Current Issue: July 2025

Half a million college graduates over the past four years chose to locate in New York City, where a college student population of 530,000 still matriculates and an equally young business roster continues to grow — one in eight firms in the city started in the past 12 months.

What began a dozen years ago as a dream to transform a large tract of farmland in south Louisiana into a modern industrial park has emerged this year as a major economic development force in the South.

Running a state’s economic development office — or the state itself — affords those officeholders valuable opportunities to hear what’s on the minds of company executives looking to invest capital in new facilities.

Aerospace companies looking to get their operations airborne quickly will find they can easily do so in Maryland. Over 9,000 such companies have a presence in the state, perhaps because it has the highest concentration of aerospace engineers in the country.

Pflugerville Mayor Victor Gonzales says there are many reasons why this booming Austin suburb in Central Texas was recently named the No. 15 Best Place to Live in America by U.S. News & World Report.

If you build it, they will come. This sentiment rings true for economic developers as much as it does for farmers building fields of dreams.

In March, John Pearson, CEO of DHL Express, and Prof. Steven A. Altman of the NYU Stern School of Business (lead author of the DHL Trade Atlas), shared in-depth analysis of global trade and regional connectedness as part of their ongoing research that tracks countries by both speed and scale of trade growth.

Nuclear energy is back. The more than 10 million people in seven states served by the Tennessee Valley Authority know this better than most.