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December 2, 2011

Gimme (Fallout) Shelter

Gimme (Fallout) Shelter: Construction is spiking way up these days for companies that manufacture fallout shelters. But the industry still maintains its way-low profile.

November 21, 2011

Back For More

Back For More: Space Coast leaders and aerospace workers give thanks for a boost from Boeing.

November 8, 2011

Reform School Showdown

Reform School Showdown: When it comes to corporate tax reform, Washington wonks differ on who needs to clean up their act.

October 26, 2011

Tech Nexus

Tech Nexus: Innovation and lifestyle draw Google to Kitchener-Waterloo.

October 13, 2011

Going Up?

Going Up?: New projects making Kevlar, tires and elevators put a bounce into South Carolina's economy.

September 27, 2011

Nashville Rising

Nashville Rising: A year after devastating floodwaters struck Music City, we take a look back at a model local disaster response, and why one area company decided to rebuild instead of relocate.

August 24, 2011

Happy Feet

In Portland, Ore., there’s a burgeoning sub-cluster of footwear companies, now more than two dozen strong. Part of a larger and ever expanding cluster of athletic and outdoor (A&O) companies, this growth has turned the region into the North American go-to industry hub.

August 9, 2011

GM’s Summer of Love

GM's Summer of Love: Driven by efficiency gains, fuel-efficiency goals, promising sales and pure momentum, GM spends its summer spending money on its plants.

July 27, 2011

Sky Roots

Sky Roots: Looking deep into the universe requires a rather large earthbound footprint, and a whole lot of quiet.

July 11, 2011

In the Right Direction

"My administration has made it a priority to transform our state's previously hostile business climate," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tells Site Selection.

May 31, 2011

McKinley Conway, 1920-2011: Last Flight Home in a Landmark Life

Oh, hell, Mac Conway wasn’t like anybody. He never followed anyone’s footsteps; he couldn’t really. He was too restless a spirit, too hell-bent on slashing through the tangle and lighting out headlong for the territory ahead. Moreover, he was that rare human who discovered some bona-fide virgin turf; he even did it repeatedly. And every time he unearthed new ground, he'd start building. Building things nobody’d ever built before.

May 11, 2011

Come Together

A city in coastal Turkey cashes back-to-back winning tickets on major industrial projects.

March 7, 2011

The New Orleans Miracle

I thought a recent economic development tour of Greater New Orleans would offer up a book’s worth of case studies in disaster recovery. It did. But the community seems more focused on the sequel.

February 3, 2011

Super Bowling

The International Bowling Campus opened with great fanfare one year ago.

January 27, 2011

So Many Channels

Tim Searcy is CEO of the Indianapolis-based American Teleservices Association (ATA), a trade organization that represents more than 4,000 contact centers.

December 21, 2010

Get Behind the Sun

Sure you’d expect giant solar power plants to be announced in Southern California or Texas. But the southern Great White North?

December 16, 2010

Symbol Yields Savings

The German city of Essen is the Pittsburgh of North Rhine Westphalia.

December 2, 2010

The Great American Job Purge

The sucking noise heard coast-to-coast and border-to-border is from The Great American Job Purge orchestrated by a perfect storm

November 19, 2010

Water Links

The United States is preparing to take a leaf out of a successful program in Europe to shift road traffic to waterways,

November 16, 2010

The Bridge Home

At La Paloma Resort in the foothills outside Tucson, Ariz., on Sept. 30, dapper Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana could be seen strolling through the lobby, focused on the speech he was about to give to an executive retreat for Northrup Grumman Missile Systems, the area's largest employer.

October 21, 2010

‘Survivor: The Cape’

Years ago, Timex Watches marketed its products as being able to take a licking and keep on ticking.

October 14, 2010

Keeping It Real

What do you think about when you hear the word "cluster"?

October 4, 2010

Super Summer

Even as the state can't forget the BP oil leak disaster and deepwater drilling moratorium that vacuumed up the world's attention, a trio of projects circling Lake Ponchartrain has made this a summer to remember for Louisiana and Greater New Orleans.