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Can any place on earth match the US head start with LNG? As permit delays continue, plenty are trying.
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Read – May 2014 IssueEconomic 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.
Read Cover StoryGeorgia 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.
Read Cover StoryComing out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American Heartland embarked on an extreme makeover from 2010 through 2013.
Read Cover StorySite Selection is pleased to present its sixth annual Best to Invest rankings of nations and metro areas for investment-attraction activity in 2013.
Read Cover StoryCan any place on earth match the US head start with LNG? As permit delays continue, plenty are trying.
Toyota moves from three HQs to one, FDI continues to flow, and Mexico continues to welcome top dollar.
At least four locations are cultivating cybersecurity clusters as demand for IT protection mounts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"Since Northwest Georgia is our home, it matters a lot to us to expand here.”
How Hoosier Energy’s network of electric cooperatives delivered the economic development goods in 2013, and what that means for this year.
As acronyms go, they don’t come much grander than MGM.
Building the right environment for life science success is a task that many states undertake but few master.
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.
Which strategic advantage do multinationals as diverse as Nokia, Microsoft, IBM, Coca-Cola and Delhaize share that their competitors do not?
Brazil is a strong global competitor with good potential for sustainable growth and prosperity.
Agribusiness contributes more than $1.5 billion to the regional economy of western Michigan, and the new Michigan Hop Network hopes to assist hop farmers in adding to that total.
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.
The Volkswagen Group (VW) is building a new, $1.5-billion plant in Wrzesnia, Poland, to produce the VW Crafter, a popular delivery van. The expansion will create at least 2,300 new jobs.
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?
Is all the talk about collaboration, synergy and happy accidents in open office plans more about projecting an image than imagining projects?
On April 3rd, Gov. Gary Herbert hosted The Governor’s Utah Economic Summit 2014 in Salt Lake City.
Sectors beyond energy add zip to Gulf of Mexico economies.
With resurgent sales and new big-dollar plants, the distillery industry hits its stride in Kentucky.
State entities will occupy vacant Pfizer buildings.
Iowa continues to be a case study in fulfilling the promise of the wind.
Arizona site options extend well beyond the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas, as companies in Coolidge, Snowflake, Buckeye and other rural communities can attest.
Momentum from 2013 carries over as Ohio's project pipeline remains fuller than ever.
Georgia has emerged as the state to beat, according to recent Site Selection rankings and the project activity behind them.
A state on the move sees new investment from aerospace, energy and wind.
If, probably when, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker wins re-election in November, it will be the third time he has done so in four years.