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Long before the nation’s reshoring phenomenon took hold, there was an actual shoreline doing its part for the US economy.

It’s a storyline that seems to come straight out of “The Descendants,” the Alexander Payne film whose plot revolved in part around a decision faced by descendants of Hawaiian royalty about whether or not to sell prime real estate to developers.

Have you gone in for your annual fiscal yet? Even as US citizens do exactly that while filing their tax returns, US states and the companies they covet are undergoing scrutiny of their own fiscal health.

"We're healthy enough. We're beautiful enough. We’re smart enough. And doggone it, people like us."

Chinese shirt and yarn company Luthai Textile announced this week it is opening a New York City office.

One man's sweetheart deal is another man's fishy situation.

It's been a scary few weeks for the Obama Administration, what with the health-care website nightmare, two weeks of haunted house from the government shutdown, the still-lurching approach of the debt ceiling deadline and international furor over the creepy tactics of the National Security Administration.

Amazon is pursuing its usual pre-holidays hiring ramp-up, even as it ramps up the number of e-fulfillment centers that will welcome most of those employees.

Ten years ago Site Selection assessed the economic development status of the U.S. Southeast by choosing to take a closer look at every community named “Greenville” across the region.

Documents were filed in East Baton Rouge this week finalizing the sale of the former home of newspaper The Advocate in downtown Baton Rouge to Lafayette Street Holdings for nearly $4.1 million.

What if a company came to town, did its business, provided you with a walking, talking digital postcard for your quality of life, then packed up and left, leaving your community a bit richer than before in both cash flow and reputation?

Nine years after selecting Tampa over Atlanta to open its first-ever Southern Business Center, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. announced this spring that it will expand its Florida operation by up to 255 jobs with total average compensation of nearly $100,000.

Physicist Frank Oppenheimer, the brother of Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer, didn't say exactly that when he founded the first-of-its-kind hands-on museum the Exploratorium in the late 1960s. But you know he wanted to.

There's no better time than the Fourth of July to shine a spotlight on Independence.

So said Don Pottinger, CEO of Northern Plains Nitrogen (NPN) in announcing in May the choice of Grand Forks, N.D., in the famously fertile Red River Valley, as the location for a new $1.5-billion fertilizer plant that will employ 135.

"Truth is stranger than fiction," Mark Twain once said. Especially when it happens for the first time.

Elected the 59th mayor of the City of Atlanta on January 4, 2010, Kasim Reed wasted little time in elevating the stature of Georgia's capital city.

To win The Masters this weekend at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., will require supreme skills, patience and fortitude. It will also require a superior match of golfer and equipment.

No matter where you live in the United States, you've seen a version of the headline, "City Hall Gives Way in Stadium Deal." In El Paso, Texas, they take those words literally.

The spoken and written works of prolific Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev include the lyrics to the republic's national anthem, as well as such statements as "Each and everyone must do sports — sports strengthen spirit," and "The one who aspires to victory wins."

The International Facility Management Association supports about 23,000 members who manage more than 37 billion sq. ft. (more than 3.4 billion sq. m.) of property in 78 countries.