Snapshot

Among the 500 most capitalized AI firms in the world, 70 are located in San Francisco, California, topped by OpenAI, the firm whose co-founder Sam Altman is in the news this week after an in-depth profile by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz in The New Yorker.

As DOGE depositions make the social media rounds this week, DOGE-driven dispositions remain a long-term topic in real estate circles.

Late 2025 saw the announcement of more than 140 New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) awards worth some $10 billion by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in a “double round” of allocations covering 2024 and 2025.

U.S. health care infrastructure might need some remedial help. To improve their grades, some states might look to the home state of ACT and the Iowa Assessments (formerly the Iowa Test of Basic Skills).

Provision, support and facilities for employee child care have risen in priority for employers over the past several years. To what extent has provision for family caregivers followed suit?

Longevity is one thing. Legacy and the annals of history are another level altogether.

In this third and final Snapshot analyzing the state leaders, metro geography and industry alignment of this year’s Inc. 5000, we look at which sectors lead the way by number of high-growth companies.

Two weeks ago in this space we analyzed the top states by number of Inc. 5000 companies, both cumulatively (where California is No. 1) and per capita (led by Virginia).

Rival mega-states top the Inc. 5000 tallies once again, while Mid-Atlantic neighbors lead the way per capita.

A coalition of top research institutions, patient and health advocates, and companies earlier this year published its annual analysis of jobs and economic activity supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding distributed to all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

Building on the success of OCO Global’s first edition market report focused on emerging Global Business Services (GBS) and Shared Services Centers (SSC) locations in Europe, we now want to highlight opportunities in the Americas, home to nearly one-third of the global GBS market.

Last week Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport celebrated the graduation of the first cohort from its Welding Apprenticeship program by holding a ceremony and pledging to bring them on as the first full-time welding crew hired directly by the airport.

Notwithstanding current executive and legal maneuvers over continued federal funding to universities, data continue to be crunched (for now) by federal agencies charged with doing so.

If you haven’t yet studied the newest Census Bureau analysis of the nation’s metro-area and city/town demographics, it’s time to add these two reports to your summer reading list.

UK-based TMF Group yesterday released the latest edition of its Global Business Complexity Index (GBCI), which studies the layers of bureaucracy that can form “a dead-weight burden on business that stifles local innovation and deters foreign direct investment with no obvious societal benefit.”

Before it was shorthand for the scourge/salve that is social media, “social” referred to society, as in “people living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions and values,” says Britannica.

We look in on three lists of 2024 corporate end-user facility projects abroad as tracked by the Conway Projects Database: Top 10 by investment, Top 10 by jobs and Top 10 by project area.

Can you have meaningful industrial development in the least polluted places in the world? New air quality data allows us to provide at least a partial answer.

Following recently released reports on the outlook for private equity and venture capital in the year ahead, that’s what Pitchbook is doing with “All In,” a new 26-page report on female-founded companies in the VC ecosystem (minus OpenAI deals). The report reveals the usual suspects and a few outliers in terms of company location.

It’s time for another chapter in Site Selection Snapshot’s occasional series on U.S. Census Bureau data sets useful to location decision-making.

A new white paper from DHL Global Forwarding, DHL Group’s ocean and air freight division, discusses “various countries in South East Asia, Southern and Eastern Europe as well as Middle East and South America as strategic alternatives and additions to China.”

Last fall, waiting out the time before a departure over a pastrami on rye and a beer at a large Midwestern international airport, I had one of the more interesting airport conversations of my life with a stranger who sat down across the table.

At the end of January, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the developer of the global LEED green building program, released its annual list of the Top 10 States for LEED.