October 14, 2013
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
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
Apparently, even with the government’s shades drawn, the sun still rises.
October 10, 2013
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
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
Geographically speaking, you can’t get more Mid-Atlantic than the nation’s capital.
October 7, 2013
Travel the highways, turnpikes and rivers of Pennsylvania and you’ll find your share of restoration stories.
October 2, 2013
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
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration in August released a report on the nation’s busiest Interstates that shows people drove more than 84.7 billion miles on California highways in 2011 — more than 900 times the distance from Earth to the Sun — making the Golden State’s highways the nation’s busiest.
September 30, 2013
They don’t make much noise about it, because they don’t want to.
September 30, 2013
When Gov. Scott Walker stared down the powerful public employee unions in Wisconsin two years ago, the landmark budget reform legislation did more than place the Badger State on a path to fiscal recovery.
September 26, 2013
Documents were filed in East Baton Rouge this week finalizing the sale of the former home of newspaper The Advocate in downtown Baton Rouge to Lafayette Street Holdings for nearly $4.1 million.
September 26, 2013
When the world's fastest-growing retailer needed a logistics solution in America's largest consumer market, it looked no further than San Bernardino County, Calif.
September 25, 2013
The Texas mystique is real, but its economic dynamism could just as easily be said to come from the distinct characters of its many successful cities.
September 25, 2013
When a US$1.8-trillion economy expands at a rate of over 5 percent, it should not cause much despondency, especially in these tough times when many developed economies struggle with 1- to 2-percent growth.
September 25, 2013
When medical device and equipment supply chain organization Qmed recently named its top-tier US states for medical technology, Michigan made the Top 10, partly by virtue of the precision skills base that is a legacy of the automotive industry.
September 25, 2013
One year ago, as reported in this space, Roche wound down a site search that considered 50 East Coast sites but chose only one.
September 24, 2013
For any company that plans to open a new facility, or expand an existing one, the decision must make financial sense.
September 18, 2013
Why establish a new Asian operation without local partners who can facilitate the process at every turn?
September 18, 2013
If America is to fully recover from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, there's an excellent chance that leading the recovery will be a handful of states in the Upper Midwest and South Central regions of the country.
September 17, 2013
While public perception of drone aircraft is driven by accounts of their military use in bombings and spying, legitimate public safety and agriculture are recognized as the primary markets for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the commercial marketplace.
September 17, 2013
In May, West Star Aviation announced plans to plans to invest roughly $15 million this year in expanding its presence at current sites in Grand Junction, Colo. (GJT), East Alton, Ill. (ALN), and Columbia, S.C. (CAE).
September 16, 2013
Talk about a vote of confidence. GE Aviation is investing nearly $200 million in four North Carolina sites primarily because of the state's work force.
September 16, 2013
An astounding 1,850 projects across nearly all categories of plastics and chemicals have been recorded in Site Selection's New Plant Database over the two and a half years since Jan. 1, 2011.