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FROM SITE SELECTION MAGAZINE, JULY 2023 ISSUE


ATLANTIC CANADA

Talent Is the Key to Sustaining Cybersecurity Leadership in Atlantic Canada

A June report finds immigration and positive net migration from other provinces added more than 120,000 to the region’s population over the last two years. Many are working in Atlantic Canada’s surging digital economy.


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DIGITAL EDITION


ILLINOIS INVESTMENT GUIDE 2023-24

The Illinois Investment Guide Digital Edition Is Here

Dig in for insightful interviews with business, state and local leaders; spotlights on such industries as electric vehicles, data centers, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, agribusiness, logistics and film/TV production; and analysis of workforce development, megasites; FDI, infrastructure and the tech economy.


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SITE SELECTION RECOMMENDS

Places hoping to benefit from the boomerang effect may find their residents never really left in the first place.

Photo of Cleveland’s historic West Side Market by Adam Bruns

In “Understanding Migration Trends to Prepare for the Post-Pandemic Future,” policy economist Stephan D. Whitaker of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland lays out why high population retention, a high degree of home ownership and a coming wave of retirement funds bode well for metros such as Pittsburgh, Dayton, Cleveland, Erie, Columbus, Youngstown and Cincinnati in the era of remote work and domestic migration slowdown. His analysis of the Cleveland Fed’s Fourth District (Ohio, western Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky and the northern panhandle of West Virginia) includes a look at international migration and nuanced takes on typical understandings of boomeranging (returning to your home city after giving it a go in expensive coastal locations) and retention. Ultimately, he reasons, “It appears that people who have more ability to choose their location are more likely to choose home.”



MISSISSIPPI DEVELOPMENT GUIDE 2023

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PHOTO OF THE DAY

Photo by John Underwood courtesy of Purdue University

National enrollment worries aside, there’s no denying the excitement of a return to college campuses this month. This photo from the 2021 Boiler Gold Rush student orientation week Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, captures the spirit on a campus that has seen steady enrollment increases for a decade to nearly 51,000 undergrads and grad students in fall 2022. Watch for Site Selection’s exclusive interview with Purdue University President and Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dr. Mung Chiang in the September issue of Site Selection.