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Exactly 10 years ago, on May 14, 2015, the Prime Minister of Canada and the Governor of Michigan announced that a new, publicly owned bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, funded completely by Canada, would be named the Gordie Howe International Bridge after the Canadian hockey legend who led the Detroit Red Wings to four Stanley Cup victories.

A letter from the Chair and an interview with water expert James Eklund.

If you build it … chances are you’ll expand it later.

A Letter from the Chair; the return of the member profile; and snapshots of FDI involving IAMC member organizations.

Years ago, I was invited to a major Canadian city to present our competitiveness award for province-level success.

A Letter from the Chair; the return of the member profile; and snapshots of FDI involving IAMC member organizations.

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 […]

Holistic View Draws from Different Perspectives

MEMORIALS TO TOMORROW

Sustainability Includes Sustaining an Organization

Editor's View: MEMORIALS TO TOMORROW

Iwork for a wonderful company. One of the reasons I think of PepsiCo that way is the way it empowers women — you know, those people who make up half the world’s population. It’s why the company signed the White House Equal Pay Pledge in 2016. More recently, during Women’s History Month this spring, the […]

To believe things are going to work out, or not to believe. That is the question. You’ll have to forgive this former poetry and theater major. Writing this on Shakespeare’s 460th birthday, I can’t help but ask, “Is it indeed nobler ‘to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against […]

IAMC members are preparing to gather in April for our next Forum in Greenville, South Carolina.

A New Zealand autonomous electric vehicle startup moves its HQ to California across enough time zones to make your head spin.

Growing Toward DEI — Part 2

Conversations with a historian and a veteran site selector cause our editor in chief to reflect on how 70 years have only served to polish and deepen the appeal of our work to those intrigued by the role of place...

IAMC members celebrated an exciting few days in Boise recently during our Fall Forum, and I hope you walked away from the conference as energized as I was. I thank everyone for their support as I took the gavel from Karen Shchuka. She has made the transition easy, and I thank her for all of […]

The Value of ‘Natural’ Intelligence: If you’re like me lately, your sentences are being finished for you by more than your immediate family members.

It’s appropriate in a way that this last letter in our series on building a new strategic plan happens as the IAMC Fall Forum convenes in Boise when we meet with our peers to share ideas and grow relationships. Over the course of the series, we’ve studied the necessary steps to crafting a business plan […]

When Editor in Chief Mark Arend arrived at the office recently, he found review copies of three new books about localism on his desk.

Every new corporate proposal needs a proof of concept.

If you can’t fill out your IT security staff, maybe have a look within.

Some fascinating analysis of corporate relocation activity appeared in my inbox just as we were completing work on this issue.