– May 2014

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Cover Story

The Global Best to Invest Report

Site Selection is pleased to present its sixth annual Best to Invest rankings of nations and metro areas for investment-attraction activity in 2013.

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Features

Get in Line

Can any place on earth match the US head start with LNG? As permit delays continue, plenty are trying.

Highlight Reel

Toyota moves from three HQs to one, FDI continues to flow, and Mexico continues to welcome top dollar.

Where Hacker-Busters Come From

At least four locations are cultivating cybersecurity clusters as demand for IT protection mounts.

Rising Tide

The Biotechnology Industry Organization and its state affiliates will soon find out if they will be getting A’s, B’s or C’s on their biennial report cards at this year’s BIO International Convention in San Diego.

Too Much Fun

Is all the talk about collaboration, synergy and happy accidents in open office plans more about projecting an image than imagining projects?

Enabling The American Dream

Economic development in the United States has historically meant job attraction, retention and expansion as the way to ensure sustainable prosperity for residents of a community.

Low Frequency, High Yield

To choose the top economic development deals of 2013, we evaluated, as we do every year, such factors as capital investment, job creation and regional economic impact among all corporate facility projects we tracked.

Georgia’s On Investors’ Minds

Georgia has now unseated regulars North Carolina and Texas from first place in Site Selection’s key measures of state economic development success. That’s no easy feat.

Interior Decorating

Coming out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American Heartland embarked on an extreme makeover from 2010 through 2013.

Investment Profiles

Cobb’s Magic Waters

The Braves project alone will generate 5,200 new jobs, and the organization, was delighted with the Cobb team’s ability to keep the discussions utterly confidential.

The Century Mark: It’s a Start

Batson-Cook Construction, founded in 1915, provides commercial general contracting, preconstruction, construction management, and design-build services to a wide range of clients throughout the southeastern United States.

Geared for What’s Next

"Since Northwest Georgia is our home, it matters a lot to us to expand here.”

Power Network

How Hoosier Energy’s network of electric cooperatives delivered the economic development goods in 2013, and what that means for this year.

All In

As acronyms go, they don’t come much grander than MGM.

Leading a New Wave of Tech and Life Sciences Transformation

Building the right environment for life science success is a task that many states undertake but few master.

Blue Sky Appeal

When Microsoft announced April 18 that it would build a $1.13-billion data center in West Des Moines, it confirmed what many corporate executives already knew about Iowa: The Hawkeye State is a magnet for business.

Unleashed: Greece’s Business Climate Roars Back

Which strategic advantage do multinationals as diverse as Nokia, Microsoft, IBM, Coca-Cola and Delhaize share that their competitors do not?

International

A Sleeping Giant No More

Brazil is a strong global competitor with good potential for sustainable growth and prosperity.

Resolved for Now

Alcoa is taking measures worldwide to reduce high-cost smelting capacity. But the company is striking a different chord in the often strike-prone territory of Québec, where Alcoa and the provincial government announced in February an agreement to improve the competitiveness of its three smelters, securing 3,000 jobs.

Energized Oasis

Let’s test yours. If you had three chances to guess which Latin American country was the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas to the United States, could you do it?