Read all about new facility investments from lithium-ion battery cell maker EnerSys, O-I Glass and Chinese automotive component manufacturer Unison Shanghai.
More than half of the logistics facility investments tracked by Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database over nearly three years in the Kansas City metro area were on the Kansas side of the state line.
This photo from the November-December 1955 issue of Site Selection predecessor Industrial Development shows a shipment of lepidolite lithium ore arriving in Corpus Christi from Bikita in what was then still a British colony named Southern Rhodesia (today part of Zimbabwe). As recently as July 2023, according to Mining Technology, the lithium mine in Bikita owned by China’s Sinomine Resource Group was one of the 10 largest lithium mines in the world. “Zimbabwe’s President, Emerson Mnangagwa, believes the country’s mining industry could reach an output value of $12 billion in 2023,” the publication reported.
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Photo courtesy of Morehouse College Office of Institutional Advancement
As Black History Month winds down, Black history as American history continues to unfold every month. In October, Morehouse College, the nation’s only historically Black liberal arts institution dedicated to educating and developing men, received a $3 million gift from logistics real estate company Prologis to create an endowed fund that “will expand opportunities for students of color to study real estate and prepare for lucrative careers with top firms in the industry.” The endowment will help to support academic programs and research launched by the new Morehouse Real Estate Institute. “According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 10% of real estate professionals are Black,” a Morehouse release explained. The percentage shrinks to 5% for brokers and less than 2% for commercial real estate management. The Morehouse Real Estate Institute will expand access to career pathways within the Division of Business and Economics. The new real estate classes, which will be available in 2024, will be open to all Atlanta University Students, which includes underrepresented students of color at Morehouse, Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University, all located near one another in Atlanta University Center.
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Photo by Cory Rusch courtesy of Norfolk Southern
This photo made by Cory Rusch shows a Norfolk Southern mixed-freight train crossing the Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct in Nicholson, Pennsylvania. The world’s largest concrete railroad bridge, the viaduct “was part of a major improvement to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad,” says visitPA.com, the tourism website of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. “Commonly called the Nicholson Bridge, it was constructed from 1912 to 1915. The bridge is 2,375 feet long, 34 feet wide, and 300 feet in extreme height from the top of the parapet to bottom of deepest foundation pit.” The structure is part of the Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway north of Scranton.
