March 21, 2025
NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS : March 2025
Apple’s $500 billion bet on the United States; GlobalFoundries in New York; a new lithium refi nery in Oklahoma; CBRE’s 100 largest o ce leases; Diageo in Alabama; Novva Data Centers in Arizona
March 21, 2025
Apple’s $500 billion bet on the United States; GlobalFoundries in New York; a new lithium refi nery in Oklahoma; CBRE’s 100 largest o ce leases; Diageo in Alabama; Novva Data Centers in Arizona
January 28, 2025
Amgen in North Carolina; Amazon in Fort Myers; a plastics pioneer in Fort Worth; Eli Lilly in Wisconsin; an automotive company in Michigan; a printing facility turns into a data center in Kansas City.
November 22, 2024
Meta comes to South Carolina; Linde joins Dow’s clean hydrogen project in Alberta; Eli Lilly doubles down in Indiana; Arzyz Metals invests $650 million in Mexico; GM invests in battery cell prototype development in Michigan; Austal grows in Alabama.
February 2, 2015
Clemens Food Group is investing $250 million in a new, 550,000-sq.-ft. (51,000-sq.-m.) pork processing facility in Coldwater, Mich., that will create about 800 jobs.
December 15, 2014
Travelers flying over North Dakota at night will soon see fewer lights from natural gas flares.
October 14, 2014
Philips Lighting will expand their operations at the company’s Tupelo, Miss., facility, creating a manufacturing hub.
July 30, 2014
Recycling a tire used to mean turning it into a backyard swing, but not any longer.
May 20, 2014
Agribusiness contributes more than $1.5 billion to the regional economy of western Michigan, and the new Michigan Hop Network hopes to assist hop farmers in adding to that total.
March 17, 2014
International Speedway Corporation announced a multi-year partnership with Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc., making Toyota the first Founding Partner at Daytona International Speedway, part of the $400-million DAYTONA Rising redevelopment project.
January 13, 2014
Apple Inc. announced the opening of a new plant in Mesa, Ariz., that will create 700 jobs, as well as 1,300 construction jobs, for a region hard hit during the recession.
November 18, 2013
Chinese investors spent $12.2 billion in foreign direct investment in the first three quarters of 2013, on the way to a record-setting year, according to Rhodium Group’s Thilo Hanemann.
September 30, 2013
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration in August released a report on the nation’s busiest Interstates that shows people drove more than 84.7 billion miles on California highways in 2011 — more than 900 times the distance from Earth to the Sun — making the Golden State’s highways the nation’s busiest.
July 11, 2013
While economists fret over bubbles of another kind, the leading maker of bubble drinks is stretching its wings. Lollicup USA Inc., the specialty beverage manufacturer, supplier and retailer, is moving from 140,000 sq. ft. (13,000 sq. m.) in two separate locations in Walnut and Industry, Calif., to one shiny new 300,300-sq.-ft. (27,898-sq.-m.) facility in the San Bernardino County community of Chino. The company plans to add to its payroll of 150 once the relocation is complete in mid-third quarter 2013.
May 22, 2013
The Menlo Park City Council in late March approved all requested land use entitlements and agreements for the Facebook West Campus Project, and introduced ordinances approving the development agreement and rezoning the property to accommodate design requirements surpassing existing height limits.
March 28, 2013
Three early 2013 rankings and reports offer some guidance from the fringes of the site selection matrix.
January 9, 2013
Following up on two separate projects whose feasibility studies were announced just over a year earlier, South Africa-based energy and chemicals company Sasol announced in early December it will combine them into one complex. This and other stories from around North America
November 12, 2012
College students are no different from the companies that one day will hire them in looking for their own best return on investment, which is why the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) this fall released its 2012 AIER College Destinations Index (CDI), which examined a dozen factors in evaluating the 227 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) with student populations of 15,000 or more.
August 1, 2012
North American Reports: Gotta Strat Somewhere; Full Speed Ahead in Halifax; Travel and Trade; Big Business in the Bluegrass; Eduring Attractions | Site Selection Online
May 30, 2012
University spending on research (R&D) in all fields increased 6.9 percent between FY 2009 and FY 2010 to US$61.2 billion. University of Florida Innovation Hub, Tijuana, Mexico tax incentives.
March 22, 2012
Data on repurposed automotive plants, the U.S. vs. the world in compensation levels, energetic trends in state GDP, Nissan in Mexico, EB-5 and visa trends, and worldly schools and students.
January 9, 2012
What Goes Around Comes Around; Carolinas Grow Finer; Whatever You Do, Don’t Compare These Numbers; Inside and Outside Indicators Stoke Optimism, Caveats
November 30, 2011
North American Reports: Blu Homes To Build Prefab Eco-Homes By Deep Blue Sea; ‘They Were There Last Time We Checked’; Billion-Dollar Bounce In South Carolina
October 4, 2011
North American Reports: Quick-Fill Capability; Honda Diversifies; Northeast Aces ACT; Looking West;Where’s the Building?; New Digs for Novo
July 28, 2011
North American Reports: Bessemer Bound; Where IT’s At: and Continental Lift