Bell Textron increases its range in Texas. Agristo plants roots in North Dakota. Anduril makes single largest job creation investment in Ohio near Rickenbacker Airport.
We take a close look at the “Statistical Bulletin of FDI in China 2024” released in July 2024 by the Department of Foreign Investment Administration of China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM).
In 2023, 105 of Ohio’s 462 qualifying projects in Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database, or 23%, were claimed by communities with populations between 10,000 and 50,000.
The Dorothea Dix Hospital Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina, is one of a number of mental health facilities seeing redevelopment and repurposing.
December 1993 photo by Mattson courtesy of State Archives of North Carolina
Last week the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development approved the application for redevelopment of a portion of a large mental health services campus into a facility “to address the underlying causes of homelessness” called Campus of Hope. It’s one of several noteworthy instances of historic, often large properties once home to asylums or other campuses being examined for transformation. Among them is a portion of the 350-acre St Elizabeths Hospital campus in Washington, D.C., which “Both Sides Now” examined in 2013. Formerly known as the Government Hospital for the Insane, the facility was the first federally funded mental hospital in the country and was lobbied for by 19th century social and mental health reformer Dorothea Dix. As it happens, another mental health services property associated with Dix in Raleigh, North Carolina — the 160-year-old Dorothea Dix Hospital campus — is also undergoing transformation, in this case into Dorothea Dix Park.
Hiring talent conversant in AI is a hot topic for C-suite leaders.
Photo by Autthapol Champathong: Getty Images
Last week the Conference Board released C-Suite Outlook 2025: Seizing the Future, a report based on survey responses from more than 1,700 C-suite executives about what they view as top business challenges and priorities this year. Among the findings: “Roughly 80% of CEOs worldwide are planning to alter their supply chains in the next three to five years. That’s up significantly from last year, as leaders respond to costs, disruptions and trade tensions,” says the organization.
PHOTO OF THE DAY
March 2020 photo by Mike Litterst courtesy of U.S. National Park Service
Today marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, first observed nationally in 1986 after President Ronald Reagan signed into law a bill creating the national holiday in 1983. The National Constitution Center and the National Museum of African American History & Culture offer histories of the long campaign to create the holiday. Pictured is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial at National Mall & Memorial Parks, where the inscription on the side of the main sculpture of Dr. King reads, “Out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.”
