AN UNMATCHED QUALITY OF PLACE

Living the good life is easy to do in Mississippi.

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Maintaining Control

The ability to monitor production from start to finish led Japan’s oldest pharmaceutical company to put down roots in Minnesota.

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Built for the Long Haul

Oregon’s economy outperforms competitors in key metrics.

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Need Skilled Workers? Tap the Global Training Gold Mine

What?s your key to productive, profitable manufacturing, office or distribution facilities? Chances are, it?s skilled workers. Without top-notch, skilled employees out on the factory floor or in front of a computer, the best-run business topples like a house of cards. That?s made evaluating pre-employment worker training a crucial consideration in choosing new facility locations. Quality […]

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Supply Meets Demand

Malaysia is the next logical site for Southeast Asia data centre operations, with dedicated resources and inherent location advantages.

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The 2011 Governor’s Cups: Ohio Victorious in 2011 Facilities Race

A re-engineered approach to business development with a return-on-investment focus is already bearing fruit in Ohio Governor John Kasich’s new administration

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Site Selection Online

ne reason you don’t find many labor lockouts in the Southeast U.S. is because global manufacturers are locked in on the region’s right-to-work status.       Even as governors in the Northeast and Midwest bemoan the loss of manufacturing jobs to overseas locations, the American South reaps a whirlwind of factory activity. Experts who […]

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Huge Opportunities Begin to Turn Real in Opportunity Zones

It’s the rallying cry of every scientist, researcher, policymaker, baseball general manager of the “Moneyball” school and journalist reporting out an ambitious story.

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Site Selection October Highlights

In November, U.S. voters will once again choose the nation?s chief executive. Their decision will have a far-reaching impact on business operations in the United States and abroad for the next four years. The following are excepts from the October Site Selection?s quadrennial Presidential Face-Off, comparing and contrasting the views of Democratic candidate (and incumbent […]

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The Ties that Bind

Junction City lives up to its name by connecting the cords of commerce.

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Mid-Atlantic: Legacy Food Firms Aren’t Stuck in The Past

Nor are a range of other companies growing in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia.

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Greater Orlando Aviation Authority: How to Build an Airport City

Orlando International Airport and Lake Nona draft the blueprint.

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Which Way for Rural America?

Site Selection identifies top performers and digs down on their success.

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Will the Appalachian Basin Be the World’s Next Energy Hub?

According to the Appalachian Regional Commission, over 40 percent of the retired coal-fired capacity can be found in Appalachia.

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Unemployment is at 12 percent in California. gavin newsom

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, November 2007    Software Aids BPO Firm’s Site Search by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com S ervice Source, a San Francisco-based outsource sales organization specializing in the business of technical service contract renewals for computer hardware, Dave Dunlap, senior vice president of worldwide operations, Service Source software and healthcare […]

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Retailer Finds Indy-Area Sweet Spot for an E-commerce Project

The I-74 corridor southeast of Indianapolis gets in on the region’s logistics action.

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Welcome to a New Way of Doing Business

An overhauled agency and a governor’s personal touch bring change to Kansas.

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Mutual Benefit Society

An astounding 1,850 projects across nearly all categories of plastics and chemicals have been recorded in Site Selection's New Plant Database over the two and a half years since Jan. 1, 2011.

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A Sleeping Giant No More

Brazil is a strong global competitor with good potential for sustainable growth and prosperity.

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Credentials Count

One credential at a time, California’s community colleges are doing their part  to raise the state’s education attainment  levels and close gaps in equity.

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How Small Businesses in the Heartland Are Coping

Panelists at a recent Brookings Institution event discuss how Main Street businesses are reinventing themselves in rural Virginia and Michigan.

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How Arkansas Saved 100,000 Jobs

Measured, data-driven approach guides state’s COVID-19 response, official says.

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Certainty and Predictability Are the Winning States’ Hallmarks

A first-time tie for first place marks the 2020 edition of Site Selection’s annual Business Climate Rankings.

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The Intangibles of Cool

An uber-hip tech scene rises from Utah’s Silicon Slopes.

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A Competitive Edge

Texas sharpens its workforce through public/private partnerships.

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Can ‘Airport Cities’ Close the Deal?

Airport Cities are developing rapidly into office locations for non-aviation related companies.

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Crafting a Comeback

A few years after finishing up a productive 14-year career as a tight end in the National Football League, Wesley Walls was looking to create a business in his hometown of Pontotoc, Miss

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South Australia Charts a Course to Statewide Connectivity

S outh Australia plans to introduce itself to the world as an “Information Economy” success story, and it has just under a year in which to put the necessary pieces in place. Adelaide, the Australian state’s capital city, will be the site of the 2002 WITSA World Congress, a biennial conference of the World Information […]

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When Incentives Matter, Oklahoma’s a Safe Bet

State earns high marks for monitoring and measuring their effectiveness.

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, January 2007    Software Speeds Lease Analysis by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com I ntuit, the Mountain View, Calif., developer of familiar accounting and tax preparation software such as Quicken and TurboTax, has a real estate portfolio of about 2 million square feet (185,800 sq. m.) spread across about […]

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The Invisible 3.7 Million

When Spirit AeroSystems a decade ago pledged to invest more than half a billion dollars and create hundreds of jobs at the North Carolina Global Transpark in Kinston in the rural eastern part of the state.

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It’s South of the Border Everywhere

Rising demand for Latino foods is causing a wave of new plant construction across the US.

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Striking a Balance

The lure and lore of the downtown headquarters

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The Grass IS Greener

Three letters dominate in the turf industry: T-i-f.

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Mighty Mississippi

Mississippi's labor force is skilled and ready to work.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: SHOVEL-READY SITES

MAY 2006 ‘Shovel-Ready’ Saves Time, Money (cover) Barilla America to Open Pasta- Manufacturing Facility Empire State Development Kentucky’s Shovel- Ready Sites Are Just a Click Away Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development “Perfect Location” for Your Business and for Your Family Buttonwood Gateway Berks Economic Partnership ShovelReady Oklahoma’s MidAmerica Takes Shovel- Ready Sites to the Next Level […]

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PROJECT FINANCE

PROJECT FINANCE From Site Selection magazine, May 2008   Setting Sail in Hamburg A leading publisher brings its efforts aboard a single vessel for the first time. The $165-million building that will house Spiegel Verlag’s newly consolidated head office was one of the biggest leases of 2007 in Hamburg. Images courtesy of Henning Larsen Architects […]

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Does Your Area Support An ‘Innovation Ecosystem’?

Our conversation with Rick Weddle, president of the International Association of Science Parks, offers some guidance.

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Trading Goals For Pathways

The top places for sustainability don’t talk about finding solutions. They go out and find them.

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Reinventing Connecticut

It didn’t take long for the Bioscience Connecticut initiative to bear fruit.

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Hit Makers

When it comes to economic impact, these projects make the Top 40.

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Esports Drive New Project Activity in the Expanding Metaverse

In October, I found myself seated in an autonomous shuttle vehicle that’s part of the PAUL (Piloting Autonomous Use Locally) service launched by Site Selection

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Site Selection October Highlights

China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: Politics has perhaps never made for bedfellows so odd and uncomfortable. But ?the three Chinas? are inextricably linked. The next year will sharply shape their business location prospects, with the outcome of inordinate interest to expansion-minded firms. In a few decades, China?s economy will likely be the world?s largest, spurring […]

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The 3D City Strikes Back

Additive manufacturers in Pflugerville respond swiftly to COVID-19.

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Be Well

LEED certification is soooo 2012. WELL certification, says one real estate developer, is what’s next, as employers aim to bring as much good energy to your health as they bring to your workplace.

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A New View Of the District

As a poorly compensated, rookie reporter covering the Ronald Reagan administration...

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Cradle of Cures

Greater Philadelphia is a center of excellence in cell and gene therapies.

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From Site Selection magazine, March 1999 M A N A G E M E N T     S T R A T E G Y Keeping Sprint’s New HQ Campus on Track Margaret P. Latshaw, Ph.D., is in the midst of what will likely be a high point in her career in corporate real estate. […]

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Like a Badger

If, probably when, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker wins re-election in November, it will be the third time he has done so in four years.

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Essential Electronic Services for Corporate Real Estate Executives

In the coming years, one of the most important service providers to the corporate real estate profession will be a modem-equipped computer. Traditional service providers of all stripes are automating their services where possible in order to reduce their own overhead and to quench clients? thirst for convenient, customizable access to services. As corporate infrastructure […]

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Climate Change

urning around a state’s business climate is about as easy as turning around an aircraft carrier going full-speed.

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Employee Retention Insights from Work Institute

The last two years may be one of the most tumultuous times in the U.S. workforce due to the extraordinary influence the global coronavirus pandemic had on the workplace.

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Illinois: Where Great Ideas Come to Life

Groundbreaking discoveries are a dime a dozen in Illinois.

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The Whole World is Watching Qatar

The nation hopes hosting 2022 World Cup leads to even more FDI projects.

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Cooking Up Small Business Success in Illinois

SBDCs set multiple records helping entrepreneurs in 2020.

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Governor Kim Reynolds On Iowa’s Next Chapter

Governor Kim Reynolds is determined to make Iowa the go-to state for businesses reshoring their operations and for those seeking low taxes and fiscal predictability.

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Plasma Rich in Nutrients for Growth

CSL Behring, the Pennsylvania-based subsidiary of Australian biopharma company CSL Limited, is growing its capabilities on a global scale, building up capacity and expertise just as its plasma protein products

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Colombia: Connecting the World to Colombian Excellence

BPO and IT companies have hit their stride in Latin America.

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Editor’s View: It Just Might Work

Analysis in this issue of the Trump win is guardedly optimistic

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Health Care: All in the Data

Microsoft leads upskilling initiative in Louisville.

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The Future Is Flexible

As long as some genius gives Great-Aunt Millie an iPad for Christmas, the world will have customer contact centers.

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New Mexico Is Riding A Breeze

The stage is set for the nation’s biggest wind energy investment.

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‘Change’ Is Not a Bad Word

 E ven a cursory look at the best-performing states in the Governor’s Cup competition — our annual ranking of states based on their business-expansion success — reveals a new competitive landscape. Relatively sparsely populated states, such as South Dakota and Mississippi, are finalists in the overall ranking, for instance. And the perennial favorites in the […]

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Sweden Tops Global IT Ranking; U.S. Slips to Fourth

N EW YORK — Sweden defended its ranking this year as the world’s dominant information economy, according to the 2001 International Data Corp. (IDC)/World Times Information Society Index (ISI).         For the second straight year, the ISI ranked Sweden No. 1 in the ability to access and absorb information and information technology. […]

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Top Metros Tier 3: Sustaining the Momentum

With Odessa No. 1 and Midland tied for fourth place in our tally of corporate facility investment success for 2014 in Tier-3 cities, West Texas would seem to be on a pronounced upswing.

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Squarely In the Middle

The community of Russell offers the perfect blend of industrial opportunity with a high quality of life.

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Continental Drift

Frankfurt and Amsterdam surge, but latent London demand figures to drive projects by year's end.

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Leading by Example

The mayors of Knoxville and Knox County show what can happen when political leaders unite for a common cause.

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Get Smart

What’s smart about connecting talent, innovation, technology, education and government? Everything.

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Material Legacies Converge

Pennsylvania-based stainless steel and premium alloy manufacturer Carpenter Technology Corp. in October chose a 230-acre (93-hectare) site near the Limestone County, Alabama, municipality of Athens, in the Huntsville metro area, for a US$500-million new plant that will make premium alloy products.

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Sports On the Move: How Atlanta and Miami Became the Kings of U.S. Soccer

Meanwhile, the commissioner of a prominent collegiate athletic conference tells us why D.C. attracted the organization’s headquarters.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: MARITIME INDUSTRIES From Site Selection magazine, March 2009   Terminals Are Not the End Port Development Strategy in Challenging Times by MICHIEL de JONG editor bounce@conway.com  P orts around the world have geared up for tremendous expansion in the past decade. Large ports – such as those in Rotterdam, Port Saïd and […]

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How the Heartland Became A Tale Of Two Midwests

Economist Ned Hill handicaps the TrustBelt and gives frank advice to site selectors and communities.

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The Better Buildings Bandwagon

President Barack Obama on Dec. 2 stood in a Transwestern property in the nation’s capital to announce nearly $4 billion in combined federal and private sector energy upgrades to buildings over the next two years.

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1998’s Top 10 Deals: Dovetailing Development Excellence with Corporate Strategy

From Site Selection magazine, May 1999 1 9 9 8 ‘ s     T O P     1 0     D E A L S Dovetailing Development Excellence with Corporate Strategy b y     J A C K     L Y N E From Boeing to UPS, 1998’s top 10 deals cut a wide industry […]

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ED Agencies Up Ante in Battle for Tech Jobs

 N EW YORK — Don’t be fooled by the NASDAQ. High-technology, digitally driven companies are still the crown jewel of economic development, according to a study by KPMG LLP’s Strategic Relocation and Expansion Services practice.         The survey of state and local economic development agencies revealed that an overwhelming 97 percent of […]

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EDITORS’S VIEW

ithin days of this issue arriving at your address, many in the U.S. and elsewhere will be noting with sadness and anger the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. What a different world we are in, and have been in for the last five years. It doesn’t seem so long ago that one […]

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Growing Businesses

From raising ducks to growing apples and mushrooms, Pennsylvania’s farmers use financial programs to build a lasting legacy for their families.

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Welcome to Michigan

Welcome to Michigan! We are delighted to invite you to consider expanding or relocating your business operations to our diverse, innovative and forward-thinking state.

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Why Indy, Philly Stand a Shot to Land Amazon

We all love lists, and now we have the one that we have all been waiting for: Amazon’s Top 20 finalists for its HQ2 campus.

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Shanghai Welcomes The WORLD FORUM for Foreign Direct Investment

China’s gleaming commercial center welcomed delegates from nearly 30 countries in November to The WORLD FORUM for Foreign Direct Investment.

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SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY REVIEW

uild the shell and eventually the business will come.       That wasn’t the original plan, but it turned out to be the path Infineon Technologies took before fina lly greenlighting its US$1-billion investment in Richmond, Va., to expand manufacturing capacity of advanced DRAM chips on 300-mm. wafers. After three years on hold, Infineon […]

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Room to Move

How a Congested Supply Chain Plays Out in Project Location Trends

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Talent First

Even the Internet of Things needs clusters. Greater Boston is happy to oblige.

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The Golden Age

Though Intel stunned Costa Rica with the recent decision to lay off 1,500 workers and send the company’s microprocessor assembly and test work to Asia, the news was tempered by the fact that, even if Intel had stayed, the medical devices sector was still on pace to become the country’s No. 1 exporter in 2015.

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‘Trust, But Verify’

The famous presidential phrase applied to geopolitics, but it can work in the geotechnical realm too.

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Editor’s View: Your Credentials, Please

All content in this issue will give you food for thought as your location discernment for 2016 gets underway.

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Celtic Future: More Tortoise Than Tiger?

Everyone loves a tiger. Powerful, elegant – yet tricky to manage. Ireland was the Celtic Tiger during the boom of the ‘zeros.

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New Facilities 1995, page 6 (Charts)

From Site Selection magazine, February 1996 Industry Comparisons for New Manufacturing Plants Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1996 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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From Mind to Marketplace

From creating the most pioneering business environments to mentoring students who build life-saving mobile-apps, Kentucky’s colleges and universities are turning students and entrepreneurs into the next great innovators.

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Moving Cheese

Portion control has become a big business for cheese manufacturing company Bel Brands USA. Sales have more than doubled over the past four years and sales of the company’s Mini Babybel products have tripled during that time period. Bel Brands USA also has plants in Leitchfield, Ky., and Little Chute, Wis.

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BOMA to Bush: Act Now on Energy Crisis

W ASHINGTON — It didn’t take long for President Bush to face his first “crisis” in the Oval Office — how to deal with California’s widespread energy shortages.         One group that hopes Bush acts quickly is the Building Owners and Managers Assoc. International (BOMA), the nation’s largest lobbying organization for corporate […]

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The Long View

Taking stock of Georgia’s assets, Mercedes moves south.

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From Moscow With Love

How a location data firm found its new HQ in its hometown.

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Debunking the Top Start-up Facility Myths

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1998 The road to opening a new facility is fraught with land mines, but avoiding the myths outlined here can help clear the way to an on-time start-up. Debunking the Top Start-up Facility Myths by Brad Cunic Recently, a company spent millions of dollars buying a prime piece of real estate on which to […]

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QUESTION & INSIGHT

D eborah Rochkind recently stepped out of the whirlwind that was AOL TimeWarner’s real estate group after seven years managing AOL’s 5- million- plus square- foot (465,000- sq.- m.) portfolio in 15 countries. Most of her time at the Internet giant was spent working on financial management, mergers and acquisitions, lease negotiations Deborah Rochkind and […]

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Project Bulletin: August 5, 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. PsiQuantum Goes ‘Chi-Quantum’ […]

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: WORKFORCE TRAINING PROGRAMS

ny discussion of the U.S. economy and strategies to confront global competition for jobs and investment must invariably address the workplace and how it is being transformed by knowledge-centered and technology-driven skills and occupations. More often than not, such dialogue takes on an almost apocalyptic tone, painting scenarios of a society verging on a demographic […]

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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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Headquarters City, Fla.

“Wages, logistics and taxes are three big advantages for South Florida.”

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Next-Gen Site Selection

A new generation of commercial transport changes the rules of where facilities supporting this bellwether industry are located. Airbus has opened a new, 650-employee facility in Broughton, Wales, where wings for the A350 XWB will be manufactured. Boeing has not yet determined where it will build its new 737 MAX airliner. Renton, Wash., has been home to 737 production for decades, but the aerospace giant is also considering other locations.

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Central US Metros Dominate 2017 Top Competitive Cities

The competitive fire of some leading cities is being directed toward their own federal government.

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Rebound Detroit!

The resurgence is real. If there’s a town that can muscle the rest of the deal, it might be the Motor City.

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‘Independence’ Day

P&G chooses a busy corner in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle for a next-gen manufacturing complex.

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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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America Cannot Afford to Fall Behind

Why do recent reports and data show a drop in inward U.S. foreign direct investment?

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Amazon’s Spreading Presence Creates Jobs; Freescale Scales Up in Mexico’s ‘Silicon Valley’

Amazon.com now has 52 fulfillment centers, having moved forward with 13 in 2010 alone, plus a pair of newer projects in Scotland that will create 1,000 jobs.

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U.N. Survey Reveals Transnational Companies’ Location Preferences

 T ransnational corporations (TNCs) will favor Germany, the United Kingdom and France when they invest in Western Europe during the next three years. This prediction is among the findings of a recent survey of 129 TNCs conducted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Invest in France Agency and Andersen, the […]

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New Energy Projects in Africa Highlight Powerful Opportunities

Progress in Rwanda, Senegal and other African nations strengthens the grid while puncturing misperceptions.

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5,000 Points of Light

In August, Inc. Magazine revealed its annual Inc. 5000, a lineup of companies ranked by their percentage revenue growth over the last three years. Collectively, these companies have generated 874,940 jobs and $317 billion in revenue over three years and have displayed median revenue growth of 1,637%. They also generate momentum for the states and […]

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Coastal Mississippi’s Banner Year

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

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Going Big? Go to Asia.

For the second straight year, chemical/pharmaceutical facility investment has outpaced transportation equipment.

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Supercharging Growth Through Worker Training

Georgia Quick Start underpins the Kia success story.

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Tested in Idaho

Outdoor enthusiasts trek to Idaho for the fun, stay for the business.

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Michigan Drives the Automotive Industry into the Future

Automotive manufacturers seeking connected, autonomous, shared and electric mobility solutions know to turn to Michigan first.

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Early-Stage to Exit

Kentucky is doubling down on capital investments.

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Top Groups: On Solid Ground, Site Selection Magazine, May 2004

T he top economic development groups in the U.S. for 2003 know how to strike the ideal balance – between confidentiality and telling your story; blockbuster corporate deals and incremental company growth; new development and the infrastructure and redevelopment to go with it; simple processes and sophisticated methods of obtaining them.         […]

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Rochester Remake

Measured by its ability to weather acute and chronic stresses, Rochester, N.Y. was ranked 61st out of 361 U.S. metros last year by the Resilience Capacity Index (RCI), developed by Kathryn A. Foster, director of the Regional Institute, a research and public policy center of the University at Buffalo.

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Frontline Care, Pioneering Innovation

The CEO of a growing telehealth firm hiring doctors by the dozens explains why the future of digital health technology is now.

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