Investor Watch

“From the get-go, nothing about OZs has been perfect,” writes Gary Daughters. “Baltimore’s response was to give it a shot.”

Tractus Asia Managing Director John Evans and Research Analyst Sarah Urtz say it’s a “must-have” factor in industrial site selection.

Global shifts and geopolitical unrest, not to mention new U.S. industrial policy, mean it makes more sense than ever to produce here, writes Harry Moser, founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative.

The pandemic accelerates movement of degreed professionals to Sunbelt suburbs.

Leading hubs keep rolling.

Here’s a comeback story with numbers to back it up.

Before the Micron news became official, Meta’s $800 million data center was a big kahuna in its own right.

The former suburban Chicagoland HQ of the friendly skies finds new life in the cloud.

Project data show parts and components have felt fine all along.

Roughly two years after its inception, the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program has received grant applications for projects valued at around C$28 billion

Mississippi County will soon take over as the top steel producer in the country. Arkansas Economic Development Commission Secretary Mike Preston tells us why.

In an exclusive for Site Selection, CBRE’s Ian Anderson analyzes where the next life sciences hubs are already rolling up momentum.

Economic developers share firsthand accounts from the zone of destruction.

A former steel plant will make solar trackers using equipment brought back to the U.S. from Asia.

The project speaks to the transformative momentum in northeast Indiana.

Despite a COVID-induced bump, outdoor recreation has been on the wane, Anna Reuter reports. One expert says it’s time to diversify.

Rod Colwell has a big plan to leverage lithium.

As demand surges, new markets emerge, says Cushman & Wakefield’s top industrial expert. We ask some follow-up questions, and name the top states and metro areas for logistics facility investments.

Incentives, headquarters, semiconductors and workforce training headline some of the stories in a state chock-full of them.

The recently assassinated former prime minister of Japan “was arguably the most important politician in the history of Japan since the end of World War II,” writes Andrew Crowder of Tractus in an exclusive contribution.

This year’s index offers a snapshot of where private- and public-sector physical facility investment are converging for the public good, increased prosperity … and perhaps better roads for all those trucks.