March 3, 2014
Top Micropolitans: The Ladder Effect
The last exclusively domestic ladder manufacturer in the US helped Wooster, Ohio, claim a title it’s been chasing for a long time: Top Micropolitan Area in America.
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March 3, 2014
Top Metropolitans: The Connected City
From digital startups to behemoths of industry, Chicago fosters corporate facility growth better than any other metro area in the U.S.
March 3, 2014
The Governors Cups: Double Take
Texas and Nebraska have won the 2013 Site Selection Governor’s Cup. This year marks the inauguration of a second Governor’s Cup, recognizing the state with the most qualifying new and expanded facilities per capita.
February 28, 2014
Facility Yoga
A new white paper co-published by the Industrial Asset Management Council (IAMC) and the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) sheds light on re-using aging building stock and designing it for re-use in the first place.
February 28, 2014
The Israeli Connection
In late November, Merck KGaA, the Darmstadt, Germany–based pharma, chemical and life science company, made the latest in an ongoing series of investments in one of the most R&D-intensive economies in the world: Israel.
February 27, 2014
Re-evaluating Value
When a part of a multinational in one country transfers (i.e. sells) goods, services or know-how to another part in another country, the price charged for these goods or services is called the transfer price.
February 25, 2014
The Desired Effect
Think tax certainty doesn't matter to capital investors? Think again. Two of Oregon's largest corporations - Nike and Intel - just signed major expansion deals that will add at least 1,000 jobs to the state's economy in the next few years.
February 20, 2014
Hawaiian Beehive
It’s a storyline that seems to come straight out of “The Descendants,” the Alexander Payne film whose plot revolved in part around a decision faced by descendants of Hawaiian royalty about whether or not to sell prime real estate to developers.
February 18, 2014
Looking Wicked Good
Direct investment by more than 100 foreign companies in his state has caught the attention of Maine Governor Paul LePage. They employ more than 30,000 workers, and many of these companies are expanding.
February 18, 2014
Changing The Debate
If corporate site selectors are expecting “business as usual” when evaluating potential business facility locations in New York these days, they may find that a few things have changed in The Empire State.
February 18, 2014
Cities of Commerce
Joseph Parilla and Alan Berube at The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program recently marked the anniversary with the debut of their “New North American Trade Map” concept and their report “Metro North America: Cities and Metros as Hubs of Advanced Industries and Integrated Goods Trade.”
February 10, 2014
Bright Lights, Small City
Asked to describe the house in Tupelo where Elvis was born, one local woman puts it this way: “You could spit in the front door, and hit the dog goin’ out the back.”
February 10, 2014
All in Favor?
Asked in 2013 to what degree they agreed with the statement “The oil and gas industry provides significant benefits for the whole country,” only 54 percent of those polled in Québec somewhat or strongly agreed.
February 10, 2014
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.
February 7, 2014
Iowa Economic Development Guide 2014
Most of what you need to know about Iowa’s rapidly improving business climate can be summed up in three performance measures
February 7, 2014
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.
February 7, 2014
Waste Not
Could a harmonic smart-grid convergence be at hand in Japan? The seemingly intractable problem of storing renewable power might be solvable via, of all things, a large tract of landfill and a steady stream of used batteries.
February 7, 2014
Heavy Duty
Hyundai Heavy Industries is known as the world's largest shipbuilder, and it builds the world's largest ships too: In January, the company began building the first of five 19,000-TEU containerships for China Shipping Container Lines (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.
February 6, 2014
Checkup Time
Have you gone in for your annual fiscal yet? Even as US citizens do exactly that while filing their tax returns, US states and the companies they covet are undergoing scrutiny of their own fiscal health.
February 4, 2014
The New Daredevils
The same Snake River Canyon made famous by motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel is making a new name for itself courtesy of some innovative thinking.
February 4, 2014
The Future Is Flexible
As long as some genius gives Great-Aunt Millie an iPad for Christmas, the world will have customer contact centers.
February 4, 2014
Thinking Big
Listen to the numbers and they’ll tell you: The world’s economic center of gravity is shifting, and emerging markets are the bull’s eye.
January 31, 2014
Not a Prison
In the fall of 2012, VSP Global, an eyewear and ophthalmic technology and benefits company that employs more than 2,000 people in the Greater Sacramento community of Rancho Cordova, had just about had it with California.
January 31, 2014
Australian for Infrastructure
Australia's Lend Lease participated last week in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ new Healthcare Center in Kernersville, N.C., part of the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point metro area.