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EDITOR’S VIEW
Four Years of Learning What Two-Years Can Do
Following the final convening of a unique journalism fellowship program focused on career and technical education, Adam Bruns reflects on the new perspectives, depth and network of expertise the program has brought to his (and Site Selection’s) workforce development reporting.
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Micron in September 2024 announced its various investments in New York would include a new office space in downtown Syracuse.
Photo-rendering courtesy of Micron and In-Architects
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Following the issuance of a draft air permit earlier in the month by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency last week voted unanimously to approve the FEIS findings statement for Micron’s megafab in central New York. This formally concludes the state environmental review process for Micron to obtain all state, local, and federal permits to support the start of site work on one of the largest semiconductor manufacturing facilities in U.S. history.
“While these advancements are technical, they reflect major progress for this project,” said Empire State Development President, CEO and Commissioner Hope Knight. “To get to this moment, Micron, Onondaga County and New York State have worked to ensure a thorough, transparent review that upholds the highest standards of environmental stewardship and public engagement. Under Governor Hochul’s leadership, New York continues to set a national example for how government and industry can work together to deliver large-scale, transformative economic development.”
Site Selection first reported on the Micron megafab megadeal three years ago this week. Subsequent coverage of the project has included February 2023 analysis of how New York was aligned to obtain CHIPS Act funding and a Workforce 2025 case study.
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A nighttime view of Tijuana from above the Tijuana Cultural Center (CECUT) in the Zona Río district of Tijuana, Mexico. Among a number of binational collaborations, the San Diego-Tijuana region was named the 2024 World Design Capital by the World Design Organization.
Photo courtesy of Design Forward Alliance
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Underwritten by binational tech talent solutions company ITJ and with the help of Esri storymaps, a new report from World Trade Center San Diego quantifies the economy of the Cali Baja region (San Diego County and Imperial County in California and Baja California in Mexico). Among the findings:
- Under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) established in 2020, “capital goods imported from Mexico to the U.S., such as machinery and manufacturing equipment, surged 43%.”
- “In 2024, U.S. services exports to Mexico reached $50.4 billion, with imports from Mexico at $45.1 billion — increases of 54% and 46%, respectively, under the USMCA.”
- “Nearly 97% of San Diego and Imperial County’s $34.5 billion in goods exports go to Mexico, supporting roughly 95,000 jobs” in critical industries like aerospace, medical devices and semiconductors.
- Northbound truck crossings at the Cali Baja border have increased by 13% since 2019.
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Photo by Adam Bruns
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Last week Site Selection’s Alexis Elmore, Kelly Barraza and Adam Bruns were hosted by University of Georgia Libraries Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
Director Ashton Ellett and colleagues at the UGA Special Collections Libraries building. A tour began in this massive archive known as the Potter Vault, named for former University Librarian and Associate Provost William Gray Potter, who oversaw planning and construction of the Special Collections Building. The vault measures 30,000 sq. ft. by floor space, but with aisles that are 170 ft. long and 32 ft. high, its volume is 220,000 cubic feet. Ellett told us the vault’s atmospheric conditions are always 50 degrees with 30% relative humidity.
Among the many collections archived at the building are entries going back to 1940 for the prestigious George Foster Peabody Awards, the oldest and most prestigious awards in electronic media (where one would find recently retired Site Selection Senior Editor Gary Daughters’ name from when his team at CNN earned a Peabody for their reporting work on the Gulf oil spill disaster in 2010). Later in the tour the Site Selection group unboxed a few of the dozens of boxes of archival material from Site Selection publisher Conway Data and the family of founder McKinley “Mac” Conway (a former Georgia state senator) that are being donated along with an oral history interview and the publication’s archives to UGA Libraries and are destined to take their place in the vault.
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