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BIOPHARMA
Doctor’s Orders
Life sciences investments from such companies as Genentech, J&J, Amgen, Fujifilm and Eli Lilly and Co. venture to strategic U.S. locations.
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Photo courtesy of AGC of America
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The Associated General Contractors of America has awarded the highest honors in the 2025 Baldwin Group Build America Awards to the Michigan Central Station rehabilitation project (above) led by the Christman | Brinker Corktown Transformational Joint Venture.
“The Christman/Brinker joint venture restored one of Detroit’s most iconic landmarks after more than 30 years of abandonment,” stated an AGC release. “Originally opened in 1913, the 640,000-square-foot Beaux-Arts station had suffered severe structural damage, water infiltration and extensive deterioration. Over 76 months, the team stabilized, restored and modernized the building while preserving its grand waiting room, historic concourse and 18-story tower. Using advanced laser scanning, BIM coordination and detailed preservation techniques, the team carefully integrated modern systems into the historic structure.”
The project has been chronicles in multiple Site Selection stories, beginning with the July 2018 story “On the Rebound” and in the 2025 Michigan Development Guide “Make It in Michigan.”
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COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS
Job One in Kentucky: Being Prepared
A pillar of the Kentucky Blueprint strategy to focus on five key sectors, Community Preparedness includes a heavy emphasis on collaboration at every level, and a series of “Turf Meetings” has been crucial to the process.
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MP Materials operates the world’s second-largest rare earth mine in Mountain Pass, California, along I-15 about 15 miles from the Nevada border.
Photo courtesy of MP Materials
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In March, the Canada–U.S. Future Borders Coalition convened the first in a new series of U.S. Ambassador Roundtables on Economic Cooperation, bringing together 34 senior mining executives in Victoria, British Columbia, for a high-level, closed-door dialogue around critical minerals and potential mining partnerships. Hosted in collaboration with the U.S. Consulate General in Vancouver and the Mining Association of BC at “a time when global supply chains are being reshaped by geopolitics and national security priorities, this kind of access is both uncommon and increasingly critical,” said a Coalition release. Read a summary of the proceedings — including notes about specific locations’ potential — by Future Borders Coalition Executive Director Laura Dawson.
This week, the unique Center for Land Use Interpretation offered a full newsletter devoted to critical minerals that included this in-depth examination and explanation of exactly which elements are critical, with are rare earths, and where important deposits and processing operations are taking place. Among those places is the Mountain Pass mine pictured above, whose latest injection of capital is coming from MP Materials, as documented in this November 2025 Site Selection Investment Profile of San Bernardino County.
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Reds superstar shortstop Elly De La Cruz rounds third base after hitting the first of back-to-back home runs in Cincinnati Tuesday night.
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Editor in Chief Adam Bruns made this photo on Tuesday night at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, where an 8th inning rally by the Cincinnati Reds featured back-to-back home runs and runners on base with no outs but ultimately fell short, resulting in an eventual 8-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates, whose PNC Park in Pittsburgh features river views very much like Cincinnati’s. The two teams’ previous stadiums, Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati and Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, also resembled one another: cookie-cutter, enclosed concrete circles both constructed in 1970.
Look to the forthcoming May issue of Site Selection and this newsletter for more about Cincinnati’s life sciences scene from exclusive interviews with corporate and community leaders that Bruns conducted this week thanks to meetings arranged by REDI Cincinnati and DCI.
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