May 29, 2013
Comfort Zone
Comfort Zone: A peek inside a Philadelphia public health nonprofit’s shift in culture, location and workspace design offers a glimpse into its employees’ and its city’s future.
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May 29, 2013
View from The Top
Northwest Georgia's industrial development reputation aims to be as multifaceted as its landscape, and as rich as its history. But if one thread continues to run through the region, it's thread itself.
May 29, 2013
10 Countries. 10 Challenges.
The following is a compilation highlighting unique initiatives taking place in every South American country, each with its own unique approach to common challenges faced by investment promotion agencies. Examples range from tactical — such as the Peruvian approach to place branding — to strategic, such as Colombia's effort to improve its image.
May 29, 2013
The Assembly Line Effect
Some folks may be wondering why Michigan, Ohio and Indiana are winning a disproportionate share of automotive assembly plant investments these days.
May 29, 2013
Urbanize This
In late April a joint-venture partnership of Advance Realty and Boston-based CrossHarbor Capital Partners, LLC, announced that it had acquired the former Sanofi U.S. Research and Development Campus in Bridgewater, N.J., located on U.S. Highway 202/206 in Bridgewater Township.
May 28, 2013
Turnaround is Fairest Play
A burgeoning life-sciences cluster in Cobb County, Ga., grew even larger in recent months as two rapidly expanding bio-medical companies moved into new addresses just north of Atlanta.
May 22, 2013
FB’s Bay Area Home to Expand Across Street, Double Shot of Growth From GlobalFoundries, and more
The Menlo Park City Council in late March approved all requested land use entitlements and agreements for the Facebook West Campus Project, and introduced ordinances approving the development agreement and rezoning the property to accommodate design requirements surpassing existing height limits.
May 22, 2013
Let the Catalysts Connect
Add biopharma to the long list of robust economic sectors in Texas. It's nearly enough to rekindle talk of secession … if it weren't for that instrusive federal funding helping drive some of the momentum.
May 21, 2013
Aerospace Executive Champions Regional Airport City Ambitions
Two large motor coaches were required to transport Airport City Conference and Exhibition (ACE) delegates from the conference site in Ekurhuleni, South Africa, to the Denel Campus in Kempton Park on April 24th.
May 21, 2013
Dream Comes True – Again – in South Carolina
Less than one full year after rolling out its first aircraft at its assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C., Boeing announced April 9 that it will invest $1 billion and create 2,000 new jobs over eight years at its manufacturing complex for the 787 Dreamliner.
May 15, 2013
All Business
Elected the 59th mayor of the City of Atlanta on January 4, 2010, Kasim Reed wasted little time in elevating the stature of Georgia's capital city.
May 14, 2013
Middle Class, Development Zones Drive FDI to China
Of the five countries attending March's BRICS summit in South Africa, only one could boast a growth rate significantly higher than 5 percent.
May 14, 2013
Industrial Strength
Add the importance of the Mexican market itself to companies' lists of reasons to open operations in Mexico.
May 13, 2013
No Fanfare Please
Equatorial Guinea remains one of the lesser known destinations for investment in West Africa.
May 13, 2013
Imagine
A vision many years in the making aims to take both sides of the River Mersey's waterfront from myopia to utopia.
May 13, 2013
‘Breath of Fresh Air’
With a work force ranked among the nation's best, the No. 1 public school system in the U.S., world-class academic and research institutions and a competitive business environment, Maryland is an ideal place for companies to grow and thrive.
May 13, 2013
Old Places See New Faces
In Site Selection's annual sustainability rankings in 2012, Ohio ranked in the top dozen states in the country for federal brownfield funding.
May 13, 2013
Self Starters
Energy efficiency tweaks such as new HVAC systems and long-life light bulbs offer tremendous and quick gains, but they only get you so far.
May 10, 2013
The New England Challenge
Despite many benefits of locating businesses in New England such as proximity to a huge customer base, the relatively high cost of utilities can act as a damper to business growth, even if prices last year hit a record low.
May 10, 2013
Sudden Gust
Not knowing whether the wind production tax credit would be renewed or not, a megaload of wind farm projects and expansions came online just before the finish line in 2012.
May 10, 2013
Making Noise
The 140-turbine Macarthur Wind Farm site near Hamilton, 290 kilometers (180 miles) west of Melbourne, in the Shire of Moyne in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, sits not far from several state and national parks, and just a long stone's throw inland from the coast at Port Fairy.
May 7, 2013
Asia-Pacific’s ‘Significant Location’ For Oil & Gas Services
Baker Hughes' Asia Pacific division stretches from India to New Zealand, so the Houston-based global oil and gas services giant (58,000 employees and revenues in excess of $20 billion) had lots of options with respect to a regional headquarters location.
May 6, 2013
Gauging the Dream
One of the biggest challenges in economic development is determining what to hold economic development organizations (EDOs) and elected officials accountable for.
May 6, 2013
Portals To the World
Site Selection salutes the best corporate facility projects in the world in 2012, judged by investment, high-value and high-volume job creation, creativity in negotiations and incentives, regional economic impact, competition and speed to market.