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Alexis Elmore reports on the construction of North America's largest Asian food manufacturing site; Cologix's latest data center announcement in Johnstown, Ohio; and Weyerhaeuser’s plans for a new engineered wood products facility in Warren, Arkansas.

INCREASED COMPETITIVENESS ROLLS INTO SOUTH DAKOTA

CJ Foods subsidiary Schwan's Company looks to increase U.S. Asian food market competitiveness from a new site in South Dakota.
Photo courtesy of South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development

In a move to establish North America's largest Asian food manufacturing plant, CJ CheilJedang subsidiary Schwan has begun construction on an over 6-million-sq.-ft. site in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The new $544.5 million facility will cater to steamed dumplings and egg roll production and the site will feature wastewater treatment facilities and a logistics center. In the company's press release it was noted that this central location, in addition to road and air infrastructure and the state's business climate, cemented the investment decision. Increased production capacity is projected to boost the market competitiveness of Korea-based CJ CheilJedang's Bibigo brand dumpling, which experienced a sales growth rate of 33% in the U.S. in 2024. The project is anticipated to become operational in 2027.

AN AI-READY ACQUISTION

Cologix expands its Ohio data center portfolio with a new campus to be located in Johnstown.
Photo: Getty Images

Last week, data center company Cologix announced its purchase of 154 acres in Johnstown, Ohio, as the company moves forward with construction of a new data center campus. Site plans include the buildout of eight AI-ready data centers covering 2 million sq.ft. with a combined 800 megawatt capacity. The official announcement noted that construction of the first phase of the up to $7 billion project will begin in 2025. “As the largest provider of colocation and interconnection solutions in Columbus, we are thrilled to deepen our investment in Central Ohio,” said Cologix CEO Laura Ortman. “This new eight-data-center campus is more than an expansion — it’s a testament of our commitment to high-capacity, resilient digital infrastructure that not only meets but anticipates our customers’ evolving requirements.” Currently, Cologix operates four data centers in Columbus. The introduction of this project supports Central Ohio's growing demand for sustainable digital infrastructure.

BOOST FOR ARKANSAS' FORESTRY INDUSTRY

By 2027, Weyerhaeuser Company will begin operations at its new Timberstand® facility in Arkansas to meet increased demand in the southern U.S. for engineered wood products.
Photo: Getty Images

A $500 million investment is landing in Warren, Arkansas, as Weyerhaeuser Company looks to build its engineered wood products (EWP) capacity with a new TimberStrand® plant. The project represents the company's third location in the state, joining a lumber mill in Dierks and a plywood and veneer facility in Emerson. "This is an exciting opportunity to grow our EWP business, expand TimberStrand® into the U.S. South and provide an additional outlet for our fiber logs in Arkansas,” said Weyerhaeuser President and CEO Devin W. Stockfish. “Of the wood products we produce, EWP has the strongest tie to single-family housing construction activity, and this new facility aligns with our conviction that U.S. housing demand will remain favorable over the long term." The site will use southern yellow pine as its primary feedstock to produce laminated strand lumber, adding 10 million cubic feet of annual production capacity. Once operational, the site will create 200 new jobs in the region.

Reports compiled and written by Alexis Elmore, edited by Adam Bruns.

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.

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Project Bulletin, Nov. 25, 2024: Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Johnstown, Ohio; Warren, Arkansas

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he frequent mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, and, at times, even expansions, that run rampant through American businesses today, often necessitate bringing in professionals to ensure that relocations run smoothly.         “Clients are looking to their brokers to perform more of a consultant role and to not just be transaction oriented,” notes Paul Hoge, […]

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Area Spotlights

Washington: Spokane’s Reaching NEW HEIGHTS

by Lindsay Lopp

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Collins Aerospace’s local GM sheds light on the company’s decision to invest in Spokane, home base for one of the nation’s new Tech Hubs.

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Lindsay Lopp
Associate Editor of Site Selection Magazine

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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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Opening In Omaha

Gavilon, TPG lead a new wave of companies expanding in Nebraska. The search for a new corporate headquarters home for grain and commodity trading firm Gavilon didn’t take long. America’s 19th largest private company found exactly what it wanted in its hometown of Omaha, Neb.

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Telling the Arkansas Story

Amplifying the voices of successful Arkansas companies.

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Where to Find Venture Capital in the Midwest. Startup Ohio

The Midwest may not spring to mind as the magnet for venture capital, but keep an eye on Ohio.

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Victoria’s Vow: ‘To Support the Science’

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Area Spotlights

Virginia: Why a UK Roadster Firm Chose A Small Virginia Town

by Ron Starner

RBW Sports & Classics will build vintage roadsters and GT models like those shown here in a new factory in Danville, Virginia.

Image courtesy of RBW

Why a UK maker of roadsters chose a small Virginia town; and a conversation with Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin.

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Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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Export Champions Start Small But Don’t Think Small

If every picture tells a story, then every trophy does too.

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Pittsburgh Wins a Robotics Institute

Carnegie Mellon University to oversee the national center of expertise in this technology of the future.

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What’s for Dinner In The Rockies?

Following are snapshots of recent F&B projects that landed — or expanded — in the Rocky Mountain region

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Editor’s View: Harbors Are Safe, But Ships Were Meant to Sail

Editor in Chief Mark Arend reflects on Adam Jones-Kelley’s legacy of leadership and friendship.

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People Pleasers

“We are a people business,” says Alicia Laszewski, spokesperson for C3, a Florida-based company that’s investing in a whole bunch of people in Twin Falls, Idaho.

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Features

GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE: ‘Eclectic, NOT Electric’

by Gary Daughters

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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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Gary Daughters
Senior Editor of Site Selection Magazine

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A Slice of Everything

Tourism: A Slice of Everything

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Industry Mission: Growth Management

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1998 Industry Mission: Growth Management As the corporate real estate profession evolves to include more functions and the very ground shifts from private ownership to public ownership of assets, so too must the composition of organizations seeking to serve the profession evolve. A case in point is the Chicago-based Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute […]

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Beating the Spread

Chicago, like many cities, is seeing a return to the city center from corporations and regular folks alike. But Chicagoland by definition encompasses 15 Illinois counties other than Cook County (21 if you count northwest Indiana and southeast Wisconsin).

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2020 Mac Awards

The Mac awards recognize an elite group of economic development organizations in 20 U.S. regions based on an index of project-related job creation and investment.

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Closing the Perception Gap

Experts weigh in on the weight of the Midwest’s past and the momentum of its future.

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Features

The World Needs More Data Center Workers

by Ron Starner

QTS is building a 1.5 million-sq.-ft. data center campus in Henrico County in Greater Richmond, Virginia.

Photos courtesy of QTS

The world needs more data center workers.

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Ron Starner
Executive Vice President of Conway, Inc.

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WORLD REPORTS

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, March 2009   EADS Projects Gain Altitude Airbus officials break ceremonial ground in Toulouse, France, in January for the new final assembly line for the A350 XWB aircraft. ©Airbus S.A.S. 2009 – Photo by H. Goussé by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com  A erospace leader European Aeronautic Defence and […]

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Food Firms Bring Home the Bacon in Iowa

Rembrandt Foods, Kraft Heinz and Seaboard Triumph invest in Iowa.

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WORLD REPORTS

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, January 2009   Tire Plants Gain Traction In China Korea-based Kumho Tire has opened a new tire plant in Nanjing, China. by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com  G lobal tire manufacturers continue to site production facilities in China to serve that country’s growing demand for tires. Two major names […]

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Tribal Economic Development: An Oklahoma Story

Native tribes contribute more than $15 billion.

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Home Field Advantage: Ballpark Figures From Two World Series Cities On the Rise

Only four of the 30 teams in Major League Baseball are named for their states and not their home cities. Two of them — the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks — will meet in this year’s World Series.

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