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Georgetown, Kentucky, and Princeton, Indiana; Liberty, Missouri; McAllen, Texas
Plants in the neighboring states of Kentucky and Indiana get to help Toyota celebrate 40 years of manufacturing in the United States with a combined $1 billion investment. A $1.4 billion data center campus is coming to Liberty, Missouri (the same town where Site Selection’s flagship publication is printed). Valeo will fulfill a huge GM order for compute units with the help of a new plant in McAllen.
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(From left) Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIH) Chairman of the Board Andrzej Dycha presented Ascend Elements President and CEO Linh Austin and Chief Commercial Officer Tomasz Poznar with the “Manufacturing Investment of the Year” award at the PAIH 2026 Investors Gala in Warsaw. Poland Secretary of State of the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology Michał Jaros stands far right.
Photo courtesy of PAIH
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Ascend Elements last week earned the “Manufacturing Investment of the Year” award from the Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIH) for its development of the EU’s first fully integrated battery materials refining center, which will refine spent lithium-ion batteries into new, low-carbon cathode materials, including lithium and pCAM, using its patented Hydro-to-Cathode® technology. A release from PAIH noted that Poland’s Ministry of Economic Development and Technology granted Ascend Elements US$320 million (approximately 1.22 billion Polish złoty) to advance construction of the facility.
“Project Apex 2 is about more than a single facility; it is about proving that Europe can lead the world in a truly circular, low‑carbon battery economy,” said Linh Austin, president and CEO of Ascend Elements. “By bringing our Hydro‑to‑Cathode® technology to Poland, we are turning spent batteries into new critical materials at industrial scale, strengthening the EU’s strategic autonomy in key raw materials and helping set a global benchmark for sustainable battery manufacturing.”
Site Selection first reported three years ago in March 2023 on Ascend Elements’ battery project in Kentucky.
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Bend, Oregon
Photo by Ian McDonnell: Getty Images
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Glencora Haskins and Joseph Parilla of the Brookings Institution have published new analysis of the relationship between U.S. metro area economic performance and immigration, finding that “U.S. metropolitan areas with larger increases in the foreign born share of their working age population experienced stronger economic growth and employment over the past decade.” The Metro Monitor report includes interactive tools you can use to focus on any of the nation’s 196 largest metro areas to see how their regional economies performed between 2014 and 2024.
By overall growth, No. 1 in the index of very large metros is Austin, Texas, followed by Raleigh, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee. The top three in order among large metros are Provo, Utah; Boise, Idaho; and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mid-sized cities were topped by Bend, Oregon; Seaford, Delaware; and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. “Metro areas with larger increases in the foreign-born share of their working-age population saw stronger growth in gross metropolitan product (GMP) and employment between 2014 and 2024,” Haskins and Parilla write, “as well as in key prosperity metrics such as productivity and wage growth.”
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An aerial photo of Laakhavens in the Central Innovation District of The Hague
Photo by Jurriaan Brobbel courtesy of The Hague & Partners
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A Dutch city best known for being the site of the International Court of Justice and for being one of the few cities in the world whose name begins with “The” may soon be known for a massive redevelopment plan with housing at its center. The Hague’s city council last week approved plans to build around 11,400 homes in Laakhavens Hollands Spoor by 2040, as part of the expansion of the Central Innovation District (CID). “The development will transform the area into a mixed-use urban district combining housing, workplaces and public facilities near a major transport hub,” said a release from The Hague & Partners. Laakhavens Hollands Spoor is one of eight development areas within the Central Innovation District, the city’s main inner-city growth zone.
“We are building these homes in a neighborhood that is thoroughly renovated — from a concrete jungle to a green oasis,” said Klaas Verschuure, alderman for urban development of The Hague. “Car-free and with good cycling and walking paths. A preview of The Hague of the future.”
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