Rothwell Leads Team Effort as Michigan Bags GM’s $1 Billion Investment

Michigan’s banner years under Doug Rothwell’s leadership just got a major exclamation point: General Motors (www.gm.com) has decided to invest US$1 billion to build two plants just outside Lansing that will add 2,800 jobs. And Rothwell, president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp. (MEDC at www.michigan.org), did a lot of the heavyweight deal’s […]

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Best in Class

Munich, London and Paris top EU rankings. Ukraine could be an outlier with the inside track.

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What Down Year? Kansas Outperformed in 2020

Back to basics approach fueled resurgent effort
in economic development.

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This Is Not the Same Old Kansas Anymore

Operating by a new playbook, the Framework for Growth, Kansas excels.

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Leading For Tomorrow

Governor Michael Parson reflects on state’s Bicentennial and building momentum.

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Nowhere Tops Texas

Opportunities unlike anywhere else.

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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. “Global Corporate Real Estate Practices,” IDRC New York World Congress Workshop, May 1, 2000: This session reviewed the Annual Survey of Corporate Real Estate Practices, conducted each year by Johnson Controls in conjunction with IDRC. Among most […]

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Editor’s View: No Time To Wallow in the Mire

With apologies to The Doors, welcome to what might be called the “Governors Issue” of Site Selection.

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World Reports: Robust Times For Robotics

From Site Selection magazine, January 2005 WORLD REPORTS Robust Times For Robotics Automakers, New Applications Boost Demand by JOHN W. McCURRY Craig Jennings has a problem most presidents of manufacturing companies would love to have: Market growth for his products is so great that he’s constantly looking at ways to boost capacity around the globe. […]

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2002 Global Infrastructure Report

P hil Condit, chairman and CEO of The Boeing Co., knows a thing or two about the importance of infrastructure to economic development. After all, without the airports and transport systems providing access to them, his global, multi-billion dollar aerospace company wouldn’t be around.         “Economic growth follows infrastructure,” Condit told members […]

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Shoreline in Sight

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.

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A Young German State Sets Out to Solve Old Age

Saxony-Anhalt might be said to be remaking the world of medtech.

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Biotech Startups Get a LIFT in North Dakota

Sometimes health tech firms need a helping hand. In Fargo, they find one.

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EV Battery Plant Keeps Kansas’ Foreign Investment Cred Charged

Not that it needed it, but Kansas’ foreign direct investment (FDI) cap just gained a really big feather.

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Jackson: Central Mississippi’s Crossroads

Drop your finger in the middle of a map of the Southeast U.S., and you’ll point to Jackson, Mississippi.

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The Glow of Knowledge

By all indications, Georgia’s talent base is at the top of its game, higher education is a primary factor, and companies around the globe are paying close attention.

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Why Ohio is Losing the Trade War

The impact of trade tariffs is being debated in many corners, but a team of researchers has found evidence that Ohio is bearing the brunt of the backlash.

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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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The View From the Top

Economic development chief sheds light on record-setting performance.

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Today Russia, Tomorrow the World?

Actually, the worldwide web of activity by Russian utility and nuclear power champion Rosatom is already quite robust.

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Project Bulletin: September 30, 2024

EDITOR’S NOTE: The project records appearing every week in the Site Selection Project Bulletin are pulled from the Conway Projects Database, a proprietary resource with tens of thousands of records of corporate end-user facility investments across all industry sectors and all world geographies. Want to look for our projects yourself? Look here. Critical Expansions A […]

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World Trade Day: Questions & Answers

The inaugural World Trade Day in Atlanta will address issues on everybody’s mind.

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Logistics Simplified:

Putting Industry into Motion on the East Coast

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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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Cluster Cultivation

Bioscience is one of the fastest growth sectors in the U.S. economy. But by most accounts, Oregon has been a bit tardy to come to the bioscience table.

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TOP METROS OF 2007

TOP METROS OF 2007 From Site Selection magazine, March 2008   Life at the Top Chicago captures the Top Metro crown for the third straight year. by RON STARNERron.starner bounce@conway.com Home furnishings superstore calls Chicago home: Pernille Spiers-Lopez, as president of IKEA North America, has overseen a rapid expansion of the Swedish retail giant across […]

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Project Bulletin: June 10, 2024

After acquiring the Lokomotion technology center in the Lahdesjärvi neighborhood of Tampere, Finland, in 2021, Metso now plans to move all operations from Hatanpää to this site moving forward.

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A Powerhouse of Progress

How the capital region of Ohio put together a record-setting decade.

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2003 Top Deals: The Tex

H ungering for some good Tex-Mex cuisine? Well, you’re not alone.         Some of the world’s largest companies soon will be buying a lot of food in Texas and Mexico, which together captured four of Site Selection’s Top Ten Deals of 2003.         From Texas Instruments and Toyota in […]

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Best in Class

Munich, London and Paris top EU rankings. Ukraine could be an outlier with the inside track.

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Back to School

Business builders find the knowledge capital they need in college towns in the Southwest. Across New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona, entrepreneurs are tapping into this base of knowledge capital to propel their companies into rapid growth.

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Progress Collides with Smart Growth

G rowing pains and growth obviously go hand in hand. Sprawl and traffic congestion are an inescapable part of modern metropolitan life.         Actually it is a barometer of prosperity. The benefits of growth are sometimes lost in the minds and media, especially after a decade of continuous prosperity. When the populous […]

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Stem Cell Therapies: Made in Canada

If you didn’t know any better, you might think every plant or life sciences project in Canada is being driven by cannabis legalization.

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Taking the Plunge

Kentucky’s state and local resources help entrepreneurs gain traction.

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Spallation Sensation

Five years from now, a new neutron source in southern Sweden will try to give Oak Ridge a run for its money.

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Oregon Welcomes Newcomers Galore

Ever wonder why so many Californians now call Oregon home?

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Will AeroNexus Take Anchorage’s Cargo Might to New Heights?

We look into the more than $700 million in projects at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Alaska, and explores the location options for New York's airport city.

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GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE: ‘Eclectic, NOT Electric’

South American powerhouse Brazil is more eclectic than electric, says one insider. Plus a look at how Europe and the United States are responding to growing Chinese EV companies.

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Coastal Mississippi’s Banner Year

Despite tourism slow down, Coastal Mississippi continues to draw a crowd.

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Drones ‘R’ Us

While public perception of drone aircraft is driven by accounts of their military use in bombings and spying, legitimate public safety and agriculture are recognized as the primary markets for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the commercial marketplace.

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Ripples, Then Waves

A new report from Jones Lang LaSalle documents how US shale zones reach well beyond the oil patch.

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The Recruiter Who Never Stops

Gov. Abbott is a tireless Texas promoter with an unparalleled track record.

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Kansas City: Where Talent Wants to Go

Kansas City is not just the largest city in Missouri; it’s one of the most vital economic hubs in the center of the country.

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A World Turned Upside Down

The food supply bent but didn’t break. The strongest will survive.

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Right at Home

Sharp just made its 2-millionth solar panel in Memphis. CT&T is going to make electric cars in Spartanburg County, S.C.

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Workspace Management is Change Management

The stature of the workspace design industry is rising significantly thanks to renewed interest in designers’ ability to make office space and other work environments more productive — not just easier to look at. Speakers at a recent forum in New York, entitled “Measuring Workplace Performance — The Workplace at the Millennium,” shared their experiences […]

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The Century Mark: It’s a Start

Batson-Cook Construction, founded in 1915, provides commercial general contracting, preconstruction, construction management, and design-build services to a wide range of clients throughout the southeastern United States.

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UTILITIES SNAPSHOT

tilities don’t just help lure other companies’ facility investments. They create their own, either directly or via spinoff effects. And the project portfolio goes well beyond power plants.       In Atlanta, multi-utility holding company Southern Company will be moving into a new corporate headquarters in 2005. Developed by Barry Real Estate Companies, the […]

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Perseverance Pays For Greensboro

Proving once again that good things come to those megasites who wait.

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FLAP-D and Beyond

Since January 2015, Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database has qualified 58 major data center investments in the Europe’s “FLAP-D” markets: Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin.

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The Retail Crossroads: Exploring the Potential for Malls

Despite the recent stagnant performance of regional malls and the growth of e-commerce, major real estate investors are acquiring retail assets.

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One More Step Off the Grid

In a Site Selection profile of Adobe Systems’ sustainability and energy efforts in January 2009, we learned that, in addition to its top-shelf

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Dreaming Big Again

A Hudson River site once home to thousands of IBMers is positioned for a reboot 60 years after its debut.

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Launch Pad

Visions of the future build on California's formidable aerospace past.

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The World Needs More Data Center Workers

The world needs more data center workers.

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Home Advantage

Employment of home-based agents continues to be a growing trend in the contact center world. Some traditional brick-and-mortar contact center operators use home agents to supplement their centers, while several companies employ home agents exclusively.

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Ohio and Greater Indianapolis Top 2023 Global Groundwork Index Rankings

Canada, Australia and South Korea lead the way internationally.

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In Fact It’s a Gas

Sasol and Cheniere like Louisiana so much they’re coming back for more … and bringing $16 billion with them.

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Cropping Up

Funds from 2008 disaster recovery bonds will support a US$2-billion fertilizer plant in Indiana, even though Gov. Mike Pence pulled state support earlier this year over concerns about potential disaster from its parent company’s products abroad.

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Intel Outside – May 2001 Cover Story, Site Selection Magazine

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — S itting on a hillside perch overlooking this town just north of Albuquerque, the 5,500-employee Intel Corp. campus casts an imposing shadow over the area economy.         That shadow is about to grow even larger, as Intel (www.intel.com) embarks on a US$2 billion, 1,000-worker expansion of its semiconductor […]

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CenterPoint Energy: A $40 Billion Jack Of All Trades

When it comes to supporting economic development in Texas, CenterPoint Energy qualifies as the jack of all trades. A diversified, $40-billion energy company headquartered in Houston, CenterPoint serves more than 7 million customers in six states with electric and natural gas energy and employs around 9,000 people. In one form or another, this company has […]

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‘Top Down and Sideways’

Israel's Teva Pharmaceuticals is cutting 14,000 jobs and $3 billion from its cost base, starting with Jerusalem.

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‘PROOF IS IN THE OUTCOMES’

Site Selectors on Megasite Development

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Expedition Leader

Paul Allen and his city take the reins in pursuing global life sciences frontiers.

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A Master Class in Manufacturing

InTech closes the skills gaps by delivering the training that workers in advanced manufacturing need.

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GSA Web Site Supports Proactive Management of Biggest U.S. Portfolio

The U.S. government as a leading-edge indicator? The notion may seem farfetched, but that’s definitely the case with the U.S. General Service Administration (GSA at www.gsa.gov). For the two straight years, the GSA has garnered prestigious Best Practice Awards from the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent corporate real estate association. The organization […]

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How Labor Trends Are Impacting Site Selection Strategies

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant disruption in the labor force, the effects of which are still with us today and will be well into 2023.

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Back at the Ranch

A new town is about to pop up in southwestern Florida, and energy innovation is at its heart.

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Brightest of the Bright

For talent, New Jersey occupies a universe of its own.

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Power-Packed Lineup

Mississippi Power, Cooperative Energy, TVA And Entergy Mississippi Keep Businesses on The Move.

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Kentucky | A convincing case as a professional place

Offices, headquarters of companies, from local to global, find the homes they want in the Bluegrass State.

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Secure State

Virginia’s arsenal of higher education institutions continues to help lure an array of companies specializing in various aspects of security.

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More Than Just Real Estate

Institutional developments reach beyond their walls to catalyze urban communities.

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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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1997?s Hot Industries: Pass the Chips

Ask economists, technology pundits and futurists to name a short list of industrial superstars for the coming years. Site Selection did, and it seems chips invariably float to the top of the pool. Computers, with a projected annual growth rate of 7.3 percent, dominate the highest-growth sectors for the near term. In fact, computer manufacturing […]

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Historic EV Charging Funds for I-10 Corridor Land in New Mexico

As the switch to electric mobility finds its stride, EV charging infrastructure is now becoming a top priority for states.

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Run to Daylight

Is a jail with no fence sustainable? It certainly aims to be in downtown Douglasville, Ga., just west of Atlanta along the I-20 corridor.

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NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, November 2008   Clean Energy In, Clean Energy Out Québec Lands Billion-Dollar Plant from REC Silicon The clean hydropower available at Bécancour Industrial Park helped lure REC to choose the site for the manufacture of polysilicon (inset) for the solar and semiconductor industries. Image courtesy of Bécancour Industrial […]

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Brexit: Mass Exodus or Switzerland on Steroids?

The only thing certain so far is uncertainty.

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Texas Reskilling Grant Helps Texans Get Back to Work

The program is just one of a suite of actions to keep the state’s talent pipeline primed for the future even in the midst of economic recovery.

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LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD

Business Oregon’s new director discusses Oregon’s diverse and inclusive economy.

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Show-Me Showbiz

Missouri: Show-Me Showbiz

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When Economic Development Is a Science

A vision that began 53 years ago has blossomed into a science-based economic juggernaut.

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Close Counts

A supplier follows its customers to Central America.

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Biggest Names in STEM Fly North For Talent

Investment into Canadian workforce doubles down in three major industries.

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Are We Better Than This?

“Racism exists in nearly every corner of the world. It is most toxic, most socially destructive, in America.”

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Super Bowling

The International Bowling Campus opened with great fanfare one year ago.

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Supercomputer’s First Task Is Vision-Testing Simulation

Research and Development: Supercomputer’s First Task Is Vision-Testing Simulation

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COVID-19 Reshuffles The Cold Chain & Logistics Deck

There’s no shortage of global cold chain expansion activity among grocers, pharmaceutical companies and the technology and automation firms that serve them.

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Running With Gazelles Keeps Service Providers in Shape

One way to virtually ensure superior service from companies charged with solving business problems — service providers — is to stress your shop’s high-growth company characteristics. (That’s not a stretch for most high-tech and telecom companies.) Why? Because service providers are bending over backwards to retain the business of such players in the hope they’re […]

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New York

NEW YORK: SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION From Site Selection magazine, May 2009 Investing in Infrastructure Bolsters Empire State Business Climate D espite steep job losses on Wall Street and a challenging economic environment, New York continues to add jobs and industry in several key sectors. During a recent e-mail interview with Site Selection, Dennis Mullen, Upstate President […]

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Nowhere Tops Texas

Opportunities unlike anywhere else.

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Server Security: Wales’ mammoth data center opens; and two more reports.

A facility built in Newport, Wales, in the late 1990s to house a major semiconductor manufacturing operation is finally getting an occupant.

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Editor’s View: Springfield, Illinois, Needs a Business-Climate Master Class

There comes a point when one realizes a person — or state leadership in this case — either wants to change or it doesn’t. Is Springfield the latter? It looks that way.

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Istanbul Opens New Airport with Plans for an Airport City

The new airport complex, launched in 2013, is built to compete with Dubai and Abu Dhabi as major East-West linking points, much as Istanbul has done for many centuries.

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A Healthy Dose of Life Science Investment

Biotechnology is taking Texas by the longhorns.

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RISING (AGAIN) TO GREATNESS

The Mississippi backbone is America’s past and future.

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Clear Air Ahead

In May, West Star Aviation announced plans to plans to invest roughly $15 million this year in expanding its presence at current sites in Grand Junction, Colo. (GJT), East Alton, Ill. (ALN), and Columbia, S.C. (CAE).

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Arizona’s Bio Momentum

When you think of Arizona you may picture scenic vistas, some of the world’s greatest golf courses, the nation’s largest public university (ASU) and lots of sun.

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Report: Tonnage Volumes Are Bouncing Back

That’s the shipping news from the Great Lakes Seaway Partnership.

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Paving a Path to Efficiency

When Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett took office in 2011, he expressed frustration with how long it took businesses to get the permits they needed to open new facilities.

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Safety in San Antonio

Port San Antonio expands for next wave of cybersecurity, tech growth.

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Pieces of the Pie

Snapshots of logistics intelligence and solutions show where the sector is going next.

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Staying Close to Home

An Iowa manufacturer finds plenty of reasons to keep operations nearby.

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Building for the Pfuture

A national construction firm brings its HQ and a whole lot more to Pflugerville.

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Talent Factories

The 12 public universities in Illinois form the backbone of a higher education roster that knows few peers.

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Reports Offer Insights on EU’s Reputation, Unauthorized Immigration

Two reports issued by the Pew Research Center this fall reveal how the European Union is viewed by various nations around the world.

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On a Roll

It’s been a busy spring and summer already when it comes to chemicals, energy and other projects in Louisiana.

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Chinese FDI in the US and Mexico; multiple projects from Shaw Industries; the hottest US foreign trade zones; and a big treat for Tennessee from Unilever.

Chinese investors spent $12.2 billion in foreign direct investment in the first three quarters of 2013, on the way to a record-setting year, according to Rhodium Group’s Thilo Hanemann.

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