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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.

Brief updates on inventory by drone; SK’s double-down in Georgia; big offers for Tesla’s Cybertruck factory; how USMCA could alter automotive industry geography; and the launch of the Great Lakes shipping season

Editor in Chief Mark Arend talks with Regionomics Founder Dr. Bill LaFayette about the knowledge economy, incentives, workforce development and Ohio manufacturing in the COVID-19 era.

Distiller says a new plant in Polk County is anything but on the rocks.

Brief news reports document European automotive firms’ gradual reopening of production; a French aerospace manufacturer’s pivot to masks; guidance for a new era of supply chain management; and the world’s greenest cities (hint: No. 1, sang Billy Joel, is a city that waits for you).

Fortune 500 companies, national urban policy experts, Amazon Air, university innovation leaders, aerospace suppliers and everyone involved with new Major League Soccer team FC Cincinnati all seem to agree: The tri-state Greater Cincinnati region has something special going on.

Trade flows already were reduced by trade battles and barriers. Will COVID-19 Kill Globalization? John Manzella tells you what you need to know.

Bobby Pereira, director of Latin America for Conway, Inc., gives growing countries in the region — Colombia, Chile and Costa Rica among them — the respect they’re due.

Aerotropolis expert John Kasarda walks us through a region that accounts for more than $80 billion in business investments and is receiving $50 billion more from the Thai government and the private sector to make it even more business-friendly.

In They’ll Have the Fish, a new aquaculture operation aims to help Puerto Rico achieve food sovereignty one site at a time.

Even as the world experiences the economic impact of a pandemic, our annual rankings cast the spotlight on the countries leading their regions in project activity and economic development.

Can site certification programs do better at measuring talent alongside geotechnical and infrastructure aspects? A few experts and some data weigh in.

In the next installment in our COVID-19 series, location consultant John Boyd offers 10 Site Selection and Economic Development Takeaways from the COVID-19 Crisis.

Yes, cement plants are a big reason why the machinery, equipment and construction sector led all industries in number of projects tallied around the world in 2019 by the Conway Analytics database.

In the next installment in our COVID-19 series, Tractus Asia’s John Evans and James Meisenheimer examine U.S. life sciences firms’ supply chain overdependence on Asian locations. Reshoring beckons, but there are other things to consider too. Read their exclusive contribution COVID-19: Suffocating the global medical supply chain, while breathing life into its future.

David Cuda, Colliers International senior vice president and director of corporate solutions for South Carolina, shares insights on state and metro markets.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has engulfed the world, Site Selection editors and Conway staff are gleaning business intelligence, provocative insights, valuable data and practical guidance from across our global network.