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Kings of the Mountain: Top Metros and Cities by Inc. 5000 Firms
The Big Apple has 20 fewer Inc. 5000 companies this year but remains the No. 1 metro by number of Inc. 5000 firms even as numbers surge in the nation’s capital and two Texas metros (including Dallas-Ft. Worth, pictured above). Regions in Wyoming and Utah maintain top positions in per-capita analysis, which welcomes three new metros to the top 10.
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TEXAS
Texas Connections
In the Lone Star State, one thing just leads to another. Big data centers, multiple energy investments, a 1,900-acre tech campus in Port San Antonio and a new bridge in Corpus Christi are just a few of many projects breaking ground, Site Selection’s editorial team reports.
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“Until its recent commitment with Rauch and Ball Corp. to a billion-dollar complex in Concord,” we wrote in 2021, “Red Bull was known in the region for its high-octane events and athletes such as slackline expert Alex Mason.”
Photo by Brian Hall courtesy of Red Bull Content Pool
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On September 9, Red Bull, Ball Corp. and Rauch Fruchtsäfte finally broke ground on a $1.5 billion plant in Concord, North Carolina that Site Selection originally reported on four years ago this month. The 2.3-million-sq.-ft. campus is expected to produce up to 3 billion cans a year and generate up to 700 jobs by 2031. The three companies opened their first integrated campus in Glendale, Arizona, in 2021, two years after announcing it.
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FDI & TRADE
The Global Ties That Bind
More than 2,682 international companies employ nearly 552,700 people in Illinois, a state where the value of exports in 2024 reached an all-time high of $80.82 billion.
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A 2018 photograph of Kiruna, Sweden, the northernmost town in Sweden in Lapland, illustrates the land subsidence from iron mining that has led to the relocation of the town and its famous church.
Photo by Alexander Farnsworth: Getty Images
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Not for the first time, Site Selection recommends the journalism found in Arctic Today, including a piece published earlier this month about the relocation of the city of Kiruna, Sweden, due to land subsidence from the area’s major mining activity, which produces 80% of the iron ore in the European Union. The Atlantic in August highlighted the movement of a historic church in Kiruna as part of the relocation. The city was among several cities around the world cited in a 2019 Site Selection article about smart city infrastructure investment.
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Photo courtesy of St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation
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By 2026 the final Canadian lock in the eight-lock Welland Canal (pictured) will offer hands-free mooring, making the St. Lawrence Seaway the first inland waterway of its kind in the world, St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation President and CEO Jim Athanasiou told Site Selection for the forthcoming Great Lakes Region Economic Development Guide produced by Conway Custom Content. Construction on the all-Canadian Welland Canal connecting Lake Erie and Lake Ontario was originally launched in 1824.
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