September 2024

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Cover Story

Canada’s Best Locations 2024

Based on corporate facility project investment data, Ontario secures the Canadian Competitiveness Award among provinces and 20 regions distinguish themselves as Canada’s Best Locations.

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Features

Opportunity Arises in the Great Outdoors

The U.S. outdoor recreation economy is booming, and several western states are capitalizing on that momentum.

Transit-Oriented Development: Spreading the Streetcar Love

With a proven record of promoting growth, Portland’s neighborhood rail is set to expand.

Quality of Life: Does Your State Make the Cut?

Recent WalletHub analysis reveals the best states to live in and, more specifically, the states with the best quality of life.

Eds & Meds: A Welcomed Catalyst for Innovation

Federal Tech Hubs funding could help emerging districts reach viability.

Rare Earth Operations: The Critical Minerals Supply Chain Is Coming Home

Processing critical minerals domestically is ramping up as companies invest in facilities designed to bring the supply chain home from overseas.

Advanced Materials: Next-Gen Industries Invest in Next-Gen Facilities

Where companies on the cutting edge of product development are locating their new facilities.

Site Development: Out of Sites? Out of Mind.

Site Development: Out of Sites? Out of Mind.: Advancing the scope of readiness is the next frontier.

Logistics & Distribution: Chicago is Still the Hub

But changes roil global supply chains.

Top Utilities 2024: Power Provision Is Just the Beginning

Based on corporate end-user facility investments in their territories, these are this year’s top utilities in economic development. An online-only bonus story features their direct answers to a big question from us and their customers: “Amid a glut of heavy-load industrial projects, how is your team working with operations and external stakeholders to address power provision?”

2024 Global Groundwork Index: REPEAT Investors

Ohio and Indianapolis once again top the Global Groundwork Index rankings, while the UK leads the way abroad.

Top Utilities Provide Exclusive Insights Into the Pressing Need for More Power

Power provision is vying with workforce as the most pressing issue for industrial companies nationwide amid a glut of major industrial facility projects (data centers, semiconductor fabs, EV/battery supply chain, etc.). How is your utility’s economic development team working with operations and external stakeholders to address these concerns?

Investment Profiles

The Nation’s Capital — a Global Hub For Business

A new Vitality Fund gains traction as a global firm relocates Americas HQ from New York to DC.

Antioch, California: Beauty and the Best Location

The co-owner of salon tool company Olivia Garden describes why Antioch and the Bay Area make sense for this global leader.

Consumers Energy: ‘Let’s Move Some Dirt’

Michigan takes another road to industrial site development.

Ardmore, Oklahoma: All Eyes On Ardmore

All Eyes On Ardmore

San Bernardino County, California: Powering the Path to Sustainability

San Bernardino County Builds A Green Energy Hub.

International

Qatar Has Space to Innovate

We explore the $45 billion Lusail City, new incentives for AI and tech in Saudi Arabia, and the massive Tasreef Project in Dubai.

Thailand’s Investment Hub

A new, nine-square-mile Capital City is being developed in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor, which is at the forefront of the country’s foreign investment strategy.