TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, May 2009 Instant Space End users eye quick-build facilities. by JOHN W. McCURRYjohn.mccurry bounce@conway.com C Intel used a Sprung Instant Structure for its initial offices in Costa Rica, then later converted it into a company cafeteria. ompanies in the offshore call center and BPO sector often need a quick option […]

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Success In Short Order

A still-new business creation program is already making a big impact.

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NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, July 2009   Dirt Moves in Luther Forest And an entire region hears it. by ADAM BRUNSadam.bruns bounce@conway.com I n the beginning, there was the soil. There was a whole lot of water, plenty of power and all kinds of infrastructure, built to the highest standard. There was […]

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Change Agent

Gov. Scott Walker has undoubtedly brought considerable national attention to Wisconsin during his first few months as governor.

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Kentucky Auto Industry Speeds Up U.S. Recovery

Top-selling cars and trucks are built in Kentucky by Kentuckians.

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Zones of Note

Our unique index finds that Texas, California and Louisiana lead the way in the U.S., while best practices can be found across the globe.

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A Model for the Nation

How Gov. Polis responded to COVID-19 set an example for the rest of the U.S.

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Biotech Locations: ‘Sign of the Future’

Leaders Explain Why Their Life Sciences Firms Are Growing In Greater Montréal

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Fired Up

A family-run business north of Denver brings the heat to the tech world.

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Going Public in Asia

An excerpt from a new report by KPMG and Venture Valuation provides insight into where and how companies go public in Asia amid a shifting life sciences landscape.

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Energy Transition

China’s global leadership in clean-tech and renewable energy is undeniable. An expert from the China office of Tractus explores why it may be worth finding paths toward collaboration, even amidst geopolitical turmoil.

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Nowhere Tops Texas

Opportunities unlike anywhere else.

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Long-Term Value

Many companies worldwide have chosen to locate in logistics clusters, so what can enterprises learn about these communities that they do not already know? The answer is “a great deal,” for two reasons.

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Workers are An Automotive Projects Magnet

Why Ford chose Tennessee for its biggest single EV investment.

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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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Come On Over

No matter whose side you’re on, Ontario and Canada are on one side of an open door.

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New Pathways

A few things have changed since the not-so-long-ago era of the million-square-foot warehouse and lines of ships waiting to get into ports.

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Numbers Tell Story in Chicago, Boston

I t’s no secret that two of the hottest corporate real estate markets in America are Chicago and Boston. What you may not know is why. After nearly a decade of record US economic expansion, why do these two diverse and yet similar metropolitan markets continue to top the charts for corporate users of industrial […]

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Logistics Hub Tenants Grow Their Footprints

BMW of North America opened its new vehicle distribution center at the Tradepoint Atlantic Terminal in Sparrows Point in Baltimore County

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Labor on Demand

A region with thousands of college graduates, many in the life sciences sector, now has the work force for the jobs requiring technical skills.

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Tipping Point

Sasol breaks ground for its nearly $9-billion investment in Southwest Louisiana, and continues to break new ground in workforce development.

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Central Casting

Pioneering workforce development programs aim to be right on time for tomorrow’s technologies.

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Robust In the Rockies

Colorado’s environment for doing business is as healthy as its growing populace.

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Project Bulletin: May 13, 2024

With $3.3 billion in tow, Microsoft has plans to deliver a state-of-the-art data center campus in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. In late 2023, it was announced that Microsoft would be acquiring two facilities previously owned by Taiwan-based electronics company Foxconn, which failed to deliver its $10 billion commitment.

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Puerto Rico

Sun, Sand and Life Sciences

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Project Bulletin: February 12, 2024

With a goal of advancing critical cancer trials and increasing future supply capacity, AstraZeneca is investing $300 million in Rockville, Maryland.

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Money Where Your Mouth Is

Stanford University is cutting-edge in energy practices as well as R&D.

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Rare Earth Operations: The Critical Minerals Supply Chain Is Coming Home

Processing critical minerals domestically is ramping up as companies invest in facilities designed to bring the supply chain home from overseas.

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EY Survey: UK inward investment up 2.7% — despite decline across Europe and increasing competition from Germany

The UK has received a major vote of confidence from foreign investors after retaining its lead as Europe's top inward investment destination for the 11th year running.

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The Switch to ‘Yes’

No matter the size or industry, U.S. companies are increasingly defining and exemplifying sustainability

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Top Industries: Milestones

When nine out of the top 10 corporate facility projects in a sector are valued at more than US$1 billion, you've officially arrived as a force to be reckoned with.

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Open Arms

Québec’s Minister of International Relations Pierre Arcand looks to new ties to unbind the province from its traditional industrial past.

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Startup Launchpad Opens in Booming Big Apple Cluster

As the 2016 Life Sciences Outlook from JLL reported in December, the Big Apple's life sciences cluster is growing rapidly.

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The Greenest Locations in the World

How important is sustainability, really, to today’s global manufacturers?

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Place With a View

Companies come to Portugal with the future in mind.

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Is Germany Europe’s Safest Bet?

Germany: Is Germany Europe’s Safest Bet?

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Full Pool

Would Intel invest $20 billion in new manufacturing plants at a location where long-term water supply was at risk?

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What’s for Dinner?

In Northwest Ohio, certified sites cook up a recipe for food plant investment.

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Kansas Universities Capture Investors’ Attention

Million-dollar investments are a recurring theme in Kansas’ higher education system.

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Nevada’s Best Incentive: A Pro-Business Climate

Because Nevada’s overall tax environment is so business-friendly, the state is able to woo companies with more sensible incentive packages.

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Facebook’s Multiplier Effect

Projects requiring hundreds of workers per site are increasingly common in The Land of Enchantment.

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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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How Innovation Hubs Surged Despite the Pandemic

As it turns out, startups ended up surviving and even thriving, setting the stage for bolstered innovation ecosystems.

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Tennessee Valley Authority: Born Ready

When it comes to economic development, TVA’s team, partners and communities know the importance of preparation.

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Good Prognosis

Korea’s economy is exhibiting encouraging signs as 2009 draws to a close. FDI announcements for the first nine months reached US$8 billion, up 8 percent from 2008.

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Moving Mountains

EnerBlü's two-pronged investment in Kentucky gets its power from a university town and a company town, both of which seek to diversify their economies.

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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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The Best of Best Practices

Site Selection presents the Best Practices Award winners selected by the International Development Research Council Pssssst! Wanna fix some problems in your company?s real estate program? Once upon a time, you might have told someone from finance or operations to come up with a plan, or hired an outside consultant, and then imposed a solution […]

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A One Track Mind

Governor Terry McAuliffe is determined to be ‘Job Creator in Chief’ for the Commonwealth.

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Lookout Towers

Southeastern states aren’t usually on the short list of wind energy equipment builders looking for new manufacturing sites, but a German firm has ambitious plans to make Chattanooga a leading center for wind tower development.

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Not a Sprint

Marathon Petroleum Corp. spun off from Houston-based Marathon Oil in 2011. But it’s been a bedrock presence in Findlay, Ohio, part of the Toledo metro area, for more than 125 years, and employs more than 1,800 people in the area.

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The Deep End Of the Labor Pool

Just nine years remain before Vision 2020 — Malaysia’s blueprint for achieving fully industrialized status — is to take effect. Former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad set the Southeast Asian nation of 28 million people on the Vision 2020 course in 1991, complete with nine strategic societal challenges to be overcome in order to become fully developed by the end of the decade.

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Powered Up in Southeast Texas

A key player in the global energy industry, Southeast Texas is home to the world’s largest oil refineries.

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Changing Minds About Utah

State makes a big impression on site selectors, wins major investments

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World Reports, Site Selection Magazine, July 2002

From Site Selection magazine, July 2002 WORLD REPORTS   | SOUTH KOREA | MEXICO | AUSTRIA | PORTUGAL | SINGAPORE | SCOTLAND | Incheon Stakes Its Claim as Intelligent City In the first-ever U.S.-South Korean real estate joint venture, The Gale Co. has been tapped as a partner in developing the US$12.5-billion New Songdo Intelligent […]

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION – UNIVERSITIES AS ECONOMIC ENGINES

orporate site selectors have known for years that the presence of a major research university can be a determining factor in choosing a business location. The American Electronics Association calls university-related research and development the second most important site selection factor, behind access to capital, for a high-tech company.       However, only recently […]

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Global Best to Invest Report

Site Selection is pleased to present its fifth annual Best to Invest rankings of nations and metro areas for investment-attraction activity in 2012.

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Take It From the Top

Leading voices from around the state of Michigan weigh in on the connections between regional culture, higher education and talent attraction.

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I Am the Slime

Algae are so simple they don’t even technically qualify as plants. But if a bipartisan U.S. Senate committee recommendation moves forward, algae-derived biofuels can now stand tall next to their biofuels counterparts in qualifying for tax credits.

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Nevada Goes Greener

Nevada is leading the charge for clean energy innovation.

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Data Standards Guidelines: What They’re About, and What They’re NOT About

 S everal years ago, the Council for Urban Economic Development (CUED) and the American Economic Development Council (AEDC) convened a joint task force to address an issue of their membership. The two associations merged earlier this year to form the International Economic Development Council (IEDC).         At issue was the concern of […]

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An Economic Atmosphere For Growth

Pop quiz: Which Bluegrass business sector has attracted more than $480 million in capital investment since late 2021?

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Feedback Loop

Satirists Draw Scorn For Creating Actual Jobs.' "No way to treat loyal scoffers," says straight-faced applicant.

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No Small Effort

Dr. Chester Wilson, a professor at Louisiana Tech University and chief technology officer at Carbon Capture Energy Technologies, hopes to use nanotechnology to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

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Univ. of Nottingham To Collaborate on Asia Aerospace City

The University of Nottingham is lending its engineering expertise to an ambitious new aerospace center in Malaysia

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The Ultimate Ground Game

How Ohio followed a fundamental plan to build a true macropolitan economy.

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Madison Catalyst

Exact Sciences’ new HQ could catapult a company and a research park to the next level.

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Project Bulletin: August 15, 2023

Only two weeks after announcing its intention to build a fifth U.S.-based vertically integrated photovoltaic solar module plant somewhere in the country (and one day after this Site Selection Snapshot highlighting a clean energy manufacturing surge), First Solar, Inc. on August 10 announced it had selected the Acadiana Regional Airport in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, for what is believed to be the single largest capital investment in the area’s history.

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Working Backwards from the Customer Drives Amazon’s Relentless Forward Momentum

A conversation with Amazon Head of Worldwide Economic Development Holly Sullivan.

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Make in South Asia?

The time for an investment and manufacturing renaissance has arrived.

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How Fast

In the beginning, Paychex was about not getting paid, providing an object lesson in fast-growth small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) cash-starved travails. Today, the Rochester, N.Y.-based payroll services provider is a US$500-million-a-year business with 100 facilities. But for five long years in the 1970s, Paychex was a $0-a-year business with zero facilities. “I started with […]

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Home Country Hub

Big investments by big companies come on the heels of KORUS approval, but aren’t necessarily U.S.-focused.

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Driving Economic Growth In the Midwest

Columbus is changing from a steady performer to one of the country’s most dynamic metro areas. The Columbus Region has been called the test market of the United States because of its diverse economic profile — part university town, a national logistics hub, a center of retail brands such as the Limited Brands and Wendy’s, and the second home of Chase bank, which happens to be the region’s largest employer.

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World Reports, Site Selection Magazine, January 2004

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Home At Last

Home at last: In its latest sharp turn, Tesla teams with Toyota to make its latest model of electric car in Northern California.

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Seeking First Light

It’s not every day a billion-dollar project comes to Hawaii. After all, whatever you produce there has to be transported everywhere else. But the 50th state is part of a very select global club of locations whose conditions produce a rare commodity: transporting views of our planet and of the known universe it occupies.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: NEW YORK

ost people who have observed the economy of the northeast United States are familiar with the decline of manufacturing jobs in New York State. Of course, New York State had more manufacturing jobs to lose than most other states, being the leader in industrial employment beginning with the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. By the […]

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Magna Fires On All Cylinders With Pan-Ontario Investment

Even as the all-Canada-made Project Arrow EV grabbed headlines with its debut early this year (see p. 32), a global Canadian automotive power continues to flex across the entire...

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Gear Shifters

Japanese automotive supplier DENSO makes a “transformative” $1-billion investment in Maryville, Tenn.

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New Facilities 1989 (Charts), page 5

From Site Selection magazine, February 1990 New Facilities 1989 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1990 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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Island Whirl

U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown proclaimed in January that his government’s support for offshore wind energy has anchored the U.K. as a global leader

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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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Easier Decisions

One fertilizer plant project, in the southwest corner of Indiana, made news in late 2012 because it will happen. Another made news in early 2013, in the same part of the state, because it will not happen.

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Real Estate Services: Connectivity Drives a New Strategic Alliance

Connectivity Drives a New Strategic Alliance Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) has signed a unique strategic alliance with American Fiber Systems (AFS), Rochester, N.Y., a leading provider of dark-fiber-optic communications networks — fiber-optic cable without electronics equipment attached. The alliance calls for Cushman & Wakefield to negotiate arrangements that allow for the interconnection of AFS’s dark […]

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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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The Law of Unintended Consequences

Recent analysis from Brookings makes the case that the federal government is finally putting its money where its mouth is with respect to investing in domestic industrial development and local...

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New Facilities 1989 (Charts), page 3

From Site Selection magazine, February 1990 New Facilities 1989 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1990 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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Rural Upstate Home to Sophisticated Technical Workforce

BASF’s apprenticeship program with Tri-County Technical College in Oconee County is just one of many exemplars.

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How Ohio Built a Better Business Climate

Intel's $28 billion chip campus investment in New Albany is confirmation that Ohio's business climate is firing on all cylinders.

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Healthcare Reform Presents Job-Creating Opportunities for US Firms in Saudi Arabia

Today, the bilateral relations between our two countries are stronger than ever.

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New Energy Hubs Emerge in The Shale Oil and Gas Supply Chain

After the downturn in the oil industry of 1986, which sent occupancy rates in downtown Houston to 10 percent, oil companies and their suppliers closed many offices around the U.S. They have since concentrated their facilities, operations, and functions of all types in a few locations, chiefly Houston.

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Spearheading Innovation

The Texas technology industry is robust and growing.

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The Innovation Infrastructure You Can’t See

Windsor-Essex, Ontario, is the only major Canadian metro south of the US border; more importantly, it’s a powerhouse industrial center.

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The Purpose-Driven State

California gets intentional about its approach to economic development.

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Oregon Welcomes Newcomers Galore

Ever wonder why so many Californians now call Oregon home?

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In Their Own Words

Corporate executives dish on the factors that swayed them to locate HQ projects in Texas.

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Shedding Light

Sunshine Week is a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Launched by news editors and journalists, this non-partisan, non-profit initiative is celebrated in mid-March each year.

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New Neighborhood

A growing Olympus division consolidates and refreshes its Minnesota operations.

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Economic Immunity

A global pharma giant is looking to supplement its huge philanthropic and humanitarian efforts some straightforward corporate facility and talent investment.

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Texas Bests its Neighbors for Renewables

The Lone Star State expects a solar boom to go with its oil & gas resurgence.

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P3 Market Outlook: Robust Pipeline Ahead

To understand where the United States Public-Private Partnership (P3) market is going, you have to review where it came from.

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Middle America Has Never Looked Better

Logistics end-users value Kansas’ central U.S. location and access to markets.

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University System Has Big Plans For a Former Pill Plant

When one door closes, another one opens, goes the saying.

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Hungary Fills the Sweet Spot of Europe

What do a major international automotive manufacturer and one of the world’s top-selling furniture companies have in common?

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St. Louis: Center of Business

St. Louis is a powerhouse of business activity in the state.

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Anderson Grows in Gilbert

The planned Sept. 26 opening of the Banner M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert could be the impetus for development of a major regional and national life sciences industry, city officials say. The city is also poised to become a major center of stem cell research.

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PhDs and MDs Drive Economic Redevelopment

Three recent projects in the northeastern U.S. demonstrate the economic power of eds-and-meds districts.

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Small Town Packs Big Logistics Punch

From Medline to Amazon, large end-users like what they find in Wilmer.

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Whole New World

Major Projects Break Through Sour Economy to Pursue Innovation and Restart Global Commerce

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Nashville Rising

Nashville Rising: A year after devastating floodwaters struck Music City, we take a look back at a model local disaster response, and why one area company decided to rebuild instead of relocate.

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Michigan, Midwest Set Fast-Track Pace in 1997’s Record U.S. Race for Corporate Facilities

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 Michigan, Midwest Set Fast-Track Pace in 1997’s Record U.S. Race for Corporate Facilities by Jack Lyne Let the good times roll. That ancient war cry is a particularly appropriate touchstone in analyzing 1997’s U.S. corporate location patterns. Economic good times earmarked rolled expansively through Main Street, Wall Street […]

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Heart of the Americas

Panama and Costa Rica lead the way in a region aiming to boost its standard of living along with its global competitiveness.

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Kurdistan: Where Pioneer Investors in Iraq Get Started

Iraqi opportunities. These two words don’t seem a good match, unless perhaps in the context of the oil or security businesses. But the phrase makes sense in Iraqi Kurdistan, the autonomous northern region of Iraq, where early commercial investors are now on the scene. Across many areas of Iraq, peace is fragile and daily life can still be unpredictably dangerous. But growth is returning to Iraqi Kurdistan led from its capital, Erbil. Brands such as Sheraton, Hilton, Porsche and Sony are entering Kurdistan looking to access the potential of this region of 4 million people. Nissan has opened its largest service center in the Middle East, and its new airport, opened in 2005, has one of the longest runways in the world.

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Could Rwanda Be the Next Singapore?

Certain countries — like Taiwan, South Korea, or Singapore — have famously risen out of poverty thanks to capitalism.

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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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SOUTHWEST REGION

ttracting aviation projects is one of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s economic development goals. That plan received a significant boost in October 2004 with the announcement that American Utilicraft will build a cargo plane assembly plant in Albuquerque. The move adds to the state’s burgeoning cluster at the Double Eagle II Aviation Park.     […]

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Real Estate Services: New Alliance to Foster Technology-Based Economic Development, Site Selection Magazine, November 2001

New Alliance to Foster Technology-Based Economic Development Communities seeking to implement technology-based economic development strategies will likely benefit from a recently announced alliance between the Milken Institute, a demographics and economic research organization based in Santa Monica, Calif., and New Economy Strategies (www.regional-strategies.com), an economic development consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. The two organizations […]

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IAMC Insider: The Trust Factor

Successful service provider relationships; the industrial surplus property challenge; and corporate cybersecurity tips.

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Canada And Texas Top The 2021 Global Groundwork Index

CG/LA Infrastructure’s chairman says we’re on the cusp of an 'Infrastructure SuperCycle.'

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Walk & Don’t Look Back

New research shows Greater Boston is thinking ahead.

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