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Global Best to Invest 2025
When Kearney in April released its global 2025 Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index, Singapore’s drop from No. 12 to No. 15 was noted, based in part on its reliance on trade in a sudden era of nationalism. The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom finished 1-2-3. Then again: Singapore is a mere city-state, duking […]
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OIL & GAS: Where Industry Job Seekers Are Gravitating
A new report profiles aspects of the top five U.S. states for energy talent.
HEALTH TECH & LIFE SCIENCES CENTERS: Fast Times in Winston-Salem
The Innovation Quarter brings new life to Winston-Salem. And a new health care door opens in Upstate South Carolina.
Tribal Economic Development: Anchoring Down On New Opportunities
The Puyallup Tribe adds commercial port activity in Tacoma to an increasingly diverse economic development roster.
WATER RESOURCES
Water expert James Eklund on why corporate water asset management in the American West has gone from an afterthought to an imperative.
INDUSTRIAL HEMP: There’s Life Beyond CBD
Idaho’s innovative Hempitecture isn’t just blowing smoke.
NORTH AMERICAN AUTOMOTIVE
A visit to BMW’s South Carolina plant and some choice words defending that site’s economic development impact headline Alexis Elmore’s report on a sector befuddled by tariffs but moving forward with projects nevertheless.
TOP DEALS
Judged by capital investment and job creation, these were the Top 20 economic development projects in North America and Top 20 abroad in 2024.
Analysis 2025: The Rest of the Global Best to Invest
Site Selection’s Global Best to Invest rankings of country- and metro-level economic development performance and promise are based on an index of data from the following sources: Space does not always allow us to feature detailed insights from these various sources in our print publication. But online space does. Below are findings, observations and direct […]
2025 Prosperity Cup
You can add or subtract all the metrics and data sets you want. Any way you slice it, Texas keeps coming out on top.
Top Groups in Economic Development 2025
A blend of Site Selection’s proprietary project data and two respected indices has produced this elite group of regional economic development organizations.
Investment Profiles
WASHINGTON, DC: Welcome Home to the Bridge District
One of the most scenic and underutilized spots in the nation’s capital is undergoing an extreme makeover that will transform the area into a hotbed of mixed-use development.
GREATER PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard served for nearly two centuries as a strategic shipbuilding, maintenance and repair complex. About 40,000 people
International
WORLD REPORTS: May 2025
The dozen happiest countries; a data center JV in London; AstraZeneca R&D in Beijing; Hitachi Energy in Finland; Maruti Suzuki in Gujarat, India; Kingspan Group in Ukraine.
NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS : May 2025
Fiserv in metro Kansas City; Fermaca Dreams in Durango, Mexico; GE Aerospace in North Carolina; a $4 billion ammonia JV in Louisiana; a $23 billion U.S. investment plan from Novartis; the Top 10 most innovative states (No. 1 is not a state).
COSTA RICA: Three in Costa Rica
Three investment projects encapsulate this nation’s life sciences leadership.
UNITED KINGDOM: Data Centers Bet Big On UK’s ‘Stability Dividend’
A flurry of investments announced at a recent summit is led by a number of major data centers.
QUEBEC: A New Corporate Campus Supports Multibillion-Dollar Satellite Network
Telesat’s new campus in Gatineau, part of the nation’s capital region, will have a national impact.
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
Exclusive insights from a Pepsico Global Real Estate leader.
India’s Mobility Sector: Why the Time is Now for Global Manufacturers
Why the time is now for global manufacturers to invest in India’s mobility sector.
Departments
EDITOR’S VIEW: ‘Elbows Up’
Exactly 10 years ago, on May 14, 2015, the Prime Minister of Canada and the Governor of Michigan announced that a new, publicly owned bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, funded completely by Canada, would be named the Gordie Howe International Bridge after the Canadian hockey legend who led the Detroit Red Wings to four Stanley Cup victories.
Area Spotlights
Colorado: Grand Junction Rides the MOMENTUM
Workforce and a way of life propel momentum in Grand Junction. Plus a certain famous film festival finds a new home in Boulder.
I-75 CORRIDOR: GROWTH TRAVELS NORTH & SOUTH
Ohio leads the way in projects along this 1,786-mile route, but South Florida would like a word.
Utah: State Policies Keep Delivering the Goods
How the state has claimed first place for the 18th straight year in the ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index.
GULF COAST PORTS: A Maritime Rite in Texas
Port Houston’s Project 11 will reduce congestion and enable growth.
ARIZONA: The Region Redefining the Future of Tech
Tech innovation is thriving across the East Valley. Plus a peek inside Axon’s ultimately successful fight to build a new world headquarters campus in Scottsdale.
IOWA: Data Center Central
Projects in Greater Des Moines and Cedar Rapids show why the state is becoming data center central.
Making It in Florida
Policies, migration and infrastructure create the perfect storm for manufacturing growth. Just ask executives at CAE and Oculus.
NEW ENGLAND: The Ties That Bind
If you heard Hydro-Quebec is no longer exporting power to New England, listen up: Here are the facts about the region’s present and future power scenario.
How Ohio Rebuilt its Factory Base
If you’re looking for lessons on how Ohio rebuilt its factory base, Dayton is a good place to start. Convincing younger workers to relocate has played a big role.
THE GREAT LAKES
Incisive analysis from the senior source water policy manager at the Alliance for the Great Lakes asks if data center proliferation is worth the cost.
Intelligence Reports
GEORGIA Moves Into a ‘New Phase’
Senior Editor Gary Daughters and Executive VP Ron Starner tackle what’s next in the state’s economic development future; tort reform; and what it feels like to travel the friendly skies with a college fight instructor to a booming flight training program in middle Georgia.
Special Advertising Sections
SHOVEL – READY SITES: New Mexico the Latest to Jump on The Product Development Bandwagon
There’s a reason that, after electrical power and workforce skills, the supply of ready sites was No. 3 on the list of most important site selection factors when we queried site seekers in fall 2024 for Site Selection’s annual Business Climate rankings.