The Assembly Line Effect
Some folks may be wondering why Michigan, Ohio and Indiana are winning a disproportionate share of automotive assembly plant investments these days.
May 2013
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Gauging the Dream
One of the biggest challenges in economic development is determining what to hold economic development organizations (EDOs) and elected officials accountable for.
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Two for Two
Texas is two-thirds of the way to sweeping Site Selection’s big three annual state rankings.
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REWRITING THE NORMS
Breaking the rules may not win many friends, but it sure has a way of influencing people — especially when it comes to the world of economic development.
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Global Best to Invest Report
Site Selection is pleased to present its fifth annual Best to Invest rankings of nations and metro areas for investment-attraction activity in 2012.
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Let the Catalysts Connect
Add biopharma to the long list of robust economic sectors in Texas. It's nearly enough to rekindle talk of secession … if it weren't for that instrusive federal funding helping drive some of the momentum.
Self Starters
Energy efficiency tweaks such as new HVAC systems and long-life light bulbs offer tremendous and quick gains, but they only get you so far.
Portals To the World
Site Selection salutes the best corporate facility projects in the world in 2012, judged by investment, high-value and high-volume job creation, creativity in negotiations and incentives, regional economic impact, competition and speed to market.
Investment Profiles
My Hometown
If you're not familiar with Chambersburg, New Castle or Sayre, Pa., or have somehow missed the turns for Indiana, Sunbury, East Stroudsburg or Meadville, you might need to readjust your navigation settings.
Unfinished Business
Elected four times to serve as governor from 1983 to 1999, Branstad left office 14 years ago as Iowa's longest-serving chief executive.
View from The Top
Northwest Georgia's industrial development reputation aims to be as multifaceted as its landscape, and as rich as its history. But if one thread continues to run through the region, it's thread itself.
Accelerated Production
Powering one of America's most important automotive manufacturing regions is just one of the many tasks of Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative.
‘Breath of Fresh Air’
With a work force ranked among the nation's best, the No. 1 public school system in the U.S., world-class academic and research institutions and a competitive business environment, Maryland is an ideal place for companies to grow and thrive.
Asia-Pacific’s ‘Significant Location’ For Oil & Gas Services
Baker Hughes' Asia Pacific division stretches from India to New Zealand, so the Houston-based global oil and gas services giant (58,000 employees and revenues in excess of $20 billion) had lots of options with respect to a regional headquarters location.
International
10 Countries. 10 Challenges.
The following is a compilation highlighting unique initiatives taking place in every South American country, each with its own unique approach to common challenges faced by investment promotion agencies. Examples range from tactical — such as the Peruvian approach to place branding — to strategic, such as Colombia's effort to improve its image.
FB’s Bay Area Home to Expand Across Street, Double Shot of Growth From GlobalFoundries, and more
The Menlo Park City Council in late March approved all requested land use entitlements and agreements for the Facebook West Campus Project, and introduced ordinances approving the development agreement and rezoning the property to accommodate design requirements surpassing existing height limits.
Where Europe Gets It Right: Seven European markets are among the 10 most competitive for travel and tourism.
Switzerland, Germany and Austria lead the world in terms of their travel and tourism industry competitiveness with Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Canada, Sweden and Singapore completing the top 10, according to the fifth Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report, released in March by the World Economic Forum.
Industrial Strength
Add the importance of the Mexican market itself to companies' lists of reasons to open operations in Mexico.
Area Spotlights
Valued Outlook
Business activity in New England in many cases is the equivalent of "musical states" or "musical cities." That is, while there is a healthy amount of new business and business expansion activity in the region, a lot of what is taking place is business consolidation and/or moving existing businesses from state to state or city to city.
Less Uncertainty Now, Stronger Growth Coming
The following is excerpted with permission from Dr. George Hammond's March 2013 report in Arizona's Economy, a publication of the Economic and Business Research Center (EBR) at the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. Dr. Hammond is Associate Director of EBR and Eller Research Professor.
FDI Wave Hits Gulf Coast
Christopher Prentice represents exactly the kind of company that increasingly is finding a home along U.S. Gulf Coast — high-tech, international and rapidly growing.
Mega-Region Momentum
Since January 2012 the Kentucky Golden Triangle of Louisville, Lexington and Northern Kentucky has welcomed 120 corporate facility projects to the three metro areas. The triangle is neither equilateral nor Pythagorean, but it might be isosceles: Greater Lexington and Northern Kentucky tally 30 projects each, while Greater Louisville tallies 60. But each side has its points, so to speak. And each gains strength from the other communities in its ambit.
Plowing the Fast Lane
Every time a new Kubota compact tractor speeds off the assembly line in Jefferson, Ga., it’s a reminder of just how multinational commerce has become in the Peach State.
Risk Management
Companies like eBay, Adobe, IM Flash and FireEye are building their facilities in the Beehive State because that's where their honey is — a strong supply of skilled workers, a business climate that encourages and rewards high-tech enterprise growth and the technical infrastructure statewide that is critical to their businesses.
Old Places See New Faces
In Site Selection's annual sustainability rankings in 2012, Ohio ranked in the top dozen states in the country for federal brownfield funding.