March 10, 2014
Commanding View
Mark Twain found the Upper Mississippi otherworldly, serene and bucolic when he traveled through the region 130 years ago.
March 10, 2014
Mark Twain found the Upper Mississippi otherworldly, serene and bucolic when he traveled through the region 130 years ago.
February 25, 2014
Think tax certainty doesn't matter to capital investors? Think again. Two of Oregon's largest corporations - Nike and Intel - just signed major expansion deals that will add at least 1,000 jobs to the state's economy in the next few years.
February 18, 2014
Direct investment by more than 100 foreign companies in his state has caught the attention of Maine Governor Paul LePage. They employ more than 30,000 workers, and many of these companies are expanding.
February 18, 2014
If corporate site selectors are expecting “business as usual” when evaluating potential business facility locations in New York these days, they may find that a few things have changed in The Empire State.
February 10, 2014
Asked to describe the house in Tupelo where Elvis was born, one local woman puts it this way: “You could spit in the front door, and hit the dog goin’ out the back.”
February 4, 2014
The same Snake River Canyon made famous by motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel is making a new name for itself courtesy of some innovative thinking.
January 27, 2014
Indiana boasts the best business climate in the Midwest, say consultants who read Site Selection, but plenty of executives are voting for Chicago with their pocketbooks.
January 21, 2014
Governor Rick Snyder had a big economic development win in 2013 when Michigan became the nation’s 24th right-to-work state, but he’s not resting on his laurels.
January 10, 2014
Imagine not one, but two commercial aircraft manufacturers announcing new jetliner assembly plants in your state within a year.
December 16, 2013
Food and beverage is one of Virginia’s top industry sectors, with more than 33,000 people working at PepsiCo, Tyson, Boar’s Head Provisions, Lipton Tea and well over 500 other companies.
December 16, 2013
Travelers Insurance scoured the country and chose Sarpy County, Neb., for the giant insurer’s second major data center in the US.
December 9, 2013
Funds from 2008 disaster recovery bonds will support a US$2-billion fertilizer plant in Indiana, even though Gov. Mike Pence pulled state support earlier this year over concerns about potential disaster from its parent company’s products abroad.
December 3, 2013
Chances are if you’re reading this anywhere outside of Cheyenne, Casper or Laramie, you don’t know much about Wyoming.
December 3, 2013
Corporate site selectors want to see a single digit next to states in rankings designed to shed light on their suitability for investment.
November 22, 2013
Forging new collaborations between universities and corporate investors is the linchpin behind the new business growth strategy of the desert Southwest.
November 22, 2013
In late 2012 when Hostess declared bankruptcy, a long line of Twinkie and Ding Dong jokes predictably exploded across the airwaves.
November 18, 2013
Ten years tax-free. Five years income-tax-free for new employees. Proximity to a 64-campus system of higher education with ample research assets and enrollment approaching half a million students. What’s the catch?
November 18, 2013
Cory Guimond’s grandfather, Philias Guimond, began building wooden boats in the small fishing village of Escuminac in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1942. Since then, over 600 boats have been built over three generations.
November 11, 2013
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says the state his family has called home for five generations has a “unique marriage of assets.” Some of them just need a second honeymoon.
October 21, 2013
“Push the infrastructure,” said Scott Condra, president of Jacoby Development, during a panel discussion at Brownfields 2013 in Atlanta this summer.
October 14, 2013
Milken Institute’s fifth edition of its biannual State Technology and Science Index, issued this spring, revealed that competition at the top was getting more fierce. But that didn’t keep Massachusetts from ranking No. 1 for the fifth time in five tries over the past decade — this time by a wider margin.
October 7, 2013
Geographically speaking, you can’t get more Mid-Atlantic than the nation’s capital.
October 7, 2013
Travel the highways, turnpikes and rivers of Pennsylvania and you’ll find your share of restoration stories.
September 30, 2013
They don’t make much noise about it, because they don’t want to.