Investor Watch: July 3, 2025

With upgrades underway and more planned, Fulton County Executive Airport is preparing for global attention.

COVER STORY

Site Selection’s unique index names the top countries, U.S. states and U.S. metros for sustainability.

COUNTY RANKINGS

Jurisdictions in Arizona and Texas top our annual look at leading U.S. counties by corporate facility project impact.

GLOBAL STARTUP HUBS

Site Selection combines findings from Startup Genome, Startup Blink and Pitchbook to present this year’s best locations. Plus bonus insights from Alexis Elmore’s attendance at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Indianapolis.

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This 1975 photo shows construction finishing up at the J. Edgar Hoover Building housing FBI headquarters.
Archive image courtesy of FBI

On July 1 the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced plans to move its headquarters to the Ronald Reagan Building complex, a site that is home to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other agencies and which used to be home to USAID. “This move not only provides a world-class location for the FBI’s public servants, but it also saves Americans billions of dollars on new construction and avoids more than $300 million in deferred maintenance costs at the J. Edgar Hoover facility,” said GSA Public Buildings Service Commissioner Michael Peters.

For years, the agency was thought to be headed to Maryland, a topic first broached in Site Selection in this May 2013 Investment Profile of Prince George’s County, which in November 2023 announced the HQ was indeed coming to Greenbelt. The GSA announced it too. Meanwhile, a group of Maryland elected officials and organizations called “Team Maryland” has released a statement saying of the new GSA plan “we will be fighting back

Get Building in Georgia

From the heart of Georgia to its coast, our state offers ideal locations for your business to grow. Strategically located and fully vetted, each location provides the assets needed to ramp up your project quickly and efficiently.

Site Readiness

• Georgia’s GRAD sites are ready to fast-track construction projects with completed due diligence.
• Our state’s GRAD program has sites available across Georgia.

Logistics & Infrastructure

• Georgia is a global gateway with the world’s busiest airport and two of the busiest ports in the United States.
• Our state’s robust rail and highway system gives Georgia businesses access to more miles of rail than any other state in the Southeast.

Workforce and Education

• Georgia offers one of the nation’s oldest and top workforce development programs, Georgia Quick Start.
• Georgia’s long-standing investments in education have created a skilled and versatile workforce, capable of meeting a variety of needs for businesses looking to locate or expand in the state.

Georgia’s thriving business environment makes it easier than ever to get building.

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Two resources shed detailed light on today’s exploding data center scene. First, law firm Reed Smith’s “Data Centers: Bytes and Rights” is a new series that offers guidance on “key areas including investment strategy, infrastructure development, risk management, dispute resolution and regulatory compliance.”

A new paper from researchers at the University of Oxford, “AI Compute Sovereignty: Infrastructure Control Across Territories, Cloud Providers, and Accelerators,” examines the geography and ultimate control of AI data infrastructure through the lens of the world’s dominant cloud providers.

Photo courtesy of Library of Congress

In this photo made by W. O. Olson on July 4, 1908, spectators look on from their buggies as a game of “base ball” has broken out inside a race track on the prairie in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. The area is known as the boyhood home of Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis, author of “Main Street.” Today it is also home to another American tradition, the Lake Wobegon Trail, a 65-mile trail named for the fictional universe created by Minnesota’s Garrison Keillor, who is said to have drawn inspiration from the region for his characters and communities.