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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.

September 8, 2024

Rachel Duran

Based in Lawrence, Kansas, Duran most recently served as the editor in chief of Business Xpansion Journal for 15 years; she also served as editor of Global Corporate Xpansion for 14 years. Since 2000, she has interviewed hundreds of corporate executives, economic developers, government leaders and higher education officials to tell the story of business […]

August 22, 2024

In the Arena: How to Keep Track of Stadium Deals

As Major League Baseball’s regular season winds down like a pitch clock and pennant races wind up like a pitcher, sports team owners, communities and entire states keep taking their best swings at new stadium proposals and deals.

July 1, 2024

Site Selection Publishes America’s Best Counties Rankings, 2024 Sustainability Rankings and More

Contact: Adam Bruns, Editor in Chief and Head of Publications (770) 325-3491 adam.bruns@conway.com 6625 The Corners Parkway, Suite 200 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 • USA www.siteselection.com   Press Release Site Selection Publishes America’s Best Counties Rankings, 2024 Sustainability Rankings and More   Atlanta, July 1, 2024: In its new July 2024 issue, Site Selection magazine […]

May 10, 2024

Fueling the Future of Colorado’s Life Sciences Sector

A group of 22 partners representing Colorado’s life sciences ecosystem have banded together to fund a new national economic development campaign to bolster Colorado into “America’s epicenter for life sciences innovation.” Launched in February, the Colorado Hub for Healthcare Impact comprises entities from each level of the state’s life sciences network The campaign highlights six […]

May 9, 2024

Utah: Got Minerals?

Miners head beneath Utah’s natural wonders to strike gold (among other critical minerals).