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March 2010

Cover Story

Top Industries: Energy Squared

Fuel, power and health were the driving forces behind top industrial categories for corporate facility investment in 2009.

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Top Micropolitans: Built for Speed

If a driver were as dominant in NASCAR as Statesville-Mooresville is in economic development, the officials who run the sport would likely start building more challenging tracks.

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Top Metropolitans: Made in Manhattan

America’s most famous city owns the distinction of ranking first in many categories

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One More Time!

Given this economy, not doing as well in 2009 as in 2008 at attracting capital investment isn’t necessarily bad.

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Features

Starting Anew

The Silver Eagle Bus Co., whose manufacturing history traces to Belgium and Germany before a run of several decades in the U.S., has embarked on a new chapter in its twist-and-turn history as it ramps up production in the Nashville suburb of Gallatin.

Outsourcing That’s Out of This World

Aerospace companies are key beneficiaries of the federal government’s transition from the NASA-run Space Shuttle program to the next generation in space travel.

Top U.S. Giants of 2009

Top U.S. Giants Of 2009: Lists of largest U.S. projects ranked by investment, job creation and square footage

Top Global Giants Of 2009

Top Global Giants Of 2009: Lists of largest projects ranked by investment, job creation and square footage

Time Engineers

Visitors to Beijing for the 2010 Airport Cities conference no doubt will be impressed by Beijing Capital International Airport’s US$3-billion main terminal, opened in time for the 2008 Olympic Games.

Investment Profiles

International

Time for Kickoff

For the nation hosting this year’s World Cup for the first time on African soil, it only makes sense that two of its largest corporate facility projects are measured in football fields.

Well Connected

Belgium is a significant center of life sciences development, both in biotechnology and in medical equipment.

Offshore Platform

Command Medical Products, an Ormond Beach, Fla., manufacturer of disposable medical tubing, needed a new low-cost manufacturing platform to accommodate its growth in business.

Departments

Area Spotlights

Eco Evolution

A chartreuse ray of optimism is shining through Southern California these days in the form of an array of high-tech jobs classified as green.

Pipeline to Tomorrow

Today, at a site near the Mississippi River in Tunica County, Miss., just south of Memphis, Tenn., the company is gaining its first manufacturing perch in North America

Talent Incubator

A company that began as a University of New Mexico spinoff in 1993 now makes high-tech products used on all seven continents and in outer space.

Power Ties

What was once a decidedly unclean signature industry is reinventing itself in Indiana.

Ignition

The countdown of the phaseout of the 29-year old Space Shuttle program is in its final stages.