March 27, 2014
The same year that gave us the Cuban missile crisis, the Second Vatican Council, the admission of James Meredith into the University of Mississippi and the newly independent countries of Algeria, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago also gave us Kohl's, Kmart (now part of Sears), Target and Walmart, all of which got their start in 1962.
March 13, 2014
Long before the nation’s reshoring phenomenon took hold, there was an actual shoreline doing its part for the US economy.
February 20, 2014
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.
February 6, 2014
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.
January 23, 2014
"We're healthy enough. We're beautiful enough. We’re smart enough. And doggone it, people like us."
January 9, 2014
Chinese shirt and yarn company Luthai Textile announced this week it is opening a New York City office.
December 5, 2013
One man's sweetheart deal is another man's fishy situation.
November 7, 2013
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.
October 23, 2013
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.
October 10, 2013
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.
September 26, 2013
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.
September 12, 2013
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?
August 21, 2013
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.
August 8, 2013
If our long-running Technology InSITE series has taught us anything, it's that tech products for sound corporate real estate management and decision-making are only as good as the people who create, wield and improve them.
July 25, 2013
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.
July 11, 2013
The company famous for "everyday low prices" suddenly wants to spend a lot more money - on U.S.-made products, that is.
June 27, 2013
There's no better time than the Fourth of July to shine a spotlight on Independence.
June 13, 2013
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.
May 30, 2013
"Truth is stranger than fiction," Mark Twain once said. Especially when it happens for the first time.
May 15, 2013
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.
May 2, 2013
As regular readers of Site Selection know, state and local tax policy isn't the only thing that matters to business, or even the most important — but it is one of the few factors that state and local governments can control.
April 11, 2013
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.
March 28, 2013
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.
March 14, 2013
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."