September 3, 2013
Contact: Mark Arend (770) 325-3438 tel (770) 263-8825 fax mark.arend@conway.com 6625 The Corners Parkway, Suite 200 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 • USA www.siteselection.com Press Release Site Selection’s Top Utilities in Economic Development Atlanta, September 3, 2013: Site Selection magazine has selected its annual Top Utilities in Economic Development, based on the following mix of objective […]
September 3, 2013
Our annual Infrastructure Report unveils insights and plans from all three NAFTA territories, along with updates on some of the major projects now under way around the world.
September 3, 2013
Below, in alphabetical order, we present the Top Utilities in Economic Development for 2013, selected by the following mix of objective and subjective criteria: Analysis of corporate end-user project activity in 2012 in that company's territory; website tools and data; innovative programs and incentives for business, including energy efficiency and renewable energy programs; and the utility's own job-creating infrastructure and facility investment trends.
September 3, 2013
DTZ in July released its Global Occupancy Costs Logistics 2013 report, not long after Prologis released its own close look at European logistics.
August 28, 2013
Nashville in central Tennessee, Union City in the state's far northwest and several other communities have claimed important new capital investment projects in 2013.
August 28, 2013
What do poet Ezra Pound, Garfield assassin Charles Guiteau, silent film actress Mary Claire Fuller, original Oxford English Dictionary contributor Dr. William Chester Minor and LSD champion and manufacturer Augustus Stanley Owsley III have in common?
August 28, 2013
It was a few years ago that global healthcare information software and analytics firm Cerner Corp. was about to invest $1 billion at the blighted Bannister Mall site in southeast Kansas City, Mo., when it was suddenly pulled over to Kansas City, Kan., and Wyandotte County with its 4,000-job campus and expansion.
August 28, 2013
Even as New York's largest biotech company keeps reinvesting at two locations in its native New York, it's also looking abroad to the Emerald Isle. And it's planning to reignite a once-hot Dell manufacturing site in the process.
August 26, 2013
Contact: Ron Starner Executive Vice President, Conway Data Inc. 770-325-3425 6625 The Corners Parkway, Suite 200 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 • USA Conway Data Expands Again, Partners with Janus Institute Publisher of Site Selection Magazine forms alliance with economic development organization noted for producing the hugely popular Janus Forum meetings. ATLANTA, Ga. (August 26, 2013) […]
August 26, 2013
The term Multilatina might have been coined very recently, but the formation and evolution of these companies has been going on for years.
August 21, 2013
The industrial cradle of Central Germany provides the lifeblood of manufacturing - the critical ingredients of chemistry and plastics - that keeps factories around the world humming.
August 21, 2013
Jasper County, Mo., is the nation's first Certified Work Ready Community (CWRC) - a designation of American College Testing (ACT), the Iowa-based nonprofit organization that administers the ACT college admissions exam taken by more than 1.6 million high school students each year.
August 20, 2013
Led by the U.S. Small Business Administration's Business Person of the Year for 2012, and picked as Montana's Innovation Company of the Year in August 2012, Simms Fishing Products, captained by President K.C. Walsh, moved into a new 60,000-sq.-ft. (5,574-sq.-m.) headquarters, production and distribution facility in Bozeman last year.
August 14, 2013
Last week the EPA finalized the 2013 percentage standards for four fuel categories that are part of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program established by Congress. Most of these fuels are produced by American farmers and growers domestically and help reduce carbon pollution.
August 14, 2013
When the 100-MW Quartzsite Solar Project in La Paz County, Ariz., receive US Dept. of Interior approval on June 3, it was just the latest in a series of projects around the world for the large-scale solar developer.
August 14, 2013
Last week the US Dept. of Energy released two new reports showcasing record growth across the U.S. wind power market. According to the DOE, in 2012 wind energy became the number one source of new U.S. electricity generation capacity for the first time - representing 43 percent of all new electric additions and accounting for $25 billion in U.S. investment.
August 13, 2013
Rapidly escalating demand for new data centers puts added pressure on site selectors to find qualified locations.
August 8, 2013
If our long-running Technology InSITE series has taught us anything, it's that tech products for sound corporate real estate management and decision-making are only as good as the people who create, wield and improve them.
August 7, 2013
Early June saw the release of the 2013 Major Projects Inventory by the Moncton, N.B.-based Atlantic Provinces Economic Council. A major project is defined as any capital project, including public-sector, valued at $25 million or more ($10 million or more in Prince Edward Island). The 2012 MPI identified 357 major investment projects across Atlantic Canada with a value of $100 billion. This year those numbers totaled 388 projects valued at a record $115 billion.
August 7, 2013
African success stories may start with Botswana and end - a long time later - with Guinea. So once you establish where it is (on the continent's northwest coast), get over its past and look to the future, there may be a reason to spend more time on the conversation.
August 6, 2013
Dozens of projects engaged with moving goods have recently made good moves to Greater Toledo.
August 6, 2013
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell signed a Declaration of Cooperation with Oregon and Washington on May 24th to expedite the review and permitting of energy generation, power transmission and other vital infrastructure development in the Pacific Northwest.
August 6, 2013
President Obama's visit to Mexico City in May had an interesting and surprisingly novel focus on the two nations' very positive economic relations, now at an amazing $536 billion dollars in two-way goods and services trade for 2012.
August 5, 2013
Press Contact: Ron Starner +1 770-325-3425 Ron.Starner@conway.com 6625 The Corners Parkway, Suite 200 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 • USA www.siteselection.com Conway Data Launches Trust Belt Publisher of Site Selection Magazine debuts newsletter and website focused on telling the story of the economic rebirth of the extended Upper Midwest region of the U.S. ATLANTA, Ga. (August […]