Investor Watch

Chinese battery manufacturer Gotion in September selected a former Kmart warehouse in Manteno as the location of its latest project, a $2 billion gigafactory.

Expanding health care environments offer growth and attraction opportunities for science.

And we look in on Mayo Clinic’s $5 billion plan in Rochester.

Buffalo offers a budding solution from the world of controlled-environment agriculture.

States known for big oil and gas employers are generating thousands of jobs in clean energy manufacturing through projects supported by Inflation Reduction Act subsidies and tax credits.

Unilever Canada and FluidAI Medical invest in Toronto and Kitchener, respectively, in a megaregion CBRE calls a “powerhouse market” for tech talent.

From 2014 to 2022, medical device exports in the country grew from $1.68 billion to $5.87 billion.

A driverless shuttle firm takes a 6,500-mile jaunt from Auckland to Riverside. Plus: an update on multiple passenger rail projects in the state.

A Hoosier’s 25-year trek in semiconductor manufacturing brings him back home to Indiana.

The plant manager outlines the past, present and future of Canada’s Cascades.

A brewery blends area culture with a hot-selling brand in Bend, one of four fast-growing cities in the region.

“Already evident among the labor pools of several highly active manufacturing destinations in East Asia and Europe,” write the experts at Tractus in this exclusive contribution, “the next demographic disruption will have drastic repercussions for the global labor force in the not-so-distant future.”

In Cali, Colombia, I danced the salsa. But my taste buds were in rhythm upon arrival.

Aerotropolis experts John D. Kasarda and Michael Chen explain why in this exclusive contribution.

Arlington lands a global HQ while Richmond nets 2,000 jobs.

A newcomer to the winner’s circle and a 12-time repeat winner explain their strategies for corralling enough capital investment projects to claim the Cups.

In a story from our forthcoming March issue that we couldn’t wait for you to see, Gary Daughters documents how, thanks to a Miami-based gunmaker’s principals hunkering down in a hunting lodge during a hurricane, a new era was triggered in a southern Georgia town.

Toyota’s new battery lab near Ann Arbor is one example.

Framatome’s CEO tells Site Selection what’s behind the company’s $49.4 million, 515-job investment in Lynchburg.

An anchor employer in Memphis and a new arrival in Franklin celebrate big anniversaries with big investments.

Venerable Connecticut may be more dynamic than you think it is.

The state has grabbed nearly 20% of the more than 6,200 U.S. logistics facility investments Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database has tracked since New Year’s Day 2021.

Amkor brings a $2 billion project to Peoria, Arizona; BETA technologies aims to develop all-electric aircraft in Plattsburgh; the states with the largest minimum wage increases; high-speed rail funds land in California; Weyerhaeuser’s plans in Shreveport; Timmons Group brings a $50 million HQ to Chesterfield, Virginia.

Nissan goes green in the UK; Essar Group expands in Gujarat; NextDC builds in Darwin, Australia; China’s INV New Material Technology to invest more than $1.4 billion in Malaysian battery separator facility; China’s Midea Group to make appliances in Egypt; Preem to invest $528 million in renewable aviation fuel production in Lysekil, Sweden.