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How Colorado Forms Governance, Employment & Energy Policy

Named America’s fourth best state for business by CNBC in 2022, Colorado has been implementing measures in recent years that should keep it near the top of that ranking and others in the future.

Scrubbing Clean Energy Data

Industry project investment data from sectors and professional practices attached to clean tech and clean power are central to the sophisticated index behind Site Selection’s annual Sustainability Rankings, which last year saluted top performers such as Sweden, North Carolina and Austin, Texas.

Good Medicine

Life sciences, logistics among sectors showing vitality.

The Game Changer

The Southwest Louisiana and Acadiana region supplies energy to the world and skilled workers for expanding companies. Take the elements that are critical to community prosperity — water, transportation, energy, industrial know-how, and willing and able workers — and combine them into a strategy for economic success … that is exactly what Southwest Louisiana and Acadiana did.

Peter Beattie: Queensland’s Persistent Premier Lands Virgin, Red Hat HQs

Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is on intimate terms with persistence. Just ask Richard Branson. Branson recently announced that he was shopping for an Australian headquarters site. But the Virgin Atlantic chairman already had a location short list that was truly short: It included only Sydney and Melbourne, Australia’s two largest, best known cities. Faced with […]

Illinois Gets Picture Perfect

by Alexis Elmore

FX’s “The Bear” began filming in Chicago in 2021, going on to win 10 Emmy Awards in 2023.
Photo courtesy of FX

If you enjoyed watching “Dark Matter” and “Presumed Innocent,” you will love what Illinois film studios are hatching next.

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Gen X Meets Agri-Business

At Eastman Business Park, innovative firms put a new twist on edible delights.

Home Base

The domestic US industry is rebounding and the Mexican auto sector is soaring on the power of multiple megaplants.

Project Bulletin, May 12, 2025: Prince George, Virginia; Warren, Ohio and Beech Island, South Carolina; Querétaro, Mexico

LEGO prepares for future operations in Virginia; Kimberly-Clark enhances U.S. portfolio; ODATA welcomes QR03's first data center facility in Mexico.

2022 Prosperity Cup

Two in row for North Carolina means something is afoot in the Tarheel State. Maybe it comes down to one word.

Made For the Future

Is it just coincidence that companies are realizing pioneering renewable energy success along Great Lakes shorelines? Or that territories in two nations are seeing progressive energy policies blend with their industrial heritage to spawn growth in corporate investment?

Where Quantum Science is PERFECTED

by Mark Arend

Rendering of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park.
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Quantum computing is changing the world of computation from a new home base in Chicago.

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Medical Device Momentum

Indiana’s life sciences sector experienced a robust 2010 with companies committing to create more than 4,000 jobs, the highest annual figure in several years.

RTP’s Next Chapter

A new mega campus for ag-tech in North Carolina aims to foster solutions to world hunger and lead the way to a more urbanized Research Triangle Park.

Round Rock

The High-Tech Hub of Central Texas

Trade Bait, Special Advertising Section, Site Selection magazine, May 2004

ant to gain an edge over your global competition? Consider locating your next plant in a Foreign-Trade Zone. If you thought that FTZs were only for distribution centers and freight-forwarding facilities, think again. Locating in an FTZ can save your operation millions of dollars per year, and you can do a […]

Beijing Congress Signals China’s Economic Coming Out

China’s challenges were center stage at IDRC’s record-breaking March 27-28 Beijing World Congress, “Asia and Corporate Real Estate: Global Infrastructure Rises to the Next Level,” which drew an Asian record turnout of 172. “This Congress was a marker in China’s future development,” said presenter Marcel De Meirleir of Ernst & Young. RIGHT: Lois Dougan Tretiak […]

Chicago’s Biohub Boom

by Lindsay Lopp

CZI Co-Founder and Co-CEO Priscilla Chan, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago President Shana Kelley at the CZ Biohub Chicago launch.
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Why the Windy City’s life sciences sector is on the rise.

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Life Sciences Industry Property Leasing: A Primer

Exciting new discoveries in biomedical sciences in the past decade, like the mapping of the human genome, have had an unintended effect on the real estate world

AEDC OVERVIEW

When it comes to economic development, there’s a lot of momentum in Arkansas. From entrepreneurs to established companies expanding and locating new facilities, Arkansas is winning more than its fair share of economic development projects with more in the project pipeline.

Pflugerville, Texas: On the Road to Save Lives and Build Careers

Career prep goes mobile in Pflugerville high schools.

Germany’s Logistics Nerve Center

When an area lands a major logistics project from a leading global retailer, site location experts take notice.

Linchpin Locations

We sorted through the list of more than 1,300 intermodal sites listed in the Intermodal Association of North America’s directory to find the top states and cities by number of intermodal facilities.

No Better Place to Be Global

by Adam Bruns

AIT Worldwide Logistics’ global headquarters in Itasca in DuPage County occupies multiple floors of the 25-story suburban tower 2 Pierce Place, the second-tallest building in Illinois outside the Chicago city limits.
Photo courtesy of AIT

Need a place to store or distribute your goods? Look no more. Illinois has a spot for it.

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Renewable Fuel Projects Are on Tap

Louisiana is in the running — or has been selected already — for three major renewable fuel plants. Delta Biofuel announced in late June that it is evaluating Iberia Parish for a planned $70 million renewable fuel plant. The planned production facility would produce biomass fuel pellets made from residual sugarcane fiber known as bagasse. […]

Spearheading Innovation

The Texas technology industry is robust and growing.

IDRC Abstracts

Abstracts of recent major presentations of the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world?s preeminent corporate real estate association. ?New New Strategies for Inner-City Economic Development,? Keynote Address by Michael Porter; IDRC New England World Congress, Apr. 26, 1999: ?The inner city is becoming the new hot spot,? offering location strengths, major pools of available […]

Call Centers’ Secret Weapon: Application Analysis

L ooking for labor is usually the first job of any call center. Jeff Furst of FurstPerson, a Chicago-based call center solutions company, looks to fill that need by tailoring labor searches and finding, hiring and keeping the right people for customer contact centers. FurstPerson acts as an on-site recruiting firm and concentrates in creating […]

The Largest Life Sciences Cluster In the World

How big is California’s biotech and life sciences sector? Really big, a new report reveals.

Project Bulletin

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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Machinery Keeps On Churning

Machinery and food & beverage finish No. 1 and No. 2 for 2022 behind strong surges over 2021 totals.

Reach for the Sky

Automotive technology has given rise to a potent aerospace industry.

Gamers Have Georgia On Their Minds

Chris Rickwood may not be a household name to music enthusiasts around the U.S., but that may be only because they are listening to music through traditional media.

Military Base Redevelopment: From Swords to Ploughshares, Site Selection Magazine, November 2003

W Potlatch Corp.’s new distribution center at CenterPoint Intermodal Center on the former Joliet (Ill.) Arsenal property will soon be joined by the company’s tissue converting plant next door. hen Potlatch Corp., a Spokane, Wash.-based manufacturer of wood and paper products, began looking for a site for a new distribution center to serve its expanded […]

Want a Better Bottom Line?

Team Massachusetts can help.

Illinois Is Going Electric

by Gary Daughters

Rivian celebrates a milestone.
Photo courtesy of Rivian

Expanding incentives support a growing ecosystem.

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Las Vegas Toasts Diversity

The road to riding out the COVID recession leads beyond the Strip.

New York Is Where A New Age Begins

Era-defining events, as if colliding, have coalesced to ignite a semiconductor revolution in the United States.

Payoffs Spur Cisco, Lucent to Expand European Workplace Innovations

Cisco and Lucent’s workplace innovations have cut their European real estate costs and increased optional flexibility. But understanding cultural nuances is a major factor in making it work. Editor’s note: Communications age workplace innovations are rapidly advancing in Europe, propelled by deregulation, exploding Internet usage and the new single currency. Two leaders in European workplace […]

Their Time Is Now: A SkillsUSA Champions Scorecard

Looking for a metric by which to calibrate a workforce’s technical skills? The SkillsUSA Championships could be meaningful to any company’s site selection matrix.

Self Starters

Energy efficiency tweaks such as new HVAC systems and long-life light bulbs offer tremendous and quick gains, but they only get you so far.

Green Everywhere You Look

by Adam Bruns

Photo courtesy of Invenergy

From wind power to bio-renewables, Illinois creates alternative energy solutions for the world.

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Come On In – The Water’s Fine

California’s water resource challenges are real, but so are the many technology solutions in use and
on the drawing board.

New Challenges to Regional Giants’ Dominance

China and India metros dominate this year’s Best to Invest ranking of Asia-Pacific cities — determined by Site Selection’s New Plant Database, LocationSelector.com analysis from Amsterdam-based IC Associates and a survey of global site consultants. But there’s plenty of activity elsewhere in the region, particularly in Sydney, Australia, and Seoul and Ulsan, South Korea, which ranked sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively.

Climate Change

Northeast states grapple with perceptions, and reality, concerning tax structure.

Playing Catch

How to Capture Highly Educated Millennials

SeaTac City Emerges As an Epicenter for Economic Activity

With its unmatched connectivity and transit-connected housing, this could be the home of your new headquarters in the state of Washington.

A Bright Manufacturing Future

by Gary Daughters

Workforce and incentives propel the evolution of a signature industry.

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Ready or Not, Here Comes Y2K

If only the Y2K bug could be gotten rid of as easily as its counterparts in the natural world. It cannot, of course, and there is a palpable sense of foreboding surrounding the run-up to Jan. 1, 2000, when non-Y2K-compliant computers will assume it?s 1900. There is an even stronger sense in some circles that […]

How a Farm Store Firm Fell in Love With Arkansas

A central Arkansas town checks all the boxes for a Tractor Supply Company distribution center.

Innovation and tradition meet in St. Louis

St. Louis: Innovation and tradition meet in St. Louis

That’s The Spirit

A recent investment by Spirit AeroSystems at the North Carolina Global TransPark in Kinston is paving the way for a local aerospace cluster that could soon number in the thousands of workers. No other location had GTP’s blend of logistics and work-force attributes, says a Spirit executive central to the location decision.

EDITOR’S VIEW

EDITOR’S VIEW From Site Selection magazine, November 2008 Are ‘Structural Strengths’ Enough? J ust as this issue is reaching you, the general election is drawing to a close, and the American population is getting used to the idea of a new team at the wheel of the ship of state. In the weeks leading […]

THIS IS THE FUTURE of Agriculture

by Gary Daughters

Biomanufacturing research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Photo courtesy of IBRL

Illinois’ singular assets earn “Tech Hub” status and propel new engines of sustainable production.

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Quantum Prairie

The capital of the computing revolution

Missouri: Show-Me Showbiz

Missouri: Show-Me Showbiz

Innovative Archer Aviation Has Landed in Georgia

Relationships are key to another E-mobility project.

Donnelley’s HQ Move Displays Business Climate Punch

N orth Carolina is fertile turf for expansion-minded companies, finishing No. 1 in Site Selection‘s 2003 business climate rankings. The Tar Heel State’s potent site-selection kick was amply evident in R.H. Donnelley‘s decision to consolidate its headquarters in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. (reported earlier as the SiteNet/IAMC Dispatch‘s August Incentives Deal of the Month). In the end, […]

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.

Snapshot

WorldSkills Brings France’s Summer of Global Competitions to a Close

WorldSkills Brings France’s Summer of Global Competitions to a Close Attendees from Japan and Hong Kong share a jubilant moment at WorldSkills 2024 in Lyon, France. Photo courtesy of WorldSkills How do you get 100,000 visitors to your city because of vocational education? Put your city in France, for starters. […]

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: WORK-FORCE TRAINING PROGRAMS

hen it comes to the value of continuous learning and study, there is no shortage of studies. A common finding of most of them may be the most agreed- upon but least acted- upon facet of the United States’ growing concern over its skills deficit: The primary importance of work- force training. Those cities, regions […]

Legal Fiction, True Savings

Has your company paid heed to the potential benefits foreign trade zone status can confer? If not, listen up.

New Battlefields for the ‘Real Estate Revolution’: ‘Expandable Infrastructure,’ ‘Demand-Side Space’ Like the larger business world, the corporate real estate industry is in huge flux. Far-ranging issues like infrastructure integration and workplace metrics are the latest weapons of choice in what many call ‘the real estate revolution.’ b y J A C K […]

Beyond US Borders

Exports from Oklahoma reach farther than ever before.

Why Ohio is Losing the Trade War

The impact of trade tariffs is being debated in many corners, but a team of researchers has found evidence that Ohio is bearing the brunt of the backlash.

ILLINOIS BREAKS INNOVATION BARRIERS

by Alexis Elmore

Home to the world’s greatest business incubator, Illinois is the place to grow for business builders.

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Brexit and Trade: The View from Canada

Last month's surprising vote to leave the European Union kicked off a market maelstrom — which is settling a little now.

Emerging Services Destinations in North America

Building on the success of OCO Global’s first edition market report focused on emerging Global Business Services (GBS) and Shared Services Centers (SSC) locations in Europe, we now want to highlight opportunities in the Americas, home to nearly one-third of the global GBS market.

Rediscovering Richmond

A global medical products distributor and healthcare services provider chooses to grow where it was first planted 135 years ago.

A Visit on the Front Porch

In 2010 the Greenville News referred to Fluor Field as the front porch of Greenville.

Site Plan Features Active Cultures

Alpina Foods’ new dairy manufacturing plant in Batavia, N.Y., isn’t built yet, and already it’s been expanded — twice.

In Illinois, Industry and Academia Go Hand in Hand

by Lindsay Lopp

World-class research is a game changer in Illinois, and it starts in the university lab.

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Scrubbing Clean Energy Data

Industry project investment data from sectors and professional practices attached to clean tech and clean power are central to the sophisticated index behind Site Selection’s annual Sustainability Rankings, which last year saluted top performers such as Sweden, North Carolina and Austin, Texas.

CLIENT SERVICE AWARDS: Appearance Matters — Site Selection Magazine, January 2006

CLIENT SERVICE AWARDS From Site Selection magazine, January 2006 Appearance Matters by MARK AREND “With the added pressures of new governance legislation and rules like Sarbanes-Oxley, it is clear that clients need an unprecedented degree of rigor, process orientation and transparency.” ? Equis Corp. M aking the client look good to his or her superiors […]

Back On Top

According to new research on clean energy financing in G-20 nations released by The Pew Charitable Trusts earlier this month, The United States attracted $48 billion in clean energy investment in 2011, a 42-percent increase over 2010, and just beating out China’s $45.5 billion to claim the No. 1 ranking.

Site Selectors Survey: Why Site Selectors Love the South

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

No Better Place to Be Global

Need a place to store or distribute your goods? Look no more. Illinois has a spot for it.

Departments

IAMC Insider: LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

Holistic View Draws from Different Perspectives

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Fertile Fields

Companies large and small are betting big on an expected economic resurgence in a Florida region known more for its muck than its money.

The Connected City: How a New Pier is Bringing Everyone Together in St. Pete, FL

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman is passionate about a lot of things when it comes to discussing his city of 265,000 people on the Gulf Coast of West Central Florida. But he seems to get especially animated when asked about the recent opening of the new St. Pete Pier.

2021 Top Markets for STEM Job Growth

RCLCO, partnering with CapRidge Partners, recently produced the fifth annual STEM Job Growth Index (“STEMdex”)

1999 Top 10 Utility Companies

Knowledge is power. A truer statement may never have been uttered, and amazingly, Sir Francis Bacon’s remark still holds true today — perhaps even more so. In today’s fast-moving economy, receiving the right information at the right time can make or break a location deal and sometimes even a company. That’s why site consultants and […]

I Am Because We Are: Living the Spirit of IAMC Forums

I Am Because We Are Living the Spirit of IAMC Forums

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Sanofi Bets Big in Europe

by Adam Bruns

Investments in its home country and in Germany demonstrate French biopharma giant Sanofi’s commitment to European production.

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Clusters & Mergers

Medical devices are a big deal in Minnesota. The cluster's attractiveness is central to a big $25-billion deal announced this week.

Repeat Customers Turn to Mississippi for Logistics Prowess

Of the couple dozen Mississippi logistics facility investments documented by Site Selection since early 2022, more than a few come from companies doubling down on competitive advantages they discovered years before.

LoopNet CEO Dennis DeAndre looked out on a room filled to overflowing and made an observation that typified what was happening in New York. “I can remember doing talks like this four and a half years ago, and I swear I would be talking to two people,” DeAndre said. Pinpointing the e-revolution’s impact was clearly […]

What Makes for a Good Fit

States that know what they're good at make a stronger case for corporate investment than those that don't.

SITE Visit

SITE Visit From Site Selection magazine, July 2008 Joint venture company EMAL is building the world’s largest aluminum smelter in a new industrial zone being developed between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Super Smelter The UAE makes way for a Middle East aluminum hub. by JOHN W. McCURRYjohn.mccurry bounce@conway.com B anking on future demand for […]

Project Bulletin

Project Bulletin: October 7, 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. Investment Pours In […]

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Tribal Economic Development: Anchoring Down On New Opportunities

The Puyallup Tribe adds commercial port activity in Tacoma to an increasingly diverse economic development roster.

CHIP MAKERS, SUPPLIERS, AMONG TOP GLOBAL INVESTORS IN 2022

Taiwanese manufacturers have found a penchant for investing in the Grand Canyon State.

Jack Lyne: The Standard of a Great Life

Jack Lyne: The Standard of a Great Life

How To Spot the Next Growth Markets

Oxford Economics forecast models show that global metros with high concentrations of advanced manufacturing tend to be the leaders in metro growth when ranked by GDP output.

Welcome to Michigan

Welcome to Michigan! We are delighted to invite you to consider expanding or relocating your business operations to our diverse, innovative and forward-thinking state.

Area Spotlights

MASSACHUSETTS: A Leading Biotech Cluster Keeps Growing

by Lindsay Lopp

On August 13, Eli Lilly and Company opened its new Lilly Seaport Innovation Center (LSC) in Boston.

Photo-rendering courtesy of Eli Lilly and Company

Why the Boston area’s life sciences sector is outperforming national growth rates.

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Closing the Perception Gap

Experts weigh in on the weight of the Midwest’s past and the momentum of its future.

New Energy Projects in Africa Highlight Powerful Opportunities

Progress in Rwanda, Senegal and other African nations strengthens the grid while puncturing misperceptions.

All Those Ones and Zeroes Add Up to BILLIONS

It might surprise you to learn that traditional data center leaders Virginia and Texas have been challenged since 2016 began.

Boston Bounty

The BIO International Convention held in Boston June 18-21 — at least the exhibition part of it — seemed to be about economic development pitches by states and nations as much as it was about science. The 34 country and 26 state pavilions all served as recruiting beachheads, manned by personnel trying to lure companies to their respective areas.

On the Make

Northwest Ohio is a mecca for manufacturing.

Area Spotlights

Pennsylvania: 4 Reasons Companies Are Expanding in the Lehigh Valley

by Lindsay Lopp

Bethlehem is a city in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.

Photo: Getty Images

Population growth is helping meet a growing demand for labor in the Lehigh Valley.

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Need a Site? Illinois Has Cash

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

Logistics & Distribution: Where & Why The Logistics Giants Are Expanding

Snapshots of UPS, DHL, Amazon and Ryder project activity and a ranking of global connectedness accompany our look at which U.S. states and metros have attracted...

Cooking up New Ideas in America’s Breadbasket

Kansas is home to multiple R&D operations, influencing everything from farm fields to after-school snacks.

Midwest Needs More Metros That Support Young Tech Firms

Study by Walton Family Foundation finds Heartland missing out on economic dynamism.

The Common Denominator Is Jobs

A national laboratory expansion and a new yogurt manufacturing project will deliver significant economic impact to their cities and to Idaho. Several thousand jobs are being attributed to work now getting under way at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in Idaho Falls, the centerpiece of which is a new, $50-million, 148,000-sq.-ft. (13,750-sq.-m.) research and education laboratory.

Area Spotlights

Nevada: The Start of Something Big?

by Gary Daughters

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in Nevada.

Image courtesy of Dragonfly Energy

Federal Tech Hub status stokes Nevada’s clean energy dreams.

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Universities Across Kansas

A glance at the value found on the campuses of the state’s seven public four-year universities.

STATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

STATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE From Site Selection magazine, November 2006 Commerce Claws Our annual state-by-state legislative update delivers news on economic development-related legislation, but it may be time for bigger policy action in the nation’s capital. by MARK AREND, ADAM BRUNS & JOHN W. McCURRY editor bounce@conway.com E ven as states buoyed by the Supreme […]

Unifying Force

Ameren’s economic development team bridges two states to help employers and communities prosper.

Work Force Incentives Deserve a Closer Look

W hen manufacturer Superior Walls of Central Illinois opened for business in the Springfield Enterprise Community, it created job opportunities for 42 low-to-moderate-income neighborhood residents. “These employees show great pride in producing a quality product,” says Springfield developer Mike Suhadolnik, owner of Superior Walls. Suhadolnik’s enthusiasm is matched by that of […]

Smart Space

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

Snapshot

The Geography of Genius

The Geography of Genius The Johnson Museum sits atop East Hill on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, one of several institutions frequently associated with MacArthur grant recipients from New York. 2019 photo by Jason Koski (UREL) © Cornell University This week’s announcement of 22 new MacArthur Fellows brings […]

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Shot in the Arm

Quick: Where is France's leading port for both ore and coal imports and containerized fruit?

Minnesota: Manufacturers Weigh In On Their 2024 Prospects

Minnesota manufacturers are cautiously optimistic about 2024, according to the Minnesota Manufacturing Business Conditions Survey, the results of which were announced in February.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION

From Site Selection magazine, July 2004 ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION Tech Transfer Thrives In Mountain States University research is generating startups, jobs. The scenic University of Utah campus launches three to eight startup companies each year. by JOHN W. McCURRY T ocky Mountain states have long had a leg up in the all-important […]

‘Foreign Investors Should Talk to Me’

Former Guatemalan President (1996-2000) and current Guatemala City Mayor Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen addressed a Guatemala Investment Summit on May 30th to encourage investors to consider seriously his metropolitan area the next time they are seeking a location for BPO, manufacturing or other facilities.

New Mexico Is Riding A Breeze

The stage is set for the nation’s biggest wind energy investment.