Look Before You Leap

Is social engineering good for business? Across the world’s markets, “economic empowerment” initiatives are emerging to help disenfranchised locals in the community contribute. Each market is different, but any business looking to establish in one of these markets needs to understand the impact on their business. In the United Arab Emirates, this is “Emiratisation,” and other markets in the region have similar mechanisms.

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The Human Network

Business, Trade and Diplomacy Expertise Blankets the State of Illinois

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New Facilities 1993 (Charts), page 3

From Site Selection magazine, February 1994 New & Expanded Corporate Facilities 1991-93 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1994 Conway Data, Inc. All rights reserved. SiteNet data is from many sources and is not warranted to be accurate or current.

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We Work Better Together

Ohio's talent pool is enriched by industry and institutional collaboration.

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IDRC Abstracts

Abstracts of major presentations of the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent corporate real estate association. “Building New Economy Towns,” Florida World Congress, Nov. 7, 2000:     If your company is still building class A office space in remote suburban locations that force workers to spend two hours a day trapped in traffic, […]

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Soft Landing in Thailand

A CEO talks through his global fiber company's location choice in an evolving Asian marketplace.

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Georgia Has A Sweet Tooth For Food Processing

Stuckey’s buys a pecan candy maker and joins a cadre of bullish investors.

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The 2022 Global Groundwork Index

Infrastructure: The 2022 Global Groundwork Index: Drive any American highway, especially at night, and you see them: Long lines of truckers who, if not backed up for miles by construction or an incident, cover every inch at rest areas...

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Everything Ventured

Oakridge Global Energy Solutions hopes to create 1,000 jobs on Florida's Atlantic Coast. Living that dream is no day at the beach.

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Top Micropolitans:

Findlay Leads An Ohio Surge

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From Copenhagen and Stockholm to Oslo to as far out as Helsinki, Nordic markets are bubbling towards a top. After several years of rapid growth in available space, the market tune has changed. As a result, corporate denizens are scrambling to reposition themselves to control occupancy costs, which, for the average firm, make up 20-30 […]

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Trade Winds

Momentum from 2013 carries over as Ohio's project pipeline remains fuller than ever.

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Keeping Up With the People Movers

KONE, a Finnish maker of escalators and elevators is flowing people in various directions in the Quad Cities municipality of Moline, Ill., where the company and its partners in August celebrated the grand opening of the nearly $40-million KONE Centre on the Mississippi River waterfront.

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Questions & Insights With the Leader of Micron’s U.S. Expansion Blitz

The journey toward a trillion-dollar market is unfolding tens or hundreds of billions of dollars at a time, including Micron’s two megaprojects in Idaho...

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Reverberating Boom

New Records Are Made to Be Broken In Texas Industrial Development

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The Power of Change

How a member-led utility in Indiana is reaching out to the future.

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Digital Talent Comes of Age in PUERTO RICO

A look at three growing institutions tells you why.

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Start Me Up

From Silicon Valley to San Diego, California leads the world in innovation.

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Welcome to Rocket Science School

New training center in Victorville delivers space age education.

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Development Assistance Programs

E conomic development organizations worldwide are designing novel programs to enhance their appeal. From interactive web sites and work-force development plans to invent finance and tax incentives, local officials are creating new and innovative programs to lure business expansions and developments. In the slowing economy, these plans are developed to distinguish each individual community and […]

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The Connected City: How a New Pier is Bringing Everyone Together in St. Pete, FL

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman is passionate about a lot of things when it comes to discussing his city of 265,000 people on the Gulf Coast of West Central Florida. But he seems to get especially animated when asked about the recent opening of the new St. Pete Pier.

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The World’s Workshop

What if, instead of designing business incubators, accelerators and other science-inflected names for workspace, your whole city was that workshop, custom-designed for exploration, discovery and serendipitous interaction?

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The Right Climate for Startups

How a move across state lines changed everything for the founder of Banjo

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How Kansas Built an Economic Development Dynasty

Fiscal responsibility and a new incentive program played vital roles.

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Launch Pad For Innovation

An entrepreneur evaluating the Phoenix business landscape can’t miss the signs. Literally.

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Safe at Home

Expanding firms find access to capital, knowledge workers and pro-growth incentives in Greater Philadelphia.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: INTERNET-BASED SITE SELECTION

n ye olden days, way back in the early 1990s, the gathering of information that occurred at the onset of any site selection process involved making phone calls and sending letters seeking information, followed by more phone calls and more requests for information, usually culminating with lots of overnight mailing charges. Today, what corporate real […]

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Hand in Hand:

Air Transshipment in Puerto Rico is the Perfect Complement to the Island’s Near-Shoring Value Proposition

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Emissions Transformed

A biofuel/biogas project in Denmark is one of 39 projects across the EU benefiting from a unique funding program.

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Town & Gown Fuels Columbia’s Mission

When you are the host city to the state’s flagship university, employers tend to pay close attention to your labor pool.

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Project Bulletin: September 26, 2023

Pharmaceutical manufacturer ST Pharm recently held its groundbreaking ceremony for its second oligonucleotide plant in the South Korean city of Ansan, located in Gyeonggi Province.

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How To Spot the Next Growth Markets

Oxford Economics forecast models show that global metros with high concentrations of advanced manufacturing tend to be the leaders in metro growth when ranked by GDP output.

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The COVID Black Swan & Infrastructure Investment in 2021

U.S. & Texas Lead the Way in 2020 Global Groundwork Index Rankings

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FinTech’s Newest Place to Play – A Desert Sandbox

Arizona is the first state in the nation to issue an open invitation to financial technology pioneers.

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The Secret’s Out

Size is relative when referring to Wyoming's incorporated rural communities.

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Nortel Adapts to New Era of Uncertainty

A TLANTA — When Nortel Networks announced Feb. 15 that it would eliminate 10,000 jobs — or more than 10 percent of its global work force of 94,500 — it was further evidence that the economic slowdown had spread beyond the dot-coms.         The dreaded “L” word — layoffs — had reached […]

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 The 2012 Global Best to Invest Rankings

Site Selection is pleased to present its fourth annual Best to Invest rankings of nations and metro areas for investment-attraction activity in 2011. The national Investment Promotion Agencies recognized here were particularly successful in 2010 at attracting capital investment projects — both expansions of existing facilities and new projects — from investors at home and abroad.

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How To Win, Texas Style

Not so fast, Buckeyes. Texas is back in a big way with a commanding first-place finish in the 2012 facilities race to claim the Governor’s Cup after a 34-project loss to Ohio last year. Not only did Texas reclaim the coveted trophy, but it did so with a whopping 761 projects, 270 more than first runner-up Ohio, which held its own relative to last year’s tally with just seven fewer projects (491).

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Resounding Victory

The Thunder may not be in the NBA Finals, but OKC’s GE project win is just beginning to reverberate.

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Mississippi: Taking Care of Your Needs

Liebherr Group lands in Tupelo, and a new medical cannabis program launches at the University of Mississippi.

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