May 2022

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Cover Story

Global Best To Invest 2022

The 14th annual Global Best to Invest rankings showcase the top countries and metro areas in terms of their outlook for corporate investment.

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Features

Station to Station

Snapshots of projects across the continent capture an EV revolution in full power drive.

U.S. R&D Lab Space Is Getting Harder to Find

Whatever is behind the boom in recent investment in U.S. life sciences R&D space, demand is off the chart.

‘Unique in the United States’

The Higher Education Community Makes Greater Charlotte Even Greater

‘Quality Human Capital’ Includes a Growing Cohort of Remote Workers

In the 13 years since Costa Rica opened up its telecommunications market.

‘A Natural Choice’

Nearly 45 years after first arriving in Costa Rica, Bayer continues to reinvest. Here’s why.

Atlanta’s Mother of All Water Projects

How the city got ahead of a potential emergency and ensured clean water for a century.

Meet the New Logistics Capital of the Caribbean

Container ships are ‘cool running’ to ports of call in Jamaica.

Top Deals 2022

This year for the first time we rank the top 20 North American deals based on job creation and capex. In this online edition, we also present the top 20 deals abroad.

2022 Prosperity Cup

Two in row for North Carolina means something is afoot in the Tarheel State. Maybe it comes down to one word.

Top Economic Development Groups

The economic development organizations profiled in the following pages are being recognized for contributing significantly to their locations’ investment attraction and job creation success

Investment Profiles

Small Town Packs Big Logistics Punch

From Medline to Amazon, large end-users like what they find in Wilmer.

Simple Math: Greater Richmond Adds Up

Greater Richmond Adds Up

A Smarter Global Platform

Two advanced developments in Honduras connect forward-thinking companies to worldwide markets.

Philadelphia Is Leading a Biotech Revolution

Kymriah is an advanced therapy medicine that fights leukemia.

Bottom Line: Florida’s Financial Services Sector Is Humming

Florida’s Financial Services Sector Is Humming

Going Clean?

Michigan Delivers Energy Advantages and More

Where to Find the Future

After 60 years as the medicine cabinet of the United States, Puerto Rico’s life sciences ecosystem has entered new dimensions.

Discovery Hub Adds Clout to University’s Research Ecosystem

Chemours, a global producer of fluoroproducts, chemical solutions and titanium technologies.

Meta Finds an Oasis In the Sonoran Desert

Meta, the social technology company that operates Facebook, broke ground on an $800-million data center in Mesa, Arizona.

International

DESIGNED FOR TOMORROW

As organizations do all they can to lure and retain talent, award-winning design projects shine a light on the evolving workplace.

Trust — It Does an Economy Good

A new report from the Inter-American Development Bank finds that mistrust is an acute problem that limits socioeconomic development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Departments

Embracing the Future: IAMC Sets Sights on Reinvigorating Industry Professional Development

Signs of the Times

Where’s the Right Port in a Storm?

A year after our last issue recognizing the Global Best to Invest locations for capital investment, writes Mark Arend, the world is "a very different place.”

Area Spotlights

St. George Catches Up With the Times

Or is it the other way around?

The ‘Rust Belt’ No More

Data centers and microchip plants are today’s economic drivers.

WILL A SHIFT PROVIDE A LIFT?

A Boston Fed economist’s examination of sectoral mobility may hold lessons for the post-COVID-19 labor shuffle.

Governor Andy Beshear Makes The Case for Kentucky

Andy Beshear has plenty to boast about.

Governor Kim Reynolds On Iowa’s Next Chapter

Governor Kim Reynolds is determined to make Iowa the go-to state for businesses reshoring their operations and for those seeking low taxes and fiscal predictability.

Report: Tonnage Volumes Are Bouncing Back

That’s the shipping news from the Great Lakes Seaway Partnership.

How Florida Became a Launchpad for Small Business Growth

Entrepreneurs share their stories from the front lines of the pandemic and recession.

The Coliseum That’s Coming To Colorado Springs

He gleefully cops to being a Deadhead.

The Pendulum Swings Back

Mitigating Risk through Regionalism in Asia

From Batteries To Biosphere 2, Tech Abounds In AZ

Arizona is a top 10 state this year and No. 2 in the nation over the next decade for projected tech job growth

Investment Reports

DAYLIGHT COME AND WE WANT TO GROW MORE

Biomaterials Case Study Yellow Pallet: Yellow Pallet’s use of waste banana plant fiber is just one niche in a diverse biomaterials economy. Hemp and medical cannabis will be another.

WHERE CONNECTORS CONNECT

Technical knowledge, transport access and security landed Samtec’s 12-person operation in 2006. Now they employ 1,500.