Area Spotlights

Colorado continues to embrace a leadership role in renewable energy.

V&M Star, the U.S. division of Paris-based Vallourec & Mannesmann, plans to invest US$650 million and create 350 jobs at a new steel rolling mill in Youngstown, Ohio.

In September 2009, Yung “Benjamin” Yeung, the Chinese-American chairman of Far East Golden Resources’ company Hybrid Kinetic Motors Corp., announced that the new company had selected Baldwin County, Ala., for a new US$4.3-billion plant to build natural gas-powered hybrid electric vehicles.

Illinois: FutureGen Project Adds Industrial Endorsements

A chartreuse ray of optimism is shining through Southern California these days in the form of an array of high-tech jobs classified as green.

Today, at a site near the Mississippi River in Tunica County, Miss., just south of Memphis, Tenn., the company is gaining its first manufacturing perch in North America

A company that began as a University of New Mexico spinoff in 1993 now makes high-tech products used on all seven continents and in outer space.

Historic timelines can be telling indicators. Short timelines can be winning indicators.

What was once a decidedly unclean signature industry is reinventing itself in Indiana.

Energy industry expertise reigns supreme in the south central United States.

Can natural gas energize the economic development of an entire region?

The countdown of the phaseout of the 29-year old Space Shuttle program is in its final stages.

Michigan is incrementally converting pockets of its once vast automotive manufacturing engine into the green economy.

Yahoo! is building its latest data center in Lockport, a northern suburb of Buffalo.

In relative terms, 2009 was a very good year for North Dakota.

Oregon’s approach to clean technology continues to reap benefits. Seattle’s transit-friendly approach to industrial development is paying dividends.

Everyone has to live somewhere. You might as well live someplace nice.

NCR just opened a new ATM manufacturing plant in town as part of its big move to Georgia

Regeneron was a fledgling biotech firm employing four people when it moved to the Landmark at Eastview campus in Tarrytown, N.Y., a little more than 20 years ago

The relocation of 1,600 high-salaried jobs from Manhattan to Jersey City may change perceptions of the New Jersey business climate.

Move over, automotive industry. You’ve got company. The entire Southeast is home to a thriving aviation industry, and Mississippi is no exception.

Mark Siegel, president of Advance Broadcast Solutions, says the combination of convenient transport and a pro-business philosophy by the local government was enough to convince him to relocate his company to the City of SeaTac.

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.

Resurgence in the Northern Minnesota mining industry is forging a lasting footprint on the economy of the entire region and state.