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INVESTMENT PROFILE: PORT OF BROWNSVILLE
New Horizons Beckon in Brownsville
Close your eyes and picture 40,000 acres. Now open them and answer this question: How far away was the horizon? In Brownsville, Texas, it’s as far as your global vision can take you
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Photo courtesy of Toyota
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Toyota yesterday chose the launch of production at its new $14 billion, 5,100-job battery plant in Liberty, North Carolina, as the stage for announcing the company will invest up to $10 billion more over the next five years to support future mobility efforts. This will bring the company’s total U.S. investment to nearly $60 billion since beginning operations here nearly 70 years ago, the company said.
The Liberty plant is Toyota’s 11th U.S. manufacturing plant and the company’s first and only battery plant outside of Japan. It started as a $1.3 billion plant, Site Selection reported in early 2022. Associate Editor Alexis Elmore continued Site Selection’s coverage of the location choice and surrounding activity throughout the Carolina Core region in September 2022. EVP Ron Starner in December 2023 interviewed North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Machelle Baker Sanders about how the state was going to help the company hire 5,000 workers.
In a release, Toyota stated that the 1,850-acre megasite can produce 30 GWh annually at full capacity and will serve as a hub for developing and producing lithium-ion batteries needed for its growing portfolio of EVs.
“Today’s launch of Toyota’s first U.S. battery plant and additional U.S. investment up to $10 billion marks a pivotal moment in our company’s history,” said Ted Ogawa, president and chief executive officer, Toyota Motor North America (TMNA).
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Quint-Modal Advantage
Where opportunity takes off. Titusville is the only place where business growth moves by land, air, sea, rail, and space. Quint-modal connectivity defines the community, linking companies to markets around the world. Add available sites, modern infrastructure, and a business-friendly climate, and Titusville delivers speed to market that others cannot match. When every advantage counts, this is where you launch.
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BLUE ECONOMY
The H2O Economy
How this valuable resource is driving economic growth in the Great Lakes region.
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Q&A: INVEST ONTARIO
Ontario: ‘A Beacon of Stability’
In a time of unrest, Canada’s largest province reaps big investment rewards. Invest Ontario CEO Khawar Nasim and his team are a big reason why.
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The Stargate data center campus in Abilene, Texas, is the start of plans by OpenAI and Oracle to invest $500 billion into 10 gigawatts of AI infrastructure in the U.S. over the next four years, including a new site in Saline Township, Michigan, announced October 30.
July 2025 photo courtesy of OpenAI
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Ball State University Professor Michael Hicks — known to Site Selection readers for his frequent reports on state logistics and manufacturing profiles — this week released on his “The Country Economist” Substack “Data Centers and Local Job Creation: Some Preliminary Causal Estimates from Texas,” a comprehensive analysis (warning: algebraic equation at 1,200 words) that concludes there are “zero net employment effects due to data centers.” “What is very clear from the results of these causal estimates of employment effects,” Hicks writes, “is that fiscal incentives for data centers cannot be justified on the grounds of job creation.” Among the institutions he credits for having “very clear publicly available data” is the Texas Office of the Comptroller. Hicks is the George & Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of Ball State University’s Center for Business and Economic Research.
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If you don’t have someone’s aurora borealis photo in your social media feed or text chat, you probably will soon. This image showed up last night courtesy of Site Selection Publisher and Director Laura Lyne, a talented photographer who captured the northern lights in action in the big skies of Montana. Why are things so active? Consult the latest geomagnetic storm bulletins from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center.
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