March 14, 2012
California Recovery Strong, if Uneven
Last year unemployment in California fell to the lowest level since 2009, as companies put 240,300 people to work, leading the nation in job growth.
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March 14, 2012
Taking Care of Business
Workforce development programs make San Bernardino County a manufacturing magnet in Southern California. When California Steel Industries’ Brett Guge explains why his company invested nearly a billion dollars into operations in San Bernardino County, he attributes his firm’s strategic direction to one primary factor.
March 14, 2012
Home Country Hub
Big investments by big companies come on the heels of KORUS approval, but aren’t necessarily U.S.-focused.
March 14, 2012
Generic Growth
Growth in the generic pharmaceutical industry is likely to become even more robust in the coming years as top-selling drugs come off patent and pressure mounts from government and healthcare providers to contain costs.
March 7, 2012
Digital Diversity
The art of storytelling is providing some global fame for Louisiana’s blossoming digital media sector.
March 7, 2012
The Game Changer
The Southwest Louisiana and Acadiana region supplies energy to the world and skilled workers for expanding companies. Take the elements that are critical to community prosperity — water, transportation, energy, industrial know-how, and willing and able workers — and combine them into a strategy for economic success … that is exactly what Southwest Louisiana and Acadiana did.
March 7, 2012
‘The Box That Must Be Checked’
As this issue went to press in February, site selectors in the U.S. and globally were busy recasting their lists of finalist locations for manufacturing projects to include Indiana. The state may well have ranked high on some of those lists already — its business climate is considered robust by many evaluators of Midwest states, given its record of fiscal conservatism that includes a predictable and competitive tax structure among other measures.
But becoming the 23rd right-to-work state has energized Hoosier State efforts to escape the stigma, or at least perception, of Midwestern locations being less than business friendly to companies hoping to cultivate a work force free of union requirements their workers don’t embrace.
March 7, 2012
Return to Sender
Return to Sender: Redevelopment opportunities lurk behind the looming closure of hundreds of Postal Service properties.
March 1, 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 March 1, 2012 Ohio Wins Site Selection Magazine’s Governor’s Cup Award for 2011; Top Metros and Top Micropolitans for Corporate Facility Location Also Named Atlanta, March 1, 2012: Ohio has won the 2011 Site Selection Governor’s Cup, which the 58-year-old […]
February 29, 2012
Site Selection January 2012
Site Selection Online, the January 2012 edition of Site Selection – the magazine of corporate real estate strategy and area economic development. Cover story: State of the States
February 29, 2012
Fear of Heights
It was no accident that Kevin Parker, global head of Deutsche Asset Management, delivered keynote remarks on climate change at the United Nations’ Investor Summit on Climate Risk and Energy Solutions in New York in January.
February 29, 2012
New Energy Hubs Emerge in The Shale Oil and Gas Supply Chain
After the downturn in the oil industry of 1986, which sent occupancy rates in downtown Houston to 10 percent, oil companies and their suppliers closed many offices around the U.S. They have since concentrated their facilities, operations, and functions of all types in a few locations, chiefly Houston.
February 29, 2012
Time for a Change
There are more than 560 federally recognized Native American tribes, residing on tribal land held in trust by the United States. The fee title to tribal land cannot be transferred without an Act of Congress and, with limited exceptions, grants of leases and permits are subject to federal oversight. Federal oversight on surface leasing of Indian lands is outlined in 25 C.F.R. Part 162.
February 29, 2012
Top Micropolitans: A Dynasty of Deals
A decade of dominance culminates in another Top Micropolitan ranking for Statesville-Mooresville, N.C. From the Blue Ridge Mountains to Brazil, companies from across the Western Hemisphere are descending upon North Carolina’s Iredell County at a pace unprecedented in the modern history of America.
February 27, 2012
The Gale and the Lull
If 2013 is unlucky for the wind power industry in the U.S., it’s ready to go elsewhere.
February 23, 2012
Green Crude
Projects aimed at producing fuel from algae continue to advance around the globe with the help of private and government funding. If and when algae-based fuels become commercially viable on a large scale, New Mexico could be one of the major centers of production. Sapphire Energy has built a large research and development center in Las Cruces and plans to commission a 100-acre algae field this spring near the southern New Mexico town of Columbus.
February 23, 2012
Going Up
Skyscraper is not a commonly used term in Switzerland. Few buildings earn that moniker in a country that has mostly eschewed anything high-rise other than the Alps.
February 23, 2012
Cluster Cultivation
Bioscience is one of the fastest growth sectors in the U.S. economy. But by most accounts, Oregon has been a bit tardy to come to the bioscience table.
February 22, 2012
New Wave
Silicon carbide in Starkville. Solar industry components in Senatobia, Grenada and Hattiesburg. Mission support for Lockheed in Clinton. Advanced composites for GE in Ellisville. Process equipment in Natchez. Biofuels from Columbus to Tupelo and beyond.
February 22, 2012
Spring-Fed Optimism
Spring-Fed Optimism: Tumult in the Arab world does a favor for stable regimes.
February 22, 2012
Campus Quarters
A Chinese solar company has big plans for a former IBM R&D facility. Linuo Solar Group expects to start shining new light in 2012 into the long-vacant IBM West Campus in East Fishkill, N.Y
February 15, 2012
Powerhouse
IBM’s 2011 Global Location Trends report, released in November, sheds light on how Mexico remains the leading recipient of foreign investment in Latin America.
February 15, 2012
The Common Denominator Is Jobs
A national laboratory expansion and a new yogurt manufacturing project will deliver significant economic impact to their cities and to Idaho. Several thousand jobs are being attributed to work now getting under way at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in Idaho Falls, the centerpiece of which is a new, $50-million, 148,000-sq.-ft. (13,750-sq.-m.) research and education laboratory.
February 14, 2012
Healthy Expansions
Maine life sciences firms run the gamut from animal care to cloud-based records. IDEXX Laboratories, Westbrook, Athenahealth, more.