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April 26, 2012

Back On Top

According to new research on clean energy financing in G-20 nations released by The Pew Charitable Trusts earlier this month, The United States attracted $48 billion in clean energy investment in 2011, a 42-percent increase over 2010, and just beating out China’s $45.5 billion to claim the No. 1 ranking.

April 26, 2012

The Cycles To Come

While the short-term prospects for the renewable energy industry in terms of growth and expansion remain strong, longer-term prospects (beyond 24 months) face some major challenges, and as the new report uncovers, some less obvious investment location opportunities are being considered by executives within the industry.

April 26, 2012

Road to Redemption

Around mid-afternoon on April 27, 2011, Gregg Kennedy, part-time mayor of Smithville, Miss., completed his shift at his full-time job at the True Temper Sports golf club shaft manufacturing facility in nearby Amory. He drove straight to the Smithville Town Hall because of the threatening weather.

April 26, 2012

R&D Crossroads

Dow Corning, which has had a presence in Belgium since the early 1960s, is adding two major projects to its footprint south of Brussels. The company’s European headquarters, home to about 700 employees, is based in Seneffe, about 40 km. (25 miles) south of Brussels and about 30 km. (19 miles) north of the border with France. Dow Corning recently opened its Solar Energy Exploration and Development (SEED) center on its Seneffe campus and will soon open a major distribution center nearby.

April 24, 2012

Thinking Ahead

Northeast States: There are reasons that New Jersey (second), New York (sixth) and Pennsylvania (ninth) all place among the top 10 states in total R&D. Certainly the region’s strength in the nation’s leading R&D recipient sector, chemicals, and its pharmaceuticals subsector is one.

April 23, 2012

Press Release: Ohio Wins Site Selection Magazine’s Governor’s Cup Award for 2011

Suite 2006625 The Corners ParkwayNorcross, GA 30092 USA Contact: Mark Arend770-325-3438 tel Mark.Arend@conway.com Press Release April 23, 2012 Site Selection Names 2011 Competitiveness Award Winner, Top Economic Development Groups and Top Deals Atlanta, April 23, 2012: Site Selection magazine has named the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) the winner of its Competitiveness Award, which recognizes […]

April 18, 2012

Develop Here — But Not There?

Baltimore, Maryland is the location of two new headquarters projects — one involving construction of a new waterfront office complex for Constellation Energy Group, which is merging with Chicago-based Exelon, and one the expansion of Under Armour’s headquarters in the Locust Point area.

April 11, 2012

All In Good Time

In 1995, Sanford Orkin, former president of Atlanta-based Orkin Pest Control and son of its founder, purchased 922 acres (373 hectares) of land near Athens, Ga., home to the flagship campus of his beloved University of Georgia, for $7 million. Since then the “Orkin tract” has experienced several close misses with major prospects, including an initial prospect in 2000, a never-built Daimler vehicle plant in 2002 and a Novartis vaccine plant that chose Holly Springs, N.C., over the site in 2006.

April 11, 2012

Data Driven Journey

Healthcare, life sciences and medical equipment and devices continue to be leading industries in Minnesota, growing on a continuum that goes back several generations and into the 19th century.

April 5, 2012

Barrier Removal

Dirt moving continues on a large scale near the southern New Mexico community of Santa Teresa. Here, seven miles (11 km.) from the Mexican border and within shouting distance of El Paso, is the beginning of Union Pacific’s colossal new rail facility.

March 30, 2012

Bookends

Boosted by projects — often in multiple phases — from such companies as ExxonMobil, Shintech, Honeywell and Westlake Chemical, East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana tops the project tallies of all counties along the Mississippi River from July 2010 through December 2011.

March 29, 2012

Changing Minds

Greater Fort Lauderdale alters perceptions of business executives around the world. Payoff comes in headquarters, plants and other expansions including a British tobacco company.

March 28, 2012

Momentum Defined

Even as the solar industry trade war between China and the U.S. reaches a fever pitch, Ernst & Young's latest quarterly Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (CAI), released in late February, finds that the U.S. has passed China in terms of investment in solar and wind technologies.

March 28, 2012

Conditional Tense

Shell Chemical LP on March 15 signed a land option agreement with Horsehead Corporation to evaluate a site in western Pennsylvania for a potential $2-billion petrochemical complex. The complex would include an ethane cracker that would upgrade locally produced ethane from Marcellus Shale gas production. The site is located in Potter and Center Townships in Beaver County near Monaca, Pa.

March 28, 2012

Divisional Headquarters’ Role Gains Focus

Regional headquarters still play a role for many organizations, but business units
are increasingly being centralized to maximize cost and labor-supply advantages.

March 27, 2012

Good Medicine

Life sciences, logistics among sectors showing vitality.

March 27, 2012

Top Industries: Grow Where You’re Planted

Four of the top five industries for corporate facility projects in 2011 showed substantially more expansions at existing sites than at new locations. China, India and South Korea continue to garner strong shares of projects across multiple industries.

March 22, 2012

Shedding Light

Sunshine Week is a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Launched by news editors and journalists, this non-partisan, non-profit initiative is celebrated in mid-March each year.

March 22, 2012

That’s The Spirit

A recent investment by Spirit AeroSystems at the North Carolina Global TransPark in Kinston is paving the way for a local aerospace cluster that could soon number in the thousands of workers. No other location had GTP’s blend of logistics and work-force attributes, says a Spirit executive central to the location decision.

March 21, 2012

Takeoff Velocity

The aerospace industry has had a major presence in the Rockford, Ill., region for many decades, but it was only a few years ago that the industry came to the realization that a major cluster had developed.

March 21, 2012

Southeast Michigan Builds an Aerotropolis

Southeast Michigan Builds an Aerotropolis: Most regions have one airport from which to launch an Airport City. Advocates of the Detroit Region Aerotropolis hope its two airports and other infrastructure attributes will help the initiative take off.

March 21, 2012

The Right Fit for FitRight

Medline, a Mundelein, Ill.-based manufacturer of adult incontinence products, has opened a new 600,000-sq.-ft. (55,740-sq.-m.) manufacturing facility in Douglasville, Ga. The $65-million plant will create 150 jobs.

March 21, 2012

The Kent Phoenix

Kent is the English county called the Garden of England. Plant a seed in Kent and it will grow and flourish — apples, pears, cherries, grapes, strawberries, blackcurrants, almost every vegetable imaginable, oats, barley, grain … Kent feeds millions of people on a daily basis.