September 29, 2026
Advanced air mobility gets new wings in Ohio; Top 10 Metros for Aerospace & Defense; Prysmian announces over $1 billion investment in three U.S. sites; Apple commits over $30 billion toward silicon production in Colorado.
July 16, 2026
Hikma Pharmaceuticals invests $267 million in Ohio; Oklahoma revamps a former fuel refi nery; USA Rare Earth announces South Carolina as next mining production location; Japanese solar goes big in Texas; Rhode Island expands radar production; exports increase from Alabama’s Port of Mobile.
May 13, 2026
Siemens Mobility will open a new manufacturing and rail services center in North Carolina; Meta earmarks $9 billion for an El Paso Data Center campus; Mercedes- Benz spends $4 billion expanding in Alabama; first uranium enrichment facility comes to Kentucky; Nestlé Mexico grows its operations; L3Harris spends over $1 billion on rocket manufacturing in Virginia.
March 27, 2026
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, sees expanded uranium enrichment production; the U.S. states with the longest commutes; aerospace startup CesiumAstro establishes new manufacturing facility and global headquarters near Austin; a $1 billion expansion boosts Port of Baltimore activity; clean chemical manufacturing locates in southeastern New Mexico; John Deere expands into Indiana and North Carolina.
January 28, 2026
Ohio plant reimagined for data center equipment manufacturing; top 10 U.S. states by health care experiences; Georgia welcomes animal vaccine manufacturing; autonomous ships set sail in the Gulf Coast; semiconductors rise in Ontario; New Jersey nets nearly $500 million in pharma manufacturing.
November 26, 2025
Potash mining in Saskatchewan is up; Eli Lilly expands in Houston; top fi ve states by value of manufacturing shipments per capita; the largest data center to be built in Mexico; Walmart expands presence in North Carolina; and New Mexico approves $165 billion data center campus, “Project Jupiter.”
October 1, 2025
The DOE jumps on the data center bandwagon; a $400 million agrifood investment in the Peach State; Mars invests $2 billion across multiple U.S. sites; Maryland goes nuclear; and Ford is all in on EV production.
August 8, 2025
Amazon and WhiteFiber in North Carolina; FDI manufacturing trends; SMR milestone in Ontario; Unilever invests in Mexico operations; aerospace manufacturing in Florida; Stellantis in Michigan.
June 3, 2025
Fiserv in metro Kansas City; Fermaca Dreams in Durango, Mexico; GE Aerospace in North Carolina; a $4 billion ammonia JV in Louisiana; a $23 billion U.S. investment plan from Novartis; the Top 10 most innovative states (No. 1 is not a state).
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.