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Cover Story

2024 GOVERNOR’S CUPS RANKINGS: Winning Streaks

Texas wins for the 13th year in a row and South Dakota repeats as the per-capita champ. Editor Emeritus Mark Arend talks to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (now U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security) and new South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden about their states’ success. “Freedom” is a common thread.

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Features

CYBERSECURITY

As cybersecurity investments reach “unprecedented Levels,” the U.S. is the far-and-away leader, but one executive from India explains why his country is on the rise.

2024 TOP INDUSTRIES

Machinery & Equipment reigns supreme once again, while Business & Financial Services is the biggest upward mover.

BIOPHARMACEUTICALS

Could AI save lives? Deployments by Moderna and Amgen will offer evidence. Arnold & Porter’s Global Life Sciences lead shares insights on the convergence of AI and life sciences.

AIRPORTS & AIRPORT CITIES

A report from Geneva, Switzerland–based Air Transport Action Group documents aviation’s contribution to global prosperity.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER CORRIDOR

Greater St. Louis and Fort Madison, Iowa, top our rankings of metros along the entire river’s length according to their project activity.

Investment Profiles

PNK GROUP: A New Generation of Industrial Buildings

PNK Group’s commitment to optimizing processes transforms potentially stressful projects into successful, hassle-free experiences. By integrating its innovative processes with strategically designed multifunctional facilities, this industrial construction engineering and development company accelerates the construction process, ensuring each project is completed on time, within budget and free from the typical roadblocks that often slow down site development.

Maryland’s New Frontier

Biomanufacturing is expanding horizons in life sciences. Darryl Sampey, a veteran of Maryland’s life sciences community, co-founded BioFactura, a biopharmaceutical startup, in 2004. Twenty-plus later, he views the newly expanded business as a “poster child” for a homegrown Maryland biotech company. Conceived in after-hours brainstorming sessions at an earlier Maryland startup, nourished by generous state […]

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: Airport Growth Fuels Economic Expansion

Airport-driven economic development is not just a desired outcome in San Bernardino County in Southern California; it is ingrained into the strategy and mission of those who lead the airports in this Inland Empire jurisdiction of 2.18 million people.

International

EASTERN EUROPE

A look at how low-tax jurisdictions perform in corporate project attraction.

CENTRAL AMERICA

The region that welcomed the new U.S. Secretary of State on his first trip abroad is making headway in the semiconductor supply chain, among other areas.

WORLD REPORTS: March 2025

Pfizer has announced that it invested $743 million to expand its four-year-old Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) plant at Singapore’s Tuas Biomedical Park. At 429,000 sq. ft., the upgraded facility will begin production of small molecule APIs used in the pharmaceutical manufacturer’s oncology, pain and antibiotic medicines.

ONTARIO

Roche Canada and OmniaBio join AstraZeneca in a life sciences surge.

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS : March 2025

Apple’s $500 billion bet on the United States; GlobalFoundries in New York; a new lithium refi nery in Oklahoma; CBRE’s 100 largest o ce leases; Diageo in Alabama; Novva Data Centers in Arizona

MIDDLE EAST

Tens of billions of dollars in projects are headed to Saudi Arabia. Many are in the surging AI space, and one big one is in HVAC.

Departments

Area Spotlights

South Carolina

A new report quantifies the economic impact of the state’s six commercial service airports.

Minnesota

Major projects show why SAF is the fuel of the future for the aviation sector.

Indiana

Primient and Sustainea Biologics partner on a novel approach to sustainability in the corn wet milling and plastics sectors. Superior Ag lands a new facility on the banks of the Ohio River in Spencer County.

New Mexico

Three solar companies fortify Albuquerque’s sustainability profile with projects. A helium production plant rises outside Roswell.

SOUTH – CENTRAL

The Smackover Formation in Arkansas is one part of a regional lithium play with promise for the EV and battery sectors.

Intelligence Reports