Brief stories catch us up on yet another flooring company in northwest Georgia; Accenture’s big plans in St. Louis; a Los Angeles building’s makeover from bodybuilding to biomedical; quantum computing in Santa Fe; and an Idaho summer camp in construction skills for girls.
IAMC Chair Colleen Caravati on taking the high road; and insights on getting back to work from trucking firm Werner Enterprises, Hershey Company and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.
The need for training surges in the midst of the pandemic. We share some resources. And one company’s map shows the highest topical categories by country for online enrollment.
Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Eric Fanning urges action on relief legislation and public-private partnership.
Northrop Grumman is bringing 500 jobs to rural West Virginia. Could Hyperloop One be the next Mountain State blockbuster?
Oklahoma launches new programs to spur economic recovery across the state.
A measured, data-driven approach guides the state’s COVID-19 response, says Clint O’Neal of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.
As e-commerce surges in step with the virus, so does cold chain. Insights and location news from Pfizer, Paris-based Worldwide Flight Services, CBRE and Hillwood President Mike Berry paint a picture of what’s happening and what’s still to come. (Watch for more logistics coverage in the annual infrastructure issue of Site Selection.)
It is with great sadness that I report to you that Adam Jones-Kelley, our beloved company president and CEO, passed away this week at his home in Peachtree Corners, Georgia.
With 4.3 million residents and a $238 billion economy, the Northeast Ohio landscape looks as ripe with opportunity as ever. Find out why as we explore major corporate expansions, a bracing COVID-19 response, new industrial site and workforce programs, the rise of Voltage Valley and the value of the region’s “Emerald Necklace.”
The best location right now for cloud service providers? Everywhere. Google and Alibaba plan massive investment. And we present our data on top countries, global metro areas, U.S. states and U.S. metro areas for data center facility projects.
State and local governments are as squeezed financially as businesses and households are. Ellen Harpel, founder of Smart Incentives and president of Arlington, Virginia–based Business Development Advisors, writes that incentives will have to evolve accordingly.
In a companion essay to Publisher Adam Jones-Kelley’s recently posted Letter From the Publisher, “Are We Better Than This?” Senior Editor Gary Daughters says the spotlight now shifts to corporate America in the struggle to recognize racial inequality, support economic empowerment in black communities and back minority entrepreneurs. He also talks to a prominent economic development leader about his own recent “driving while black” episode with local police.
Robert Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, says it’s time for exactly that. We explore the details, with side trips into TSMC’s $12 billion semiconductor manufacturing bet in Greater Phoenix; Manufacturing USA’s 14 institutes; a vision for optimum vaccine production from AccelerateHT; Alibaba’s support for direct-to-consumer digitized manufacturing clusters; fast action on PPE by GM, 3M, Ford and others; and a conversation with America Makes Director of Strategic Partnerships & Community Relations Erin O’Donnell.
Supply chain managers are recalibrating a moving target like never before.
The food supply bent but didn’t break. Gary Daughters talks to global food and beverage industry expert Richard Kottmeyer about the power of the center aisle, consolidation, comfort and flexibility.
Deemed “essential,” the business of building America continues during the pandemic. Ron Starner talks to former Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch about what that looks like in Wisconsin.
As business looks for a post-pandemic recovery even as logistics and e-commerce continue to boom, could shovel-ready infrastructure investment be a better bet this time around than after the Great Recession?
IAMC Chair Colleen Caravati details the ways IAMC is there to support its members during the pandemic. John Salustri talks to leaders from Keyser, Volvo and AkzoNobel about force majeure and getting along with landlords.
The financial giant has moved more than 1,300 employees into the Montréal Tower originally built for the 1976 OlympicGames. More are on the way.
“Racism exists in nearly every corner of the world,” writes Adam Jones-Kelley, president and CEO of Conway, Inc., and publisher of Site Selection. “It is most toxic, most socially destructive, in America.”
Due to the pandemic, the 48th annual RAGBRAI bike ride across Iowa will not take place next month. But we’re following the route anyway, checking in on economic development news in the towns where those thousands of riders would have stopped overnight.
Murray State University’s Tony Brannon was way ahead on how to grow hemp. Now he’s a man in demand.
A Colliers report outlines a renaissance at the airport park that today is home to 3,300 companies. An economics and business school leader at the University of Arizona shares his forecast for the state.