October 30, 2013
A Less Taxing Environment
The Keystone State may have unlocked the key to sustainable economic recovery: reducing the overall tax bill and freeing business from the burden of over-regulation.
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October 29, 2013
The South Carolina Model
Creating jobs in rural America has always been a challenge for state economic development organizations.
October 29, 2013
Sector Update: Oil & Gas Services
Malaysia’s Oil & Gas Machinery and Equipment sector gained new momentum in August with the opening of the expansion of Halliburton’s Malaysia Manufacturing and Technology Centre in Senai, in the southern state of Johor Bahru.
October 28, 2013
Under the Microscope
“Site Selection for Life Sciences Companies,” a report released this month by business intelligence firm Venture Valuation and KPMG, uses an agglomeration of other reports and proprietary data to analyze key decision factors relevant to the leading life sciences clusters in France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK.
October 28, 2013
Back Into Town
The typical university research park is 119 acres, has seven buildings open and is located in a suburban jurisdiction with a population of 500,000 or less.
October 23, 2013
Making History
Amazon is pursuing its usual pre-holidays hiring ramp-up, even as it ramps up the number of e-fulfillment centers that will welcome most of those employees.
October 22, 2013
Surprise.
Early this summer a group of site consultants from across the country came to visit Northwest Ohio.
October 22, 2013
Europe’s New IT Hub
Two of Europe’s most significant IT capital investment projects just landed in the same region — the federal German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
October 21, 2013
Tenth Anniversary of The WORLD FORUM for Foreign Direct Investment 2013 Forum Fever
As August holidaymakers return from vacation, fully energised and ready for the next busy months, preparations for the Tenth Anniversary edition of The WORLD FORUM for Foreign Direct Investment 2013 are being cranked up another notch in the London and Shanghai offices of Red Hot Locations.
October 21, 2013
Visible Difference
“Push the infrastructure,” said Scott Condra, president of Jacoby Development, during a panel discussion at Brownfields 2013 in Atlanta this summer.
October 16, 2013
HealthPlan Services Expands Its Footprint
Read any publication, scan any website — there are few topics hotter than health-care services right now.
October 15, 2013
Open to Alternatives
Business customers are used to partnering with Ameren and its economic development team to optimize operations.
October 15, 2013
Can the UK Buck the EU Trend?: The United Kingdom and one of its key metros demonstrate economic resiliency.
The United Kingdom is enjoying a significant uptick in its core economic indicators that give it a first glimmer of hope for an economic turn-around.
October 14, 2013
Blemish Remover
Tommy Strömberg, COO and EVP Products for Innotech Solar, used to work for REC Silicon, where about six years ago one of his colleagues had an idea.
October 14, 2013
The Lives of Buildings
It wasn’t enough to help prevent partial federal government shutdown, but it was impressive nonetheless.
October 14, 2013
Still Ahead
Milken Institute’s fifth edition of its biannual State Technology and Science Index, issued this spring, revealed that competition at the top was getting more fierce. But that didn’t keep Massachusetts from ranking No. 1 for the fifth time in five tries over the past decade — this time by a wider margin.
October 11, 2013
Conway Data, Inc
Contact: Mark Arend (770) 325-3438 mark.arend@siteselection.com Suite 200, 6625 The Corners Parkway Peachtree Corners, Ga. 30092 • USA www.siteselection.com Press Release A New Voice Joins the Site Selection Editorial Team Atlanta, October 11, 2013: Further strengthening the team of journalists behind its growing family of award-winning publications, Site Selection magazine has hired Patty Rasmussen as […]
October 11, 2013
Going the Distance
Apparently, even with the government’s shades drawn, the sun still rises.
October 10, 2013
New Worlds Discover Columbus
Ten years ago Site Selection assessed the economic development status of the U.S. Southeast by choosing to take a closer look at every community named “Greenville” across the region.
October 8, 2013
Shovel Ready Sites: Short Cuts to Success
The Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) now administers the state’s Shovel Ready Program, working with communities around the state to ensure that its inventory of economic-development-ready sites is current and accurate.
October 7, 2013
‘One City’
Geographically speaking, you can’t get more Mid-Atlantic than the nation’s capital.
October 7, 2013
Renewal Row
Travel the highways, turnpikes and rivers of Pennsylvania and you’ll find your share of restoration stories.
October 2, 2013
‘Firing On All Cylinders’
Located in the western end of Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe, the City of Hamilton has emerged as one of the premier destinations in Canada and all of North America for new investment — all within the course of a decade.
September 30, 2013
On the Beaten Path
They don’t make much noise about it, because they don’t want to.