The dilapidated but historic Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering Company building in Cleveland will now be redeveloped as a manufacturing operation for modular housing.
Photo courtesy of City of Cleveland
News from Ohio in the past two weeks connects to two Site Selection stories. First: Biomanufacturing contract and development manufacturing organization (CDMO) Resilience on June 18 announced the official move of its HQ from San Diego, California, to the Cincinnati-area municipality of Blue Ash, where the company will also locate a 450,000-sq.-ft. drug product packaging and supply operation. Resilience anticipates creating 200 new jobs in Blue Ash.
The company mentioned its workforce development partnership with Butler Tech, something that came up when Site Selection Editor in Chief Adam Bruns spoke with Josh Matson, vice president, general manager and site head for Resilience, at the company’s massive operation in nearby West Chester for the May 2026 issue’s Ohio Spotlight, where the HQ move news was reported.
Two days ago, Mayor Justin M. Bibb, the City of Cleveland and the Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund (SRF) today announced “two major milestones in Cleveland’s industrial and housing strategy with the selection of MMY US (MMY) as the City’s preferred modular housing manufacturer, and the award of $2.56 million in Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits for the redevelopment of the historic Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering Company building at 7000 Central Avenue.”
A release stated that the announcements “reflect a coordinated effort to expand housing production capacity in Cleveland, create quality manufacturing jobs and activate one of the Midline’s most significant historic industrial assets … MMY’s investment will support the City’s Housing Innovation District,” a focused strategy designed to “accelerate housing production through modern zoning, incentivized permitting, innovative construction techniques and infrastructure investments.”
Bruns spoke with Mayor Bibb about the historic Wellman-Seaver-Morgan building when they met in Atlanta two years ago (pictured below) at the national conference of the African American Mayors Association. Part of their conversation appeared in Conway Custom Content’s Ohio Business Growth Guide 2024.
Watch for new insights from Mayor Bibb about this unique project — and more from innovative solutions to the housing crisis from across the nation — later this month in the expanded web edition of the Workforce Housing feature from Site Selection’s July 2026 issue.
Visit Sweden reports that 20% of Swedes take the bike to work or school every day and 11% of the population switch to studded tires and keep it up during the winter.
Photo by Simon Paulin/imagebank.sweden.se
The World Economic Forum in June released the Energy Transition Index 2026, developed in collaboration with Accenture. The report finds that “the global energy transition — defined as progress toward more sustainable, equitable and secure energy systems — has stalled despite record global investment of $3.3 trillion, including $2.3 trillion in clean energy.”
The Energy Transition Index (ETI) benchmarks the performance of national energy systems across three core dimensions — security, sustainability and equity — and the readiness of the enabling environment to support the transition. “Nordic countries continued to lead the ETI rankings, while Singapore was among the biggest climbers, rising 10 places in the index, driven by new regulation and stronger political commitment,” said a World Economic Forum release. “Advanced economies held 14 of the top 20 positions, but progress was uneven and largely stalled … Among major economies, China continued to scale clean energy investment at record levels, India recorded one of the strongest gains in transition readiness, while the United States maintained strong energy security performance despite slipping modestly overall.” Meanwhile, at the regional level, Sub-Saharan Africa recorded the strongest gains.
Sweden finishes No. 1 in the WEF’s Energy Transition Index and No. 5 in Site Selection’s newly published Sustainability Rankings. The country in 2024 topped the Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index (GSCI).
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Photos courtesy of Great American Flag Preservation Group
Our work continues reporting a future Site Selection Online Insider about the efforts by the Great American Flag Preservation Group to display this unique, 14,000+-pound flag originally manufactured and displayed in Evansville, Indiana, in March 1980 and dedicated to the U.S. hostages in Iran. A Site Selection Investor Watch in March highlighted the years-long search merely to find a place to unfurl and clean it, which turned out to be Spaceport America in New Mexico.
Among the times the flag has been displayed over the 46 years since its debut were Flag Day, June 14, 1980, on the National Mall (above) when it was measured by the Guinness Book of World Records and given the title of largest flag in the world and largest textile ever produced. (These titles have since been overtaken.) After being displayed in January 1981 at Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George’s County, Maryland, to greet the hostages after their return from Iran, it was displayed later that year on June 18 in New York City’s Central Park (below) to honor the astronauts of the first orbital spaceflight.
