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St. Louis is building a better platform for transport & logistics.

Lack of a spaceport doesn’t mean regions cannot grow and attract space tech companies, writes Brian Darmody, chief strategy officer at the Association of University Research Parks.

How one location builds bridges to companies large and small.

Attracting talent means tuning in to what millennials and Gen Z have to say.

A network of communities from across the 267,000 square miles of Texas aims to bring together the assets of small-town Texas with the requirements of growing small business and entrepreneurs looking for the right place to land. Here are a few snapshots of some of those places, and a directory of the growing network that is the Texas Economic Development Connection.

If you are not spending as much time developing your future workforce as you are engaging your current one, then you are falling behind your competition. That was just one of the key takeaways from the World Forum for Foreign Direct Investment held in early May in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Thayer Smith, president of USA Rare Earth, tells Mark Arend why Oklahoma will soon be home to the Americas’ first rare earth metal and manufacturing facility, giving the state a head start in the U.S. as companies bring such operations stateside.

A presidential proclamation is allowing U.S. domestic solar power equipment manufacturing duty-free access for up to two years to solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. We look at where the solar manufacturing projects in those countries have been occurring … and where they’re coming from.

Contenders for Silicon Valley’s top ranking abound in Global Startup Ecosystems Report 2022.

“New Industrial Urbanism” calls for reassessing the relationships among cities, people and industry.

St. George Catches Up With the Times. Or is it the other way around?

As organizations do all they can to lure and retain talent, award-winning designs shine a light on the evolving workplace.

That’s the shipping news from the Great Lakes Seaway Partnership.

Find out some of the reasons why Arizona is is a top 10 state this year and No. 2 in the nation over the next decade for projected tech job growth.

A packaged foods company leader who says he never lays in bed at night and dreams about cooking chicken has left that world behind to become a music and entertainment empresario in his hometown.

Data centers and microchip plants are today’s economic drivers in Ohio

Quick-hitting stories update you on an Indian state’s growing EV credentials; an Amazon-centered project sidelined in South Africa; Dyson’s new HQ city; and reawakening FDI.

In a conversation with Gary Daughters, the governor addresses such various topics as the EV industry, how he recruits business, non-disclosure agreements, and the aftermath of both tornadoes and a coal country deal gone sour.

A recent CBRE report documents what drove rents up by 7.8% in Q4 2021, and how companies and developers are responding.

The governor is “determined to make Iowa the go-to state for businesses reshoring their operations and for those seeking low taxes and fiscal predictability,” writes Editor in Chief Mark Arend.

Even before a $5.5 billion blockbuster was announced last week by Hyundai in Savannah, the EV revolution was in full power drive across the continent, as these project snapshots reveal.

Charlotte Is Trending Young, Diverse and Next-Level

An accountability watchdog says some of Site Selection’s Top Deals belong at the bottom instead, including what he calls the “worst deal” of 2021.

Entrepreneurs share their stories from the front lines of the pandemic and recession.