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.
December 2, 2011
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: Space Coast leaders and aerospace workers give thanks for a boost from Boeing.
November 8, 2011
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: Innovation and lifestyle draw Google to Kitchener-Waterloo.
October 13, 2011
Going Up?: New projects making Kevlar, tires and elevators put a bounce into South Carolina's economy.
September 27, 2011
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
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: 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: Looking deep into the universe requires a rather large earthbound footprint, and a whole lot of quiet.
July 11, 2011
"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
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 26, 2011
A new locomotive factory from GE gets the Texas fast-track treatment.
May 11, 2011
A city in coastal Turkey cashes back-to-back winning tickets on major industrial projects.
March 7, 2011
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
The International Bowling Campus opened with great fanfare one year ago.
January 27, 2011
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
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
The German city of Essen is the Pittsburgh of North Rhine Westphalia.
December 2, 2010
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
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
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
Years ago, Timex Watches marketed its products as being able to take a licking and keep on ticking.
October 14, 2010
What do you think about when you hear the word "cluster"?
October 4, 2010
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.