MEDICAL DEVICES & TECHNOLOGY: Health Care Heats Up with MEDTECH BOOM
The health care industry heats up as the medical device and technology sector flourishes.
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2025 BUSINESS CLIMATE RANKINGS: Texas Tops Business Climate Rankings Again
Texas has once again emerged as the state creating the best environment for corporate investment, narrowly beating out North Carolina.
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AEROSPACE: How Tulsa Is Building A Soup-to-Nuts Drone Shop
The unmanned aerial systems and commercial drones industry takes flight.
Global Automotive: Are Consumers Ready to Purchase EVs? Manufacturers think so.
Insights into the pulse of the EV market and Hyundai’s global expansion strategy.
DATA CENTERS: THE DELAWARE DILEMMA
A proposed project in Delaware adds to the growing list of major data center campuses receiving both community support and pushback.
PORTS & FREE TRADE ZONES: WEIGHT of the WORLD
Indices point to the globe’s best-performing maritime centers and ports.
PORTS & FTZS RESOURCE GUIDE
Directories, listings, checklists and data sets go back a long way in Site Selection — 70-plus years, in fact. It’s why our parent company is named Conway Data.
FDI IN AMERICA: How Does the U.S. Stack Up in FDI?
Foreign investment in the U.S. continues to roll in as market conditions fluctuate.
U.S. OPPORTUNITY ZONES: WHAT OPPORTUNITY ZONES PERMANENCE MEANS for Corporate Investors
The renewed federal tax incentive holds even more promise for investors and for rural communities, writes expert contributor Kenan Fikri.
Investment Profiles
WINFIELD, KANSAS: Kansas’ Next Aerospace Industry Cluster Takes Shape
Cowley County, Kansas, is the sweet spot in the Wichita region’s booming aerospace cluster, say industry executives doing business there.
PORT OF BROWNSVILLE: New Horizons Beckon In Brownsville
Connected to the Gulf of Mexico by a 17-mile ship channel, the Port of Brownsville is the largest land-owning public port authority in the nation and the only deepwater port on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Oklahoma: The Critical State for Critical Minerals
Why did Queensland, Australia-based MLB Industrial, a maker of lithium-ion batteries and industrial energy storage products, pick Oklahoma for its first U.S. operation?
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: Striking Gold & Other Rare Earths in San Bernardino County
When MP Materials announced on July 10 that it had secured a multi-billion-dollar deal with the U.S. Department of Defense to supply the U.S. Armed Forces with rare earth materials, the move signaled the latest transformative chapter in the ever-expanding critical mining sector of San Bernardino County in Southern California.
International
GERMANY: Is Germany Poised To Be The Next Major Supplier Of Lithium in Europe?
The country positions itself as a major supplier of lithium.
NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS: November 2025
Potash mining in Saskatchewan is up; Eli Lilly expands in Houston; top fi ve states by value of manufacturing shipments per capita; the largest data center to be built in Mexico; Walmart expands presence in North Carolina; and New Mexico approves $165 billion data center campus, “Project Jupiter.”
CARIBBEAN: Latest Investment by Amgen Reinforces Puerto Rico Life Sciences Leadership
Puerto Rico and Costa Rica continue to land major investment wins.
ASIA: Build or Buy?: Decoding Asia’s Strategic Investment Pathways
Explore how the “build vs. buy” choice can shape investment outcomes and decision-making in Asia.
WORLD REPORTS: November 2025
The UK territory of Gibraltar lands a 250MW data center; Spain plans fi rst large-scale renewable hydrogen plant; the best startup cities in Asia Pacifi c; Hitachi announces new Brazilian transformer factory; and a Canadian company opens a magnet manufacturing facility in Estonia.
INCENTIVES: Smart Local Economic Development Policy Can Gain Support from the Abundance Movement
Tim Bartik of the Upjohn Institute considers how the Abundance movement should view economic development.
INDIA: Eagles & Elephants: Site selection at the heart of India-U.S. growth
Smart site selection is at the center of the U.S.-India business relationship and related investments in India.
Departments
IAMC Insider: LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
A letter from the Chair, and National Manufacturing Day is celebrated.
EDITOR’S VIEW: Four Years of Learning What Two-Years Can Do
In October I attended the final convening of the ECMC Foundation CTE Leadership Collaborative in Austin, Texas. The funding is sunsetting for this family of six fellowship programs focused on furthering career and technical education.
Area Spotlights
KANSAS: Largest Capital Investment Of 2025, Largest Office Recruitment in State History
Merck Animal Health expands its De Soto facility with an $895 million investment, and Fiserv opens a fintech hub for 2,000 employees.
SOUTHEAST: FUJIFILM Project Embodies Life Sciences Momentum in the South
The life sciences pick up across the Southeast, with big investments in North Carolina, Florida and Alabama.
NEBRASKA: A Full Plate of Opportunity
Tech, agriculture and food industries combine to make a tasty investment portfolio in the Cornhusker State.
WASHINGTON, DC: SPORTS LEADERSHIP: A ‘Monumental’ Era for Sports In the Nation’s Capital
Fans of pro sports teams in Washington, DC, may want to stock up on as much face paint and tailgating gear as they can find. Given the rush of stadium projects on the horizon, it’s safe to say that cheering for the world’s best athletes is about to become a year-round job.
WASHINGTON, DC: LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW: DEPUTY MAYOR NINA ALBERT: A Conversation with Deputy Mayor: Nina Albert
As Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, Nina Albert presides over Washington, DC’s efforts to diversify the local economy, retain the city’s talent base and achieve DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s economic growth and housing goals.
WASHINGTON, DC: MAJOR MOVES: Proximity to Influence and Talent Steers New Wave of Firms to DC
When I tallied all corporate facility investment projects across all industries that qualified for Site Selection magazine’s Conway Projects Database in 2024, the sector that showed the most dramatic leap upward was business & financial services, increasing from 772 projects in 2023 to 954 in 2024 (a 24% spike).
WASHINGTON, DC: LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW : DEREK FORD: Partnership President Forges a Winning Path
Washington DC Economic Partnership President & CEO Derek Ford is a no-nonsense kind of guy. When he speaks, people listen, and he knows how to get things done.
WASHINGTON, DC: CHIEF ATTRACTION ASSETS: Why Companies Choose DC
They call New York the city that never sleeps, but even the Big Apple can’t hold a candle to the global influence wielded by the nation’s capital, Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC: LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW: MAYOR MURIEL BOWSER: Leading at the Pace of Business
Any way you look at the track record of Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, an objective observer must come away with the conclusion that it has been an economic development success.
WASHINGTON, DC: COVER STORY: A Tech Hub On the Move
For more than two centuries, Washington, DC, has been the most important city in the world. Its global leadership position firmly established and unquestioned, the nation’s capital does more than write history on a daily basis; it lays the foundation for political and economic progress in this country and many others.
VIRGINIA: Big Biotech Things Come In Big and Tiny Packages
Biotech blockbusters and a Google data center boost business in the Commonwealth.
NEW YORK: 3 Big Things To Know About New York
Western New York is on the rise as dairy project developers and Canada based advanced manufacturers invest in the region.
OHIO RIVER CORRIDOR: Here for the Long Haul: New Products Prove Enduring Location Value of Legacy Locations
Huge investments from Ford and GE Appliances drive the No. 1 metro area in the Ohio River Corridor region.
Intelligence Reports
GREATER PHOENIX INTELLIGENCE REPORT: NEXT-GENERATION TRANSPORTATION: ON THE MOVE
In metro Phoenix, novel ways to get from point A to point B start up as frequently as … well … the region’s startups themselves, which have made the region one of the fastest growing startup ecosystems and tech talent hotbeds.
GREATER PHOENIX INTELLIGENCE REPORT: HIGHER EDUCATION, WORKFORCE & AI: Where AI Gets Real
Cognite, a leading industrial data operations platform incorporating the power of data and AI, has had a busy 2025 as the company aligns operations with AI growth and innovation policies of various nations and regions. The company opened a center of excellence in Bengaluru, India, in March 2025.
GREATER PHOENIX INTELLIGENCE REPORT: BIOSCIENCE: ‘Transformative’ Describes Life Sciences Investments and the Scientific Progress Behind Them
March 3, 2025, dawned like any other Monday in the history of Phoenix, Arizona. Then it took a sudden turn toward the future.
GREATER PHOENIX INTELLIGENCE REPORT: SEMICONDUCTORS: Where the Action Is
The spinoff from attracting semiconductor giant TSMC and its hundreds of billions of dollars of metro Phoenix investment is a case study for rainmaking in the desert.
GREATER PHOENIX INTELLIGENCE REPORT: INTRODUCTION: A Region Coming Into Its Own
Before a rocket or aircraft lifts off, the standard checklist phrase is “all systems go.” The Greater Phoenix economy has moved on to “light this candle.”