September 13, 2013
Milestones Instead of Millstones
Stop us if you've heard this one before: A megaproject has surfaced in Nigeria.
Search Results for: ra
September 12, 2013
That Was Epic
What if a company came to town, did its business, provided you with a walking, talking digital postcard for your quality of life, then packed up and left, leaving your community a bit richer than before in both cash flow and reputation?
September 10, 2013
Malaysia Rising
Malaysia offers an ideal ecosystem for the medical devices industry at a watershed moment for Southeast Asia.
September 10, 2013
Interns Fuel Our Future
While many businesses and industries evaluate their next-generation work force after colleges and universities graduate students, in the Carolinas the energy industry follows another path.
September 10, 2013
Home and Away
In earning Site Selection's Canadian Competitiveness Award this year, British Columbia's Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training jumps up from a second-place finish last year to snare the prize.
September 9, 2013
Press Release
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 Publishes Annual Canadian Rankings Atlanta, September 9, 2013: British Columbia is the most competitive province in a competitive nation, followed by Québec and Alberta. Hamilton, Québec City and […]
September 6, 2013
Full Stream Ahead
Could the decade of the 2010's turn out to be the new Golden Era for the Golden State? It may not be as far-fetched as it sounds.
September 3, 2013
Shedding Light On the Bottom Line
A funny thing happened on the way to the market for solar power. After meandering down decades of technical dead ends, following false leads of old ill-conceived state and federal policies, and surviving more recent politically exaggerated false forecasts of doom, the solar industry has shocked the nation. Solar power actually … works.
September 3, 2013
Press Release
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
Passageways To Prosperity
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
Mountain Air Boosts Longevity
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
Both Sides Now
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
One for All
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 26, 2013
Press Release
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 Rise of the ‘Multilatinas’
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
Complexity Simplified
Nine years after selecting Tampa over Atlanta to open its first-ever Southern Business Center, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. announced this spring that it will expand its Florida operation by up to 255 jobs with total average compensation of nearly $100,000.
August 21, 2013
The Right Chemistry
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
Certifiably Ready
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
Grow If You Want To
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
New Standard
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
Putting the Pieces in Place
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
Turbine Tally
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
Seal of Approval
Rapidly escalating demand for new data centers puts added pressure on site selectors to find qualified locations.
August 8, 2013
The Human Touch
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.