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November 26, 2024

TALENT ATTRACTORS : Storm Metaphor Rises Again

THIS TIME IT’S ABOUT TALENT. In 2007, the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies published “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future.” The influential report addressed concerns over exporting […]

November 26, 2024

RAIL PARKS & INLAND PORTS : Touchpoints for the American Economy

The following appears by permission of the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA, at www.aslrra.org). In September the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA), representing the nation’s 600 Class II and III freight railroads, and five of its member railroads presented at the Surface Transportation Board (STB) hearing, “Growth in the […]

November 22, 2024

NEBRASKA: ImagiNE That!

ImagiNE Nebraska, the state’s newest incentive program, is paying dividends. Just ask 3M and Mutual of Omaha.

November 4, 2024

Project Bulletin, Nov. 4, 2024: East Donegal Township, Pennsylvania; Kenilworth, New Jersey; Penang, Perak, Malaysia

A DOSE OF EXPANSION About 93 miles west of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania’s East Donegal Township, pharmaceutical and biotechnology company GSK has plans to expand its nearly 20-year-old facility. The vaccine packaging plant will welcome $800 million from GSK in a move that marks the company’s largest U.S. investment. The expansion project includes a new 270,000-sq.-ft. […]

November 1, 2024

2024 Top Free Trade Zones

Indexing data from the 85th Annual Report of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to Congress, we name the top FTZs and top states for FTZ impact. Plus a look at the latest analysis of free zone activity abroad.

October 14, 2024

Project Bulletin Oct. 14, 2024: Brazil; South Carolina; India;

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. Brazil’s Got BioFuel […]

October 10, 2024

WorldSkills Brings France’s Summer of Global Competitions to a Close

        WorldSkills Brings France’s Summer of Global Competitions to a Close   Attendees from Japan and Hong Kong share a jubilant moment at WorldSkills 2024 in Lyon, France. Photo courtesy of WorldSkills How do you get 100,000 visitors to your city because of vocational education? Put your city in France, for starters. […]

October 3, 2024

The Geography of Genius

        The Geography of Genius   The Johnson Museum sits atop East Hill on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, one of several institutions frequently associated with MacArthur grant recipients from New York. 2019 photo by Jason Koski (UREL) © Cornell University This week’s announcement of 22 new MacArthur Fellows brings […]

September 26, 2024

NMTCs Bring New Fuel for Growth to Low-Income Urban and Rural Areas

        NMTCs Bring New Fuel for Growth to Low-Income Urban and Rural Areas   Rodgers Wade Manufacturing of Paris, Texas (whose replica Eiffel Tower is pictured here), is one of hundreds of manufacturers whose expansions have benefited from NMTC financing. Photo: Getty Images Last week $5 billion in New Markets Tax Credits […]

September 8, 2024

Patty Rasmussen

Patty Rasmussen has written about economic and business development for more than a decade with Site Selection and other business publications. As a freelance journalist she covered the Atlanta Braves from 1998 until 2010, and wrote for media outlets including Major League Baseball, Womenetics.com and WebMD.