How Innovation Propels 3 Entrepreneurial Businesses in San Bernardino County

Innovation is more than a watchword in San Bernardino County. The application of creative thinking permeates an array of diverse industries throughout this 20,000-square-mile land of 2.2 million people in inland Southern California. From an old-world industry like winemaking to new-world sectors like electric motorbikes and space exploration, innovation serves as the linchpin for three […]

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A Malaysian Revolution

The people of Malaysia fought as one. They faced down the powerful, rejected the entrenched system. They stood together, risked all, and won their country back.

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Dawn of an Era

When German silicon producer Wacker Chemie AG originally announced the selection of Cleveland, Tenn., as the site of a new US$1-billion, fully integrated polysilicon factory in February 2009, it represented the second solar industry announcement for the state that winter.

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The Middle Kingdom Nears Middle Age

China economy and society are rapidly changing, requiring Western businesses to adapt.

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Arab Youth: A ‘Wellspring of Untapped Potential’

Firms want to employ the region's potential workforce, but these youth's may have bigger plans.

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Sidney’s Next Saga: Finding Jobs to Replace Those Lost to Cabela’s-Bass Pro Merger

In rural Nebraska, a small town faces a massive rebuilding project for the second time in five decades.

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Nuclear Energy Gets a Callback

A potent economic and energy force – nuclear power – is changing the old acronym ‘NIMBY’ into ‘YIMBY.’

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Site Selection October Highlights

More and more states are getting the message: Create a positive business climate — or else. Else what? Well, else be prepared to watch helplessly while neighboring states win the battle for new corporate facility investments and the jobs and economic growth that accompany them. That?s what. Site Selection?s 31st annual ?50 Legislative Climates? survey […]

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Facebook Friends Illinois

$800M data center investment lands in DeKalb County.

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Time to Get Fresh

In Cali, Colombia, I danced the salsa. But my taste buds were in rhythm upon arrival.

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Double Harvest

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.

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ASEAN’s Optimal Principal Hub Location

Multinational companies (MNCs) look for several key factors when seeking the ideal location in which to establish a regional base of operations.

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Huntsville Goes to Work

Mazda-Toyota’s site decision sparks ‘fast and furious’ response in northern Alabama.

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Qualified Leads

2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the granddaddy of them all when it comes to large site certification for industrial development. Tennessee Valley Authority’s Megasites Program was created in 2004.

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2020 Vision: State of the States

Our annual 50-state report focuses on economic development laws, leaders, policies, indicators and projects from the past year. Use it to form a clearer picture of every state’s business climate.

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Crowning Achievement

Findlay makes it a four-peat as Batavia closes in.

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Who Are These Guys?

Ann Arbor’s growing tech community is making a name for itself.

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Building a Millennial Workforce

The 2018 World Forum highlighted challenges and opportunities.

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The Future of Transportation And Logistics Is Here

San Bernardino County lays out a roadmap for the movement of commerce.

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Second Wave

NextDecade CEO Kathleen Eisbrenner brings a world of experience to the world of LNG.

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Innovation That Puts the ‘Eco’ in ‘Ecosystem’

n September, semiconductor parts and equipment clearinghouse Moov Technologies showed more than 19,200 active listings

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Why Amazon’s Building Binge Has Just Begun

Amazon, which began 2020 as a mere juggernaut, enters 2021 a monolith.

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Kentucky Rises Above Recent Disasters

The response of Kentuckians to multiple weather catastrophes embodies the “United we stand, divided we fall” state motto.

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Shot in the Arm

Quick: Where is France's leading port for both ore and coal imports and containerized fruit?

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Hope for Haiti; Cummins Increasing Asian Presence; UAE’s First Vehicle Plant; Powering Up

World Reports: Hope for Haiti; Cummins Increasing Asian Presence; UAE’s First Vehicle Plant; Powering Up

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The Topeka Triangle

Three unique location assets form the foundation of future economic development in the capital region of Kansas.

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Cleaning Up On Clean Energy

The federal Inflation Reduction Act is hitting home in the south-central U.S., where states known for big employers in the oil and gas industries are generating thousands of new jobs in clean energy...

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Editor’s View: ‘Wasted’ Space No More: Minister Envisions Better Land Utilization

Will the U.S. be playing catch up to Canada and other markets that have figured out how to industrialize ganja to economic benefit?

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Serving The World

Life sciences investments in Kansas serve global animal and human health needs.

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Red Hot Locations Report: Seminar Puts a Finer Point on Marketing and Communications for Investment Promotion Agencies

How can investment promotion agencies differentiate themselves from their competitors? What tools can they use — should they use — to achieve this goal? What are considered best practices today in communicating to potential investors an area’s strategic value? These were among the topics covered in a September Red Hot Locations event in London, the FDI International Marketing & Communications Seminar.

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Power Priorities

A new survey sheds light on the next energy frontiers for data center operators.

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Battery Wars

Competition in the EV space is intense. Could this mega-project in Georgia fall victim?

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High

We live in an age of e-commerce, fiber optics, information systems and infrastructure, and ideas and initiatives moving at the speed of light through a network of silicon and wiring. And that prompts one to ask, why do so many good ideas go bad? Could it be that we have forgotten in this gizmo-oriented age […]

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New England’s IT Hub That Punches Above Its Weight

If only there were a metro in the Northeast that had the economic, transportation, higher education and cultural assets of New York and Boston, but without the congestion...

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Growing Pains

Vietnam's Industrial Real Estate Conundrum

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Reaching a Higher Gear

Advanced transportation R&D propels California into a new state of mobility.

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Where the TDL Talent Pipeline Is Full

More than 20,500 transportation, distribution and logistics (TDL) companies employ more than 331,000 people in Illinois and contribute nearly $39 billion in economic output.

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Buffalo is Showing its True Colors

Here’s a comeback story with numbers to back it up.

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Medicine on Fast Forward

A top-notch design team offers its take on the flexible biopharma facility of the future.

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PAVING THE WAY TO PANDEMIC RECOVERY

Employers applaud governor’s data-driven approach.

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Next Chapter

A Point/Counterpoint Examination of an Incentive

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Bottom Line: Florida’s Financial Services Sector Is Humming

Florida’s Financial Services Sector Is Humming

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How the Southeast Is Winning Advanced Industry Projects

Why this region is ahead of the pack in attracting
advanced industry projects.

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Urban Wilderness Packs Economic Punch

Knoxville’s outdoor amenities lure recreational enthusiasts and the firms that cater to them.

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Clean-Tech Multinationals Continue to Flood the Valley with Billions in Capital Investment

ennessee’s advanced energy industry already employs nearly 394,000 Tennesseans in more than 20,300 businesses that contribute...

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Arab Youth: A ‘Wellspring of Untapped Potential’

Firms want to employ the region's potential workforce, but these youth's may have bigger plans.

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Management Strategy: Brownfields’ New Allure, Site Selection Magazine, March 2003

O ABOVE: In January 2003, crucial green lights from both the city council and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enabled brownfield redevelopment work to move forward on this bundle of some 250 former industrial properties along the Rio Salado in downtown Tempe, Ariz. – the largest piece of undeveloped land left in the entire city. […]

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The Center of Success

Ideal geographic location positions the commonwealth for continued logistics growth.

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Plumbing China’s Real Estate Puzzle Box

Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 Plumbing China’s Real Estate Puzzle Box Fast-changing China presents an intricate puzzle box of real estate challenges. Here are some of the big issues, derived from Site Selection research and interviews: Corruption: Hong Kong scorns it. C.Y. Leung, the No. 2 man in Hong Kong’s provisional government, pointedly […]

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St. Albert Could Be Your Next ‘Headroom’ Community

Sustainability and investment attraction are tandem priorities in this community of 73,000 on the northwestern outskirts of Edmonton.

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Top Groups: Staying the Course

While other community agencies retrenched in 2009,
the winning organizations redoubled their economic development efforts and grabbed the prize.

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Tax Credit Program:

Created in 2014 by the Governor’s Office of Business & Economic Development (GO-Biz), the California Competes Tax Credit program was renewed in 2018 with at least $180 million in tax credits available to allocate to businesses each year through 2023.

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As Real as It Gets

Long viewed as a system parallel to that of traditional employers, the film and TV production economy has become the new normal for many leading regions.

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How to Find America’s Best Cities for Food Manufacturing

Experts say many factors changed following the advent of the pandemic.

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3 Cities to Watch in the Desert Southwest

Water keeps flowing as manufacturers flock to growing communities.

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Site Selection Highlights June/July 1998 Issue

Highlights from June/July 1998 COVER STORY Uncommon Gazelles: Unorthodox Strategies Fuel Their Fast-Track Expansions Expansion-minded “little giants” are so influential that firms of all sizes are scampering to understand what makes them tick, coveting the extravagant price/earning ratios with which financial markets are showering them. pg. 492 All Dressed Up with No One to Grow? […]

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Use It or Lose It?

The LNG question continues to be considered and reconsidered.

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2024 Global Groundwork Index: REPEAT Investors

Ohio and Indianapolis once again top the Global Groundwork Index rankings, while the UK leads the way abroad.

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Play Ball

Follow-through is one way Hoosier Energy helps companies stay on top of their game.

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The Governors Cups: Double Take

Texas and Nebraska have won the 2013 Site Selection Governor’s Cup. This year marks the inauguration of a second Governor’s Cup, recognizing the state with the most qualifying new and expanded facilities per capita.

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Growing in the Great Indoors

Kentucky takes its place as a leader in innovative agricultural technology.

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The Air Is Amazing in New Mexico

Ask any photographer or pilot In New Mexico there’s something about the quality of the air that makes for exquisite light and smooth navigation.

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Depleted Tax Coffers Could Cause Shift in Incentive Policy

While the country battles the coronavirus, state and local governments will be squeezed financially — just like so many businesses and households.

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Made in Montana

Entrepreneurs are building innovative companies in Big Sky Country.

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Changzhou National Hi-Tech District:

Industrial investors are finding the space, work force and business cost advantages they require in the Changzhou National Hi-Tech District (CND), just 160 kilometers west of Shanghai — China’s glittering commercial and financial center.

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Where Location Data Becomes Location Intelligence

There is more to Missouri’s geospatial technology industry than the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s $1.7 billion NGA West Headquarters

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Site Selection Snapshot – July 25, 2024

        These Places and Companies Lead the Way in Developing Vaccines           Moderna leads all companies in vaccine candidates on PhRMA’s list, followed by such companies as Pfizer, GSK and BioNTech. Since 2000, according to Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the U.S. Food & Drug Administration […]

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Unconventional Wisdom: Raise the Visa Cap Already!

In 2013, 10,000 high tech positions at five high tech companies — IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Qualcomm — went unfilled due to a lack of qualified US candidates.

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Project Activity Climbs 32% in Pittsburgh

Total capital investment dips, but jobs rise 56% in 10-county region.

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WORLD REPORTS

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, January 2008   Global Robot Sales Decline in 2006 Switzerland-based Stäubli is a major industrial robot manufacturer. Here, Stäubli’s RXPaint robot applies a high-tech coating on automotive injection molded parts at a plant in Germany. by JOHN W. McCurry john.mccurry bounce@conway.com  T he use of industrial robots around the […]

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Top Global Projects: A New Day in New Territories, Site Selection Magazine, March 2003

T he rest of the world is doing just fine, thank you.         That’s the message coming through loud and clear when analyzing the thousands of new projects that located somewhere outside the United States in 2002. And the rest of the world that’s achieving the most is made up of countries […]

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Ingenuity on Parade

The era of e-mobility and autonomous driving is lining up as a tug-of-war between the technology-driven invisible hand and the ultimate force of state incentives.

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Project Bulletin: April 8, 2024

About 17 miles outside of Columbus, Ohio, energy company Cenovus Energy Inc. has announced a $1.5 billion investment in Dublin.

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The Hollywood Return

The now tripled tax credit is giving production
companies even more reasons to go back to Cali.

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Next Generation

Monsanto Co. on April 23 announced plans to bring together its St. Louis-based R&D team on one campus when it completes a more than $400-million expansion at its Chesterfield Village Research Center.

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Editor’s View: Will ‘Psychographics’ Be Your New Location Metric?

I was of two minds a few weeks ago, when I learned North Carolina had again won our Prosperity Cup. On the one hand, it made sense. North Carolina won last year — tied with Texas — and otherwise regularly finishes at or near the top. On the other hand, how could a state with […]

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A League of Their Own

The 2014 Governors Cups recognize the top performing states for capital investment attraction in a season that lasts all year.

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How Plainfield, Indiana Leveraged Its PrimeLocation

A strategy ‘10 years ahead.’

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Talent, ‘Boldness’ Mark New State Agenda

In August, after unions submitted enough signatures to put repeal of a right-to-work law on a referendum, Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected it.

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The Incentives Innovator

How Iowa plans to seed an emerging industry via tax credits.

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Editor’s View: Brexit Vote: ‘A Different World’

Making sense of the Brexit vote and the effect on the UK for foreign direct investment.

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Only in Australia

About 80% of Australia’s plant and animal life exists nowhere else on earth. And many are deadly.

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Mining Talent in Milwaukee

Komatsu plans transformational HQ campus in lagging Harbor District.

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2003 Competitiveness Award: ‘WINdiana’

Y ears of championing his state as a top location for business and industry have paid off for Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan in the form of Site Selection magazine’s 2003 Competitiveness Award. As Lieutenant Governor until 2003 – when he took over as governor following the sudden death of Gov. Frank O’Bannon – Kernan personally […]

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A One-Stop Shop Like No Other

Texas Workforce Commission leaders and their 28 regional partners provide wide-ranging infrastructure for career and business success.

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Suddenly Solar

The Upper Midwest is not the first region of the U.S. that comes to mind when looking at the burgeoning solar-energy sector, but significant projects are happening across the region.

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How Toyota Plans to Hire 5,000 Workers in North Carolina

Getting more EVs on the road takes a lot of workforce development ingenuity.

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Innovation Engine

From the Mayo Clinic to the medical device sector, Minnesotawrote the book on medical technology and bioscience.

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Action and Reaction

Facility reuse, flexible production, consolidation and creative financing solutions characterized the Top Deals of 2010, chosen by Site Selection editors based on scale of capital investment and job creation, creativity in negotiations and incentives, regional economic impact, competition for the project and speed to market.

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Beyond US Borders

Exports from Oklahoma reach farther than ever before.

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Baan’s Battle with Skyrocketing Space Demands

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1998 Baan’s Battle with Skyrocketing Space Demands by Jack Lyne Baan’s big U.S. move coincides with a number of key challenges, most based in blur-like growth. But business climate factors augur well for the software giant’s $40 million Virginia project. “We’ re going to divide this office and the conference room into cubicles,” says […]

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A Bright Manufacturing Future

Workforce and incentives propel the evolution of a signature industry.

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Turnaround is Fairest Play

A burgeoning life-sciences cluster in Cobb County, Ga., grew even larger in recent months as two rapidly expanding bio-medical companies moved into new addresses just north of Atlanta.

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FROM FARM TO FAB

Tollway opens Pflugerville to mega-projects and more.

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Minds Over Matter

In Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, scientists are developing breakthrough technologies that are revolutionizing the treatment of neurological disorders.

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Editor’s View: Prime Time, Site Selection Magazine, January 2004

by MARK AREND O n the occasion of my turning 40 in November, a slightly older, out-of-state friend sent me an e-mail, saying, “Welcome to the prime of your life – it’s better over here.” As Site Selection turns 50, my colleagues and I are busy making sure the next 50 years of publishing this […]

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Driven to Texas

Tesla’s decision to park a billion-dollar-plant near Austin revs up an already humming sector.

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LA is Back & Chicago Still Rules

Capital investments surged in 2021, especially into Tier 1 Metros, with Chicago breaking its own record for qualifying projects accumulated over a calendar year.

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‘Deep Roots’

The only thing stronger than Louisiana’s oil & gas infrastructure is the network of relationships among the firms that continue to build and operate it.

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Made in Kentucky: How Manufacturing Drives The State’s Economy

How manufacturing drives the state’s economy.

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Right On Time

E-commerce workforce demands are being met through innovative, digital logistics certifications.

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Johnson Controls Office Occupancy Costs Index, Q2 2001

Welcome to the 2nd Quarter 2001 Johnson Controls USA Office Occupancy Costs Index, which provides a snapshot guide to the cost of providing and operating property and facility management services in the USA.         This cost index briefing is published twice a year and has become a powerful and dynamic business reference […]

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Sink or Swim

Come to southwestern Indiana and you’ll find an 8,000-acre megasite with all the bells and whistles and a rock-solid workforce ready to help their region and nation bounce back.

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A High Degree of Confidence

When medical device and equipment supply chain organization Qmed recently named its top-tier US states for medical technology, Michigan made the Top 10, partly by virtue of the precision skills base that is a legacy of the automotive industry.

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Beautifully Big Business

There’s no denying the power of large-scale investments from companies that already have scale.

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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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Handicapping Manufacturing Investment in Southeast Asia

We sit down with two pros to get their take on the future of manufacturing in the region.

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China Foreign Investment Law Takes a New Direction

China’s new law addresses IP protection while remaining vague about other investment concerns.

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TOP GROUPS OF 2004

orporate America continues to enjoy Southern hospitality, as evidenced by Site Selection‘s Top Economic Development Groups of 2004.       While this year’s battle for a top group honor was closer than ever, one trend shows no sign of ebbing: When it comes to competing for jobs and capital investment, the region that frequently […]

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Rare Breeds

Seventy manufacturing plants across the United States join an exclusive club. Twenty communities hope to join one too.

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Higher Ed Serving a Higher Purpose

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi reaches new heights from its base on the Gulf Coast.

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Season in the Sun

Summer’s here, and the time is right for … global solar innovation.

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Go Outside and Play

Utah expands a diverse manufacturing base.

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Where Foreign Companies Enter The U.S. Market

In October 2018, Governor Mike Parson underscored Missouri’s commitment to attracting foreign investment by signing the state’s first Open Investment Policy statement.

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EDITOR’S VIEW

EDITOR’S VIEW From Site Selection magazine, July 2009   How Does Your State Tax — and Spend? by MARK AREND mark.arend bounce@conway.com Illustration by Bob Gravlee I AMC Chair Rick Little is exactly correct in his letter to the membership and readership at large with his list of topics about which good site selectors should […]

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New Talent, Meet Old Buildings

Helped by supportive policies, redevelopment projects put a new shine on landmark properties.

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Getting Off the Dime

Carbon Sequestration: Getting Off the Dime

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The Human Touch

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.

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Beyond China and India

Tips on building an effective resource allocation strategy for investing in ASEAN provinces and states

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Major Moves

Notwithstanding the ongoing row in Washington, D.C., over climate change and emissions, sometimes the relationship between climatic events and fossil fuels is more direct.

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