November 2017

The October Creighton University Mid-America Business Conditions Index climbed to a healthy reading, according to the latest survey results.

Low energy costs, manufacturing legacy combine to form the industrial hub of the Great Plains.

It might surprise you to learn that traditional data center leaders Virginia and Texas have been challenged since 2016 began.

A conversation with Dmitry Dukhan, vice president of real estate for Medline Industries

Plus Roanoke area expansion to add 180 jobs, and Richmond chosen for 'Cyber Fusion Center.'

The era of e-mobility and autonomous driving is lining up as a tug-of-war between the technology-driven invisible hand and the ultimate force of state incentives.

The competitive fire of some leading cities is being directed toward their own federal government.

Are companies asking too much of state and local governments? It depends on whom you ask.

Last month Conway, publisher of Site Selection magazine, was named the Top International Company of the Year, small business category, an honor bestowed by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the Georgia Department of Economic Development and World Trade Center.

Successful investment by foreign firms even has domestic US firms looking inward.

Matching recent project location data with a new ranking of the most resilient states from the Great Recession tells us a few things.

A glance inside the Rolls-Royce operations machine

Conway has created a Top Free Zones ranking for the first time, recognizing the top two zones per world region.

Collaboration and regional thinking make for great slogans — but it’s tooth-and-nail competition when a company has to pick a final landing spot for a major investment.

Hear an echo? That’s the world’s largest e-commerce company doing to economic development what it did to shopping malls.

The winner of the inaugural Great River Cup is just one of several Ohio River Corridor regions proving attractive to multinational corporate investors.

Foreign investment, film production and corporate R&D centers grow particularly well in the Peach State’s business climate.