Area Spotlights

A beneficial tax climate helps grow Washington’s diverse economy.

Johnson County encompasses 20 municipalities, with Overland Park and Lenexa leading the way in recent corporate facility development. The county itself has no economic development agency. What it does have is a reputation for wealth, and for a wealth of education excellence.

A high-tech cluster adds solar device innovation to its roster. Development of new solar energy technologies figures to be a major driver in the economy of Upstate New York in the coming years.

Gavilon, TPG lead a new wave of companies expanding in Nebraska. The search for a new corporate headquarters home for grain and commodity trading firm Gavilon didn’t take long. America’s 19th largest private company found exactly what it wanted in its hometown of Omaha, Neb.

Projects up and down the seaboard help companies look outward and inward all at once.

Business builders find the knowledge capital they need in college towns in the Southwest. Across New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona, entrepreneurs are tapping into this base of knowledge capital to propel their companies into rapid growth.

Tennessee: “We Will Live By This”

Montana ended the last fiscal year on June 30 with more than $453 million in surplus funds, the second highest amount in state government history.

Site Selection’s annual examination of corporate facility projects locating over an 18-month period in counties abutting the Ohio River found 301 projects that cumulatively accounted for more than US$8.1 billion in corporate investment between July 2011 and August 2012.

The Mid-Atlantic is seeing an uptick in location-related activity, much of it with existing buildings rather than greenfield development.